Dan Maynard
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Start with ripping out conifer hedges to make way for landscaping or fencing. That'll show you him much green waste there is and put him off as next need a chipper and sides on the van.
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Toppers are all 1 stud, it's not so uncommon in small saws. Two studs is enough for a 3 foot bar, one should be ok on a 251.
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Related, there are a couple of small fields up the hill just outside our village which sold a couple of years ago. One of them has a porta cabin on, the chap has been living in presumably with the eventual aim of getting planning, or maybe just that he couldn't afford a house but could afford a field. Anyway, he started taking in green waste, fencing waste, bit of rubble which I guess is transit loads from here and there and makes a few quid. Not quite right but I was thinking at least that's stuff not being fly tipped on the fen somewhere. Has now been arrested for taking in 100 tonnes of waste plastic, and starting to burn it. Illegal unregistered waste operation. Turns out he was a bit of a nutter.
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I have a 10mm line in a bag with the rigging wrench and loopie, for brushing out small trees (most of what we have here) or something needs string on a reduction. Wrench is only rated to 70kg anyway so 10mm is plenty strong enough, nice and light, and not too draggy in the wrench to pull through. Think it was @Ty Korrigan who suggested using 10mm in it.
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I always read your replies, there's a lot to learn, so the input is appreciated.
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Didn't see this, yes for some reason Husqvarna chose sordin but Stihl chose 3M. The slot in the helmet is a euro standard.
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Finish / texture on Apex wrench's cam
Dan Maynard replied to attom's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
I'm not an apex user, but an 'other mechanical device ' user, I think it'll wear smooth pretty quickly. Unless you're going to send it back, try it out on your least favourite rope for a bit. -
One thing I found in the Honda instructions is that you check the oil level without screwing the dipstick plug back in, so needs a touch more than I would have put in.
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If you buy some spark plugs from L&S too then you only need a couple of pulls to start the saw, the starter cord lasts for years. You can buy the Stihl part number for each saw as a 1m length of string. It costs a few pounds, so less than the whole reel but by the time you've bought a few you wish you'd bought the reel. I have a spool in the van since the cord broke on the stump grinder, the lad working for me now has his boot done up with it too. Comes in handy for all sorts.
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Bit of a thread revival but just been on regatta.com and they have some jackets 70% off. On the basis that all jackets have about the same resistance to a silky, I've bought a couple at £20 odd down from £70 to see how they fare.
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Can you really tell if they're in bunches of 2 or 3 from that photo though?
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What is the duty cycle on the electric winch? Petrol capstan winch can be run all day but small electric ones overheat pretty quick. Just thinking you might end up with two broken winches to mend, better to mend one capstan winch first ...
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To answer the original question, the value of the branches is zero and irrelevant, and the cuts can easily be tidied up to look decent. The most important thing is to work out a compromise of how you can live together with your neighbours, which almost certainly doesn't mean the trees having free reign to get as big as they would want to. At some point they will need cut, else being beech they will get huge.
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No, they work mostly in tension so more likely to fall his way.
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Also, where are you? In England at least he is entitled to cut back to the boundary - you don't like how that leaves the tree but he doesn't like having 30 feet of your tree over his garden.
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No. See other threads, I don't have it but tool free chain tensioning reported to be completely rubbish and definitely best avoided.
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Can't see it being easy to hide on a concrete saw, but then they obviously didn't look. Seems sometimes if the trackers are easy to find they are ripped out before the machine is taken, otherwise the chipper/digger is just nicked and then parked up somewhere quiet to see if anyone comes after it. I've heard of caravans loaded into containers soon after nicking too, then the GPS signal isn't strong enough to work inside the metal box. It's never going to be a guarantee, but without the tracker you can do nothing more than wonder which way it went. Know that feeling too.
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201, 241, 261 are the pro saws, personally I'd avoid the 251 and go 241 if you need petrol, ie long days, lots of cutting, far from power. Otherwise I agree battery is probably better for you, get battery Stihl and while you're there get some battery hedge trimmers, they're great - light, quiet, no fumes.
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Maybe that spark cutout has saved you running lean with a faulty solenoid, so a good safety feature?
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I do like the look of those trackers though, they are inactive most of the time so not detectable with a scanner. Also have RF and GSM cell location so not blocked by GPS jamming.
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I can stick up for the police a bit, two of my break-ins have contributed evidence to arrest and convict those involved. In both cases they were already suspected so cctv contributed extra evidence. Unfortunately these were times nothing was taken, not the times the stump grinder or trailer were stolen.
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I am still confused why they took the pulley off, not sure how that affects the bird? A mate used to have a spiderjack which has no pulley, one thing about it he always didn't like.
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I would temper the idea that nature would prefer you to do nothing, it depends what kind of woodland you have and what it's history is. Near us we have ancient coppice woodland which has been worked for at least 400 years, so that's what the wildlife is used to. The ministry of defence owned the woodland for many years and did absolutely nothing, the result of which was very tall and dense tree cover and all the rides being closed in. The wildlife trust took on the wood, and now have a program of ride opening, rotation of patches being clear felled, and increasing grassland percentage. This has allowed the orchids and other wildflowers to recover, dormice to return, and butterflies to thrive etc etc. But agree absolutely as above, find out about the woodland and it's history before doing anything drastic.
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Fuelwood Warwick not too far away.
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Kalimba - that's the one I bought on recommendation here.
