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I’m about to begin sea trials with a knut after wrangling with that problem for a while. Has been working fine dangling from the loft hatch.
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Environmental vandal (mother in law rant)
AHPP replied to spandit's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Let her. It’s only a hedge. She’ll die and you can plant a better one. In going to war with her, you’d risk going to war with your 65% stakeholder wife too. That needs sorting out though. Pay lawyers and accountants to unfuck it all or you’ll end up with the smelly Aston Martin problem being your whole life. -
Where’s this Aladdin’s cave in Sunderland, Bill?
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Public liability: The usual setup* is that Tree Company Ltd is the bona fide contractor to Mrs Miggins the customer and Tom the freelance climber is a labour only subcontractor to Tree Company Ltd. Tree Company Ltd are liable for their own negligence (like their chipper leaking oil onto the driveway) and are also vicariously liable for Tom's negligence (like Tom dropping a branch through a greenhouse). *Tom might have an unusual setup where he's a bona fide subcontractor to Tree Company Ltd but would probably know if that was the case. Employers' liability: Unless you're taking a groundsman, don't worry about it. Professional indemnity: Don't know. Never thought about it.
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Use of a chainsaw without any CS certification
AHPP replied to jimmy45d's topic in Trees and the Law
So PUWER doesn’t say it and the code of practice isn’t law. There have been 37976 pieces of secondary legislation passed since 1998. If the government wanted it to be law, it would be law. -
Use of a chainsaw without any CS certification
AHPP replied to jimmy45d's topic in Trees and the Law
Which bit says that? -
It’s what you do with it that counts. Ask your mum.
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Is that on .043 or .050 driver chain? I run my 170 on .043 and think I’ve chosen poorly.
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I was thinking about this earlier today after seeing a bollard with a square hole in the front, I assumed for a 3/4" impact gun. I'm sure I've seen someone before, probably on youtube, who had a Haarken winch key chucked up in a drill too.
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Are you absolutely stark raving mad? (You are absolutely stark raving mad.)
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Much obliged, folks.
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I wouldn’t start adding stuff to the chipper btw. They give enough electrical grief, cunting around with malfunctioning no-stress etc, without adding more things to go wrong. Loads of people have leisure batteries and inverters in vans and they work.
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I’d suggest a second battery for the inverter. Your van or chipper starter battery is designed to boot out a lot of power hard and then get charged straight back up with the alternator. A leisure battery is designed to be discharged lower with a constant draw. Use a voltage sensing split charge relay to charge the leisure battery from the starter battery. It’ll only charge when the van is running and prevent you from draining the starter battery when you draw from the leisure battery. Bear in mind that for the cost of a leisure battery, inverter, split charge relay and some wire, you could probably buy another tool battery or two. Not that that’s what I’d do. 240v AC in the van is mega useful.
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I’m getting fed up of bollocksing around with wine corks and bits of wood to stop my spikes poking holes in my gear bag. What are people using that’s better?
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Managing Ash Re-Growth from Stump
AHPP replied to aesmith's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Google coppicing. -
I have a theory about businesses that are frequently discussed on forums: Any forum will generally have a couple of guys on it who run businesses supplying stuff/services for whatever that forum is for. Anyone asking for recommendations for that service will be inundated by people saying how good they are. Some will be genuine but a lot will be parroting. A lot of people will also exaggerate how good the business is or omit truths about problems they’ve had with it. I wonder whether the opposite is also true? Northern Arb get slated on here prodigiously. Perhaps they’re just a fashionable company to slate on this particular forum and actually there are loads equally bad? P.S. I’ve had one dealing with Northern Arb and they delivered fine.
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I’m in Oslo from Friday 19th to Monday 22nd of this month. I’m open to the possibility of going out there to work next spring and this seems like an opportunity to meet anyone who might like to employ me. If you’re interested in me dropping by, please send me a private message.
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Wranglerstar on youtube has one he calls an axaroon.
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The most painful bit of that by far was him trying to take the powerhead with the outboard clutch off the bar.
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I once strapped a neat six incher to the front of a friend’s car. It took him three days to notice. Pedestrians crossing in front of him at traffic lights were the funniest.
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I have that on an 039. I’ve pointed the screw slot at the top end of the adjustment range and it appears to be oiling more than it was. Local shop told me it was a clutch off fix if I wanted it any better sorted.
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I suspect (though my suspicions aren't as good as measurements) the radii are bigger on comparable Notch ones. Maybe that's better or maybe the flat on the Arbpros is good in that it gives the rope a bit of time to straighten out between entry and exit of a single ring (probably not though). Who knows? I'm sure they all work if you use them sanely. If I wanted to split hairs, my gut feeling is that the Notch ones are the original and best (because of the bigger radii) and the Arbpro ones are quickly made copies that miss some subtle design things.
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Since we're on minutiae, I've noticed Arbpro rings have a flat across the middle of the donut and radii towards the sides. The Notch/X/Barton rings are one smooth radius from side to side.
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I've always thought that. Two rings means the rope runs in a short box shape which means you've got two 90degree bends. All a third ring does is make the box shape a bit bigger. You still have two 90degree bends.
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I've used 16" on a 200T and liked it but any bigger bar and I'd want a back handle anyway.
