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Even better.
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I’d not considered anything so easy. Much obliged.
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I’m sure you appreciate that many will object to being forced to pay to heat the aforementioned peoples’ houses. If we’re going to be taxed like gang bang subjects, it should go on actual realm defence and not these perks.
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Someone suggested them earlier. Will be investigating in the morning (through gritted teeth). I went to A&G earlier. That was bad enough. Not bothered about make but want cheap (£100 ish), size medium, type c. Cheap because the expensive ones are so super stretchy and light that they fall apart if you concentrate your eyes on them too long. Oregon Yukon or the basic grey Husqvarna ones are likely contenders.
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I need to buy some saw trousers in a hurry but there’s some infuriatingly protracted festival on that apparently means everywhere (that I usually buy stuff from) is closed. Mail order/online or East Anglia/London environs. Who wants my money?
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You’ve probably got C1+e and B+e on your driving licence. That’ll go in your favour. Get good at sharpening saws and running rigging and you could be very handy groundsman (as well as climbing if you like).
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Arguably the definition! Probably driving the gear industry to make stuff more and more unbreakable though. -
Use what you want but spare the eco nonsense.
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Bear in mind that Americans are generally stupid. -
Well stop buying new trucks that have taken buckets of energy to make then. They might be regulatorily and tax efficient but two tonnes of complexly arranged steel every year or three is nowhere near as kind to the world as a few pints of paint and a welding rod or two.
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Everybody gets the itch but the bottom line is that they’re fucking awful.
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Hang on. Who’s paying for men to make firewood and sell it at £20/cube, which I suspect is below cost?
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I get the impression it’s wetter where you are.
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That’s a handsome shed!
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Apologies for thread hijack. Nearly as bad as the fat girls thread. -
Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Little use if the hedge is 20 feet wide. -
They’ve only been there for about a year so I can’t say yet but I suspect you’re right. The next ones going down will have double bases. I’m not that bothered if they only last one drying cycle though. I’ll just salvage the screws, burn the pallets and make new ones. Pallets are free from local industrial estates and I can get twenty or thirty in the van, usually loaded by forklift.
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Just some pictures of the crates I’ve been making for logs. Hopefully they’ll help someone. One pallet for the base, four (ideally matching) pallets portrait for the walls. One screw per side at the bottom centre blocks. You could get away with four inch but five or six is nicer. I like torx, allen (female hex) or socket (male hex) drive. One tie at each top corner. Plastic cable ties have lasted over a year so far but wire, string or whatever would all do the same job as long as it doesn’t uv degrade in the time you need to store them. Top them with whatever. You can stack them on each other and they survive being moved by telehandler.
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
I gave my most solemn and earnest apology ever to a client who had only mentioned forty or fifty times about not dropping anything through the roof of the newly completed and very smart garage. Let her hang for at least fifteen seconds before showing her the mug and telling her the roof was fine. -
Either be tiny and sell free arb arisings that you split when you’ve got nothing better to do or be big and profit with economies of scale. Being in the middle, buying expensive final product or expensive raw material (roundwood lengths that then need cutting and splitting) to then try to sell against every farmer and tree surgeon in your postcode, is pointless. You’ll just make petrol stations, trailer manufacturers and the government happy.
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Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
It might just be that he’s doing the best he can with what he’s got but there are genuine advantages to being on the hedge rather than off to the side or leaning over the edge of the basket. He’s got two uses out of one tool, possibly saved buying another tool (or his long reaches are broken, at work elsewhere or whatever) and solved the very common problem of crap anchor points when doing conifer hedges. As long as he doesn’t scare the horses, all power to him. I’d do it if I ever accepted a hedge topping job and a lift could get within reach. A basket big enough to carry up a few sheets of ply and you’d have a good surface to stand on and the perfect anchor point all the way along. It’s not dangerous pikey tomfoolery just because it’s a bit different to what everybody else does. It’s probably just that nobody else has thought of it. -
Bucket Trucks / MEWPs etc - safer than climbing?
AHPP replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Climbers talk
Uninterested in rest of thread but the pictures look fine to me. Very enterprising. -
Much obliged.
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Fuck France. It’s full of French cunts. Come back to England.
