Dan Maynard

I found some Australian bloke with 18 and 36 on YouTube. The 36 looks like it has monster torque by comparison, the 18v wasn't that happy cutting 4" pine posts. I guess the main point of the 18v is being more compact and lighter, I'm thinking it could still be good for conifer hedge bashing.

If London didn't have lower particulates then the LEZ would be a waste of time I guess.

We have Ben Burgess near us that hire out road tow splitter for £95 a day so I guess that sets an upper limit.

Answered that on the other thread.

I used to have this but not as bad as you, now wear a Sawpod which means plastic Silky scabbard protecting the leg.

I had a Brian James trailer nicked, Trust paid out very promptly. No quibble but it was in a locked compound per the requirements so sent in photos of bust locks etc. Premium went up a lot the year after but I had also bought more kit to be fair.

If the weather man's right there'll be more windblown in there on Sunday!

I wouldn't mess about with a pole saw, fence out.

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.

Can't polish a turd? Don't know if that might make more sense in French?

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.

Or maybe hedging? Agreed though, I'd have a 261 or 241 if you want lighter.

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.

Good job. This video again makes me think about buying a battery saw.

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?

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.

I thought Wikipedia was the key word. Make-it-up-i-pedia.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Not sure about slow, you'd be going some on a tirfor handle to keep up with that.

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?

They're on wheels, even less permanent than sheds.

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.