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Dan Maynard

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  1. I've always wondered what it's like to drive with all that chipper stuck out the front, not too handy in town? You'd need a spotter to send ahead to see if you can pull out of a junction.
  2. 4x4 tipper would seem to be handy, we used one Friday. Surprisingly small chip box, but then it was big enough for what we produced reducing a hedge, fitted on the driveway which my trailer would not have. If you keep the transit then you have a vehicle for bigger jobs.
  3. Surely it's already pixel, thats what you would get on a 550? As Mick said, uses 4.8 file.
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    Stokboard

    Have you got a link to something like you're talking about? All I can see so far is 24mm thinnest and about 60 quid a sheet, if you can't cut into 3 going to work out quite a bit more expensive and also take up more room transporting.
  5. Also - IR35 is a thing to check out and be on top of, but it's tax and nothing to do with insurance. For example, they still need employers liability insurance if you go and volunteer for them for no pay. Regarding IR35, answer the questions in CEST - for tax and NI status only as it says Check employment status for tax - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Use the Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool to find out if you, or a worker on a specific engagement, should be...
  6. I've had that as a subbie, it seems designed to freeze by having a loop down behind the axle then up to the engine. We borrowed a kettle of hot water from the customer, turned out the kettle was working although he didn't seem able to make tea with it as I recall.
  7. I've got this one, the connector in the flying lead seems somewhat standard so you can easily find packs of leads for connection to several batteries or if you have motorcycle etc with inaccessible battery. I have put a short cable with connector to the battery on my trailer to save tipping it up to charge. https://www.tayna.co.uk/battery-chargers/maypole/mp7423a/
  8. Definitely TPO and not conservation area? Customers often mix these up ime so you need to check yourself. If just conservation area then low amenity value is important and they may allow removal. On the other hand, if it's already got a TPO then it's been deemed to have amenity value as part of that assessment, so it's too late to start saying it has none. As Mick says they're unlikely to allow removal unless it's defective. There's an estate near us built on what was originally farmland where they TPO'd every decent tree before packing in the houses, so you can plot the decline of the large lime and sycamores over the last 15 years from the TPO applications. My customer has a huge sycamore in a tiny garden, which she and her neighbours all hate due to constantly having to pull up seedlings, needs re-reducing every 3 years to keep it off buildings as the rot pockets get bigger, but they won't let her remove it. Eventually it'll fall to bits but she'll probably have moved by then.
  9. Chain oil? My 201 is always a bit incontinent like that, don't know why it's worse than other saws.
  10. Conifers like that not usually too deep, too late now but next time if you're digging yourself then leave a stem on each stump as a lever. Nowadays I'd grind them, but you have youth on your side - just keep digging and chopping.
  11. We dodged that by buying a Firestick, £20 a lot cheaper than a new telly.
  12. I only spent 5 minutes on Google but that seems to be a sailing rope? Then adapted to use for Treemotion bridge. I have some Kalimba to use next but not actually climbed on it yet. What I actually use on everyday work climbs is still the bit of Yale Hedera which is about 5 years old and been nicked/spiked and trimmed down to about 20m by now. Slightly fluffy and comfy like old slippers, soft and easy to knot, doesn't flatten in RRP which I never ever have to adjust between spruce, leylandii, wet, dry, summer, winter. Nice and short so less tail to manage and drag around. 11.7mm is a good compromise between easy grip and low weight. Seems really the ideal rope is a compromise, if you do taller trees then thinner could be important for less weight. Longer rope walks you might be glad of less stretch I guess. I think I'm going to get another device to put on the Kalimba for bigger trees and then keep RRP on 20m of Hedera/blue tongue for everyday, but I'm holding off to see whether it's Vertec - or the Reflex turns out as good as it might be.
  13. What about meindl wood walker? Used to be decent I think....
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    Puzzle

    I reckon they had a tea break in between writing the word and making the clue.
  15. You hold the post and say "When I nod my head, hit it!"

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