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This material is the dogs for log boilers and not bad for small stoves either.:

i tried burning stuff like that in my boiler and it didn't go great it smoked like hell and it was bone dry i thought it would have worked but it was a no no

Interesting. What boilers have you both got?

Ah. Novel.

the wood fired ones with the stove submerged in the water are exellent

Eh?

I need 14 stumps (10"-30" diameter, good access) ground near Ipswich, Suffolk later this month or in the new year. Please PM me your details so that I can contact you when they are down.

Many thanks,

Alex

Somebody is bound to ask...

Why not just felled?

Also worth mentioning to any professional associations you're a member of. Or indeed not a member of. Arb Assoc would probably be interested to know about this. Federation of Small Businesses may be too.

In fact, tell everyone. Get onto the papers first thing Monday morning. Hardly fair that taxpayers' money (including yours) is funding subsidised competition and doing you out of work.

Of course contact the council first, just in case it was all a terrible misunderstanding...

I say it shouldn't be legal.

Couldn't say for sure whether it is legal but there have been cases very similar to this where councils have acted out of remit and been told off for it (Attorney General v Fulham Corporation [1921] 1 Ch 440).

I imagine your MP would be interested.

I think he needs three posts to his name to send a private message.

I doubt you will need to retune between the 2 alkylate fuels.

Much obliged.

6 man days! Perhaps 1 of them should be a motivational speaker.

Aspen and Stihl MotoMix.

Carb tune needed when going between the two?

Thank you very much.

Aspen is 95 RON and Stihl MotoMix is 92 RON.

Carb tune needed when going between the two?

Or save the need for a chipper and truck/trailer by having a farmer put a grain trailer underneath the tree and drop everything straight into it.

You know a farmer that would let you do that to his grain trailer?

Yep. You obviously don't just bomb big bits in without thought. Scrap pallets pad the brash. Brash pads the chogs. Much would come down on a rope anyway.

I love chippers but sometimes the inelegant is better.

Or save the need for a chipper and truck/trailer by having a farmer put a grain trailer underneath the tree and drop everything straight into it.

Of course this is just a few numbers thrown out there. I'm guessing at your setup, what kit you already have etc.

£200 for you

£200 for Paul

£200 for chipper and fuel

£50 for truck and fuel

£50 for saws and fuel

£100 towards overheads (insurance, advertising)

£150 for any kit you need to buy/profit

£950. Under a grand so looks palatable so higher chance you'll get the job (which you have set aside primarily for learning).

You learn. Blokes get paid well. Everything else covered or accidentally profited on. Kit profit or cash profit. Win all round.

Add another groundsman if you want more time with Paul.

Not being sh1t at your job surely applies to all work?

Are there specific rules anywhere or specific norms in the insurance company relating to proximity to wires?

Remember that even with a shutdown if you damage the lines your insurance co. will walk away whistling, and the power co. can charge pretty much what they like for repairs.

Why wouldn't insurance cover it?

I've been designing fantasy site clearance machines in my head recently. 1000hp tracked chippers/grinders with 40 yard ROROs on the back. That sort of thing.

I will tell you why it's good it's good to leave dead wood standing in clear and simple terms.

It's good for bugs and beasties.

It's good for woodpeckers and squirrels.

It's good for fungi

And ecologists like it and it's always good to keep them happy, bin working with a really fit one this week!!

Dead wood volumes good for iggly wigglies, (scarce, red data listed & threatened) ................firewood not so much.

Thanks, both. Excellent attempts but it being good for bugs, beasties, woodpeckers, squirrels, fungi and iggly wigglies is not in dispute.

My question is, 'What's the point in doing something that's good for the bugs, beasties, woodpeckers, squirrels, fungi and iggly wigglies?'

Is there not loads of space for them in all the stuff that gets left for reasons other than "An ecologist told me I would be doing the world's bugs, beasties, woodpeckers, squirrels, fungi and iggly wigglies a disservice if I didn't leave it there."?

P.S. People think I'm getting on David's case. I'm not doing it in a nasty way.

He is considered an authority on the subject. I'm testing him. If he's as good as his reputation, he shouldn't have any problem answering.

David. Please come back and enlighten us. I'll even take back what I said about people in comfortable public sector mushroom gazing jobs being happy to leave the issue purposefully clouded to keep themselves quietly employed.

I do still genuinely want to know the answer to my question by the way.

In no more than 100 words, what's the point of leaving wood to rot?

Feel free to blow our minds about why you disagree with this then.

Who says I do?

 

Thank goodness for people like DH who are dedicated, experienced and enlightened and informed enough to remind us often that retaining deadwood is at least worth considering.

Maybe so but I'm just a dumb tree cutter who asked for 100 words. The last two posters have given me 100 pages. Am I going to read that? No.

If the tree killing community seriously needed to re-evaluate its approach to habitat wood, someone as knowledgeable as David would no doubt say it simply enough for us saw-happy simpletons to understand.

Reasons for explaining things in complicated ways include:

• You don't understand it well enough yourself
  
• You don't want people to understand it
  

Booming market for second hand chainsaws on ebay.

Brand new MS170; a paltry £170.

Personally I think I say/show enough here at Arbtalk, at seminars and in articles to get the message across from my perspective.

 

It gets a bit boring after a while

 

It's up to others to continue with it themselves or stick with the status quo.

 

 

 

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Not so boring that you didn't mention it first though.

Very good of you to share your experiences with us but it would be even gooder of you to answer a question when someone puts you on the spot. Working in the public sector will have imbued you with a sense of freedom from accountability but I'm happy for you to waive that if you are.

David must have spent a large proportion of the last few years posting about the benefits of standing deadwood etc, give him a break its Sunday evening, use the search function, save his fingers!

He who alleges must prove. He piped up first.

I'm happy to blow minds any day of the week.