Daniël Bos

Thanks, I asked as the Mother in-law has pheromone traps in her apple orchard as a control measure and she reckons they're very effective so I wondered if such could be scaled up to make meaningful difference in the battle against opm.

I've assumed btw that you have a 455 Rancher, not a 544 as I've never heard of that model?

Is the trapping just to try and identify numbers/density or is it pest control?

Even if I was given a 261 I'd have still bought the husky 550xp... In my opinion, it makes no financial sense to have an inferior saw (in my opinion the husky is years ahead of the stihl) if that means downtime and running to and fro to get it fixed...

My best earning job of the year is when I go on my annual Pilgrimage to the Black Isle in November. I pick up chrismas trees that somebody else has marked, yet somebody else cut, and yet somebody else has netted. I put the tree on a pallet., for somebody else to drive off with. Repeat until there are no more trees on the ground. 3 weeks, near £6.5K. no skill required, (but you have to be strong of body and mind and fit as a fit man) no cost (well, a pair of gloves this last year)

Fantastic, thanks for sharing that.

I know you'll loose the truck part, but all the forms I know (I converted to a UK license a few years ago) do not mention anything re the "+E" bit.

Yes it would, but for the CPC rules that is entirely irrelevant. It is the vehicle you drive, not the train weight that matters.

Then whoever told you this is wrong:001_smile: If the vehicle you are driving is sub 3500kgs you do not need driver CPC regardless of what is or isn't being towed by that vehicle. Crystal clear on: https://www.gov.uk/driver-cpc-exemptions-examples

In that example, the farmer farms for a living. Taking his produce to market however is not farming, it's transport. Taking the same animals to graze the field beside the same market in the same lorry, he'd not need a CPC...

This was an EU proposal in 2013, but has not been approved by the member states. No, there will be no MOT for trailers under 3500kgs mam in the foreseeable future.

There is an easy way around it, though a bit cumbersome: Search in google for " "Driver CPC" Arbtalk " as Google's mighty searchbots don't mind a three letter search term. This however is beside the point I was (in a very roundabout sort of way) trying to make: Replying simply with "search for it, plenty of threads on the forum already" doesn't always work...

Have you tried it? As I said, CPC is too short a search term, adding driver only means your search will give you al the results containing the term driver...

"CPC" is too short a search term to come up on the search...

The ones still attached to the branch would have been connected to the rest of the tree's vascular system and therefore dried out with it (ie completely and quickly). Fallen ones are sealed off so dry much slower? Just my guess mind, not learned or a biologist or nuffink.

Hey gents/ladies, I have some ash to cut in north Beds soon and it'll be for sale. There's maybe about 5-8t (ish?) There's four big trees, each at least 2ft dbh. (last saw these in winter so from a fairly rusty memory) It's near the villages of Thurleigh and Ravensden. Collection preferred but could deliver locally (15m max), count on £250 delivery cost for the lot though... Can't say when exactly just now as it'll depend on harvesting but soon. Message me (my phone is dead and the replacement on not here yet...). Cheers, Daniel

Why is that then?

I remember one of my neighbours getting a 8210, it was the biggest tractor for miles! Was a few years ago mind:sneaky2:

In our locality, the planning enforcement officers and the planning development officers are like worlds apart. We've had a visit from the enforcement team who showed up unannounced, overweight men in badly fitting leather jackets dropping the occasional "D'you remember when we had to close down so-and-so's business? messy that got...!" almost farcically desperately trying to assert some sort of authority. They insisted the activities we undertake at ours were of an industrial nature and therefore we must apply for change of use from agricultural. We maintain our activities are agricultural (we teach alternative agricultural practices and related skills etc). Then when we went to see the planning officers, they were kindness themselves and helpful well beyond the "call of duty" copying forms, helping us to fill them out, weeding out what is and isn't relevant etc. They told us we'd never need change of use as it was obviously just a diversification of our agricultural activities.... The next communication we had was the enforcement officers asking us (with very thinly veiled menace) why we hadn't applied for change of use yet and that we had 1 week to sort it or else... Went back to the planning officer who again confirmed we'd not need change of use. The enforcement officers are supposed to serve the need of the planning officers as far as I can work out the chain of command, "in the field" however it seems they act as quite differing organisations.

Will it fit through a standard 3ft garden gate?

Is a question that is quite irrelevant...?

Maybe if you were a bit more specific, you'd get some more useful replies? As it stands your question can be answered simply "yes" as somebody does know where you can find info on emissions in the arb industry.... What do you actually want to know though?

Well, he was on here (as in active on ArbTalk) last night... No Posts since April. All good feedback from other customers. His phone number is on his website, have you tried calling him?