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curious as to why you didnt just straight fell the tree and log it on the ground, couldnt see any restrictions around nesscesitating a climbing job
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funny how theres no need for a chainsaw "ticket " when a saws used away from the tree envioroment.....fencing, or joinery work, do the trees emit some majic spell that makes saws dangerous.....THERE JUST ANOTHER TOOL, its the operator that makes the dangerous move, for over 40 years now I've been using chainsaws of all types, from the very first, with no chain brakes or AV, right up to the modern low vibe stuff, top handles, rear handles, there all the same......learn to use the saw safely, and never put anything in the path of the chain you dont want cut FULL STOP. it doesnt matter what PPE your wearing, or what your doing, that is the first and only rule about safe operation of a chainsaw irrespective of type.
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Term time holidays for kids & parents getting fined by schools...
agrimog replied to SteveA's topic in General chat
the questions that must be asked, have you, the parent actually signed a legal contract with the school, very doubtfull, and when did the school authourities gain the rights of a court to impose fines. I sugest you research the 1886 bill of rights act, which is still current in the UK, and is the legal document that sets out who can impose fines, most of these jumped education officers can be shut down by quoting a few simple legal rules that they must comply with, and should your community have a backbone, everytime the teachers are off for some pitifull excuse, every parent presents the education authority with a bill for the teachers failing to provide a contracted service, its been done, and very quickly any media coverage was blanked and the whole thing hushed up......remember in this country rules are by consent, not force -
Is there a demand for pine and spruce in England?
agrimog replied to eror1515's topic in Firewood forum
instead of blaming eror 1515, try blaming the idiots that sell all the woodburners with the recomendations" you've got to burn only seasoned hardwoods", and start and convince folk that what they really need is seasoned TREEWOOD, we might actually have some decent timber left in this country then, and a market for all the pine, spruce, and larch thats ending up going to biomass, or being left to rot roadside -
you bill them for your day rate for every day your in court, they are in effect contracting your time
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what is bad use of a top handle, were they using it as a hammer or something, its only a saw, not some mythical wonder tool.......and contrary to popular myth, it works very well on the ground, used by non arborists
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anybody down there in the penarth area looking for a good worker, I've a trainee finishing her training arounnd the end of feb who is going tobe moving back to family in penarth, she should have cs30, 31, chipper, strimmer, paw1 and paw6 , and whatever else we can squeeze in by the time she finishes, and a really good worker, can hold her own with some of the more experienced guys, let me know, cos I'd like to see her doing well as she really has showed potential
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try clarkes for your stratos ropes, Ive seen them used on some of the big forestry jobs and there streets ahead of steel and chain
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any good quality oil based outdoor paint, well thinned for first couple of coats, then slap it on, especially on cut edges. your trying to prevent ingress of moisture, nothing magical
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all you have to do is work your shed into multiples of 1200 x2400 ( or 1220 x2440, always check whats supplied) and base your shed on these, a weekend see's a big shed going up, just check you can get roof beams in your size, (usually C16 or C24 spec can be gotton in up to 6m length) . I've found sheds and garages can be built for around 1/3 to 1/2 what it costs to get someone in
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the done thing is to set up a trust, then register everything to the trust, the board running the trust only need to meet once a year, so any paperwork can be dealt with, it seems all our politcal masters are at it as it makes them even slippier with regards to the law
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<p>John, agrimog, aka Paul dick here, the chaos of the weekend is now past, my contact details are</p>
<p> mobile sawmill services</p>
<p>3 Skares Cottages</p>
<p>Skares</p>
<p>Cumnock</p>
<p>KA18 2RF</p>
<p>email, <a href="mailto:" rel="">[email protected]</a></p>
<p>tel 01290423820 or mobile 07984409381</p>
<p> I look forward to your recipies</p>
<p>Paul</p>
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the answer to any question asked by plod is, "no, its not a new built trailer, I repaired my old one, there are some new parts on it.", this gets round all the stupid money grabbing IVA rules,
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Ukulian, you must be one of the few left...lol. as a youngster I was shown how to sharpen and set saws, why there was different angles for certain jobs, how to sharpen planes, chisels, scrapers, all the skills a carpenter required, how to safely use the machinery in the shop, all before my teenage years, it caused a major fallout at school when I told the woodwork teacher he knew f*ck all about what he was trying to teach, and my father and 2 uncles backed me up, had to do techie drawing instead. these days everything is either throwaway, or goes to a "specialist" to sharpen, and most timber production jobs have been "tweaked" to use machine runs, the old carpentry skills are being slowly lost, never to be passed on
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and before anyone asks, tyres marked B are speed rated to 31mph, anything with an A8, up to 25mph, A1 to A7, less than that, so check out whats obn your agri machines, and if you run a mog, the minimum is a G speed rating.
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and as a little side bar on the above, any piece of equipment used on the tractors must be capable of the speed, most agri trailers are not, the brakes are not compliant, and the tyres are not speed rated, so work it out......3 points for speeding, 3 points per tyre, 3points for defective brakes, so on a simple 2 wheeled trailer, your licence is gone, not to mention the cost in fines, is it worth it for a few minutes off the traveling time.
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ok smart ars*s, but a universal motorised implement carrier in german speak is a tractor, and by all means sell your mog and buy a tractor with a 40/50k gearbox.......you still can only do 25mph max anyway, and up here in scotland, 20mph, different road traffic laws apply
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I think youll find that the actual description of a tractor is covered by the construction and use act, a three point linkage and pto, is a major requirment, and nowhere does it mention no loads, and the name unimog, means tractor, as I said before, there are NO grey areas, its all written down in black and white, its only when "tree sugeons" try to say that its forestry work or horticultural work that problems arise, in 10 years of running a mog, and being stopped several times, I've never had a problem because I printed out the rules, laminated them, along with rules for use of red diesel, and keep them in the vehicle. DVSA"VOSA" cannot make up there own rules, and when presented with a copy, they will back down, so will plod
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the subjrct of how the taxation of unimogs and use of red diesel has been well covered in the forum, have a search for the information, and take note, there are no grey areas, it is all laid out in black and white.
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a wall full of profile planes, in the days before routers became common, every profile had its own plane, so think in a good jobing shop that would run into hundreds, every one being handmade and the plane iron being ground and sharpened by hand, the skills that have all fallen by the wayside. how many joiners these days could even sharpen and set a saw
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if your burning through chains with a bench grinder, your doing something very wrong. properly set you take off less with a grinder than you do with a file, and every tooth is the same. very very few people can hand sharpen both sides of a chain identical by hand, most get very close, good enough for everyday felling and crosscutting, and for the average milling job, but for precision, you cannot beat the properly set up grinder, every tooth identical, every raker set to the same exact height and shape, so grider for precision and speed, file to touch up in the field, 1, or 2 quick passes just to put the edge on, anything more, change the chain to a freshly sharpened one, its as quick as sitting filling, and oh so much more acurate
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will do john,get back to you after this weekends chaos paul
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most places now class road plannings as hazardous waste, and the implications that go with that
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holly, yew, and elder, all carry various superstions assosiated with the cutting and burning of them, usually linked to the practice of them being the most common trees planted in church yards and cemetries, along with rowan, they are actually very good firewood if allowed to season out, but are trees I will try to avoid cutting unless I dont have an option, who needs more bad luck in this game
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Forestry workers dwelling.... and that thing called Planning!!
agrimog replied to SteveA's topic in Trees and the Law
most, if not all the planning departments , that i have had run ins with all seem to work on the principal of" how much can we make out of the applicant, and how much can we pocket", they seem to be the one area of councills that have really overstepped there authourity. the actual rules state that they can only advise the planning commitee, and that they, the commitee, decide, but it seems that the departments makeup there own rules and tell the commitees what to decide. a good lawyer who knows the rules is worth there weight in gold as they can force the corrupt bast***s in a councill to comply with the actuall written legislation, and not make there own rules up
