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  1. Dan Maynard
    I wouldn't mess about with a pole saw, fence out.
  2. Dan Maynard
    There are nearly no rules, in the RAMS I have seen in engineering as long as you put it in a nice table and follow some sort of logical structure it will be fine. When you know the job it's easy to get absorbed by the detail but they really need to know much more of an overview than that - climb or mewp, fell from the ground or section fell, handheld or rig or crane. I would put a section for tree risk assessment when you get there and then consider other possible hazards like powerlines nearby, traffic, footpaths, that kind of thing. Main equipment will be chainsaws and chipper I guess. I've never seen one really detail the tasks, for example when I go in to a factory to fix a machine I don't know what's wrong with it until I take bits off so the RAMS will just say working with hand tools to dismantle and repair. It's pointless trying to put too much detail, as you say. 95% of it is having a piece of paper for them to file to keep the clipboard holders happy.
  3. Dan Maynard
    Can't polish a turd? Don't know if that might make more sense in French?
  4. Dan Maynard
    I put the ninja on my right boot, HAAS loop around the left boot and elastic clipped to HC (HAAS appears to be a left hand CT). Not messed around with SRT yet, just used this way for longer ascents on doubled rope to save my arms. The HAAS may be a bit expensive but it has always just worked every time, I'm 6 foot 7 and no adjustments required beyond opening the foot loop to max. Also never used ascender with spikes, just always spiked up the stem.
  5. Dan Maynard
    Or maybe hedging? Agreed though, I'd have a 261 or 241 if you want lighter.
  6. Dan Maynard
    This feels like an episode of Mock The Week, we need Hugh Dennis to give the real but boring answer. Is he at home or work doing this? He can use a topper in flip flops at home if he wants to, but HSE would not be impressed if he had an accident at work doing it. He would then be part of the arb accident statistics which have fuelled the two rope climbing thing.
  7. Dan Maynard
    Good job. This video again makes me think about buying a battery saw.
  8. Dan Maynard
    Green waste that gets weighed in and paid for gets a ticket from the weighbridge, I have a pile of those somewhere. Chip tipped at an allotment, no. I don't know the technical definitions but does strike me it wouldn't be legal to go and tip waste at the allotment anyway, what we are doing is delivering chip to the allotment which they use for gardening. Other industries must have by-products though, must be a legal precedent. What about yeast going from the brewery to the Marmite factory?
  9. Dan Maynard
    Yeah maybe waiting for the bubble to burst is the thing to do, kind of feel it's not the right time to buy now.
  10. Dan Maynard
    I thought Wikipedia was the key word. Make-it-up-i-pedia.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Subsistence is an interesting one for me so I looked into it a bit and I reckon may be missing out a bit myself. The way I read it if you buy the food on the way to the yard that's not deductible because your business travel hasn't started yet. Once you have begun your business travel then costs of travel and subsistence are all claimable. EIM31816 - Employment Income Manual - HMRC internal manual - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK A guide to the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003. There's some other stuff about salesmen covering areas but I would reckon once you have a truck and chipper it's business travel.
  12. Dan Maynard
    More power. I'd get on the FR Jones website quick and buy a 550XP on sale for £40 less than the 545. If you're doing a lot of over 20" though you might be better off with a 562 and 18" bar.
  13. Dan Maynard
    Does seem fishy, looks more like welded steel on the back view and doesn't look that thick so I would be cautious about cast iron in the description and wouldn't want to burn anything in there without a good layer of fire bricks (which seem to be missing).
  14. Dan Maynard
    One other package which hasn't been mentioned is FreeAgent. I found that as a NatWest customer I can use it free, (because RBS bought the business) that saves me £19+vat per month. It is a company based in the UK, cloud based as the others but more focused on small business. I was using QuickBooks self employed which is cheapish and very good if you're a contractor but too limited for stock, capital etc. Moving over involved a bit more of the accountant speak than I was used to but it's been ok. One other benefit of being cloud based is I can create invoices on my phone which are just the same as ones created on the computer, of course you can see everything from anywhere you log in.
  15. Dan Maynard
    Not sure about slow, you'd be going some on a tirfor handle to keep up with that.
  16. Dan Maynard
    I think the potential to side load the zigs and zags would make it a no no for me. Surely the design intent would be a biner in the top hole onto the tether?
  17. Dan Maynard
    They're on wheels, even less permanent than sheds.
  18. Dan Maynard
    Maybe I'm lucky, if you go to FRJones and set the size to 49 you get to choose ..... Meindl. That's it. So Airstreams for me every time. Easy.
  19. Dan Maynard
    And check the oil, low level cuts out which might happen you dip it to the stump?
  20. Dan Maynard
    I think you should check into building regs approval as well, as I recall if you go over 30m2 then you need to go through building control, hence why my garage is 29.5m2. It's not supposed to be too difficult but I found it just one more thing that I didn't want to tackle. Maybe you could initially build smaller sheds with doors which are near each other?
  21. Dan Maynard
    Having said that the advice is pretty likely to be to get someone reputable to have a look at it, so may be helpful to say where you are. Increasing cracks aren't generally a thing to ignore.
  22. Dan Maynard
    Agree with this. Fast forward another year and you look at the empty crates in your yard and wonder what you're going to do for firewood next season. and then ... Fast forward 20 years and you have a van with kitchen and toilet as you're fed up of peeing in compost heaps and behind sheds.
  23. Dan Maynard
    That picture really makes me want to dig the gravel away and find out what's going on - seems bizarre that the tree would get so big a buttress after the house was built so was it cut back to dig foundation for an extension?
  24. Dan Maynard
    This has been bugging me all day, but I think I have the answer. I'll blunt all the teeth on my silky so that as well as chainsaw trousers and Airstreams I can wear my sawpod.
  25. Dan Maynard
    I'm not particularly against HP either, just that the HP machines I have bought tend to have a lot of HP enhancement software and I don't like that. Each to their own and all that. Windows 8.1 though, you've definitely lost me. Better to have made the move to 10 which we are recently doing from 7.

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