Perks of the job

[Andy Burns]

Bloke a few houses away is some sort of overhead engineer for E.on, just noticed he's using the cherry picker on their van to lop his trees!

[News]

In message , Andy Burns writes

Threaten to report him unless he does yours too :-)

[Huge]

Whereabouts is he? I'm about to go and replace some guttering.

[Brian Gaff, probably..]

I bet if you want to hire one of those there is a helth and safety course you have to do before being let loose with it too. It would come in very handy for all sorts of jobs. Brian

[newshound]

Second-hand ones on the back of Transits are surprisingly reasonable. If you were renovating a detached house with access all around they would be worth considering.

[Yendor]

You need an IPAF, Its only a 1 day course.

[JimK]

/You need an IPAF, Its only a 1 day course/q

To hire maybe....

I'd be insisting on any borrowed kit having a current LOLER cert....

Jim K

[newshound]

If I'd bought a used one for private "light domestic" use I probably wouldn't worry about a certificate being a month or two out of date. I would place more value on "Inspect before use". Wouldn't let a tradesman up in it of course.

[Chris French]

I did toy with getting one of those small moveable ones, they seemed to be around for about £1500 (in fact I still toy with the idea, it would be useful)

But there is the storage, maintenance etc.

[The Medway Handyman]

I hired a Transit mounted one a couple of years ago, no course, just 10 mins of instructions.

[tony sayer]

In article , Brian Gaff, probably.. scribeth thus

Its the price of hiring them now Brian. Once they used to go by the hour now they want a full day.

Which is fine if you have a full days work which is rarely the case.....