Moose McAlpine

It's fine when the company treats it like that, but many don't. You're right, a near miss report should be an opportunity to allow extra precautions to prevent an accident. However, many treat it as the person doing the report being in the wrong and give them a disciplinary over it. At least, that's been my experience.

I was showing off my excellent maths skills but then saw it'd already been covered and i was late to the party as usual. I'd rather climb and dismantle.

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Well she clearly wasn't wide enough for him to figure it out! 😂 But how many feet wide? 🤔 😂 What ticket is Aerial Mooning From A Rope And Harness? 🤔

You reckon they do? If that was the case i'd like to think they might have a better plan of action. That's a good shout.

So what if us southerners don't want them here? 😂

Yeah they absolutely do. They manage to wriggle out of any liability by making you do your own risk assessment then if it all goes horribly wrong it's on you as you must've assessed it wrong. I think my nearest miss was recovering a car off the M25 in a refuge area, uphill just past South Mimms clockwise. As it went up the ramps onto the trailer my winch cable snapped, the car rolled off the ramps and i went running down this refuge area holding the snapped end desperately trying to stop this car hitting the barrier and bouncing into the passing traffic. I did stop it, without incident luckily. If i'd reported it management probably would've gone ballistic and sacked me but the winch cable had no known issue prior to that. After that i always used a 5t breakaway strap attached to the van. The whole job was "near misses" working on the motorway each day. This was Boxing Day last year, near J16 on a bridge, had the arse end of my van in Lane 1. (It wasn't uncommon to work on the hard shoulder and trucks pass so close you could reach out and touch them if you wanted.)

Well had i had a say in it from the start i would've gone into an initial lockdown sooner. When France/Spain/Italy were seeing a high rise in cases i would've imposed a lockdown (sooner than we did, by maybe 3 weeks?), essential travel only, minimise mixing households, close places with large groups of people (restsurants, bars, etc) except for takeaway, curfew. Much like Spain and Italy did. (Quite effectively too. And they were ahead of us so if we acted like they did when they did we would've kerb'd number of cases early on.) More testing at the borders and trying to limit non-essential international travel to contain existing cases and reduce new incoming cases. (And limit those travelling abroad to potentially bring it back.) I would've used a tier system that would encompass all levels of threat from practically no threat to "total" lockdown but make it national. The current system is confusing and unclear but also poorly planned, hence adding new tiers. Any time something changed i would've put new restrictions in place effective immediately. When you say there'll be a lockdown from sunday midnight but announce it friday afternoon everyone gets their socializing in over the weekend and there's another surge in cases. Well that's some of it, obviously i haven't written up a complete detailed action plan. There's a reason i'm a mechanic and wannabe-tree surgeon and not in charge of our fight againt covid, but i can still see where those in charge have made a mess of it.

Sounds like the AA. Report a missing sticker as a near miss and get an instant disciplinary for failing to have the correct stickers on your equipment. 🥳

And that perfectly illustrates their sheer level of incompetence. We start off with three tiers, then unexpected (and unprepared-for..) increase in cases means they need to create a fourth tier, and possibly now a fifth. What kind of idiot creates a system in which the lowest tier is "medium risk" and the highest tier isn't even a full lockdown like we had at the start? Can't help but think we're all being steered into disaster and when it all goes wrong those in charge will simply step down and never be held accountable for their collossal f**k-ups, leaving us picking up the pieces and probably being taxed out the arse so the government can recuperate some money they lost through their own poor management.

Why have one when you can have..

Can't say i'm surprised. This whole country is a mess and our government have f**ked up the entire covid response. We would've been so much better off if the first lockdown happened when France/Spain/Italy put theirs in place as they were about 3 weeks ahead of us. Even the Tier system is a joke. They make 3 tiers then have to make a 4th as infection rate increases. What an absolute shitshow.

You get a toothed tool for them, which no-one ever buys they generally chisel the clutch on/off, which is probably why later Husky clutches are never tightened right. (I do mine with a camshaft pulley holding tool..)

Outboards should be all the same. Maybe the Stihls are done up tighter as they have the hex on them. When i bought my 3120 i ran it and revved it without a bar or chain and it didn't fall apart or spontaneously combust.. I think it's more a case that it can come loose, not it will come loose.

Outboard clutches can unwind, the inboard ones won't as the clutch drum and sprocket are held on with a circlip so the clutch can't come off.

Try it, you might like it. 😂

Advert is good, all the right stuff with no nonsense. Had a look at your website, it's very nice. I like the little logos for all the services you do. Very clear layout and nice details. When i get qualified i'll give you a call if you're still looking for people. By that time i'll have all my own kit too. So far been relatively unsuccessful in job hunting. Sounds perfect to me. 👌🏻 (But then, i want to live in the French Alps surrounded by snow and mountains.)

I don't think your O licence needs to be attached to where you store the vehicle, you just need to have a dedicated place to keep it. Lots of tippers and cement trucks are franchised contractors who keep their trucks on the site of the company they're working for.

Maybe you got a duff one? I've filed with them a couple times and found you have to be so gentle and so easy on them because they flex like mad.

When i was at the AA we had a form for reporting near misses. It was basically a means to get yourself a bollocking from management as they'd inevitably say you'd done something wrong. I never filled out the form and just kept quiet. (Luckily nothing major happened to me.)

Not my machine. I assume it was that size so it was no wider than the tracks, but could've been deeper.

When i first heard of them, years ago, they were about £300. My mate told me about them and tried to explain to me how it worked. I considered buying a couple but dismissed it as a nonsense fad. Got that wrong. 😂

Sandvik and Bahco used to be such good companies until Stanley bought then and started churning out pretty average stuff at inflated prices. I have some Snap-on branded Sandvik files and they're better than what you can get now too. Where are the Save Edge files made? You reckon they're better than Vallorbe/Pferd/Stihl? I wonder who makes the Husqvarna-branded files? Maybe Sandvik? 🤔

Are you not using the file 2-handed? (I know those 3.2mm files are quite flexible.)