kevinjohnsonmbe

I can't find the thread which talked about our GreenMech factory visit Spring 2018 so I'm posting here for 2 reasons. Firstly, this is a great thread in its own right and giving it a new post might cause some more people to have a look in and realise what great service GreenMech delivers. Secondly, to say a big thank you to Jason from GreenMech tech support who helped us out of a bit of a pickle today. Single track (left from controls end) wouldn't operate. Talked it through with Jason and he diagnosed / described exactly what the problem would most likely be. It was all getting a bit too technical for me so had the dealer from whence it was purchased send out a field tech. Jason sent him wiring diagrams and it was fixed and back to work in 30 minutes! (Just hoping the call out and fix are warrantee now) For me, that's what "service" is all about. British made, the ability to talk to someone that knows their product inside out and getting what could have been a bit of a disaster sorted with minimal fuss. Massive thanks to GM and Vincent Tractors! For info: @PeteB ?? just wondered? Is Jase Hutch Jason from GM? @Jase hutch. If So, many thanks Jason! Got us out of a pickle today mate 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Hell Paul! That was 10 years ago 😂😂 (just realised it’s an old thread brought back to life! 🦍)

It’d have to be written into the terms of the contract if there was a potential or real possibility of disruption - and costs accrued passed on to site owner / main contractor. Only experienced something similar once.... Site clearance for a development which wasn’t popular with neighbouring homeowners (whose estate was built about 10 years earlier!) Ring leader was a JP who set about disrupting works. Works were over 2 consecutive weekends (but only because that suited several of the team members childcare arrangements) His belief was that trees were being removed at weekend because there was no TO cover. Of course it was entirely ‘by the numbers’ - what did he think? Trees cut down ‘illegally’ would miraculously regrow by Monday morning? He didn’t take kindly to being told that he was interfering with my lawful business and potentially committing a public order offence by interfering. But he did Foxtrot Oscar at the threat of inviting local constabulary attendance.

We absolutely do have a clear and present example of such division in the UK and it is manifest in the SNP. It bears many similarities with only scale being different to that across the pond.

What types of human behaviour do you mean? Plundering and generally fcking with nature and mass galavanting around the globe types? Very hood call on changing those for the future, but a bit late in this instance, the cat's well and truly out of the bag with this virus. Yeah, pretty much. Depressing that all the talk is of ‘living with it’ rather than ‘dealing with’ the causal factors.

I know it’s a hopeless scenario to expect humankind to adjust in such a manner as to address the CAUSE rather than react to the EFFECT. You’ve only to listen to everyone calling for a return to ‘normal’ whereas it is that ‘normal’ which provided all of the transmission vectors which created a worldwide pandemic from a localised infection event. Hopeless.

Oh J, there you go trashing your own widely publicised liberal (little L) values.... The man was tried (somewhat irregularly though it was) and acquitted. He is NOT GUILTY of the ‘crimes’ you still seek to burden him with. Where is your humanity 😂

Many generations of vaccinations against a virus that changes more swiftly than ‘science’ can keep pace is one option... Changing human behaviour is perhaps another?

No further evidence required, the case is concluded M'Lud! 😂😂😂

If you specify the intended works in the notice as per the 3998 "recommendations" (which are pretty well laid out, succinct and easy to understand) you'd have a notice that couldn't / shouldn't be rejected by the LA. Can't help but think the LA is quite in order to reject if the notice is incomplete, inaccurate or ambiguous. Quality in = quality out...

I think you mean Eton Andy, not Eaton. Eaton was the next hamlet over from my childhood village of Appleton. No big posh-boys school in Eaton - just the nearby Comp Matthew Arnold school which spectacularly failed to prepare me for the big wide world 😂😂

Dammit! Missed your answer! What about Boris + new coal mine? Climate change: Boris Johnson 'risks humiliation' over coal mine WWW.GOOGLE.CO.UK A leading scientist warns Boris Johnson digging for coal undermines the UK's climate change efforts.

Yeah, yeah, weme on the same page there, but is it your Dad in the pic??

Woeful pacifism....

Is that your Dad in the miners' strike Mark? Did you hear that Boris is looking at opening up a coal mine? I'm just tugging ya mate. In all seriousness, in a riot or civil disorder scenario, then 'appropriate' force is entirely lawful and could be defensible. That was a entirely passive geezer handing out loop the loop. If that had been me and plod tried the bracelets, the first one would have had a portion of soup in the token, the second would have had the ladle! Horses for courses 😂

What I find interesting there is the use of cuffs (apart from the blindingly inappropriate arrest of course.) There must be an “objective basis” to justify the use of force. Aspects which might influence that justification are the age, gender, attitude, number of offenders in relation to police numbers etc, etc. The NPCC guidance is here: https://www.npcc.police.uk/documents/FoI publication/Disclosure Logs/Uniformed Operations FOI/2013/003 13 Att 15 of 15 Guidance on the Use of Handcuffs.pdf Ive read it previously because I’ve often thought that, should I ever find myself in similar circumstances, the apparent presumption that handcuffing me (especially if no “objective basis” was apparent) would likely turn me from a laid back, casual pacifist into a demented madman. It’s so wrong that so many people seem to acquiesce with absolutely no protest.

Better without the hippo you trophy hunting murderererer!

The combined centuries of wisdom and experience, tested by the inquisitive open mindedness of ‘fresh eyes’ on the forum make for some serious checks and balances.

I may have misinterpreted your point Bob. I guess an employer / prime contractor can specify the means or technique employees must adopt in the exercise of their duties - esp if those techniques read through the relevant RAs. Different if an employer had prior knowledge of a potentially non compliant practice and sought to absolve them self of responsibility through a disclaimer. That wouldn’t be kosher.

That’s a can of worms.... Company recognises employees may be deviating from procedure but offers them an opportunity to formalise and record the deviation at their own risk. It’d be like signing a pre-emptive admission of failure to manage H&SaW and providing HSE a free pass to prosecution 🤯

Saw the vid the day before it went viral K just waiting on Matt Frei to interview the boot on LBC

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I rear ended a car today.... Other driver got out for a row, imagine my surprise when I saw he was a dwarf! He said, "...I'm not Happy..." I asked, "...Well which one are you then...?" That's when the fight started 😂

Paul, mate, it's OK. I genuinely laughed when reading that - in a good humoured way. I know you're bound by corporate etiquette - a yolk I cast off many years ago and much the happier for it - I was never much for sugar coating anyway. Despite having spread my wings and freed myself from toeing the party line, the corporate speak thesaurus is still on the shelf and often referred to. Never in the history of humankind has a sentence or a dialogue ever opened with the phrase "respectfully" which didn't actually mean "right you cvnt , you're talking bullox, you're full of shite and I'm gonna set you right." It's just the way it is.... 😂 The effort is appreciated but the actual meaning is well known - and I don't mind at all. I'd agree though, it probably is a damning statement - but also it is as accurate and succinct a way of expressing my personal feeling on the subject as came to mind at the time. It's become de rigueur to challenge a position by asking for an evidenced based rationale - in many cases, rightly so. In this case it is like asking me to prove something that I don't believe has happened - impossible. What is possible is to reference the literally 1000s of adverse comments across numerous similar threads, predominantly from experienced and professional practitioners, which present a fairly unified criticism of the HSE driven imposition of what generally appears to be an illogical retro-step. It should however be possible to evidence the arb industry accident based analysis which provides the unequivocal data to support this fundamental policy / training / practice change. I'm not sure we even have the means to collect the accurate data let alone analyse it in such a way as to derive credible need for activity changes. You can't beat a bit of illogical bandwagoning 😂. Just ask Boris! I recall quite clearly the AAAC workshop all those years ago in the depths of Cornwall - you quite clearly articulated the AA position that MEWP should be default and climbing only where MEWP physically couldn't be brought to site. Cost nor time nor inconvenience were valid reasons for not MEWPing and climbing was only acceptable in the risk hierarchy where MEWP was not possible due to access etc. I got the point of that but I always felt it lacked a 'real world' (domestic arb) credibility. Then we had that dreadful incident where the MEWP was firmly ensconced in the RA (it was in a park or something - can't rightly remember) and the blind obedience to pre-established RA procedure actually resulted in the site conditions not being properly considered, the MEWP was set up incorrectly and over it went. I can't rightly remember the exact details but it struck me then that the weak point was neither the system nor the equipment but rather the operators willingness to just follow laid down procedure rather than actually DO a dynamic assessment. That remains my personal concern for 'systems' to be given greater priority than proper checks, operator knowledge and experience. All that said, I'd love a tracked MEWP and have been saving accordingly - but that is mostly because I'm old and increasingly idle 😂

You’ll hardly generate an economic revival by purchasing new ladders, a squeegee and a bucket 😂