Dan Maynard
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You would ideally know when stuff went into service, otherwise I guess you would be stuck with manufacturing date as marked which might mean you lose a lot of service life if it was stored before being put to use.
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I think the Pfanner Tirol look cracking for ground use but thick leather and not sure how good for climbing that will be. Airstreams are the only other one readily available as far as I know. Do wonder if the tall people in Holland have big feet, maybe they stock bigger boots there?
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It sounds like you want a saw lighter than a 391 which will run a 20" bar? Think you've got to compromise.
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I like the idea but not sure the tree should be there in the way of the light?
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Scout camp in an Ash wood land?
Dan Maynard replied to benedmonds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
This is a good point, there are plenty of great scout owned woods which have basically been unmanaged. Our local Wildlife Trust wood had contractors in to clear conifer plantation and thin other areas so fussy spec. Not a money maker but I think in the last couple of years the biomass price has become high enough to cover costs, it's not good enough to be saleable as timber. Maybe IronMike can set up a sideline taking his logbullet round to all the sites? -
Agree, the only problem with M500 is the price, and there aren't many around second hand. I was lucky and found one for just under £3k, it's tatty but chips like a goodun. On its second engine, new drum bearings, not much else to it. I saw TW 150s for £3-5k and just thought about how much more there is to go wrong. I don't think it's bonkers to forgo the 6", but depends what your mix of work is. I'm mostly doing small removals and pruning with it which it is excellent for, 2 or 3 man teams. Also means I can run a tipper trailer and so have decent payload because even with the chipper on I can load 2 tonnes of wood at the end a job.
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I was going to say yew and thuja, so I can add redwood to my list. Any others?
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Thanks, I should stop really and look - tend to be just passing through. Bit like people living by the seaside and never going to the beach. One place I did find was Ravely wood, stuffed with elm. I guess it's a kind of island so the beetles not keen on flying there. Raveley Wood | Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants WWW.WILDLIFEBCN.ORG A fragment of once-great wildwood, now an important woodland sanctuary
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Yep, spec 720mm which is about 28 1/2" so all normal gates. Absolutely agree, I'm a big fan of putting the chipper near the tree.
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Dare I ask? but I need to replace me wee 1997 026
Dan Maynard replied to difflock's topic in General chat
Whoa steady on there mate! You can't just go out and buy the first saw you see, we've got several options to weigh yet, cud to chew, Husky/Stihl/Dolmar, MS400 , waiting for new 592XP, ..... -
Get an M500, pushes itself.
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About 5 miles away, yes. I've been told Lord de Ramsey injects his elms but never really gone looking for them.
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I found once I'd seen a couple I started seeing loads. My wife made the mistake one day of saying to me there were no elms around because of DED, which is a textbook learning from school biology. Anyway, took her for a walk just outside the village and she pretty soon told me to shut up about the elms. We live in East Anglia near Huntingdon but I've never been sure how many of the trees I see are Huntingdon Elms.
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I'd push some delrin bushes in, used to use it loads for bearings on machinery. I have rebushed our fridge door with delrin, needs doing again now. Bloody thing - only had it 15 years and the door keeps wearing out.
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Looks to me like the last 8 feet or so have started to grow upwards again, so it has shifted and then stopped for a year or two. Whether you want to wait and see if it stabilises is a good question, as Mick says it will break stuff if it falls over but dead easy to remove like it is.
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Definitely, I really like mine. I take 36v and 18v with me, it's a pair like 150 and 201 petrol saws. 36v for dismantles, 18v (1/4" pitch) for pruning.
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Exactly this, I felled one today at the edge of a field which was dead in the top half. Stem diameter about 18 inches.
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Andrews? Stupid Italian boots that don't come in big enough size. I am bitter. Need some new boots and seriously thinking about going for Pfanner Tirol Fighter even though they say 12-14 weeks for size 49.
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That looks exactly like my Makita except red. With a bit of luck they put proper chain instead of safety chain that won't cut on the tip.
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If you've got 10 feet to play with then you have time to blink about four times before the maple fills it. Doesn't sound like room unless you fell that and plant two smaller trees.
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I like that "growing at an angle", may borrow the phrase.
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I usually say that lean in itself is not bad - change in lean is the thing to watch for. Bulge in the ground could be root plate lifting as Stubby said, look also at the branches and see if you think they point up naturally or are out of balance. From the stems we can see it looks quite an unbalanced tree, has there been one taken down next to it? Another danger sign is sudden change in surroundings. Saying all that, doesn't look good to me either, definitely sounds like get someone to have a look if you are not sure.
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Good job.
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I would take my chipper in and wheelie bin it out BUT it's razor sharp and 24hp, which is a totally different beast to the average hire TW13/75. I would say if you know someone with their own mini chipper that uses it a lot then go for that but don't hire one because a blunt one will indeed drive you nuts. You'd be better off to chainsaw the brash down and stuff it into the wheelie bin like that. Can you give two prices? Say it's £200 more for coming out through the garden because you need another man on the ground (or stack it more). That way it's perfectly clear the reasoning and also not possible for them to expect to pay one option but get the other. And whichever option more people on the ground makes the drag easier.
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Have you measured it all up? Could be a track roller, that would be a standard part from a bearing supplier.
