aspenarb
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My Stihl multitool turned up the other day, nice well made tool supplied with a belt pouch and mall enough to live in a pocket.
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I was just changing the alternator belt on it the other day Alex thinking the hat must go Three full days worth of grinding on that little kin island Stumpy , winch and clobber loaded up Winched off the boat back on dry land
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I really cant see what the fuss is about, if the tree is that rotten get a tracked mewp in there and dismantle it. Even the limp wristed among us would mange to hold /cut and throw down the few twigs overhanging the railway fence. Does anyone here see getting that tree on the floor safely as more than a couple of hours work ? Bob
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You would not want to drop it on your foot but its not heavy, two lads can carry it but they tend to just throw it into a wheelbarrow with all the rest of the clobber. Bob
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Two stroke thought he would start his own mining company today, looks well pleased with his handywork
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I wonder what the love child would look like Bob
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So you never knew whether you were coming or going then Matelot. Not much changed there then Bob
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The goodship SS rg35 Rayco Cleared this small island a while back ,the client wants the stumps ground so he can landscape and seed it, long term he wants to be able to just go over there and mow it. Looks quite small but there are hundreds of stumps on there, we winched out all the willow from the lake last year . Flopped it in there ok But needed the little winch to pull it out of the hull
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Probably made of chocolate and does not really contain the correct tooling but I do like the idea. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHAINSAW-BAR-COVER-SCABBARD-WITH-BUILT-IN-TOOL-KIT-3-16-12-TO-16-BARS/361893561333?epid=532146668&hash=item54428983f5:g:pYAAAOSw5cNYj57O Just ordered one of these, so will report back. Looks like the plug spanner may actually have enough reach. https://www.toolstoday.co.uk/stihl-multi-function-tool-for-chainsaw-service-adjustments-19-13mm Bob
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Trimmed up our insurances this year and gone third party fire and theft on half of them , we run on quite a big excess and as most of the bumps/ scrapes are fixed in house by our one eyed sprayer there seemed little point in going fully comp on half the trucks. Managed to save about 10k on renewal. Bob
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This was supposed to be a poll but I fecked it up so it will have to be a discussion Bought this one below and many of them over the years but never really got on with them . Seem a clumsy , flimsy alternative to the proper tools.
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If you were to remove the chip box for test you would have to add ballast to the chassis because the brake compensator would be at the top of its travel ( virtually no rear brakes). You need a bit of weight on the back so they can get a reading when its in the rollers and to stop them just locking. Bob
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Fingers sprung a leak Bill, not a good place to lose skin Dumper clutch got fried by one of the not so bright members of the landscape team
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Its just a hairbrained scheme by the NHS to pigeon hole and label people . Posted this before on the weightloss thread , my nipper is 6`8" and twenty stone so he too is obese . Bob
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He got a long way through the bridge before the digger hit anything, https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2741909,-3.3309767,3a,75y,314.76h,94.05t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sZNW3CeBuPirOPcCCQPMGCA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DZNW3CeBuPirOPcCCQPMGCA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D71.554565%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656. Bob
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I think a bridge inspection/survey is now north of 100k, all this aside I would wonder if his insurers will cough up if he is not running compliant. Not saying he isnt but all to often they are not running by the rules, a local builder was done recently for running a tractor/lowloader to move his digger about. Bob
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It all depends which type of plod attend the scene, if local plod turn up probably not a lot. They just tend to sort out the clean up and go calling it an "accident". If traffic plod turn up the shit will definitely hit the fan and the charge sheet will probably be as thick as a phone book. Bob
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Allianz Commercial do our fleetplan, only stipulation is valid full uk license. They dont want to know about any driver history or points. Bob
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When I went for my HGV medical about ten years the quack said I was obese according to my BMI . On the last medical a few months ago the quack said they dont use BMI as a reliable indication of health or fitness anymore and that my weight was fine. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/bmi-stop-measuring-weight-height-health-measure-fitness-fat-a7894951.html
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Not so sure you would want the sort of tracks/roads we put in at home. Most of these are woodland or country estate tracks/roads, last one we did at a house was hundreds of meters long and about 4mts wide with railway sleepers for edgings. That came out at about £60 per linear meter for sub base, membrane ,scalps and sleepers. Last 200mts before the road we topped off with planeings
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Hate these things swinging about all over the place which is why I made the one below. Staked to the ground with a four stoke engine on a reduction box, no drama and it runs all day.
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A small woodland walk of about a kilometer, sub base, membrane and scalps with no edges. Just needs a rake and roll on the way out. Dinky little temporary bridge out of concrete sleepers to get the machines over. And a steel fence + a load of kissing gates to keep out the hooligans.
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The belittling of ground staff really does piss me off, "brash draggers" is a horrible term to use for trainee ground staff. Bottom line here is they are all team members , good ground crew can make a very ordinary climber look good in the same way crap ground staff can slow down a decent climber. Everyone being switched on and up to speed with the works program is probably the single most important thing, its all about coordination ,staying safe and team work. Bob Edit: Just realised the above is a rant Ground staff . Preferably first aiders , saw tickets, citb if poss , aerial rescue , mechanically sympathetic , safety aware and know your rigging/knots Bob
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Well done @White Noise, most folk would wring their necks because of what they are,. I too would save them, I am the sort of prick that stops the machine to move a frog rather than flatten it . Bob
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My eldest nipper bought one, I hooked it up to my IW trailer and only got a mile up the road before I turned it around and swapped it for my kennel. I have never experienced a truck thats as rough to drive with a trailer up its chuff, they need to supply them with a neck brace. Way too much truck behind the rear axle, great when empty though. Bob
