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So you are sitting at a set of faulty lights with both ends stuck on red. You cannot reverse as there is a queue behind with a big artic. You phone the HA, how long do expect to sit there, an hour, four hours, all day and night?

I would think that 90% of roadworks lights do not have this sensor and my argument is that it may be bad manners/ form to hold the traffic up for what , ten seconds, but it is in no way dangerous and does not compare with jumping the lights at a dangerous junction. Yet from what people are saying here it has exactly the same penalty.

One other thought on the subject is something I bet that thousands do every day and everyone of us has done at some time, and that it to follow the last cars in a queue at a roadworks past a red light. There may be three or four cars in front and a couple behind doing it. There is generally such a delay in the lights changing over that when you reach the other end they are still on red so that you gave not even inconvenienced anybody. How can that receive the same punishment as somebody jumping the lights on a M25 roundabout or fast main road junction?

https://www.rac.co.uk/discuss/forum/driving/driving-discussion-aa/motoring-discussion/7799-traffic-light-frozen-on-red Although the law seems clear that there are no circumstances when you can cross a red light, what about emergency vehicles and even civilian vehicles trying to make it to hospital for child birth or accidents.

XC70 brilliant car and much more capable than it looks. Underside well protected and good entrance and departure angles We started with an early petrol with viscous couple which did 220k now on another petrol bought from Japan but this one is diesel and just used around the farm. It has done 259k is Haldex and failed its MOT because the instrument panel packed up. The panel cost more than the car was worth and the owner nearly gave it to me for scrap value. It has been fine and will remain fine when I find my collection of cable ties thank you Jack P

Definitely a big wind up for me also. Outrageous the lights in your video but there are plenty of examples of a tiny hole in the side of the road that could easily be coned off with just warning signs. Cannot be more difficult than coming across a parked car or a cyclist, both without any warning. There are many where they have been working all day cutting the verge with no potholes where thay just cannot be bothered to take them down after work I have seen a pair of lights about ten yards apart protecting a tiny hole on the side of a very straight road where you can see for a mile in both directions. I presume that by crossing a red light in those circumstances you would have the same weight of law thrust at you as jumping a red light in the middle of London, unless anyone on here knows any better. Are they ever advisory?

I drove forward into a clump of what I thought was nettles, felt a crunch and rather stupidly reversed without investigation!

Just reversing and hit a hidden Ash stump...........ouch!

That is the sort of thing. Keep 'em coming

Brings a whole new meaning to the term "Having a woody!"

Just been cruising both the local towns and the web for presents and find them all full of vacuous tat, probably made in China Trying to think of something I could make for my wife which would demonstrate love rather than expecting her to do chores. This rules out chopping boards, bread boards, cheese boards, wooden salad implements, gardening tools. I thought that I might find an interesting piece of yew with lots of little branches that I could mount on a plinth and call it a ring/ bracelet holder. The only trouble with that is she might expect me to decorate it! Little coffee table perhaps , Swedish candle is a bit too easy Most of us have a lot of wood around and i m sure loved ones appreciate the effort of making something unique, even if it is not grade one. I have looked through the woodcraft forum but could not find anything there. Anyone with any ideas?

It is becoming a bit dark down there in the woods, but if I could find four candles and a bit of 'ose I might be able to go down there and put something together!

Just spent a week on the old JCB 806 C with the ditching bucket successfully helping to release the massive amount of water that has been building up in the drains and ditches However I just had about fifty yards left to do on the last drain in the woods and the track came off the front idler having hit a stump It should go back on easily enough but it is better with two people so it can wait till later. While I was waiting a little Bank vole came out into the stream and swam like a jet boat. Amazing little creature, I did not know they could swim like that and it did not seem frightened of me at all.

One other really useful tool to consider is the Woodchuck Dual for larger logs that are too heavy for some of the saw horses to take or simply just too heavy to lift onto a sawhorse.

Really very simple to assemble. The four legs slip in to the main body and a knurled knob on each leg tightens them up The vertical box sections just slide in and are held in position by gravity which makes it easy to take apart and put in a car boot I would recommend a length of 2x6 slipped under the frame to protect the chain from the metal when you have cut through the logs. I would think that it holds more logs than the Truncator

This is a comment from a bloke who watched the video above and relates a bit more to the forces involved with the D7 and an inch diameter steel cable Back in the 80's I was in the airborne infantry and a few of us were offered a chance to cross train in vehicle recovery. It was a three week class and I learned a lot about recovering every type of vehicle you can imagine, and in every type of situation you can imagine. The one thing that stuck out that I will NEVER forget, was seeing the damage done to an M88 tank retriever when it's main winch line broke. The main winch is a 70 TON single line pull, and I believe the cable was 1.5 inches and I think there was 300 or maybe 400 feet of it. When the line snapped, it came right back and hit the M88 head on like a punch, and it knocked a hole RIGHT THROUGH SEVERAL INCHES OF STEEL BULK HEAD. You could see where it actually melted the steel as it forced its way through. No one was hurt, but it scared the crap out of every man there. The instructor said this is what happens when you don't do the math when figuring mire factors, block and tackle friction factors, knowing real vehicle weight, and enough pulling power to winch every sick whore in the world off her piss pot at the same time. Seeing that made me even nervous to pull too hard on my boot laces when tying them up. When we winch now, my pucker factor is always so tight you couldn't pound a pin up my ass with a jackhammer. I really know what can happen and it's scary. Whether or not these tests are real world, the damage a broke wire rope will do, is real world. Keep up the great work. Show less

Everyone has slightly different problems to overcome. In my case the one ton box is just outside the door and covered with a tarp held in place by elastic rope. When I take off the tarp the wood is dry and clean and ~I just lay the bag on top and it is an easy fill. But for me the main advantage is that I am lifting the bag from waist height for most of the box so there is little strain on my back. If I had a basket or trolley it would take longer to fill and there would be more bending.

This video concentrates the mind somewhat. Amazing forces involved even with supposedly safer nylon rope instead of wire The Dozer driver ducked each time, I think I would want the cage above doing these experiments

Thanks for that Eddie, I would feel safe inside that structure!

I think that you might be arrested nowadays!

Now those are both good ideas but can you adjust the height of the yellow blade and does the rather wide V take more effort to split? Don't think I will need a mirror once I have some rails and a stop block

Thanks for the replies. The cable is very heavy and an inch in diameter. I think the Hyster has about 40,000 lb of pull on a bare drum. A likely scenario in the woods is if you are dragging out a tree and it somehow flips sideways and becomes lodged between two standing trees. I remember reading about a Royal Navy Frigate going at full speed towing a target with a long line. The target snagged on a bit of debris and the line snapped and flew back and decapitated two sailors. I think Eddie is right to go for plate rather than mesh. It need to come off when not winching so perhaps four bits of box section bolted to the floor sticking up about a foot to put three fences around the operator which can be slipped in and out easily., maybe a roof fence too. I suppose the other safety method is to hang some heavy material on the line to take the whip out should it snap. But I fear I may be misjudging the forces involved

Yes I feel a bit bad about that, I could still slab it or plank it but I just needed a really difficult piece with a few big knots to test out the system Now building the removable horizontal blade to quarter logs which has the advantage of raising or lowering using the bolt holes to suit the log I will weld four side plates, one on each side of the horizontal blade and there will be a countersunk bolt on one side going through to a thread tapped in the other side so there are no restrictions finally I will put a gusset on either side for belt and braces Ideally also it needs a pair of rails parallel to the knife firstly for the log to sit in and secondly for the dozer blade to run on Obviously there needs also to be a block to stop the track and prevent contact with the blade as I cannot see much from the driver’s seat. Does not need to be transported as all logs are brought back to the yard and it needs to be next to the Palax

I have just fitted a Hyster D7N winch to my cabless 1956 D7C Caterpillar. Does anyone have any experience of the forces involved in a cable snapping and the minimum amount of cage protection needed. I saw this video and thought that the mesh was not adequate but it seemed to be approved