Dan Maynard
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Everything posted by Dan Maynard
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Yes, I'd quite like to grind the stump now to find out what the roots are actually like - I suspect mostly dead.
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Easy split with 6t.
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Mine has a two stage pump, as openspaceman says it means it moves fast with no load (especially return stroke) and slows when it hits resistance. I think ultimately as mine is a single phase electric drive I'm limited by power, you can do different stuff if engine driven like I guess the intensifier.
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And the near the top you wouldn't know there is a problem
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Part way up the stem there is more sound wood
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I was a bit shocked, there is a strip of healthy wood at the top - otherwise all punky.
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What other qualifications/tickets should I do?
Dan Maynard replied to Treepigmatt's topic in Training & education
In your position I did rigging, and I'm glad I did. Has made me much more confident in setting up and rigging, which then helps with efficiency and safety so has to be a good thing. I think next is felling medium tree ticket.- 1 reply
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My splitter is only 6t, it splits 95% of what I throw at it. It won't smash up huge knots or real knarly euc but I just throw that away and split something easier. Ordinary reasonable straight grain woods like birch, ash, oak, pine it's just fine. If you get a bigger ram the force can be higher from a certain pump, but the movement will be correspondingly slower as there's more cylinder to fill.
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Also a hangover measurement, as in "my tongue feels rough as a badgers arse this morning".
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Sure, I'll try to remember to photo it. I don't know if it's hollow hollow or just so spongy soft it sounds like that but definitely not strong solid timber round that side.
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Also look at the rest of the tree, I've found some similar on a Lombardy pop last week. All the branches down one side are dead, it sounds hollow round those brackets and you can push a key two inches in to the wood around a third of the base. By this stage by my reckoning it doesn't matter too much which species the fungus is. Chap called me because neighbours worried about how tall the tree is, upshot it's coming down next Saturday.
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Somebody's got to be on the team, could be him ...
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I've heard of cooling chain causing damage, but must admit I'm not obsessive about checking. This is from MS261 manual.
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Me three
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Is it bunged up inside? I keep thinking can't see inside and surely must be cooling air ducts which could have sawdust in.
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The old Dolmars are heavy, long stroke so masses of torque, most saws nowadays have gone for faster revving but less torque. If you can find a secondhand Stihl 461 that's a good saw, otherwise shavey may sort you a Dolmar 7910/Makita 7900 depending on your colour preference, or various online dealers do Makita. Sachs corp sold Dolmar to Makita in the 90s so the pro saws are still made in the same factory in Hamburg, to be honest they haven't modernised the same as Stihl and Husqvarna. I would suggest that's better value for money than a cylinder for the 123 because other spares are in short supply too so it's becoming a bit of a collector's saw rather than one to rely on. In your shoes I'd probably go 7910.
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Stihl reckon they changed design to cope with E10 over 18 years ago, haven't been able to find such a statement from Husqvarna except a US blog from 2011 saying all current products are E10 compatible so it depends how old your 365 SP is. I would think the xtorq 365 would be ok though. Advice for not keeping fuel more than 30 days still stands, I always fill tanks end of day too as reducing air space is a way to reduce water absorption. When I say old saw I'm talking 1994 Dolmar so I'm pretty sure E10 is risking it in that.
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I'm using E5 premium too, normal amount of oil. I have some old saws which I am pretty sure not going to enjoy the E10.
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I've measured one with a 461, was about one bar length. Tree was in a conservation area, this one was all over neighbours house so they let us fell it, it's brother in the garden ended up with TPO which I think is unusual for birch.
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I agree GW, also unlikely to be elder as that is pretty recognisable with the pithy centre.
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The counter view is that doesn't look like there's anything for it to land on, you could leave that and it'll stand for another 10 years. Seen cherry hang on with implausible amount of decay, lovely habitat for bugs and fungi. Depends really if more branches die back, at the moment it's got quite a few leaves. In the meantime plant a replacement.
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I added it to my tools insurance policy, wasn't too expensive for a year. I would definitely speak to your insurer first.
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VT as well. Can adjust it with different numbers of wraps.
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Yes, unsafe. Think it was Rough Hewn who posted a test video a few years ago, the cheapest saws have things like chain brake handle snap far too easily. A good secondhand saw from someone you trust may be a good option, the 261 is a different league to those smaller saws in cut speed.
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That's partly true, the thing is in 5 or 10 years you will still get spares for a MS171 or 135 so I would say you are better off with either Stihl or Husqvarna than the other Chinese saws.
