Johnsond

So we just content ourselves with the current situation 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ How sad would that be if there is zero appetite for change.. Everything you say has an element of truth but if we don’t change where does that leave us eventually??. 100% reliant/vulnerable to overseas governments and companies. Licence built products are nothing new and me personally I feel not having a domestic steel industry is insanity. Too much to go into right now but as I say often the job opportunities being missed are massive. I’m just to about to go on shift here out on a Job in the UK sector North Sea we are on a Norwegian ship built in Poland fitted out in Norway the officers are all Norwegian the remainder of the crew are Philippines nationals doing 6-9 month trips. Not one member of the boat crew is a UK National, that’s a pattern you will see throughout the oil and gas and Renewables sector. Project crew is comprised of thankfully UK guys. The client/company is yet another foreign outfit that have bought an ageing UK NSea asset to suck the last few quid out of it for minimum outlay.

Medical part of FAC renewal/ownership now enables/obliged your Dr to inform police if you so much as go in and tell them you are feeling a bit down etc

Surprised at the tone of the first sentence Mark, FAC and Shotgun holder for 25 yrs bud, I know how hard it is to keep hold of both. There are supposedly controls in place Mark relating to mental health, criminal records, valid reason to possess and over the years most cases of this nature inc Hamilton at Dunblane have had when the dust settles a point where the opportunity to remove the firearm was missed. I’ve a mate up here who is currently going to court to get his rifles back after being involved in nothing more than a heated disagreement over a traffic collision. Armed response team at his door and took the lot away due to an alleged assault. Anyway as I said at beginning it’s starting to look like !!, if I’m wrong then I’m wrong.

Plymouth shooting: Mother of gunman Jake Davison named among five victims APPLE.NEWS The mother of Plymouth gunman Jake Davison has been named as one of the five victims of the... Early days yet and a tragedy for the innocent victims but it’s starting to look yet again that police failure to implement current legislation has contributed to this. Hopefully it will not be used to demand even more unnecessary controls.

These are different jackets Mark but pretty much more of the same in regards made overseas and shipped here all in the name of maximum profit.

Sorry bud but I’m quite busy at work the moment on 6-6 nights and don’t have time to get into a long drawn out explanation. A few others here have picked up on what I’m on about, bit of google action and some research will give far more insight than I ever could.

Predominantly manufactured in the middle and Far East inc China. Wages etc but a number of other reasons as well. End of the day we have to at some point to start looking long term at building some sort of manufacturing base back up. Let’s not forget these companies do not give a shit about green energy in the UK they see this as a huge payday and will build everything they can in the cheapest yard they can find. Legislated minimum local content has to be put in place at the beginning of any contract negotiations. Just an example of the profits being made 🙄 these firms are absolutely piling in to undertake these projects and one things fore sure it’s not for the greater good of the environment or they’d build them on the doorstep and save the environmental impact of multiple journeys halfway round the world. It has to be if you want to put it around the coast here and UK consumers are gonna pay you have to build it here 🤷‍♂️Simple.

If ever there was an opportunity to try and put it back in place this is it though Stubby, the lack of government legislation or drive to help on this is disgusting, both Westminster and Holyrood. Tens of thousands of skilled jobs and the benefits that would bring are what we are throwing away yes it may take years to get there but surely we have to start somewhere and look at a long term vision or plan of how things should be rather than just a quick buck as we did with NSea oil.

Not sure if many people who see the huge eventually Uk tax payer funded free for all that is currently happening all around our coastline in regards the installation of wind turbines and associated infrastructure ie sub stations and cables etc, actually stop to think where it comes from. Yes we have all the politicians talking about how we are a world leader In green energy and some lovely well made tv commercials but in reality we are a world leader in buying in overseas manufactured eqpt to build and install these windfarms resulting in billions of pounds of profits and thousands of potential jobs and the benefits this would bring to communities going overseas to the cheapest bidders, often China the Far East or UAE. Never mind the so called green credentials 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️These things are shipped half way around the world once made to be installed by foreign flagged vessels with mainly foreign crews in UK waters. Why ??? Simple answer is the long term profits are astronomical for these companies. This is shaping up to be a wasted opportunity on the scale of the Uk N Sea oil boom of the 70s yet its hardly known about. The few pics attached are just a fragment of the info out there if you look for it. The numbers ie money involved is staggering.

Yet another example of a wasted opportunity to create thousands of jobs and bring in revenue to the UK. Sad thing is it’s happening all around the coast and hardly anyone is aware of the scale of the tax payer funded free for all that is making billions for overseas contractors and companies.

Cpc is a money making piss take

The answer is not to fetch in cheap labour Mark it lies in training our own young. Labour Party !!! Supposedly the party of the working man 🤷‍♂️“What a joke”🤷‍♂️How does fetching people in to do jobs that can be done by people here if they have some time and money invested in them help this country long term. By the way Mark I’m not sure if you are aware but the training to get to HGV standard is not years or months bud it’s weeks and with a fraction of the cash we have spunked on this covid farce we could easy train up as many drivers is required. I work with a few guys whom were trained up on a government scheme as divers in the 80s due to a shortage of the those skills that were required offshore back then so it’s not an unprecedented option.

Labour Urges Government To Revisit Immigration Rules To Tackle Lorry Driver Crisis APPLE.NEWS Exclusive: The government is facing growing pressure to relax the UK's immigration rules amid... No we should not relax nothing, bloody Labour should be pushing for a training programme to be put in place to train people here not trying to gain political points. Yet again Starmer showing how utterly out of touch with the working man he and his party is.

Definitely worth doing something with other than firewood. If you were closer I’d have taken the lot no probs 👍.

‘Good idea’ for companies to insist staff are fully vaccinated, says Grant Shapps APPLE.NEWS Transport secretary says he expects UK firms will require employees to be double-jabbed The push is not even subtle any more. Covid vaccine now, then whatever else they insist you need to have be a useful citizen.

The joke about the immigrants is quite apt really in many respects when you see where the main manufacturing sites are and how many thousands of people they employ overseas. You may have noticed me chuntering about the total free for all that is the UK renewable energy boom. Do some research on where everything is built who is installing it and where the profits are going. It is as big as scandal and mistake as was made with the Oil but very few are even aware of it. A massive massive opportunity being totally squandered.

3 years in now, on my 3rd different inspector with a 5 figure accountancy bill never mind the disputed tax figure itself . Meanwhile the agency and company directors/owners whom we worked for on the scheme and tax set up they stipulated are totally in the clear.

Ffs Les stick to the day job bud 🙄

Unbelievable but nothing surprises me with Hmrc any more. It’s strange that when it’s public sector we the taxpayers pick up the tab, when it’s private sector as in my case it’s the responsibility of the individual to sort out any shortfall as the directors of the company and agency concerned swan off after saving millions by avoiding employers NI contributions.

Deck on the Trakmet sits at 840mm when set up on level ground an Ifor tri axle floor is at approx 650mm when level, well my 14ft tri axle is. My self build woodlands trailer was higher than the ifor too. If crane is loading it would not be so bad. Like I say no one machine will tick every box but it is an option I’d say.

16-18ft tri axle Les and a decent mill 15k he paid for that trailer with the HI AB etc stick 10k on for a decent mill and you have a very versatile set up. Adds few more legs etc, bearing in mind I did my woodlands twin axle from scratch !. maybe not as far fetched as it first seems. I guess it’s all down to what you are intending to do with it once built 🤷‍♂️.

Guy I work with has just bought this, lovely bit of kit. You are right in a lot of what you say, unfortunately you need about 5-6 bits of kit to tick every box🤷‍♂️.

Harold Andy, I think just loose stacked in the hold and offloaded with the material handlers.

Transport guy hauling out of Montrose dropped a few ton of the Birch that were oversize for firewood processing, 250-400 diameter, I only wanted to mill a few logs just to see how it turned out. End product was some lovely clean straight planks so considering the price it was a very worthwhile endeavour.

I’ll have to give credit to big J Les I did pick his brains on a number of occasions ref the build spec etc and it turned out to be sound advice. I’m sure it will do over 5m in length, but as you say having a loader is a big help.