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After contacting Greenmech UK in regard to purchasing and importing a used chipper from them, I was given the number for someone at Greenmech France, and informed that this would be an easier solution due to paperwork. Not so good for me as the same machines where a good bit more expensive and the main dealer was a good six hour drive away. As usual with France, phone calls were made and emails were ignored, no reply was ever received about my enquiry. It would appear that sales people in France can’t even be arsed to follow up on a guaranteed sale. I managed to buy a used Greenmech Arb 150 privately in France and it’s been a solid investment. I quite fancy updating to the new 130 turntable or possibly a 165D if I could ever arrange a demo. Hopefully I could trade in the Arb 150, if not, I may have a a chipper for sale in the near future and you’re only an hour away from me.

So with the exception of Norway, you will need to be granted a work visa or permit for Sweden and Finland in advance. I would assume that visas/permits are issued where skills shortages have been identified, rather than handed out to anyone irrelevant of need, like sweeties.

I am English but have lived and worked in several countries over the years, I moved to France for a different way of life, I work both here and occasionally in the UK.

No point finding work if you are not eligible to do it though. You can travel for 90 days, but you can’t work unless you have an EU passport, or have applied for and been granted a work visa.

What you talking about about Willis?

Without question, and even if it was within RIDDOR days, would it even qualify to be required to e acknowledged, sounds like user error bullshit to me.

Unfortunately times have changed and although you never left the UK and just drove around in a van, those halcion days are no more, and any young person without any imagination is ****************ed without an an EU passport due to Brexit. You can’t just rock up anywhere in the EU any more without an EU passport and get work, Brexit ended that option, but at least a few welders go apprenticeships on Tyneside so all is well, eh?

I reckon you could get a decent sized mulcher in and still have plenty of change. Be easier to mark off areas for chip, log, firewood for next time round. Do Joslet not have a forestry mulcher?

Can you not do the equivalent European Chainsaw Course in Belgium?

Scott Fraser Training, Ground-up Training, Landskills or Kingswood would be the nearest to the tunnel.

When I am cutting/climbing, I can’t think of any part of my body that is less likely to come into contact with the saw than the back of my legs and my feet.

And don’t forget this Mark, you would feel naked and unprotected without it.

They were Type -B, not seen them for years.

Class 1 = 20m/s which is the approximate chain speed of the saws you mention, so why would HSE/Insurance have anything to say?

Looks like a simple case of powdery mildew due to the excessive heat here. It will probably be gone by the end of next week if the current forecast for rain is correct.