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  1. monkeybusiness
    I think (and partly kind of hope, as it means that the legislation brought in to protect trees is working here) that you are on a hiding to nothing in this situation. It is the necessary construction work that would lead to root damage that the legislation was brought in to protect against. Once any work has been undertaken (as in the case of the other historical dropped kerbs on your street) the trees will potentially decline/die/fall over, or otherwise recover and potentially regrow roots lost during construction (any of these outcomes can take several years to present). The existing remaining trees clearly survived or have been planted since the dropped kerbs were installed - they are now afforded the same protection as the trees blocking your application and your neighbours will face the same issue as you do now if they need to undertake construction works in their RPAs. Hopefully the reason you bought the house wasn’t based on gaining off-street parking as I think you have a struggle ahead.
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    Engines Plus would be worth a call - they import the Isuzu engines.
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    I had to do the NPTC chipper course for a contract we were on a few years ago. The assessor had never done any work in the industry - he’d been trained to assess as his day-to-day work was rehabilitating young offenders and they must have been offering them this course I assume. ‘You’re good at chipping, definitely know what you are doing’ he said to me, seemingly amazed at my productivity… It was around that time that I started to see through some of the cash-cow training courses that now predominate our industry. (Not long after that one of the utility companies we worked for decided that everyone needed to do their NPTC blower tickets, in spite of them authorising us all to climb around their live 11Kv power lines with chainsaws… I refused to put any of my lads through such a bullshit course and said I’d take the blowers out of the vans before jumping through such a ridiculous hoop).
  4. monkeybusiness
    I know of a lad who had his hand inside a blocked chipper and turned the key (mangling himself in the process). He was NPTC trained/assessed, and his employer ended up in a bit of trouble. They walk amongst us sadly…
  5. monkeybusiness
    Turns in the barrel?
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    Large chainsaw

    monkeybusiness commented on Sawbones's blog entry in Member Blogs

    Ideally to mill something approaching 4 feet across you want an MS880 or MS881. They are massive cumbersome things and unnecessary for practically all UK tree work though, so you need to be realistic as to how much future large milling you are going to do. An MS661 will happily pull a 36 inch bar all day and is adequate for just about any tree you’ll need to deal with in this country, and is a much more manageable saw than the 880/881. I’m not sure how well it would fair milling 40’’ logs every day but there will be others on here with experience of whether it is possible for the odd big log now and again.
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    My understanding of the offset was (and still is) that it was always (2005 regs) only available where ground conditions allow (hence my bracketed ‘depending on ground conditions’ caveat). As a basic ‘turn up to quote/bounce ideas off a customer/see if there is any realistic chance of a proposal working’ and not go to the initial expense of an arboricultural consultant being employed to measure up/justify their fee/tell you ‘computer-says-no’… then 12x stem diameter and 20% offset is a good rule of thumb (as per my original post) (even though pedants will point out that there are many many more words and punctuation marks in the current guidance).
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    Just a quick update - Husqvarna have replaced the charger after seeing this post (eyes everywhere apparently!). Thank you Husky - much appreciated!
  9. monkeybusiness
    So it can no longer be offset? I’m pretty sure with justification it can, and 20% is still a good rule of thumb to go by.
  10. monkeybusiness
    RPZ radius is 12x stem diameter as a general rule of thumb. It can be offset upto 20% (depending on ground conditions) and doesn’t necessarily have to be circular.
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    Does it have a serial number plate? If not then walk away. If so phone the manufacturer and see if they have a record of it.
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    Sadly the supplying dealer didn’t register it when sold to me, and it turns out it was made in 2017(!) so had been sat on his shelf for a few years prior to sale. Chelford reckon there is no chance of getting anywhere with Husky, so I’ve brought it home and will open it up myself for a look when I get time over Xmas (if I haven’t chucked it in the bin before then!). I find it incredible that something so relatively basic has irreparably failed so quickly - it doesn’t give me a great deal of faith in the Husky battery kit tbh. I’ve got Bosch, Hitachi and Makita chargers that are all really old and have all seen a lot of use and they never break. Chelford reckon they’ve seen a lot of similar failures in these chargers - what a load of Mickey Mouse crap!!!
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    For ripping and making a mulcher’s job easier I reckoned these look good - I saw them at a forestry show in France in 2019. ISTR you had a picture of something similar at some point Eddie - any good?
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    Cheers Eddie. I guess you wouldn’t want to go too mad on a long reach - that’s potentially a lot of twisting force through the front end! Does it just spin if no flat face to get started on? Would a bigger machine be able to force it to start cutting, or would it just stall would you think? They are a great concept but not much use for my job if they only get just below the surface. I’m looking at alternatives to ripping and mulching really - the size of the finished grindings aren’t really an issue.
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    Sycamore. And road planings.
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    Has anyone used one/seen one in action on anything other than small forestry stumps? What are they like on real-world oversize poplar/willow etc? Is there effectiveness limited by carrier weight (do they perform significantly better on a 21 tonner for example?) How do they cope with contamination? Does the odd rock-strike stop them working until resharpened? They look a great tool and I’ve got a couple of sites lined up where they might work well but am not convinced how well they would perform on the sort of crap we encounter day to day!
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    Yeah, I just pulled that number off the invoice. I’m on site now, will get the serial number tonight when I’m back at the yard.
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    There is a code against the charger on the receipt (967 09 15-02) but I suspect that is an internal product code, not the serial number. I’ll pop it into Chelford Farm Supplies and see what they say (I’ve bought plenty of other Husky kit from them in the past) when I’m next over that way.
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    I bought it with a load of Husky kit from a dealer that was getting out of their Husqvarna franchise (GA Groundcare) on 13 October last year - I’m not sure if it will be possible to return it to them now. (It was a proper sale with full receipt etc). I feel a bit of an arse taking it to another Husky dealer, particularly with it being over 12 months old.
  20. monkeybusiness
    Hi - I’ve got a Husky QC500 battery charger used with 2x Husky 300 batteries. It is 14 months old, and has done 7 or 8 charges max. It’s kept indoors on a workbench, plugged in to normal mains supply when in use. It has now stopped working - I swapped the fuse but that’s not brought it back to life. I’m sure I’ve heard other people mention issues with these chargers - does anyone have experience of them failing at all? Cheers, Dan
  21. monkeybusiness
    I’ve often wished there was a Bhatti Rim Repair shop locally after a curry night…
  22. monkeybusiness
    The Railway is good/clean/basic/cheap - I’ve put lads up in there after Christmas piss-ups and it’s always been good!
  23. monkeybusiness
    If you need an afternoon of laughter and memory loss we are going on a pub crawl around Nantwich this Saturday eggs (not millions of miles away from you by the sounds of it - you’d be more than welcome to join us (but need to wear a Christmas jumper…)
  24. monkeybusiness
    If they were working to a price (that you were happy to pay) then what they ended up earning a day is irrelevant - we all have good jobs that work out well (and hopefully compensate for other days that don’t!). Would you have paid them more if it had taken them longer?
  25. monkeybusiness
    Did they do it on price or day-rate? Did they also supply materials?

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