Dan Maynard

Do you wear gloves? I'm going nowhere without the extra grip, north of 110kg without gear.

Agreed though they seem to fall to bits rather than fall over. When was that car parking put in? Blue car looks pretty close.

My neck of the woods has Cambridge colleges, they are obsessive about deadwooding everything. One of the colleges does have quite a few deodars and I would say branch failures are not unusual, but what we don't have there is a comparison to say what would happen if we didn't deadwood them the whole time.

My skip is overdue though, there's definitely stuff that should go.

When did they last see copper grease? Maybe try doing them back up with a dab in, then breaking off with the impact.

I can see that, 0% over 4 years vs £7300 charge for credit takes the shine off a bit too. I bought a new car on 0% ten years ago when I was doing a lot of business miles, still driving it and no intention of changing it until it falls apart. All this new vehicle bollox costs a fortune.

Oh and if there's any axe splitting to be done I let someone younger do it. Otherwise I saw into blocks.

I don't like the thin ropes either, my "thin" SRT rope is 11.7, and DRT one 12.7. Other two things for me were getting in the habit of putting my foot ascender on before going up any decent tree (and actually using it), and keeping gloves in fair nick so the rubber is grippy.

Agreed I wouldn't get one as I'd use the 18v Makita, it really seems to appeal as better than a handsaw when you don't have a chainsaw Bit dangerous really, encouraging people with no chainsaw experience to cut one handed, but there we are.

I've had a skip delivered yesterday that I get to keep over Christmas, planning to find some more room in my shed and garage too....

Don't know if this link will work for you but there's a great picture showing typical root distribution in the top layer of soil. There probably are not lots of other deep roots, so those surface roots are most likely what is holding the trees up. https://www.trees.org.uk/Trees.org.uk/files/61/6181f2b7-e35d-4075-832f-5e230d16aa9e.pdf

I know two female gardeners that really like theirs, easier than a handsaw or loppers for anything too big for secateurs, saves on wrist strain. I don't know how much real cutting you'd get or how long the battery lasts.

No no, 2004 td5 hardtop.

First year, drops back to £190 after that unless list price over £40k. Don't know if that would affect a Ranger but certainly Grenadier. If your Ranger was registered before 2017 it would be over £700 a year ongoing, that makes the first year £5k look more like a front loading of the tax. Luckily my defender is prior to 06 so capped at £400. It's all really complicated, I didn't realise all these rules and then everything changed in 2017.

That's the one!