Dan Maynard
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Personally I think the turntable on the 360 makes it the best of the 13hp grinders to use. I'd have to say it depends what stumps you are doing but small trees, leylandii stumps etc it is fine and will always get in to the garden. The folding handle also can help if there are corners. On bigger stumps either hire or sub out to a stump specialist, you need a lot more than 5k to make easy work of these. Customer doesn't care how you get it done in the end.
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Do you have to sell 2m3 or deliver 2m3? I only sell about 15 loads a year so I'm certainly not registering, but I wondered if I could sell 2m3 and then look after half of them for my customer, until later in the year.
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Ah fair enough, good point.
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I'd have thought the resale will be better if it's on a Jensen chassis.
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Have you tried British Heart Foundation or the like? Maybe it depends on area but they do furniture round us.
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Do we know that Dolmar are stopping? By which I mean did we clear up whether it's Dolmar and Makita or just Makita brand which will have no more petrol? Don't think we quite got to the bottom of it last time so interesting if you have an update.
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If it's not too big a hedge, especially next to a driveway, I usually offer to fell for the same price. Quite often get taken up. So much more fun ragging it to bits stood on the ground, just more chip.
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Firewood moisture meters, and "wet basis" vs "dry basis"
Dan Maynard replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Firewood forum
Surely if there will ever be a prosecution then this stuff has to stand up in court? I think eventually there will be a need for impounding logs and oven drying in forensic labs, just like drink driving blood samples. It's going to make a less exciting episode of Silent Witness though. -
Ah spud rescued me there. It would mean buying the gear, and parts - or sending it out. Especially if it needs a cylinder as well maybe look it all up and balance that against how much you like the 390 anyway? Never going to be a world beating saw.
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Wood burner install / ideas
Dan Maynard replied to David West's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Unless there is no room outside the building I think it's less trouble to go through the wall at 45deg and up, less chance of weather leaks, all in a twinwall system to avoid any problems with combustibles. Needs to be designed correctly though, when we had ours done we got someone else to work it all out. -
Problem might be that it had an air leak before your "friend" had it serviced, if they just replaced the piston without curing the leak then it is sure to fail again. It is worth a meteor piston, they aren't usually expensive but really needs a pressure test as well.
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I can't help but now I really want to know as well. No flue means I can't see you burning much in there.
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There's a lot of mistletoe in Cambridge, old apple trees especially but some other species as well. Best get it in the chipper quick, wouldn't want to snog any of the blokes I work with they're a rough bunch.
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Got a problem with this thread - I thought I had enough saws but now I need to get some with heated handles as well.
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We had similar when opening up a fireplace, it was hard and black and once the sooty dust was hoovered off it was very stable. Never noticed any smell or other problems, part of the character really. I'm with Peasgood I would keep the hinge and the black, it's history.
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Are the really big chippers drum for this reason? Other thing PeteB could have pointed out, straight blade drum chipper is taking it in one bite, the round blades in a GM disc chipper spread the cut around and so lessen the shock.
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I think cutting the lower branch will increase the time it takes to hit the floor but it's not just that branch pulling it over - every bit of tree on that side of the stump is contributing to pulling that way and it's probably inevitable it will carry on moving. You can put in a timber prop if you like or leave it to do its thing. Painting wounds is not modern best practice. People sell stuff because people buy it, but not arborists. Old trees like this are in terminal decline, but they still have a lot of wildlife value for many years yet.
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Yes, I've also experienced this trying to run industrial gear at home. I've found it's the EMC filters that cause problems, and many inverters have the filter built in nowadays so you're a bit stuck unless you can put a supply through a non RCD breaker, or I did once run a smaller drive through an isolating transformer for test purposes.
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Bonus, that's a great outcome.
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... but what's this hiding down the back? Conifer? Think that greenish bark in the middle looks willow and the bit underneath oak.
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You'll be reet with that for cleaning and tyres, spraying cars probably not.
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I think oak would have a band of sapwood but be darker in the middle? Lumpiness of bark doesn't look quite right to me either. I change my bet to willow.
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Unless he's moved he's in Canada.
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I'm guessing from the name "Lady Celia Congreve" isn't an old woodsman.
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Video Blowing through a log to prove its ok to burnr
Dan Maynard replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Yeah I blow through logs quite often. You don't need the spit, you can feel the air going through.
