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  1. openspaceman
    I don't think you needed anything for a shotgun before 1968 and even then a shotgun could be 20" barrel, after that you needed a shotgun licence and in 1988 you had to store them securely.
  2. openspaceman
    Since the 1986 forestry act there is a presumption against clearing woodland for agriculture. Prior to that they were interchangeable, subject to felling licence. Now you would have a problem getting it without a restocking condition.
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    MEWP

    openspaceman replied to Darcy's topic in Climbers talk

    When I did mine in 2015 it was NPTC CS 47 NB the 5 metre risk zone still applies
  4. openspaceman
    Those were the days when you could collect a couple of kilos on a "use this day" licence
  5. openspaceman
    Dunno but are there any petrol ones that don't use the B&S EFI engine that lots report problems with?
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    You youngsters don't remember the days before chippers were ubiquitous, climbing into the back of the truck to rasher down lop ad top, several times . Probably achieved a 3 or 4 to 1 reduction, compared to the 15:1 I saw quoted for a chipper. Actually rashing was a reasonably dangerous activity , often involving remounting saw chains. Doubly dangerous if done in the back of a luton body.
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    I was more forestry than arb and retires 8 years ago but did use small chippers on arb jobs; Forst have an aggressive feed but poor reliability reputation, 150s were my favorite, never got to use 230.
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    I'm glad to hear this, I have been advocating biochar for a long time now, over 15 years.
  9. openspaceman
    I had some bags of loggets which were sawmill slabwood that had been chunked with a branch logger and they burned well, a bit tedious feeding the fire but okay.
  10. openspaceman
    Yes but most parks will not be registered common land and neither is CRoW access land. Often common land is also covered by local byelaws, mind I am not aware of a byelaw covering climbing trees, free climbing was a boyhood activity on the common here.
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    Logs

    openspaceman replied to Woakesart's topic in Picture Forum

    Bound to be, the place has been closed and demolished apart from a gas fired turbine. One of the local farmers tried to get them to take woodchip from his short rotation willow planting, the railway from Bristol that delivered the coal ran through his farm, but they wouldn't entertain it. It grew rank and he had to give it away, must have been 20 years ago.
  12. openspaceman
    I do for locks. Have little use for carabiner nowadays.
  13. openspaceman
    It's the threads of mine which would potentially wear out first, being aluminium male and female. I have a mix of aluminium and fibre glass poles (for utility work) but nowadays as long as not working near electricity I would probably replace with carbon fibre tubes.
  14. openspaceman
    Have a look at HBM poles, they look like the same size and thread as my old set which were probably the same as the Stanton Hope ones, still the most capacity lopper head I've seen. ps I have measured mine and the thread seems to be M26 with a fine thread of either 1.5 or 1.75mm pitch
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    Too true
  16. openspaceman
    Yes I believe that sort of thing happens. It was an unusual case that if you took your test before a certain date you got this entitlement, the law changed and those with the entitlement had to prove that they were using it at the time, I think this involved a letter proving you were a professional driver. If you weren't able to prove it, or like most of use, were unaware of the need to send in documentary proof, you automatically had the note (107??) added to the licence and were downgraded. Then new drivers had to pass the c1+E to be able to pull heavier trailers.
  17. openspaceman
    @Billhook made his own with videos. I would like to see one dealing with a big beech or oak fork
  18. openspaceman
    I don't know but @Justme was the expert on trailers, I don't think he reads this forum now.
  19. openspaceman
    Trailers need type approval nowadays or individual vehicle checks and I doubt this one is even CE marked being a chinky knock off. Nothing to stop you getting an iva Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA): trailers - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) if you’re making or importing a single trailer, or a very small number of trailers.
  20. openspaceman
    Whatever you do decide with the landlord what each of you wants from this, write it in a contract. Remember a gentlemens' agreement is an agreement between two people, neither of whom are gentlemen and neither expects to fulfill his part of the agreement. I can relate a story or two about gentlemens'' agreements. From what I understand you do not have much to bring to the table and are at the mercy of your landlord's goodwill.
  21. openspaceman
    The injury was real enough but it was in the days before Riddor ( or chainsaw competency requirements) so no questions were asked.
  22. openspaceman
    One of the lads I employed in the late 80s was cutting by his feet and caught the trousers, the chain dragged the protection round and the chain and bar the other way and cut his calf, seemed a bit strange but that's what he said.
  23. openspaceman
    Yes I worked with Bruce when he was with the NT and his late son (who I thought was Steve) when he had a sawmill
  24. openspaceman
    It's difficult to say how its going to go, people getting heat pumps may well still have a stove for the very cold days, I logged up some ash for a baronet in this position. People like me who heat with wood do so because they cut for themselves rather than buy it in. Not much chance of that you have to build up your own goodwill and customers come and go. I think dryness is an issue but I guess most wood is air dried, what yo will need is space and time plus the ability to build up a stock. In my village one log merchant gave up with the coming of woodsure and another stopped logs and went for biomass. ps I used to do business with a woodman with your name some 30 years ago
  25. openspaceman
    Breaking g an injunction is contempt and dealt with severely

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