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Completely outrageous behaviour asking to see your insurance details. Parents wouldn't dream of criticising the school for not checking your insurance if their child got injured. I hope you're not wasting money on those stupid Loler inspections, but you probably don't need them as most of us just free climb and drop everything without lowering kit.
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Or for my alternative view: Hedge mong is a very experienced fly fisher and a lot of us are hungry fish.
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Until it goes wrong. Customer walks out of back door unexpectedly, was only coming to offer you a brew. Customer gets injured badly by branch/timber being dropped just as they appeared. Customer ends up with head injury, and ultimately some brain damage, resulting in her needing ongoing care. She is a widow, and her son is a barrister. Good luck with that!
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I'm just a wimp. One operation of left knee, four on right, likely another one soon. I'll climb until right knee has to be replaced, or even after in the very unlikely event surgeon says I can.
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I have exactly the same plan for increasing decrepitude. Heavy duty flail on 40hp Kubota tractor, hedge cutter for same, digger with grab, tracked MEWP, etc. Hiring myself out with machinery I operate.
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Maybe colder at Wetley Rocks as on higher ground?
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What about Trolls R Us?
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One advantage for me is being only 5ft 5-6, I am nearer the ground. I sometimes kneel if ringing up a big limb or trunk. Still nicer when we have the minidigger on site with the thumb👍
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Very wet, very grey, and 12 degrees.
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Yes, I had the same many years ago working on a Eucalyptus. Strong wind, strong tree - I felt fine, despite what the groundies thought I must feel. Had to stop because of the same issue of brash flying 2 gardens away. I'm on my third MEWP now, with same 28mph maximum gust rule. But what applies with it at full height in an open space doesn/t automatically apply with it much lower down. As already said, decide for yourself.
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My wife and I can both do it with welding rods. Interestingly when she finds a pipe both rods move equally, but with me the rod in my right hand swings a lot more strongly. Weird, but true. Apparently you can also get a response to a "set line" This is, for example, the shadow caused by something like an electricity pole, and the line is where the shadow is strongest.
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I'm pretty sure 7.5T horse boxes used privately are exempt from inspections and O licence other than yearly MOT.
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I doubt any/many hire companies would have a saw as big as this for hire; I cant see much call for it in the hire sector. Flip side is I can't imagine many people being keen on hiring out their own. You would probably find it easier to get someone to do the cutting for you. If you have a lot of work for it, you could buy one then sell it on after?
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I prefer emptying my full chip box with a shovel actually. Come to think of it a kid's beach spade might be better.
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As a former medic I would certainly be interested to see photos of your progress. I hope you are keeping your spirits up during the very long journey to recovery. You may be interested to hear something I find amazing: One of my formers partners in GP had a very high above knee amputation as a youngster for an osteosarcoma; in those days this was the only treatment option. As an adult into his late twenties/early thirties he played squash one one leg and was pretty good. The only reason he gave up was he felt that if he wrecked the ligaments in his remaining knee that would be pretty restricting. He generally only wore his prosthesis for going to work to (his words - make himself look more normal to his patients). To this day, now aged 67, he continues to go on challenging rough terrain walks with two crutches and without his prosthesis. His determination has helped him achieve so much. I wish you well for the remainder of your journey.
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Oh yes, Laurel is a dear friend of mine compared to the evil troll called conifer.
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Due to some of our more horrible regular hedge jobs (only kept them on because they are decent customers, usually with trees) I have ordered a finger bar cutter to go on the back of my Kubota STV40. Don't fancy a flail without a cab, and a 1.9m bar should give me a chance of a reasonable finish as opposed to an uneven one due to learning curve with a (narrow) flail head.
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Much more body friendly. Biggest downside I can see if people want their grass mowing regularly, which with this July's rainfall can be problematic. Flipside is like when we had a grounds maintenance contract it was money for old rope when their was a drought period.
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Many wise words of advice in this thread, all learnt from hard experience. I would add one thought, and that is never, ever, give a fixed cost for any hedge that you have not checked the width of, if you cannot tell this from ground level. A mistake once made and never repeated. It has also been quite helpful in the past to take the customer up in the basket if using a MEWP and let them see for themselves just how wide their "simple hedge cutting" challenge is.
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Depends to some extent on how steep the gradient is. Picture would be helpful. One of the worries can be the risk of the MEWP wanting to slide down the slope, and this needs to be addressed. I have done my MEWP training, and the refresher course, and this issue was not really discussed. I think this leaves those of us at the coalface having to decide for ourselves how to proceed.
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I've never consciously processed that thought before, but it certainly explains some belt tensioning issues I have occasionally had over the years. I find your postings are often helpful on mechanical issues, you clearly know your stuff very well👍 -
Started with Thin Lizzy 1976 AC/DC with Bon Scott 78 or 79, followed by AC/DC with Brian Johnson Tourists in 80 or 81 Dire Straits mid 80's Status Quo not long before Rick Parfitt died All good classics IMO
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The people in Meir and Normacot must have genetically modified hair that grows fast, what with all the barber shops they appear to need🤣
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One of my team was in the police for many years. He explained to me that in our area the large number of barbers shops and takeaways that keep popping up will almost certainly be money laundering operations ie they set up a "business" where cash payment has been the norm for years, and use this to launder dirty, typically drugs, money. I had never thought of this, but had certainly noticed an unexplained number of new barbers opening up.
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Absolutely. Having worked in the NHS for 30 years, and been a patient in it as well, I have seen it first hand. A year or so before I retired early as a GP lots of local practices changed from 1 computer system to another as this was deemed to be better. All funded by NHS, including training staff to use new system. Yes, you've guessed it - within a few years they were all changed back to the older system for whatever reason. In 1984, working as a junior hospital doctor in Birmingham, I noticed a corridor full of bedside cabinets in good condition. I asked one of the porters why this was happening - he explained that the relevant department had not used up all their annual budget, and needed to do so before the year end to ensure they did not get a smaller funding for the next year! Sorry for derailing thread but this is so ridiculous people need to know.
