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Turned 60 late last year. Still climbing regularly. Just had a few weeks off to recover from a hernia repair and it felt so good to get back up a tree last week!
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Have any of you any awareness that anyone at all from HSE has undergone basic climbing training and then been allowed/encouraged to get up a tree and see first hand what it is all about?? Some years ago a couple near us both worked for HSE, one of them was in agriculture and forestry and went on a residential practical one week course in Scotland covering various topics including tree climbing. She was fit (physically capable of climbing etc), but NO NO NO, they weren't allowed to climb. WTF? Yet they want to tell us how to do it.?
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That's interesting. I have often been surprised by how many of my customers want to pay with cash, even for jobs costing several hundred, and I had assumed this would probably be the case for most of us. I wonder if it perhaps varies from one part of the country to another.
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I would suggest that if HMRC decide to audit the books thoroughly (which they can do at random) they will get suspicious if they feel there are not enough cash payments being banked. I sleep well at night regarding this. Not playing holier than thou here, just like to have no worries.?
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My payment methods, in order of preference, are internet banking transfer, then cash, then cheque. I put the cash into our domestic cash and transfer the same amount from our domestic joint account into the business account. Then we use cash for most domestic shopping/car fuel etc. If the cash builds up faster than we spend it, I can always use the cash for business purchases then refund the money from the business account to the domestic one. My bank charges for these transfers are minimal, and I can't remember the last time I had to use a cashpoint.
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Nothing worse? I reckon cat shit is pretty bad too
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The saying used to be "those who can, do, those who can't, teach". I then thought it was more like "those who can do, those who can't, regulate others". Maybe the latest version is "those who can, do, those who can't, teach others to teach others". Separate whinge, but on a similar theme: As a former NHS GP I always wondered who was regulating the CQC (Care Quality Commission), but I never managed to find out.
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Agreed about prussic loops in principle, but not the body thrusting so much. One one my men prefers his prussic loops on the grounds that he feels he can't trust a mechanical device like our zigzags not to fail. Each to their own I guess, but he doesn't even use a slack tender pulley - WHAAAAAT??
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This is a bit galling, considering that an 80 year old (not being agist, just the plain fact that reaction times slow with age) could legitimately drive a heavy 4x4 + twin axle caravan at 60mph on the M25 in the rush hour after dark (not being agist, I am the first to admit that at 60 my eyesight is not what it was). Best of luck.
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I take it you mean they are charging to take the chip in? One firm near me is paying £200 per 35 cu yd skip to buy in the chip from tree surgeons. They will even pay for conifer chip. They can burn the fine dust left after screening it, in their own boilers, and they sell the rest.
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Sadly this is all too true with respect to all the local councils I deal with.
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I did a job for a former JLR development engineer. He still has his Disco 3 as a general hack. He said it was both the best towing vehicle he had ever had, and also the single must unreliable vehicle he had owned.
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And 95% of politicians
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I am on my second Disco 2 TD5. I regularly tow up to 3.5 tons, and it does it very well, and this is without a remap. Both mine have been auto. Less electrical gremlins than a Disco 3 or 4, and the TD5 is pretty bullet proof, especially compared to the TDV6's liking for shoving a con rod through the block or snapping the crank. I have had two air bags fail, but was able to limp home slowly, cost of replacing them (with new bags) was minimal. Need to check chassis before buying, have had my 04 reg repaired on one rear leg, otherwise sound underneath.
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I did think the price your tree man quoted seems a lot, even if there are a few problems that are not clear from the photos. Clearly a good idea to get another quote or two. Been said before, but sorry you got a few replies that were perhaps a bit harshly expressed about the non viability of it being taken down in exchange for the timber.
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I would be asking myself if I really want to tender for them.
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Complaint about my Wood Burner
maybelateron replied to Danny Boy's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
As has already been said, utter twat. You do have my sympathy. -
Background to the HSE decision on two rope working
maybelateron replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Training & education
I think this may be the most important factor of all. I haver seen some experience climbers do crazy things. I saw one guy spike the first 20ft of a Poplar that was leaning over a tarmac surfaced car park. What did he think would be the outcome of a fall??! The reality is some people are just inherently risk takers, while others are not. I have heard many young lads quote the saying that if it's thicker than your wrist it's OK as an anchor point. Do they think that applies even if it is Willow/Poplar and four ft out from the crotch? For years I have climbed with one DRT main line, short strop, and 30ft strop. If I were to cut my main rope I am still able to have another sent up to me, or if I am too high up, be brought up to me. I have never found that my long strop is too short to reach a safe secondary anchor point. -
Stolen 372xp and vehicle batteries, Bow, Devon
maybelateron replied to Big J's topic in Stolen Equipment
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When I used to have a grounds maintenance contract I was using a boom sprayer on a calm day to apply lawn weedkiller. One of the renting residents came out and gave me a real hard time about the evil of chemicals. Meanwhile he was smoking a rollie - don't suppose he saw that as a chemical or carcinogen. Or maybe he was worried the weedkiller would kill all the wildlife growing in his false dreadlocks!
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That looks really professional work.
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Looks to me like it would still be loaded/set correctly, albeit with links in a chain so to speak between it and the bridge.
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So true. I sell less logs now than when I set up in tree work in 2001. Much happier to run my two stoves and log burning boiler for our own heating. I have a few longstanding log customers who order well ahead and will wait if need be. New customers asking "how much is a ton of logs?" just don't get the idea when I explain I sell by volume. When they say they can't imagine what a cubic metre of logs looks like, I wonder how they know what a ton of logs looks like. Aha, light bulb moment .... all the new owners of stoves (logburners as they love to call them) have read the Bear Grills manual on heating with logs, and have their own weighbridge built into the drive of their suburban semi. OK, rant over.
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Ouch. Having a hernia repair this afternoon, and not looking forward to the enforced rest. Still, I woke up this morning and there are plenty who didn't would happily swap places with me. Hope your tendon mends well.
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Agree with you on that - we were taught this on my Chapter 8 course some years ago.
