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I know; the bastards. I’m going over to chemical energy. Food is zero rated and I can use my new axe.
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Liquid fuel attracts 58p/litre duty and 20% VAT whereas electricity only attracts 5% VAT, though I suspect your presentation isn’t weighted too heavily towards the moral aspects of tax avoidance...
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That programme makes me see red.
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I’ve just finished several days’ wading through logs with a maul and need a shed pursuit to keep me busy before I’m given more to do.
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Head currently at two and seven eighths of a pound. Offcut in the shot nearly half a pound. To be used for knocking in wedges and cutting the odd limb. Shall I: lose no cutting edge? lose 10mm of cutting edge? lose 20mm of cutting edge?
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Is there a way to be notified by the app if Rhys replies to you? Question open to all of course.
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When I freelance climb, I give my boss-for-the-day a helmet with them in. Some of them say they can’t see the point and nearly all of them are asking me by elevenses where they can buy them. Find my installation guide I mentioned earlier in the thread btw. I found two earpieces way better.
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Look through my posts on here. I showed how I installed them on a helmet.
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Today’s discovery: If ever there was a tool to flick about firewood, it’s a garden hoe. Very handy.
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The cheap Bluetooth ones on eBay (mine are Freedconn brand) work fine. I’ve had mine out to about 200m though a building and some trees and clarity was fine. They’re advertised to work to 800m.
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Cutting Fallen trees from public footpaths?
AHPP replied to chuck norris's topic in Trees and the Law
Most people would hand their children and car keys over if anyone with hi vis and a clipboard asked them to. Just crack on. -
I've heard similar.
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Centre Parcs are a cracking operation. Excellent logisticians, getting guests changed over on Fridays etc. A mate once had a heart attack in his villa and they were amazing. On site ambulance defibbed him and made safe passage for the NHS ambulance to get him out. I arrived a couple of hours later to look after his kids. Was met at gate, given maps, keys, etc, chauffeured in. Everybody knew to expect me, restaurants knew not to charge me. Very organised. Yeah, they certainly know how to charge but I respect them a lot as a business. Luckily, the swimming pools are great and included in the main price.
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Experienced Lead climber and confident foreman for Guildford based company
AHPP replied to Rhystree's topic in Employment
It’s a fucking shithole. Full of rat race tossers in financed Chelsea tractors and second only to London and the Vatican for the modesty of broom cupboard any average worker could hope to afford. I’m sure your job’s fine but the effluent Home Counties are most certainly not. -
And since the thread has now touched on spouts, another thing the new MotoMix cans probably won't do is take an autosealing spout like the old cans would. Can you get a spout (autosealing or just more accurate than free pouring) for Aspen/MotoMix cans?
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huck correct as often.
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Anything smaller than a 461 is a girl’s saw and you should use those for everything until your shoulders fall out (next week). In the mean time, I’ll still have energy left to give by 15:00 because I’ve been using a 170 or a 241 all day to cut 3” conifer unions.
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I had that written in my post above but took it out to not cloud the issue!
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Stihl have changed their five litre MotoMix cans from the clear ones (that are as good as any can you'd buy from a garage if you ran out of fuel) to orange disposable ones like Aspen's always come in. A great shame because they were handy cans. A dealer told me it was so that users could crush them down to get them in bins. There's a cracking bit in The Book of Eli about wastefulness: Solara: Do you remember what it was like? I mean, in the world before? Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious, what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.
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So that’s two of the biggest rings (“beast”) on 24mm blue whatever and you use both of them together for the rigging rope? And the rest of the 24mm blue is just a plain rope, no whoopie or anything?
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If you were near me, I’d encourage you to go for it so I could buy your equipment when you fall out in 18 months. Since you’re not, don’t do it!
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Steve, When you took a groundsman, were you a LOSC to the firm and "your" groundsman also a LOSC to the firm or were you a bona fide and you engaged and paid your groundsman? Joe, Thanks. It's of course largely academic.
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I'm not decided on whether the firm or the LOSC climber should provide rigging gear. Say a rigging rope breaks and a branch goes through a garden gnome. It could be that the rigging rope was bad. If it's the firm's rigging rope, it's their problem. If it's the LOSC climber's rigging rope, it's probably still the firm's problem but now there's scope for argument. For that reason, you'd think the firm should supply the rigging rope. But then you have everything else in play. The climber could install the rope through a bad crotch, the groundsman could run it badly or the two could just communicate badly and it's not clear whose fault the smashed gnome is. Then what if it's one party's rope and another party's bollard etc... It reads like a law exam problem question. One solution would be climbing as a bona fide subcontractor and taking your own rigging gear and groundsman. That's a wholly different prospect though.
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Steve Bullman and Joe Newton, Do you work as labour only or bona fide subcontractors?
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Yep. That sounds perfectly plausible. For the sake of argument, I suppose you could tie the bottom of the ladder to the bottom of the tree.
