kevinjohnsonmbe

Egger, in ‘modern parlance’ that is called car sharing / car pooling. Many LAs and large corp’s actuallyENCOURAGE / INCENTIVISE such activities as part of a carbon reduction/ traffic management plan. It’s just a case of playing ‘em back at their own game! They don’t like it up ‘em! (Bloody auto correct!)

You can’t move for Rozzers in Kernow at moment K! Weme miles away and they’re EVERYWHERE! A car was pulled over and all occupants arrested for ‘suspicion of going equipped and suspicion of intent to cause a public nuisance’ because they had paint, flares and loud halers in the boot! Thinking twice about that trip to B&Q this afternoon......

If you ask what ‘they’ think is acceptable you are immediately conceding that ‘they’ have some form of ‘authority’ to express (and potentially enforce) an opinion. ‘They’ have absolutely no ‘authority’ to dictate how many vehicles a man may park at his place of residence. There are already ‘laws’ in effect which define what may ‘legally’ be used (including parking) on a public highway and regulations as to the avoidance of nuisance or obstruction of said highway. There is nothing, so far as I’m aware, that defines the number of vehicles someone might own and use.

That is BRILLIANT! Love it 😂 Don’t tell ‘em your name Pike! So what? So a bloke parks a couple of work vehicles at his home address.... sign written, sprinkled with fairy dust and painted fluorescent orange, so what? Bloke in the next village parks a Western Power 4x4 on his drive - doesn’t mean he’s secretly coordinating the SW England strategic power network from a clandestine loft conversion, just means he’s lawfully parking an insured, taxed and roadworthy work vehicle either on the public highway or at his place of residence after he’s finished work. Small business is being CRUSHED by officialdom! These people are the true, unsung heroes, the last rebels of the wild frontier, in an increasingly office bound, add no value, compliant population of docile white collar mongs that bow down to ‘authority’ in what ever misguided / misapplied form it may take we should recognise, value, rally to support and defend the right of a working man to place bread on the table. Don’t fear the ‘pig’ because it may enjoy rolling in shit (at tax payers’ expense.) If the pig comes knocking, lather yourself in shit grab the pig by the neck and pull it into the shitpool!

Don’t worry! If you are simply parking a work vehicle at your home address just tell them it’s none of their business.

Dangerous / dead?

If you can even get materiel at the moment - desperate shortage of posts in SW!

Anyone remember the title of the thread where there was a discussion about LAs sending yellow planning notices to agents / applicants for them to post? It appears to have just started hereabouts and I recall it being discussed previously.

I know yome right Egger, yome know yome right, was even talking to a mate about it earlier and HE knew (and wanted some of it) straight away! His Mrs, sat across the table however, and mine if I even broached the merest hint of the idea, are ‘aving NONE of it! Looks like it might be a somewhat shorter - but lads only - adventure.

That’s the sort of well considered, deeply thoughtful experience and advice I value most from this forum. Nice one Egger, I’ll renew my passport and get packed 🕶🌤⛵️

Can’t help but think the cost of remounting a x? Year old MEWP on a later vehicle (plus cost of later vehicle) would put you ½ way towards a box new tracked MEWP. I’m on a mad saving spree for a tracked MEWP but may get distracted and piss the money away on a years sailing the world in a charter yacht.... Its in the balance at the moment 🤪

I hate tax Mull, can't deny it. I guess, it would be more accurate to say I hate systemic governmental waste of money when that money is generated by taxing my hard graft. There's no way round it, waste, incompetence, corruption etc etc etc are endemic - albeit we'll all have differing ideas and thresholds for what constitutes waste, incompetence etc and what is appropriate, sensible and VfM tax spends. You can't blame the corporates for exploiting / utilising* (delete as appropriate) existing national and global tax regimes. I'd suggest we ALL do it - albeit on a much smaller scale. Governments use tax 'breaks' (and penalties) to incentivise certain behaviours but it has taken too long for all/any government to properly catch up with legislation to effectively tax offshore corporates and tax havens of the super rich. I don't 'blame' Starbucks / Apple / Branson for what they do, I've got an ISA so I guess that makes me just as bad as them - on a much smaller scale - but the principle is the same. The masses that patronise these corp's are just as bad as the corp's themselves - again, as I type on my Mac, I guess that makes me just as culpable. Now that the global financial elite have been forced to recognise the fragility of the existing Ponzi scheme that is tax, and the global pandemic has forced a re-think on propping it up, they have had to seek a means to harvest income from sources that were previously off limits. Thatcher and Reagan promoted and implemented the 'trickle down' principles of macro economies which, with the passage of time, can be seen to have been a flawed concept and a failed process. They couldn't have known it at the time but 'we', with the benefit of hindsight, can now see it as a failed process. What we do know is that communism / socialism will ALWAYS fail. No point arguing any other way.

I’d refer you to the news headlines Mark. G7 proposal - albeit, needs to be approved by G20 - but undeniably a massive step in right direction. What ‘actually’ comes to fruition, and when, is another story but that’s global politics - glacial! What a state anyway. The Corps act (exploit) within existing law, laws don’t change quickly, global economics follows the money, people bitch about profit and wealth disparity then go out and whore themselves to the corporate consumer heroin. 🤨

That’s a big part of the ‘fragility’ of the stats that feed into ‘Arb accidents’ which result in half baked cock eyed ‘initiatives’ that impact upon professional practitioners. Farmers, amateurs, have a go heroes and chippies - all full of bravado and good ideas but their cock ups result in long term implications for the industry.

How about some great celebratory cheers for a Tory Chancellor that has engineered the potential for a global agreement on corporation tax..... Surely a cause that must be at the very core of all anti capitalist / anti establishment SJWs?

I’ll take that as a compliment Les! 👍🏻

What I meant Mr Stubs was, if using in an area where bogging down is even a remote possibility, is the MEWP the right tool for the job. Granted it may have got bogged in transit to operating zone but was operating zone firm enough? Don’t know, just surmising, MEWPs have a place and a time but I can’t help but feel they also present a potentially greater possibility of injury / harm when not properly deployed. Right place, right job, right operator - undeniably a suitable option but if any of those factors don’t exist the chance of injury / harm is multiplied many fold - we can look to the States for an early indicator of this and as MEWP use is presented as the ‘preferred’ option in UK I anticipate a corresponding rise in associated accidents here - sure as night follows day. Not necessarily machine / equipment failure or defect related (assuming it’s late machine and properly serviced) but it will be inappropriate use / operator error / complacency related. Just my tupenny worth for what it’s worth.

If I were the customer I’d pay the day rate agreed for the number of days worked. No work done - no money paid. Can’t even start to think of a way I’d be inclined to look at it any differently. If I were the service provided I’d be genuinely concerned about how the MEWP was being used and the potential for a catastrophic accident in the future.

Not seen but can imagine how it plays out... PS - could you Skype or VOIP a hyperlink to it on YouTube or link it via Instagram? 😂😂 see what I did there 😂😂

Not so much as ‘bordering on’ but rather fully paid up, card carrying, koolaid walloping head bangers!

That’s ‘classified’ Mr K!

😂 I hadn’t see your wise counsel Mr Stubby ! it’s one of those voty post things (or I didn’t look at page 1! I had the dreaded phone call a month or so ago - do you do chipping 😂 I left it ages but he kept calling. Offered a crazy day rate and said it’ll take as long as it takes. I did it but left as much as I’d chipped since it really was a pile of site rubbish pushed into a pile with a digger. Was a very decent payday and if I didn’t like the look of it it didn’t go near the chipper. Not much fun though but I guess we have to actually ‘work’ at work sometimes rather than just enjoying swinging around in trees!

Everyone’s indicative price will vary - to a degree. All I’d say is, generally, when a site / home owner wants to do some of the work in return for a reduced cost it invariably results in well intentioned but poorly considered actions which actually ADD to the hassle of the job. Example - it you cut and pile branches like a wood pigeon nest, it makes chipping MORE troublesome than direct feed into chipper as they come off the tree. You have to measure the time, hassle, personal risk of ‘doing it yourself’ against what real cost saving it actually represents. Just reading the question (or hearing it on the phone) is often wnough to make me think - I’ll give that one a miss.

Complaining about acerbic post content in a post full of - you guessed it - acerbic content. Personally, I don’t mind such content either way, I’ve always preferred people to say what they mean and mean what they say. Bonus though if they are also able to acknowledge and accept that others may think / feel / speak differently. What really highlights a W⚓️ though - purely my own interpretation - is someone that’s gets all pissy about something whilst simultaneously doing that which they are getting pissy about.

Do you feel any hypocrisy in what you’ve written above? (Rhetorical)