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As per title. What’s the trick?
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A fairly stout (14oz?) ball pein hammer head was my first throwbag. Rightly nervous to use it around houses.
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Pole and hook. As long as you can be bothered to carry. Mine’s collapsible, 4-12’. Post the rope above you.
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Nothing sexier than an inguinal hernia.
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Addressed principally to the French contingent. I'm well aware from your tall neighbour on here that Scandinavia is a land of milk, honey and well specified machines.
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Getting insurance for tree work on a private lake
AHPP replied to Acer Palmatum's topic in Insurance Forum
There's a meme in that: What my family think I do - sit on a stool. What I think I do - scene from one of those Quest programmes about Alaskan crabbing trawlers. What I actually do - choke on my own vomit after doing eleven cans of special brew and falling asleep in a £200 folding chair. Anything to avoid the wife. -
Oh go on, play along.
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Are you paid by the cube or the hour?
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Getting insurance for tree work on a private lake
AHPP replied to Acer Palmatum's topic in Insurance Forum
Ever seen chain oil glisten on a fishing lake? Signwriting off the van at home. -
Driveway looks ideal for a crane or grapplesaw lorry/Merlo. Do you do much of that on the continent?
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It's all in the first two minutes. You can add an extra zig and even an extra zag or add a figure 8/biner wrap but it's best kept simple.
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I heartily agree with Mick. I’ll often run a bit down on the three strand if the ground are busy and haven’t unclipped the nice rope yet. Or just whenever suits. I saw a lovely climber friction system on an August Hunicke video a few weeks ago. Uses a couple of slings and biners so kinder to nice ropes. I’ll find it later on the laptop.
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Red Diesel: Arboriculture exemption recognised by HMRC
AHPP replied to Stephen Arb Association's topic in General chat
Well done and thanks (if you really did bring it about and not just take credit for it that is). -
August Hunicke (YouTube) bought one (220T but same switching as far as I know) and made a video about it. He uses it for ten cuts and then uses a different saw for the rest of the video.
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When you say privately registered, do you mean taxed as private (class 10) or registered on the V5? And what’s plating?
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Either way, was I right about the regulation? MOT, tax and insurance only or do I need particular registration or anything else?
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I only use two. I have a vague recollection of trying to make three work once, implying it's in the instruction manual at least. Don't recall success or failure. Unhelpful. Apologies.
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Fair enough. The advice might travel though. Impress Johnny Foreigner with how the English do it.
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The plan has been a rigid lorry that can carry 20' containers (each containing different facets of my life, living quarters, heat and power generation, music studio, workshop etc), equipped with a crane for swapping them. Like a gypsy but no horses. Is it just a matter of buy any lorry, MOT it, tax it (Private HGV Tax Class 10 a .gov .pdf tells me), insure it and off I go or do I need to have certain things on the V5 etc?
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You joke but I wear tweed quite often in the van. Nothing funnier when you get out at a scrapyard. Kept a Harrods catalogue in the dash litter in the Transit.
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So private means no o-license, one MOT a year (and no eight weeklies or whatever) and no stuff like CPC?
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I'm vaguely aware of the existence of what people call "private HGV." I assume that's stuff like people using horse lorries for pleasure only. What are the requirements for that?
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Don’t underestimate how piecemeal the workflow in building is. You’re thinking in a joined up way, trying to save them time and money. Correct but not necessarily their language. I’d want to do it the joined up way with the big digger (and a tub grinder) but that’s in part because I don’t have to convince your client. Ring someone like Kingwell. They may have some advice on how this sort of thing commonly goes. Plus they have the kit for whichever way you end up going.
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A gauntlet he probably only has to run once. The next time he hires it, it’ll still be torqued up as he left it.
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If you hire it regularly, it might be worth you having your own set of blades that you put on Monday morning and take off Friday afternoon.
