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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    I guess use it on a few jobs and see. Looks to me something I would not pay £295 for but £120 useful on smaller jobs, maybe that's why they have not caught on too much. Does it strap on to the tree like a bollard? I'm a big fan of my small Treerunner, I think something strapped to the tree is easier to use than a portawrap especially as the people helping me are often less experienced.
  2. Dan Maynard
    I made it right to the last page (can't claim to have read every word of course). In the FAQs Q. Is seasoned wood as good as kiln dried? A. Yes very much so. The key is to use Ready to Burn wood which always have a moisture content of up to 20% moisture. Tempting to print and give to everyone who says to me 'Oh no, we must have kiln dried'
  3. Dan Maynard
    Also how springy/squashy you are, which I think will reduce the forces further. Good upper bound to look at a rigid body.
  4. Dan Maynard
    Banned is too strong a word, just that his work won't let him use it because it's not designed for tree work.
  5. Dan Maynard
    Crikey, he must take some feeding!
  6. Dan Maynard
    Cedar is naturally decay resistant, so it won't rot out quickly. On the other hand it's brittle, there is some chance it's cracked in the remaining stem. I think you need to get up and have a look before making a plan, but reduce and retain looks possible to me.
  7. Dan Maynard
    I'm not a big fan of tarps, they cling tight to the wood, stop airflow, leak and keep condensation in. I've seen huge stacks in Germany made from 1m billets, square towers each end with layers at 90 degrees to the one below and then infill between the towers. I reckon a few bits of batten and screw some roofing sheet to the billets will keep it all dry. Need something to keep it up off the ground too, else the bottom layer will go soft.
  8. Dan Maynard
    Never price off a photo, it's in the rules. Say 1.5k if we can burn and 3k if we can't.
  9. Dan Maynard
    Ah not sure I said that, the broken cable can be a severe hazard but at least the thing you're winching won't fall to the ground. Overall less hazardous to winch a truck across a muddy field than to winch it up into the air.
  10. Dan Maynard
    Having used both Predator 360 and Carlton with one wheel brake, I reckon up to about 8 inch it doesn't make too much difference as the unbraked wheel is out of the pile of debris and can roll back and forth ok. Once the stump gets bigger, or you have long roots to chase out on a cherry, something like that so that the wheels start getting in the pile or even in the hole, then the turntable becomes a massive massive advantage.
  11. Dan Maynard
    It's absolutely fine where I am in East Anglia, split into IBCs uncovered. It can rot if left in the bark as it's oily and waterproof but split open it drys nice and quick. Once dry won't rot, at least round here. Great firewood to me. Then the bark falls off and I use that for firelighters, much better than paper.
  12. Dan Maynard
    This. SWL is for lifting operations so the safety factor is nice and high. The winch is not rated for lifting - in general if you are dragging and the cable breaks then no disaster, the object just stops moving.
  13. Dan Maynard
    Crazy talk, at least dry it and sell it, if it's open front and back maybe you just stacked it too carefully. A mouse should be able to run all through the stack (apparently). Or burn it yourself, once it dries the mould will go.
  14. Dan Maynard
    When you say metal-sheet sided log store, are there holes in those sides? And are there four sides or is the front open?
  15. Dan Maynard
    I've done that kind of cut into a field where everything was picked up by telehandler and put in a big heap, I was actually surprised by how much I cut in a day. Found a photo below, was cutting back everything hanging out of the hedge on the right but it was overgrown to small trees. This is the pile by lunchtime, just me cutting. I think trouble if there's wire and you plan to chip then you have to sort the wire out and that will slow the whole thing down a hell of a lot. Also, is that a telegraph pole? Trees around the wire or below? Reckon a couple of days if you had a big fire, plus time to burn it of course.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Mine are Youngman, not expensive and the clips between sections are good. Made in UK.
  17. Dan Maynard
    Is the photo real? Really strange, would love to know how that has formed.
  18. Dan Maynard
    I wouldn't have thought of doing that. I guess the difference is that you have some electronics in a new saw that you didn't have in a 3 series. If moisture were to get in that it would be a problem, but then it should all be sealed to stop that.
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    This is a really really old thread but rates haven't improved hugely. I would suggest getting on the blower and doing some days with local firms if at all possible, you want to find out how you get on before spending all the cash on tickets. As a freelancer the tickets on their own are a bit useless, you need experience too so really the best place to start is in a small crew. If you get on well and stick with it the firm may eventually put you through tickets anyway. Usually February things start to pick up, by the end of March season busy is well underway and people start to get short of workers.
  20. Dan Maynard
    Is that from Chainsawbars? Happen to notice I think the 22 is wrong as it's .325 pitch not 3/8 as that's the size for my 261.
  21. Dan Maynard
    I'm going to helpfully diagnose that there may be a spark issue to cure first....
  22. Dan Maynard
    Take a 5kg log off the stack. Put it in the oven for a day or two, dry it completely and then find it weighs 4kg, so there was 1kg of water. 1kg / 4kg * 100 = 25% dry basis (water compared to dry wood) 1kg / 5kg * 100 = 20% wet basis (water compared to wet log starting out) Or at least that's the way I picture it. How they can have written the law without specifying this baffles me.
  23. Dan Maynard
    @openspaceman is your combustion guru but I would say the stove thermometers are for the flue, not the body of the stove. As Rough Hewn says your fire temperature is 1000+, then there are insulating bricks at the sides because that would distort the steel if in direct contact so the body temperature must be lower. 230 sounds quite reasonable for body temperature to me.
  24. Dan Maynard
    If you've got a crane on site then delays are expensive, maybe it's worth Heras fencing the area? Although it's not that hard to break in, maybe it would need a security firm as well. Would client pay the extra? I guess the extra up front might be easier than charging them again if a second day of crane needed.
  25. Dan Maynard
    I have ground the front face of my 17mm impact socket flat so it sits down nicely to the blade, then use the same socket on impact driver and torque wrench. It's a six sided so like you say drives nicely on the flats.

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