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Dan Maynard

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  1. Like money down the back of the sofa. Eventually all this lost bitcoin will make available bitcoin scarce and more valuable.
  2. It is just possible I was stood still for too long looking at Arbtalk, the dog went and fetched his bed.
  3. Right enough, I still haven't seen the tree though.
  4. I set em up, you knock em down....
  5. I'd just really like to know if it's like the mystical black walnut, I'm sure I heard a story about a big oak that was worth £2k a beam and 4 came out of it.
  6. Are you using the QuickBooks self employed? That is pretty limited, the more expensive small business one is more customisable. I've ended up with FreeAgent (written by a Scottish company) partly because it's free for NatWest customers but also it's much better than QBSE.
  7. Is that big enough to make 12" or 8" beams? I have heard they are very valuable as rare to get big enough stem to make them but interested if that's true.
  8. This is getting more exciting than Line of Duty now.
  9. I usually use app on Android but in office today so brought it up on Windows, tried Edge and Chrome but no luck. Looks like an apple thing then? @Steve Bullman
  10. I put my postcode in to the woodsure "find a supplier" and the same 3 come up as last year, Hertford, Grantham, Melton Mowbray being the nearest locations. So no new ones within 50miles of me.
  11. Yes, fair point. I think the main thing with a Landrover is remember it's from the days we used to check and maintain vehicles so keep on top of the checks and get things fixed early. Touch wood mines been reliable so far.
  12. They're like a Defender - noisy, smelly leaky, slow, uncomfortable, and I have heard the tippers wallow like a boat when full. But somehow likeable at the same time. I bought a 110 hardtop and tipper trailer, 3.5t towing and 1t in the back so I can legally move 3.5t of timber at a time. It has low depreciation and people don't see an old Landrover as shoddy in the same way an old pickup would be, but it's hard to find good ones which haven't had a hard life. Run one if you want to run a Landrover, if you just want something reliable to run every day then get a Jap pickup that's been converted to tipper.
  13. I think it's a bit like the HAAS, you can find bits of elastic and straps and an ascender to make your own or just buy the HAAS and go climbing. It works straight away, they've done the development for you. Likewise you could cut out neoprene and find velcro straps and make your own but I would rather spend the time climbing and make the £20 back that way. So I'm a sawpod user too.
  14. The 460 has drive as well. Step up in cost and grinding capability, but step down in narrow access ability. It's a tricky one, I don't think you can do without a 360 size grinder for back garden access but it depends where you live and what stumps you do most.
  15. The Iveco at work has a scissor and it's rubbish at getting the tip started. Will tip a legal load as said above but not if full. To me it seems as if the forces are going through the mechanism, as soon as you get it half an inch up it is fine and goes up no problems. I have wondered about blocking it up with rubber so it doesn't come down as far but you know, works truck so SEP.
  16. Second that, on my CS31 the V cut demonstration turned into the hung up tree demonstration as it went exactly where it felt like. Still, got it down and passed both bits.
  17. Thanks for these, I couldn't see the earlier ones. Not sure I want to think about OP sticking one of those in his knee though. Make a silky bite look tame!
  18. I wouldn't think knocking a chunk out with a digger would kill it stone dead, no. That would be more longer term decay and so on. Thinking about it, could be the cold. Trees in pots inside don't do well in continuous warm, which I believe is due to the disruption of seasonal cycles. TBH there is a lot about trees chemistry that we observe but loosely understand.
  19. That's what I was thinking, yes.
  20. Was there excavation near the tree? Just thinking it's possible that it's not the cold air. Otherwise, not sure the exact mechanism for cold air to kill a tree. Drying out the ground?
  21. I can't really see but my first guess is cedar, in which case it's going to continue to grow. A lot. Maybe worth identifying it properly?
  22. Not really an arbdog yet but he's only 9 weeks old, we found a puppy and called him Max. He's quite hard to photograph when awake though.
  23. Plenty of those late frosts arrived, how are you getting on?
  24. I'm a big fan of a maintenance charger, I used to get two years tops from a battery in my Spitfire due to lower use in winter but now I just plug in to the cigarette lighter every time I park it up. Charger only bungs out 0.8A but it monitors the voltage so you just leave it connected all the time and it goes through the charge/discharge cycle automatically. I think it was about £40 which I initially thought was expensive because that was about the cost of a battery when I bought it, but I've saved many times that in batteries over the years.

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