kevinjohnsonmbe

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)

Target your networking to only those that can make a difference. Med sized building firms and especially architects. Are you doing 5837 surveys?

See, there’s probably a fair bit of head scratching amongst the yoof at how this is playing out..... 😂

Is the wife’s mother only subject to 1 law thus making her a mother in law or is she subject to many laws thus making the single mother of 1 wife a mother in laws? Either way, 1 should be enough....,

Unless your other one is in the Albert Hall, that’s just too easy Mark 😂

Only skim read OP and some replies but a couple of things spring to mind - and have already been pointed out. there is a “technical disconnect” between that which is categorised under a BS 5837 Arb survey for a planning app and that which qualifies under a TPO. Question - is the area covered by the woodland TPO all new planting or was the new planting ‘in-fill’ within something that might (even loosely) already have been classified as a woodland in its own right? If it was all new planting in a previous pasture (for example), it may be a dubious application of a woodland designation. From what I’ve read, and that’s not to say that is what you intended to portray, it sounds like you are dissatisfied with the TOs approach to it? It’s difficult to properly interpret if that’s what you mean - but it comes as a bit of a surprise and leaves me thinking there may be a part of the story ‘missing?’

Mad but entirely accurate. You don’t necessarily have to own the land to submit (and potentially gain) a planning consent. You could get a consent on land not in your ownership. Planning and ownership are separate issues.

You’re a tease! You ain’t gonna spill the beans is ya!

😂 Its Freemasons and farmers here Les - that’s what passes for LA ‘rules’ and probably had a lot to do with a ludicrous planning approval that has just been thrown out by judicial review. Judge was female 😂 I bet they know they were doomed as soon as she was announced but daft barstewards fought the case anyway (at tax payers’ expense obviously!) If it’s not funny handshakes in your Principality what is it? Prettiest 🐑?

Come on Les, spill! Details, what did LA say and what did you go back with.

Getting a TPO initiated is no easy matter hereabouts. Lazy bastards seem to want to throw up any excuse not to whilst trying (abysmally) to enforce 60 yo ATPOs. Only in the public sector can such inefficiency survive - nay thrive!

Can you share the letter with us Les? Interested to see what they’ve said.

He lost his bus pass at the Battle of Gettysburg..... never been back since 😂

Meh...... Tomarto tomato 😂 sthil husqvarna.... etc etc.... 😂

I think I read somewhere that gators can exert downward pressure with their jaws but not upwards - not something I'd want to test but maybe whack an elastic band round his snappers and crack on? That's a job fir MendipJon!