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Plus it means that the excess air cools the fire which will increase Products of Incomplete Combustion

Used to be? Only just ?

It's not a problem if you never are involved in an accident investigation or work for big civils firms. I work for a bloke that's been a one man band for 35 years and he doesn't have a chainsaw certificate at all and not been pulled up yet. When I was in a position to ask him to quote for work I asked him to provide certificate and insurance and he couldn't prove competence to operate a chainsaw so I took him off the list.

Good, I did it three years ago and my last commercial climbing with saw was 3 or 4 years before that. I don't mind doing a bit of groundwork and did sit in with a group of chaps doing their initial cross cut and fell about 6 years ago. The trouble with these refreshers is at over £150 a time and up to 2 days off work there is no way you can amortise the cost as you get older and looking to take it easy. P.S. I just checked and the pre requisite is CS30.1, CS30.2, CS31 so they're ground based rather than swinging from a harness.

Chainsaw from MEWP I hope

CS47 was the last one I did and it seemed to satisfy

https://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product/73lpx-oregon-chisel-3-8-058/ just type in 102dl it's £16.32 plus shipping

I'm not knocking you or anyone else, dealing with NR is difficult and I wouldn't ask anyone to do something they are uncomfortable with but the guys I worked with were ordinary working men with the difference that they were largely unconcerned about trees, they were doing a job that paid them a bit better than other tree jobs

Yes it could well be right but I'd want something in writing to that effect from the client to indemnify you if the work gets stopped before completion. Why not put in a higher price as well if you are competent to do the work but do have a properly written RAMS on site and read by all personnel.

This is a fairly standard reaction and why the firms that do appear to jump through the hoops can do so well. As to the bit about lawyers if you realised the number of extra lawyers that NR and TOCs have employed to deal with internecine disputes you will understand why ticket prices are so high, next to giving the financial sector a gravy train to slurp on the proceeds of sale of social housing the cock up that KMBE's mates made of carving up british rail is the biggest loss of public good.

I cannot believe that if NR people came out and looked at the work they did not stipulate their requirements to the client.

I'm no longer qualified, and never was to write a safe system of work on the railway, but if it's 3metres from the line it is not on or near the track, so the work doesn't require railway qualified people. Are any parts of the trees over network rail land? If not then the normal RAMS can cover the risks (which would include not felling trees within 2 tree lengths of the line). If any access onto NR land is required then the offtrack manager will need to be informed and then things get complicated because he will want to impose all sorts of conditions to cover their arses which tends to make life expensive. Bear in mind the high cost "safety" culture at NR has reduced accidents many fold but these accidents were almost exclusively to rail workers being struck by trains, mostly at night, but the safety costs are applied to any work on NR land and this resulted in the few arb firms that embraced the paperwork enjoying a false monopoly which made a few people very rich. I couldn't possibly comment on what I would do in this situation.

Another war where whities shouldn't have got involved

This sound is so evocative of the vietnam war, it accompanied the news with shots of grunts trudging up dusty roads "fine Lady" is the song I remember blasting from the 8 track as my late cousin and I drove a beetle to USAAF base at Finthen where he was training prior to deployment.

Sounds reasonable, we used Wohler system at work but they cost 4 times that and the expense is not justified for home use. I use ordinary 9" head and drain rods at home but need something for 5" 904 liner at my daughter's. I think I'll adapt a nylon brush set to push a standard 5" 2metre flue brush all the way up and out of the top, ordinary plastic drain rods are too stiff. Chocolate brown and matt seems good, black and shiny flakes bad.

Read Part J of the building regulations and then if it is hunky dory get a price from your local building control for the visit. Mine were loathe to do it as none of the staff were experienced, another option is to use a private building control firm. The thing is those HETAS registered fitters that are experienced and competent to install and self certify their own installations are not allowed to pass others' work. This self certification schemes are sensible in concept as each stage of the work can be done whilst still visible whereas if the BCO has to visit to check each stage it will get a bit long winded and expensive. OTOH it creates a monopoly so costs go up anyway.

Take the stoves out prior to sale. Well they don't conform to building regulations but if that isn't enforced within a year there's not much they can do about it IMO. Yes you do have the right to install your stove and flue but you should then get it certified, by building control, to prove it adheres to part J of the building regs. Also you should install a carbon monoxide monitor, they're so long lived and cheap now it seems foolish not to.

Yes just my sort of machine, good all-round view compared with the JCB I used to drive. Is it a manual four speed and shuttle box like the dumpers? Wet discs?

I haven't got insulated flue liners as my stove vents into a concrete 9" liner and I depend on the heat from the brickwork to keep the room above warm between firings. I have always intended to sticj=k a thermocouple at the cowl to see how much heat I waste. Which make? What colour soot?

So what? The point is you have a piece of paper that gets you on site and your employer has contributed to the burgeoning, pyramid selling, training and assessment industry

It's proof that you are competent to operate the machine and a necessity to be able to do so on many civils jobs.

It used to be 50kms/35miles till 2013 but as you were delivering goods that exemption would not have applied. The dealer that delivered our chippers was caught and had to fit a tacho to his discovery.

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