Dan Maynard

It looks like the soil has been raised and covered the natural root flare.

Yes, there's a procedure in the manual to follow, with a tacho.

They also don't say how many handbooks they will actually send, maybe one or two? Similar form to the fire service, education service etc scams.

That's brilliant Alec, thank you. The third pruning strategy which I see in gardens is what I call "hedge" pruning. The method is to keep cutting off any growth outside the desired size of tree, which results in sprouting at the edge of the tree that gets denser and denser and gradually shades out the growth inside the tree. The end result is a strange hollow ball shaped tree which has no fruit. This is to me the danger of making just the red cuts.

Yes, probably - don't know exactly the capacity of the Solis but when I worked on a tomato nursery as a teenager they had a little compact Yanmar. That could lift basically until the front wheels got light on the ground, you obviously have a lot more capacity on any tractor putting the weight down through the rear wheels than on the front through the steering.

I would say you've got to factor in the type of stump too, how hard wood is, cherry roots are a bugger, etc. Also, it's easier if you can get round to attack from different sides rather than having to follow all the way across through the hole you are making. Personally as I hire in I would definitely go up to Predator 460 size for half metre but have done them. As said above, sharp teeth.

Maybe could put pallet forks on the rear arms? Need a loading ramp to put IBC onto a trailer though, but that is possible.

Stayed in a holiday cottage recently with a small burner, surprised how frugal it was. Maybe 6 logs in an evening, something like that.

Muntjac is the thing people worry about round here nibbling the regen.

Muntjac is the thing people worry about round here nibbling the regen.

Muntjac is the thing people worry about round here nibbling the regen.

They were air drying the boards for 6 months I think on the chair program, seems it still makes sense to air dry for a while to get some of the moisture out even if working at industrial scale.

Put your work laptop on it for a while, becomes office furniture so you can put the wood and legs through the books too.

Sudden stops in fluid flow can cause huge pressure waves, hence the phenomenon called water hammer in domestic water pipes. I'm not a hydraulic expert but I would guess more expensive hydraulics on a digger are designed to take the shocks, but splitter built down to a price lacks the extra parts.

If it's not exact, maybe best to aim a bit high with the PPR so the computer thinks the engine is running slower than it really is. That way the stress control will cut in early, rather than other way round and stress control cuts in late. My dad bought a tachometer from Machine Mart a few years ago for his boat engine, don't think it was hugely expensive.

Got a Sabatier knife a few years ago, was scary sharp when it arrived and by dint of encouraging everyone to think it's my knife and not for cutting cake onto plates etc has stayed sharp. To keep it razor I give it a rub occasionally on a Fallkniven DC4 stone. To be honest it's supposed to be for field use so is a bit small but I got it for penknives ages ago and it works, every now and then I look at other wetstones and get lost in the options so go back to it.

Thanks for that. I'd have rather they showed more about the woodland and less sanding to be honest, but I guess it's entertainment show at the end of the day.

This is similar to the discussion we have doing conservation work in British woodlands, where we basically cut down loads of trees to let light in and increase biodiversity. We currently believe that's better because the wildlife has adapted to the cycle, I also remember good old Oliver Rackham saying one of the big problems with conservation work is changing ideas and fashions. The other thing I remember is that Cathedral Grove which is an old growth park where Reg Coates has been working is thought to have burned around 600 years ago because the oldest trees are around that age. So I have an idea that given a few hundred years Beranek is right, it will grow back and be pretty much as it was before. It's a common idea that cutting down all the trees destroys a forest, whereas the picture is far more complicated because you are leaving behind all the stuff under the ground where there's far more going on than we understand. The areas in the UK where most firewood was cut historically, such as Sussex Downs for the iron industry, have the best preserved woodlands. Where they cut less firewood they dug, burned and ploughed to plant wheat or potatoes, lots of ancient woodland was lost to this in the UK since the war so it's easy to point at the Americans but we are guilty here too.

Few years ago I injured my shoulder pruning a tree at home over Christmas, I think just because I climbed cold. The thing that amazed me was when the physio started poking the damaged muscle was down my back nowhere near where it originally hurt. She did sort it out though, touch wood.

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Every now and then he splits one I could fit in my burner.

South is wide, isn't it? Some good trainers Hampshire way as well, if Kent is too far.

I think@RobD posted about that somewhere else, Husqvarna tried out Sugi and Tsumura and they both appeared in press shots but they later settled on Tsumura for everything. That's rumour of course, I've no evidence and a dodgy memory at the best of times. While we're on rumours, the Husqvarna XForce are stamped MADE IN CANADA, I've two bars for my 9010 and the angled oil hole in the 28" Husky bar looks exactly like the angled hole in the 36" Oregon bar. So I reckon Husqvarna bars are made by Oregon, as were the old spec chains eg H42.

I think you should get some red trousers to enhance the effect.

You're right, it absolutely won't jump 3m. That distance is to keep you out of any danger of breaching the safety zone, which is only 1m. It won't jump 1m either, that is set as a safe distance. One of the problems is that the exact distance it can jump varies, depending on things like atmospheric moisture, shape of object, etc so the rule has been set conservatively with the aim of making it apply in every situation. Spark plugs take more voltage to make the jump due to higher pressure in the cylinder, modern cars may make 25kV but older ones with points much less - so this is difficult to compare as well. The 10m isn't a distance to keep clear, it's the minimum distance you need to be before you can completely ignore the power lines rather than including them in your risk assessment, obviously if you're felling something taller than 10m you need to consider it when further away. It comes from HSE guidance applying to tree work, so your lawn mowing is safe. "When arboricultural (aerial and ground) works are proposed within 10m (measured at ground level horizontally from below the nearest wire) of overhead power lines a risk based approach needs to be adopted. In practice this means that you should seek specialist advice and guidance from the owner of the power line (Network Operator) before undertaking any work within this distance. " Working near power lines and cables WWW.HSE.GOV.UK Contact with overhead power lines (OHPLs) causes fatal or severe electric shock and burn injuries.