openspaceman

Thanks. They seem to have a strange pricing policy, £118 for a kit to mark 300 items (marking just once in one place?) but £408 for a kit for 600.

Yes they are definitely an afterthought and as I said I think it is better practice to only hook to the rings on the track's chassis which means using two more straps and ratchets.

I see your Forsts have the later tiedowns as well as the Ds on front and back of chassis but even these don't lend themselves to securing the load as well as the ones on the GM1928. Do the straps pass through the Ds? Is there any protection on the Ds? I think two ratchets with their hooks attached to the Ds is better although if the tracks are set wide there's not much chance of it moving within the trailer sides. Also I think the points on the trailer you are using are for rope lashings rather than load restraint. With the chipper reversed on, and I believe this is safer for the operator, the newer Forst lashing points from the trailer floor would mean the angle of the strap exceeds 60 degrees to the horizontal, which is against the code of practice. I ask our blokes to pass a ratchet strap above the tracks and under the chipper disc, carefully avoiding pipework, from D rings on the floor but again our truck has no sides to restrain the load. Our lorry driver says he would expect the load to stay attached to the truck if the truck were turned upside down.

I agree, I never got to be better than a competent climber, I now see lads that are more agile in the tree, faster and safer than anyone I saw in the 70s.

I had microdots put on my Stihl equipment under the scheme they sponsored last year and they are registered on a datatag database but am interested in having a liquid marker for the firm's equipment, any recommendations?

I don't know and it will be open to interpretation by the planners. The main thing is that if the structure has openly stood for more than 4 years the planners have to accept it is there lawfully. It can then be repaired and refurbished to maintain it. If it has been abandoned then it loses its "use" under planning law, enforcement notice to remove it would only happen if it became dangerous. So a building that burns down and is quickly rebuilt seems ok, leave it 20 years and I suspect it becomes abandoned and derelict. There is good reason to maintain substantial buildings, not sheds, in good condition because of the way planning laws have changed as if the building is in good repair the planners have to grant use of some sort under a hierarchy which eventually includes dwelling subject to all sorts of other requirements. So if you have a brick built barn that is not listed with a roof with holes in it pays to re roof it with profile;e sheeting rather than allow the roof to collapse as this re roofing would be considered to be a repair.

not only would permission be needed to remove the trees but for that to happen the building would be derelict and planning permission would be required to re build it. If the planners allow the rebuild then the pp trumps the tpo.

and your risk asssessment is? Hint where do most male skin cancers occur

I wondered that too as there were only 6 sets of 3 converted by Marshalls I thought. I brought one back when it was released, still have a rhd gs mouldering away.

Best edit http://www.globalrecycling.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Model2550-0812.pdf then.

It's not for me, I sidestepped proper work 6 years ago, but when I worked for him I vowed not to use the Dosko again, I had the strength but not the stamina. He quotes to get through the "crown" of the root to soil beneath, this often means excavating a ramp on larger stumps. The Bandit looks ok in a rugged american sort of way but what's the point in a brochure quoting one depth and the salesman claiming more? I'll have to see what's affordable.

Spec sheet for the wheeled 2550 only shows a depth of 34 cms which is a couple of inches less than required.

Yes it looks like he'll have to compromise on power, this vermeer also meets the depth criteria wherea the bandit doesn't. Warranty looks good too. Have you used one?

Does a grinder that meets my mate's requirement for something bigger than the old Dosko and without the transport problems of a large Carlton: around one tonne but less than 1200kg for transport all wheel drive or rubber tracked 50hp diesel Cuts to 40cm below ground direct drive If there is one that meets the criteria is it any good?

At the scale you are working apart from the time to take the banding off is there any additional processing cost? Or do you trundle bits home on the red skateboad for domestic use

I don't know but it was never in the remit of "household waste". Collection of green waste by councils was driven by the EU requirement to recycle a %age of waste collected from households. In the early days with multiple collection boxes and initially educating the public to recycle some bright spark in a council somewhere realised that a large scale composting plant counted as recycling. The output could be used as a compost and could be spread on various projects, Portsmouth called theirs portgro and the tree station at Croydon donated Croypost to the m25 road verges. This immediately upped the %age of the total waste collected that was recycled and targets were quickly met. Nowadays with mechanical sorting of dry recyclables residual waste has dropped to ~30% of the total so no need of the expense of using green waste to boost the figures.

Soil re mediation on contaminated sites, like old gas works, is sometimes dome by heating soil up. Greenhouses used to do something similar by hauling a plough which was steam heated through the beds. I doubt there are many plants or seeds that can survive being heated to 70C for and hour and if heat losses are contained it takes a surprisingly small amount of heat to get to that temperature, I haven't run the figures recently but IIRC it was about 70kW(t) for 24hrs to treat 20 tonnes. I knew a bloke that treated JKW on the olympic site using glyphosate for quite a few years and it's still re occurring. On a similar site they decided to dig all the contaminated soil and bury it in a terram lined cell , all 4 metres below the surface, I never did see if that worked.

I was referring to soil sterilisation by heat treatment

I think you should read the label. I'm not qualified to advise as I have an aversion to using pesticides but my understanding is that too strong a dose traumatises the plant such that it does not translocate to the roots. I'm keen on trying heat treatment.

No law against having it in your garden but a criminal offence if it spreads to neighbour. https://www.gov.uk/prevent-the-spread-of-harmful-invasive-and-non-native-plants Best get on the case with glyphosate (just been banned in Columbia for treating coca)

Dorking area? Available for a look see the coming week?

It's not sand added to it, it is sand inherently in it, just like concrete has an aggregate of sand and shingle with cement holding it all together so tarmac has the same with bitumen holding it all together. The stone adds strength and the sand fills the voids between the bits of stone.

You are right and I probably mis remembered willow warbler instead of reed warbler, BTO have a webpage that says "The main hosts in the UK are the Dunnock, Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail and Reed Warbler. " Cuckoo decline | BTO - British Trust for Ornithology I cannot remember seeing a reed warbler but a lot of these little brown birds are hard to identify. I don't see as many dunnocks as a few years back but pied wagtails are plentiful here and lots of meadow pipits in the uplands but less so in Surrey. Do skylarks and meadow pipits occur together or do they compete?

Well the skip firms will have costs to process stuff that exceeds the sale value but the gate fee of £200 odd a skip is their profit. I'm really interested in a small screen for cleaning shingle and also screening woodchip for the boiler but haven't seen anything as small as a 20 tonne per day device.

Screened 10mm chips, limestone locally, on smaller roads. Aggregate on motorways and major roads looks much smaller, possibly to lessen risk of being thrown up??