Mr. Squirrel
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Total opposite. I feel like the day flies by and it’s dark before I know it. I’d rather be out working till sunset than clocking off at 5 and not seeing any natural light all day 🤷🏻
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That's the corner I'm in. It's an utter balls up. I had my test booked for the week before they stopped it as well, but it was cancelled as all the assessors walked out. Now booked a load of stuff in based on the change coming into play on the 15th. Now what...? Total incompetence coming out of Westminster as usual...
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Just a wee lift to help even out that transition? That might be the most useful thing I’ve ever read on here.
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Sounds lovely 😂 I’ve not found any issues with getting it off in the rain, but have found it slipping getting it on. Perhaps not standing on the chipper when unloading would help. I guess it would mean it reached the tipping point slightly earlier and so have a shorter drop? Going slow is essential.
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Little bump to this one. I have a 3.5t Brian James tipping trailer which I got with the intention of cutting about with a tracked chipper on. It drives great, and is obviously pretty versatile. My only issue is unloading the chipper seems a bit… bold. When the centre of balance shifts it basically drops onto the ramps, which I’m not really happy with. Obviously unloading uphill is a bit of a benefit/preferable to downhill, but I wonder if anyone else has any pointers? Longer ramps would help I but I’m sure the built in ones are about as long as I can do.
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See I didn't even know about any strength reductions due to the absorbers. I was just highly dubious that they came anywhere near turning a static system into a dynamic one! Rubbish...
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Don’t. Boa and Cobra are shite. As if that shock absorber actually does anything… get on to tree worker and use their bracing would be my advice, so much easier to install and a much better product in my opinion. Also sure it works out cheaper long term. You need to have a few extra bands lying about, sure, but that’ll hardly break the bank.
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I used to. With arborisk 🤔 Insurance companies are such bastards. I hope you manage to figure this out. I read the fine print and some of it is just illogical. My commercial vehicle policy with says I’m covered towing a trailer, but not a machine trailer. So a 750kg tow behind chipper is a no no, but a 3.5T trailer is fine 🤷🏻
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Have you tried speaking to distel? I’ve had spares from them directly in the past. They were really easy to deal with and very helpful.
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I’d also add to keep your steps small.
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To my mind, if you can’t climb and have no intention of climbing I’d just stop right there.
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I think it's eta is November, so presume it'll appear in the UK for pre-orders some time over the next month or so...?
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His heads that far up his arse he probably thinks it is. I used to think he was really switched on and put on a bit of an act. I’ve come to realise he might just be an idiot. A very powerful, deluded, idiot with no understanding or care of his actions and a complete lack of empathy.
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I mean, by the sound of it it’s mostly a British thing… interpreting anything in the Daily Mail as a fact is a school boy error I was chatting to a friend in Germany the other day, he said if anything there’s an excess of drivers at the moment 🤷🏻
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Have a look at wherever you buy kit, you can still buy the old one. The evo is fine, but it’s a heavy bugger. The new front D’s are probably the biggest improvement imo, but again, at a weight cost. They released new buckles and then changed them as they slipped really badly. Personally I’ve no problems with the newer ones. The waist to hip still slips but they always did.
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I didn’t say not to, I was just curious why? Seems extra hassle to pull up and tie off a block that isn’t getting used, and I wondered if it was liable to be damaged by the ring resting against it. Or do you have both so that you can loosen off the ring and use the pulley for winching, or something along those lines?
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Nice job. What’s with the ring/block setup though? It love like the rigging line is going through both?
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And I would have, but my test was cancelled following this announcement. So that’s a problem.
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It's bonkers really. And the hitching & unhitching part will be done at training centres I believe. Except that needs to be done off the road, and the people they expect to pick up the extra work here don't necessarily have the space for it. Not to mention peoples entire businesses have essentially just been wiped out. While in theory it sounds great, I think in reality it's a desperate, ill conceived move that will amount to nothing, if we're lucky.
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I smell a U-turn in the pipeline.
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That’s the crack. They’re also omitting reversing from the hgv test. Sounds like a lot of haulage companies and insurance companies understandably want nothing to do with people who’ve been fast tracked in this manner though. You can’t have a 17 year old rushed through a test like that and now driving a 45 tonne lorry. Sounds like it’s similar with trailers, though it might be legal to tow, when/if these new laws come into force, insurance companies will likely still insist on professional training. Our government couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. While it sounds great, it’s clearly a panicked decision and I’ll be amazed if any good actually comes from this.
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😂 Hardly, we've got a massive driver shortage because of leaving the EU, so they're scrapping towing tests so that there are more tests free for HGV's. Just off the phone with a lorry driver who said haulage companies will probably be reluctant to hire drivers who've passed under these new rules too.
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I've got my trailer test booked for Tuesday the 14th too. Would've been nice if they'd given a better idea of when the new regs will come into play as I need to be able to tow within the next couple of weeks.
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To be honest I would do that anyway. They're both expensive bits of kit and it'll be a stinger if you whack it with a big bit of timber. There's some minor play in my winch bollard too. I think that's alright, but harken have a lot of info on winch bollard maintenance. It's not that complicated, and very common place in yacht racing.
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Ascenders are designed to be used on ropes. Don’t worry about it.
