Peter 1955

While I know you're correct, and while we all know that fifty years ago these were automatically granted, sadly I don't have the paper licence to prove it. I don't expect to need to drive a 7.5t vehicle, so I can accept the loss. Thanks for your input, I agree totally.

Good advice. I would if I could, but my paper licence is nowhere to be found. ☹️ The good news is that I have no entitlements other than what I got when I passed my car test all those years ago, so nothing at risk, hopefully. I have heard of the officer's problems, and believe them to be true, though I have no evidence.

Looks like it's the Minibus/7.5T category that needs a supplementary form and medical. B+E seems safe.

Well, no. Currently, I can drive a 7.5 Tonner. Unless I take a medical, and fill in a supplementary form, I won't be able to shortly. Not a big deal, as long as I can still put the trailer behind my van, I'm happy enough.

I'm thinking about 71. 😂😂 Kinda hoped so. Many thanks for that, much appreciated. Guess no more 7.5tonners for me then. Not the biggest problem I've ever faced, unless someone offers me a job driving one from August.

I'm already baffled. I want to ( legally ) carry on pulling trailers, or being allowed to drive 7.5 Tonners on the rare occasion I need to. Some sites indicate I need to fill in forms D2/D4, but I think that's for minibuses/HGV etc. Others say that if I have B+E entitlements then it's automatically OK. Just to complicate matters, I can't find my paper licence, but I remember when I got it, I was delighted to find I could use various everyday vehicles, such as Road Rollers, pedestrian controlled mowing machines, and all manner of similar stuff. 🙂 Any informed advice would be gratefully received, thanks.

Perhaps because the customer can understand it that way? Just priced it for exceedingly roughly for materials on the internet, and it was likely to be around £75 per bay, at least. If you said £100 materials, and £ 100 labour per bay, I'd say it's in the ball park for round here. East Yorkshire.

As far as I remember, Millilitre is an SI unit, albeit one thousandth of a cubic metre. The Cubic Centimetre came from the previous CGS system. ( Centimetre, Gram, Second ). SI is MKS, Metre, Kilogram, Second

I've had every type of ladder known to mankind, but I must say the three legged Henchman type are the doggie's dangly bits. We recently posted piccies of a Leylandii hedge that we massacred, and it was one of those jobs which turned out to be much less of a chore than expected. Don't own a chipper, so carted almost all of the rubbish away.

Could have been soooo much worse. Mower ( Husky Rider ) cut out and stayed put. One of the few occasions I've been glad of safety cut outs on it.

When you fall off the mower, and roll to the bottom of the slope. 😲 Thank the Lord for for the dead man's switch under the seat. Think I may have to enlist the help of my son with the radio controlled weapon of mass destruction he has access to.

And the worse they look, making the householder absolutely certain that it's beyond them, the more we are seen as saviours, worthy of a seemly recompense for our efforts. If it was easy, they'd do it themselves.

Now I'm not at all up on these things, but I'd have said that you don't get a large volume of timber in one ton. Google suggests just over a cubic metre. A log seller near me is doing a cubic metre of certified dry logs for around £150. I can't make my mind up which is better value for the householder with a log burner. 🤔

I've got both, both running the same bar/chain combo. I'd say you're correct, that's my feeling too.

As a mere pygmy among giants here on such topics, the niggle I have is that it has been alleged that the tree isn't on GK owned land. If that were the case, then surely it's simply a case of getting in touch with ( presumably ) the council and notifying them that the tree is dangerous to their customers, thus resolving GK of any responsibility, and cost. Am I being too simplistic? Edit: I may have attributed it to Greene King, and I see elsewhere it could be Mitchell and Butler. My point still stands.