Brits talkin about Brit stuff

[Mr_Brushcutter]

Mr Brushcutter go and see Hempstead Plant. They'll do anything for cash!!!!

I got an work account there. Never been, always been a bit expensive compared to buxtons & Stanton Hope when i've rung them. Hopefuly taking a day off to go and buy a Brushcutter in a few weeks so i'll ask em then.

 

[iain]

I got an work account there. Never been, always been a bit expensive compared to buxtons & Stanton Hope when i've rung them. Hopefuly taking a day off to go and buy a Brushcutter in a few weeks so i'll ask em then.

personally i'd wait in your case
go too the arb fair and see dougie from Tavistock chainsaws he won't do illegal but he will support your business mail order, v.competitve and very very reilable which more than makes up for a few quids discount, a phone call made day 1 means delivery day 2, they dont fill you with BS and tell you what you want to here, imho

 

[teressa green]

confiscate a gypos gear ,get real,

 

[iain]

confiscate a gypos gear ,get real,

okay lets give up let them have free hand


they arent all they profess to be boooooo ooh lets jump

the law appiles to you me and EVERY OTHER citizen tax payer 'or not'

the cops have guns too

 

[Big A]

okay lets give up let them have free hand


they arent all they profess to be boooooo ooh lets jump

the law appiles to you me and EVERY OTHER citizen tax payer 'or not'

As you rightly said iain the law applies to all tax payers, but what about those outside the law/taxes? If they dont "exist" they cant be traced. I know of people who never paid taxes/NI etc, aint on the electoral roll,so dont pay business tax or council tax, and if the law gets too close they "vanish". Oh and all their money they earn is theirs, not handed over to be wasted by faceless beurocrats.
We all hate thieving scum-bags, but they exist across the spectrum of humanity, not just one way of life so dont tar all with the same brush, Hitler did that!

 

[Thor's Hammer]

okay lets give up let them have free hand


they arent all they profess to be boooooo ooh lets jump

the law appiles to you me and EVERY OTHER citizen tax payer 'or not'

the cops have guns too

The truth?

the cops are terrified of the gypos. theres no way on earth the cops let alone HSE would go up against the gypos. at the end of the day you have to admire the fact that they've stuck two fingers up at the establishment in general and refuse to conform to the nanny state. and the worst/best thing? its worked. nobody bothers the gypos.

 

[teressa green]

and never will ,just keep youer head down work hard earn a good living and chill, nothing can be done about the cowboys,its all been tried before ,leave the silly sods to it ,i dont like conifer hedges anyway,

 

[Thor's Hammer]

they dont take work from me, I suppose its worse in urban areas.

 

[iain]

okay points taken cowboy's dont affect my business either , however it still gets my goat,

 

[iain]

thor

what will be your point with the hse ???

 

[teressa green]

wheres rolla ,,,done one to sunny climbs ,,,,?

 

[Jumper]

Not a brit, but involves one.....

The following letter was sent to the Canadian Minister of National Defence today....what do you guys think of HRH The Duke of Wessex??? I never have seen him in a UK Forces uniform of any sorts since he washed out of Royal Marine training, yet some Regiment here decides to make him thier Colonel-In-Chief?




Dear Minister Graham,

Notwithstanding the continued quaint but outdated
appointments of members of the British Royal Family to
Colonel's in Chief positions of Regiments, I was
appalled in a recent photo, to see Prince Edward
decked out in the regalia of an Ontario based reserve
Regiment, I assume, during his recent visit to Canada.


Was this not the man that washed out of and quit Royal
Marine training in 1986? I have no problem with
someone deciding military life is not for them, but I
do have a problem with the uniform worn proudly by
members of the Canadian Army being worn by someone who
has not served in any capacity, let alone in their own
country. Ditto for Canadian proficiency badges being
assigned to individuals who have not completed the
required training, as I witnessed Prince Andrew
wearing both Canadian pilot's and parachutist's wings
a few years ago.

I am sure Mister Edward Windsor is a fine public
relations and media specialist in his native country,
but he has no business wearing any uniform of the
Canadian Forces. The Regiment involved should be
ashamed for even suggesting he would make an
appropriate Colonel in Chief. Why was not a suitable
Canadian nomination put forth??

I welcome your comments in your capacity as Minister
of National Defence.

Mitchell MacLeod, CD
Captain(Retired)
Brighton, Ontario

 

[Caledonian]

None of the Regiments over here would want him, maybe thinks the Canukes have short memories.

The potential recruits course should have weeded him out, the staff might have thought they were onto a good thing

 

[Thor's Hammer]

okay points taken cowboy's dont affect my business either , however it still gets my goat,

I have to say I grudgingly admire them.
The HSE however, are just the spearhead of the ever cloying wrap em up in cotton wool nanny state. and more often than not its jobs for the boys.
its not just Hse, its the whole culture of fear of risk thats choking the life out of business in the UK.
We've been in business 28 years now, and seen one or two accidents and injury's, but hey, its a dangerous job- nobody ever said it was safe. and bringing in a whole barrage of so called 'safety' regulations will never stop accidents happening.
the trouble with the HSE, is they've never had to work at the sharp end, and will never understand our job.

 

[Tom D. Wilson]

good point thor, its like a car designer who's never driven, its these types of pasty gray looking office types that want to be all wrapped up in cotton wool, thats how they can stand doing such a boring job, personaly its the slight element of risk that is part of my job which i enjoy, id miss the adrenaline other wise.

 

[teressa green]

no female has passed p company or marine training in the uk ,last one who tried a lt got shin splints and compound fractures very early on in the course,

 

[jamie]

dangerous

i wouldn't say its a dangerous job. i'd say its an inherantly dangerous job.

there is always the potential for any job to turn sour.

that guy in the HSE office could get so happy that he just shafted another tree guy cos he never had his telescopic chainsaw ticket that he may just not notice his laces are untied and trip and break his legs as he fell down the stairs (heres hoping)... all cos his mind was off walking and preoccupied with shafting Mr Wood.

sorry a bit of a rant. this job can be dangerous, sit back and use your head, dont get carried away and dont take risks.

jamie

 

[iain]

in a nut shell to understand modern tree work, be a modern tree worker

the problem as i see it, is these gov orgs get latched onto by the AA and they fill them with s*ite that creates havoc and jobs for the AA boys
great these boys used to be on tools many years ago but the nearest most of them get to timber is in pulp form as it gets shufflied from 'in tray' across to the 'out tray' imo

 

[iain]

I have to say I grudgingly admire them.
The HSE however, are just the spearhead of the ever cloying wrap em up in cotton wool nanny state. and more often than not its jobs for the boys.
its not just Hse, its the whole culture of fear of risk thats choking the life out of business in the UK.
We've been in business 28 years now, and seen one or two accidents and injury's, but hey, its a dangerous job- nobody ever said it was safe. and bringing in a whole barrage of so called 'safety' regulations will never stop accidents happening.
the trouble with the HSE, is they've never had to work at the sharp end, and will never understand our job.

is your admiration inspired by the not paying of tax !!! We Wish !
coz there aint much else to vwrite home about

 

[Thor's Hammer]

We dont pay tax if we have a good accountant, they just cut out the middleman so to speak
the way I see it, instead of moaning about the legislation in the industry, and the price of overheads and insurance, they just ignore it all. ever seen them looking stressed? and is a representative of the HSE going to bother stopping and trying to prosicute jippos? no chance. why? it aint worth the bother.
Dont get me wrong, I bloody hate their thieving dirty stinking ways, but ask yourself this - if every single tree surgeon in the country decided to boycott the HSE crowd tomorrow, what could they do about it? nothing. we forget that in this country, its policing by consent. expand that thought, if every truck in the country decided to fill and runn on red derv, what could the cops do? sure theyd start impounding vehicles, but theyd soon give up as they ran out of space to impound them. in short, as a country we've become like sheep, always so quick to obey.
A couple of years ago OSHA, the Yank HSE tried to insist on climbers wearing steel toe boots. there was outcry in all the trade mags, and osha was firmly put in its place. Yank climbers being told what they should wear? the cheek of it!

sorry guys will now get off me soapbox