openspaceman
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Yes that is my interpretation but the VOSA lady from the now closed Mitcham office said she would allow it as materials ancillary to the work. I have never seen any official statement.
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There was a position statement posted about smaller vehicles towing trailers. VOSA say that if the vehicle is being driven with a B licence (car or truck up to 3500kg MAM) then the actual weight of the trailer will be allowed, not it's MAM in calculating the weight. So a trailer with a gross plated weight of 2 tonnes could still be towed as long as it s actual weight does not exceed 750kg. This is different from the previous interpretation which still applies to C1 and C +E towing where it is the MAM of the combination that counts. I suspect this was a compromise to allow ordinary car drivers to use trailers for personal use.
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Yes but if the vehicle is MAM of 3500kg and it pulls a trailer such that the actual weight exceeds 3.5 it needs a tacho but not necessarilly an operator's licence. It's when the vehicle and trailer exceed 7.5 tonnes that the tacho must be used at all times. So I could drive a 7.5 tonne lorry within 50km and not need to use the tacho if I only travel to work and use the chipper. I have a C1+E grandfather right to drive the truck with a trailer up to 8.25 tonne gross but as soon as I hang the chipper on the back I must use the tacho. In fact if I do have to drive any vehilce with a tacho I do use it.
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"If pulled"? Naughty but if my experience is anything to go by I agree, not that I do it anymore. The chap that delivers our chippers with a disco did get stopped and fined GBP200 and now has a tacho.
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Best bet not to use the last 75kg, in fact if you account for nose loading of the trailer you cannot get to full GTW in any case. Once you exceed 3.5 tonnes and don't have any of the exemptions ( like carrying tools for own use within 50km of base) then you are subject to EU driving hours rules and must have a tachograph, if vehicle is post 2006 this must be a digital one. Perceived wisdom is less than 1% of 3.5 trucks pulling a trailer have tachos. In your case no need for the operator's licence as you probably have a dual purpose vehicle and your trailer is less than 1024 kg unladen.
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Is this Fransguard winch any good?
openspaceman replied to doobin's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Clarkes who advertise here otherwise any ships chandler but get the right wire build. It's the sliders that have got expensive and where to find a wedge eye soket now? -
Pear for veneer fetched more than Yew, GBP15Hft+ 20 year back. (US keyboard, cannot find pound sterling character)
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Be very careful how you pull the bearings, they are not self aligning and if you distort the housing when tne new ones go in they can be skewed enough to cause problems.
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Snaps like a carrot too so watch your anchor points. Never had it as firewood though.
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Surely only op licence exempt? You still need tacho if gtw exceeds 3.5 tonne
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Trouble with that is the MAM of the combination is something like 9.5 tonne and would require HGV C+E as well as operator's licence and tachograph. A transit and the chipper still needs the tachograph if you exceed 50km from base but not necessarily the Operator's licence and you only need add the trailer test to your B licence. Mind overall if I were a young man with post 1997 licence I think a couple of grand and a few days for the C+E licence would be a worthwhile investment.
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It's good value for money if it's clean, similar to the original Jotul, which was copied by Quebb in the early 70s. I still use a 35 year old Jotul 602 but doubt it would get DEFRA approval as is. Does it have a horizontal baffle front to back? The Jotul design was meant to burn like a cigar with all the combustion products being forced to come forward and meet incoming air befor exhausting, which is different from a fire with a grate where the primary and secondary air are more distinctly separated. I like this type of design as it takes a 16" log. Has anyone tried ChilliPenguin? The bloke that started the company did the design for the pressure vessel and refractories for an experimental burner my colleague designed. His background was chemical industry design so they should be well thought out.
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That's my boss's understanding too!
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Do you need CPC if just carrying tools to and arisings from work? It's the arisings that become questionable as to whether they are goods.
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REF what the price of hard wood cord now thanks
openspaceman replied to mendiplogs's topic in Firewood forum
My view also, seasoned loga are a luxury good, you are not selling on strictly energy. Woodchip is sold on energy price plus an uplift if subsidy for burning it is involved. -
REF what the price of hard wood cord now thanks
openspaceman replied to mendiplogs's topic in Firewood forum
Makes sense, they were working on about 18p/kg 20%mc wood you are charging 30p. I used .7m3 builders bags and they only had 300kg of green wood in when I test weighed a fresh load. -
The FMV came with a float valve but the Cranab just had a tap between the hoses. Trouble is that in float on the trailer it would fall off the load or the hose fittings would get bashed so normally easier to fold the loader behind the cab.
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For picking up and trimming stake material (after cleaving or in front of the peeler as well as stacking) I used a muller billhook with a notch filed in the sharp end.
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You must remind me to deliver the one I offered!
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I don't understand the question but 1m3 of solid wood is 27.736 Hft IIRC.
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It's too simple to need one if L is the length and QG is a 1/4 of the mid girth then =L*QG^2/144 dropped in a spreasheet gives Hft Who still uses Hoppus feet?
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what does a firewood sale cost you in timber?
openspaceman replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
It may be that SHP isn't licensed for the wood if it is painted or otherwise contaminated. Most of the big incinerators can only take residual waste (domestic stuff in black bags) and they charged £80+/tonne a few years ago. One on the south coast would take things like sleepers at a gate price of £50 which is £79 worse than the £29 we were getting for virgin chip at SHP. Just do the figures for for maximising the contaminant content to be within the rules in order to put a bit of waste into the virgin chip heap. The giveaway with sleepers is the smell but you could also see the odd blue fleck from a chep pallet or a bit of chipboard. -
I have lived in Surrey all but two of my years so they may be local. I associate rue and shaw with surrey-west sussex and hanger with Hampshire. Probably but whilst I might say "that is a nice cant of chestnut coppice" I wouldn't say that coppice on yonder hill but rather that copse. They were wrong there then because a copse is by definition a wood that has been under coppice management, the terms copse, coppice and coup all derive from the French to cut. Spinney need not have been under any management
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It's a carr rather than a spinney then.
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Coppice is the practice, copse is the result. Just like thicket is a wood at a certain stage of maturity, spinney is a clump of blackthorn, hanger is a wood on a steep bank, gill is a wood on a bank leading to a stream, shaw is a strip of woodland between fields (as is rue) etc.
