Gary Prentice
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One thing I don't think has been mentioned is wear on the actual ball. We once had a Vermeer bounce off of a very slightly worn ball (barely measurable), brakes didn't come on as it caught us up and wedged on the tow bar without the breakaway cable operating. After steering it into the kerb, the realisation of the consequence had it come totally adrift in the face of oncoming traffic was rather sobering.
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Yep , think that's the term I was after. I looked at some on a cedar earlier this year, to confirm my suspicions, with a cheap usb microscope. FC asked for samples a few days after reporting it and confirmed it within about four days:thumbup1:
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Can you see the fruiting bodies on the needles, forget what they're called.
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Can anyone recommend the best pliers for pulling teeth?
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You can! But you need a big chipper or know someone who keeps pigs, just to hide the evidence.
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I think the naturally present cellulose present binds everything together. Could be wrong though
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Progression of Fistulina hepatica in oak
Gary Prentice replied to agg221's topic in Tree health care
Sorry, what do you mean by 'heavy crown forms'? -
Progression of Fistulina hepatica in oak
Gary Prentice replied to agg221's topic in Tree health care
I think you're going to struggle to get answers for this. The only method I can think of would involve resistograph or picus testing, neither of which, I imagine, would be easy to interpret for colour itself. Look forward to some answers too. -
Give him time:biggrin:
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Yeah, 30 seconds while the site manager is waiting to induct us, I'm allocating tasks to different climbers as well as trying to get my own kit sorted. I got 'grumpy' twenty years ago, for all the 'faults' that everyone else is high-lighting. It wears ya down in time, watching gear (your own and others) get damaged and destroyed, needless costs incurred by carelessness, thoughtlessness and 'it ain't mine so I don't care attitude' by lads (not saying all) whose only real interest is basically getting home each evening and paid on Friday night. And before you ask, I'm not a boss, I have been and also been a subbie climber and a local authority team climber. I've been around a bit in the last thirty years.
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What you don't do is sit in the truck for a thirty minute ride, get to site, step out of the vehicle and turn around putting the baccy tin on the seat and start fecking rolling one................ Reading through these post's I'm glad to see that ALL the things that wind me up are a stressor to others. This thread wants renaming as 'I'm new to the industry, what should and shouldn't I do?'
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Yeah, but they've worked damn hard to get there! Haven't they?
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A ridiculous article from the guardian.
Gary Prentice replied to Gardenscape's topic in General chat
I read somewhere, that during the LA Olympics traffic was considerably reduced with people either delaying their journey or not going to work at all. The drop in emergency hospital emissions due to respiratory problems for the same period was staggering. But as Jon says, it's a complex problem which will only be resolved with less emissions. -
It really peeves me when the lads don't put the forklift inside, then it takes an hour to start it! Ooops - wrong thread:lol:
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You're a wicked, wicked man Eggs:biggrin:
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That's a right tidy fix! Had some experience on mending chutes and it ain't easy.
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Makes me happy, knowing that there's so many others suffering. Thought I was the only one.
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I'm sure it will. I don't think the picture does it justice because I can imagine what it looks like. It was my first impression when I saw it and now it just won't go away. Look forward to seeing it completed:thumbup1:
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Am I the only one who keeps thinking it looks like: a) a toilet seat or b) one of those 'piles sufferers' cushions? Probably look great as a mirror though
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Probably won't be dry yet? You can try splitting it and then testing the moisture content, on the new split face, but I don't think it would have seasoned much in four days.
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This may already have been posted........... sometime in the last 13 years since it was published:001_smile:
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Unfortunately, HSE think otherwise. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but my take on Reg's video is that it doesn't matter how safe you work overall, how successful you may within the industry or how how experienced you are - This fella's attitude is that use a saw one-handed and you're a dummy! On one of my felling course I walked into the danger zone and was criticized by the assessor. My reasoning was that was the only safe zone for that tree was going to end up littered with dead falling branches which happened. I explained this to the assessor, but no, I'd walked into the danger zone. With some experience, in any given situation there's conscious decisions to make. Using a saw s/h may not allowed/recommended/whatever, but there is only one person, reasonably, in a position to judge when it's appropriate.
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Don't think he'd get many here in Manchester, before the TFU arrived.
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download.jpg Does it have to be a 'No' Smoking sign?
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I think I remember an earlier one still, made of leather and without leg loops. I think they are still available through S&M outlets, if not they should be, only a masochist would want to use one. I did also try the OPs Willans harness, before it had a floating bridge, one day and only for one day. Superbly made, robust and well padded, but not for me.
