kevinjohnsonmbe

I think you'd be over qualified..... ()

That was a GIFT! Sucker...... If you keep knocking those passes up, you can bet your Brexit there'll be someone to smash em' into the net for you!! (and no, as you well know, that's not what he said!)

It's at witham mod vehicles sales via bidspotter try this and scroll down: https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/timed/wca/catalogue-id-witham1-10000

If it's working, and (big if) the reserve stays realistic, this could be a good buy: https://whitelabel-2.globalauctionplatform.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/wca/catalogue-id-witham1-10000/lot-fe24f335-53b6-4074-ac53-a83a00ecd29d A few minor mods and that could be a useful conveyor!

I wish! Missed my lunchtime siesta today due to a meeting - it's saved me a big bucket of mulla though, so I guess it was worthwhile. Wife's out tonight so as soon as I've got the nipper into bed it's sofa time!!

Your unbelievably dull and repetitive petty drivel and derision towards ‘leave’ voters, simply exposes the absence of any tangible, viable advantage to your (apparent) Bremoantard sentiment. I yawn in your general direction.....

Your unbelievably dull and repetitive petty drivel and derision towards ‘leave’ voters, simply exposes the absence of any tangible, viable advantage to your (apparent) Bremoantard sentiment. I yawn in your general direction.....

You might have more credibility if you tried to articulate why YOU voted however you did rather than trying (unbelievably tediously, and boringly) trying to second guess how and why others voted how they did... Your unbelievably dull and repetitive petty drivel and derision towards ‘leave’ voters, simply exposes the absence of any tangible, viable advantage to your (apparent) Bremoantard sentiment. I yawn in your general direction.....

As fine an example of why inept, unaccountable, inexperienced public sector should not be allowed to play in the real world as might be imagined.... A history of under resourcing and mismanagement of public assets, a ‘bright spark’ proposes passing it off to industry, industry focuses on balance sheet not custodianship of public asset / amenity, Council ties itself into a contract it cannot adjust or amend (without significant financial penalty),prime contractor makes a pot of cash (but incurs some reputational damage (not really bothered)), Council blame contractor, public get shafted. Bottom line - this Council has failed in its duty to protect public asset and represent the ‘people.’

Yeah, OK, got it! Thinking...... cheers!!

I can't find much info on floating boom Richy - what's it for / what's it do??

100t pushed around between 09:00-15:00 with time for a brew between trucks! Speed across the ground was a massive bonus of mini-loader over mini-digger. Good day!

That’d be for another thread Mr E!

Come on Ed, dropping such an obviously ludicrous statement into what (could) be described as a passionate, if misdirected, post does it no credit - it just exposes predetermined political bias which is clouding your judgement. Thatcher didn’t destroy UK manufacturing and coal industries - that’s down to the likes of Scargill.

Prep'ed, fuelled, oiled, greased and loaded ready for spreading 120t of granite chip on a drive tomorrow! Bit of rain should keep the dust down.

1 incident should not (I just can't imagine a scenario where I might doubt that) lead to widespread policy change - that would be called knee-jerk over reaction and would have the very real potential to throw up unforeseen consequences whilst simultaneously destabilising the training syllabi and creating disparity and confusion between more recent and less recently trained individuals (people on the same site / team working to different standards.) It might be acceptable practice in a bloated, overly risk averse, 'prefer to be seen to be doing something rather than properly thinking through the longer term implications of what it is you're doing', pseudo public sector organisation, meanwhile in the real world.... Tragic as this incident is, the lesson identified is fairly straight forward - hold the XXX saw with both hands, allow enough time for the job, take care.

That appears to be in direct contradiction with the content of HSE guidance note I posted in No. 11 Jules. It’s perhaps a bit academic either way, HSE appears to suggest an insurer must pay the claimant but may be at liberty to recover costs + from the insured where conditions aren’t satisfied. Net result - conditions not satisfied, risk of non payment of claim or risk of claim costs being recovered from the insured party (+ costs + the money wasted on policy premiums)

email on way

Found this - "...If your insurer believes that you have failed to meet your legal responsibilities for the health and safety of your employees and that this has led to the claim, the policy may enable the insurer to sue you to reclaim the cost of the compensation..." Pretty sure they would too! http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/hse40.pdf

Thanks all! It’s a “system audit” scenario. I agree the processes that are described above, it’s pretty basic stuff but not being understood or implemented by an ‘organisation’ for which I share a collective responsibility and I’m getting pretty impatient with the ignorance, arrogance and incompetence. I’ve highlighted some fairly basic omissions and inadequacies (thereby discharging MY responsibility) if the ‘organisation’ fail to get a grip of it I think I’ll just pass it along to HSE to have a look. Mr E, if you’re looking in, you know who I’m talking about! Muppets!!

Guru? Goon more likely!! I just think my flail is an older model that predates this wholly unnecessary, unreasonable and illogical H&S nonsense! I haven’t done any mods that allow it to work whilst elevated, it just does. There was some discussion about this a while back (not sure if here or FB) I seem to remember Steve H had an input / suggested solution. FWIW, to NOT have the use while elevated would be to seriously restrict the attachment capability. So long as the head is tilted away from the cab, I flail to see that elevated use might present a hazard to operator. PS. I did get caught out with the lift cut out switch on the mower attachment. Was trying to get used to fitting and firing it up before going out to first job so was trying it out in the yard. Because of the granite chip I had it off the ground - couldn’t work out why it wasn’t working, until I realised it had to be on the ground and self supporting. Definately a goon moment!

Less complex; it is however a notably hazardous work based operation with no RAMS or training records for operatives. If, noting the ‘probability’ is fairly low, but the implications are significant, it did go wrong, are ins companies likely to want to examine supporting documentation? PUWER & H&S would NOT be satisfied. Regardless of ins payout, if it went RIDDOR and a H&S examination ensued, they’d be potless!

It's a bit of an odd one, and I'm sure I know the answer, but since I don't have access to the policy small print I can't check and I just wanted to guage the general feeling - valid / invalid. So it's not me, it's a mate.... Actually it's not a mate - it's an organisation that is staffed by chimps and they're as thick as treacle. Org has PL & EL(CI) but has a total ignorance of the most basic H&S, if I said PUWER they'd think I was speaking Japanese and staff training stops at shoe lace tying. They have the PL & EL(CI) policies in place and I'm telling them they ain't worth a tuppeny toss because of the associated deficiencies. Anyone throw me a life-line? Have I missed something or am I over thinking it??

I sh1t you not! Our ships ARE built in Korea!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-class_tanker One of my oppo's sailed back in one. There are some cracking stories under the radar. Build was delayed - by the only system that was UK supplied, the comms fit - so crew had to stay in country longer than expected. Consequently, The visa were wrong for the build / transit crews, they had tourist rather than working visas so every 6 weeks they had to fly out of Korea to Thailand to renew visas. Trouble was, too many senior crew were bringing back their Thai "lady friends" with them, divorce rate sky rocketed!!

This story lacks credibility.... Navy doesn't work after 12:00 on a Friday!