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Bark looks like Ash to me. Have you any close ups of the leaves?

I’d make sure I was there on the day it gets installed. Had a similar situation with developers next to me - full blown told them to F off when they were going to pull out my less than 18month old 6ft close boarded fence and install a 7ft one further over into mine to “straighten the line”. Bollocks will you! Made them erect their fence almost touching mine - not fussed about the height. Then I planted Leylandi and Laurels all along the boundaries. They hated me already as I purchased two gardens that they were after to put another house on. I offered my neighbours the same price and I’ve planted it all up with fruit trees interspersed with log storage structures

It’s the op who has the house in Portugal 👍

plus there were no cheap replacement chains as it is a fine pitch. Rotatech do direct replacements, as do Panther, available from Rob D at chainsawbars 👍

Similar vein are these two that I had got into lovely shape 3 years ago. Maybe customer has moved, or just didn’t want to shell out to get it done properly? Now wrecked ☹️

A decent stump grinder would sort that in a morning. Whereabouts is it located? What’s the width of access?

They’ll be busy during the day, probably still off loading tools and getting ready for the morning. I may check messages during the day but only reply to urgent ones. If you were near us you could have your pick - I have supplied dozens to a couple of forest areas in schools locally for the kids to use as seats, woodchips to cover the mud, logs for burning, pine cones for education etc. never asked for anything in return but did get some chocolates from the kids at one school 😁

A lot of the biggest ones seem to get darker and a bit more gnarly bark like in your picture - pretty sure it’s birch

60 in a few months - learning to delegate as much as I can and vary the work to change muscle use. Try to finish early a couple of days a week. Still doing most Saturdays though and pricing at weekends/evenings too. my wife got me this T shirt as its very appropriate 👍

Try offering to do a couple of trial days for free to see how you like it first. We all started off dragging brash and I’ll still muck in to clear up as will my main climber. As woody says above too 👍

Neck oil is in loads of pubs round here but I can’t stomach it 🤮 mind you I won’t drink fosters or Budweiser either. A nice dark or amber ale, stout, mild, old ale or decent quality cold lager in the summer goes down a treat 👍 Bar oil I use Gator or Rotatech

I’ve always found hawthorn splits really easily when green but goes like concrete when seasoned. Best get it split early 👍

One of my favourites when out there - along with spicy beef salad and Tom yung khun- spicy king prawn clear soup