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PhilBeech

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  1. I once saw a Police Officer scratching his head at roadside as his diesel astra ate itself. Funniest thing I ever saw.
  2. Great machines, I had several when we ran a grounds maintenance team.
  3. You'll be needing a squad of PTS qualified guys and your own COSS. Contact firms that sub-contract direct to Network Rail. If you want to contract direct you'll need LinkUp approval and access to a tendering website. All very expensive!
  4. I bought an iPhone 4 years ago, it worked so I bought another one. I bought an iMac, it works, my business depends on it and it is reliable. Two years in and it is just as fast and Multi tasks like no PC i've even seen. I bought an iPad, it works. Etc, etc. Apple products look good, work and have fantastic support. I don't shout from the roof tops but I point out the positives when asked.
  5. Mark the trees you wish to retain, all the rest to be felled, agree a standing sale price with the contractor and invoice based on the weigh tickets at roadside. Let the contractor work out what's there.
  6. Did you work for AHS Recycling? They are based down that way.
  7. See if you can agree with the client to rope into trees thus bypassing the requirement for IRATA or set up work positioning system. You'll struggle to find IRATA guys with chainsaw tickets and they will still need a level 3 to inspect their setup. Nightmare!
  8. Try James Lloyd at Three Shires on 07973 885935
  9. Third ed for Shades of Green, very handy. I have a TW125PH sat in the yard doing nothing at the moment BuT it's ten years old and can be finicky. Could do you a cheap hire rate if you look after it!!
  10. I only saw the last half of the film, I would agree he was a proper wally though. I think the film was based on a Jon Krakauer article in Outside Magazine. Shame they haven't made a film of his (Krakauer's) Everest experience in 1996 'Into Thin Air'. Fantastic book that one.
  11. Bolle Spider Range The Safety Supply Company PPE Specialists
  12. ^^^ What Rupe said, the black Bolle safety glasses are brilliant, I have many pairs lying around and they don't steam up.
  13. What ever is reasonably practicable. If the Estate know there are issues and are then 'inviting' people into the woodland they are asking for trouble. A basic survey adjacent to main routes with a rolling programme of work on the worst trees should satisfy. You'll never, and should never, make a mature woodland 'safe' anyway. A common sense approach should be the way forward.
  14. Oh dear handbags at dawn! your question was phrased poorly and gave the impression of stupidity. I apologise. Essentially a chipper pays for itself through getting through the work quicker, not through the end product. The end product is classed as arbo chip and is only any good as either landscape mulch or biomass wood chip for large power stations. The size of the wood chip, and the moisture content means that it will never be suitable for smaller biomass application where the chip has various specs which relate to moisture content and thickness. G20, G30 and G50 are the common ones, this type of chip is produced by chipping dry roundwood to order. The market for your arbo wood chip has many players, Shredco, Boomeco, Stobbarts Biomass and AW Jenkinsons to name but a few. They will all pay you around 8-14 £ per ton for biomass loaded into there walking floor lorries. It needs to be clean and loaded off either a thick layer of wood chip or a hard stand. You keep the weigh ticket from the lorry and invoice on the back of that. You need to be able to receive articulated lorries and load them at 14'. Hope that helps
  15. Agreed Sam, they war my thoughts when I watched it this morning. This has been going on for a very long time in countries other than Uganda as well, there are many agencies doing good work to stop it. I believe there was some VT on it during Comic Relief / Sport Relief last year. The video seems to be having most effect on teenage Facebook users as you quite rightly say, probably don't know where Uganda is!
  16. Spray it twice annually for three years with glyphosate, put chestnut paling around the area with exclusion notices. That's your only option really mate.
  17. Pay a huge amount of money! Google it.
  18. Agreed, unless it's a woodland though you can easily alter the recorded position rather than use the GPS. Most sites have enough features to make this achievable.
  19. Talk to Digiterra direct not Mr Shandley. Why do you need sub-metre accuracy? Hell of a jump in price for that. If it's a large site then the client will have already provided a Topo?

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