Dan Maynard
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Best climbing electric chainsaws?
Dan Maynard replied to Macauley Pryde Scotland's topic in Climbers talk
The T540i is powerful for sure, it's quite a big saw and same kind of weight as a MS200. I am liking my single battery Makita, not powerful for dismantles but smaller and weighs less than an MS150 so absolutely great for pruning. New 1/4 bar and chain arriving today hopefully will smooth it out even more. Once you've got Makita batteries then the 36v is very good, maybe not quite as fast as Husky. Saws and genuine batteries are half the price so for me Makita price/performance is absolutely brilliant. -
Certainly would with a saw like that, no orange on it at all.
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Not quite sure which branches are this tree in second pic but does look sparse. Maybe take another picture looking up into the crown.
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I don't want to check back but I'm sure that is a different picture to last time, meaning there's a stash somewhere.
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Does 36" cut ok on the 372 with full skip though? Reg Coates has a 32" on his ported 372 which he seems to do ok with.
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But the crankshaft is clean? Usually with a taper and key like this the key is more for location and the taper should take the drive, hence why people can get away with filing down a key to advance the timing and then locking flywheel onto the taper. I would think it can't have been locked on properly, either contamination or a small burr or maybe locknut not to specified torque. Should be in contact over the whole taper area.
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When you say sheared off, did it just come loose and fall off or has something on the crankshaft broken? I saw a more or less new MS194T where the flywheel came loose, must have not been locked on the taper properly but of course that just went straight back to the dealer.
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That shoe looks polished on the right hand side of the crack face, probably been cracking for a while. Of it may have lasted a lot longer inside the drum...
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Germany was reunified in 1990 so it's over 30 years old.
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Here's my stem question, this beech had the top taken off about 10 or 15 years ago, it's 40" at the base and 30" half way up where my ladder reaches. Overall I estimate 30ft high. There are ganoderma brackets and a big hollow sound in the middle around some old wounds, I dug down to the roots and they were soft enough to cut into with a spade. It leans. I said to the customer that I wouldn't want it near my house. So I'm not very confident to spike up the stem and rig slices off and frankly my rigging kit isn't big enough. MEWP and drop chunks 30ft to the ground? Verge so no-one cares. Yes that is a power line through the adjacent Holm oak.
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Once you've got a couple of barrows of sawdust and a few rings you've made yourself a mat anyway. Wouldn't be too bad.
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I did something similar with PVA, my theory was not make it too strong so it soaks in well and it's been fine since. Top it off with floor paint if you're feeling extravagant.
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I'm carrying on as before until the technical guide comes out. Then I'll read the technical guide and .....
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Usually by the end of a dismantle there's a pile of logs/brash there to drop stuff on. You said 2m though? So if you could cut the rings into 2 or 4 then they are at head height for someone on the ground to lift pieces down. Gets easier with each ring.
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I could step in and help you out there Stubby, loving my ported 365/372 (admittedly not the old special) Hit some iron in a tree Monday and ripped two teeth clean off a brand new chain.
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Great, let us know how you get on. I have no jack in the Landrover so was going to get one of these as more versatile than a little bottle jack. Next time I get a flat tyre I'll wish I did get round to it of course, that's life.
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That one you found seems to be a special Fire / Rescue one. I think the brand HiLift is the inventor, these are the ones I looked at but never quite got round to buying Hi-Lift Jacks - Paddock Spares WWW.PADDOCKSPARES.COM Buy Hi-Lift Jacks for working on your Land Rover. We've been selling Hi-Lift jacks for many years. Quality is second to none.
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Yes, think it would be more likely the other way round, whoever does it would leave a slab or two behind.
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Which Silky & Where do you find most comfortable to carry it
Dan Maynard replied to Jamie Jones's topic in Climbers talk
Do you have the strop hanging down on the right then? Assuming sawpod on right. I guess it's the way I was taught and I've stuck with it, strop hanging down on left and chainsaw on right (silky on right leg) so occasionally the chainsaw handle gets hooked on the silky handle. Overall though the inconvenient moments of the sawpod outweigh the convenience. I'm intrigued by the strop hanging down on right if you also have topper hanging there. -
Which Silky & Where do you find most comfortable to carry it
Dan Maynard replied to Jamie Jones's topic in Climbers talk
Yeah it has. Zubat 300 for me also in sawpod. I snapped a bit off the end once so it was about 260 and carried on using it because it was sharp but really found it too short. -
Do we think there was someone with a heavy right foot in a truck on the other end of the rope? Strange wording in the article too. They were using "tension ropes" - is that as opposed to all the other kind of ropes that are for pushing?
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Zen would be my tip for internet, they don't try to be the cheapest by cutting service or limiting speed. UK based, been with them for years but I don't think they will do a TV package.
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A few years ago Virgin Media decided we were on the cable network. Just us and our neighbour, and another house across the main road were the only ones in the village. Our village is not within 5 miles of the network, but that didn't stop them mailing and phoning persistently. Trying to convince a girl on the phone her computer screen is wrong just doesn't work, we tried a few times. And please don't ring us any more, there is no point. Our neighbours in the end agreed to have a system installed, the guys who came round to link up their house must have reported the situation. They are a bit rubbish, yes.
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Other thing is a 16" isn't going to run well on a 170 even if you can fit it, I'd have thought 12 or 14 max else it will bog and chain speed go down.
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I just looked at chainsawbars.co.uk and they suggest both saws should have 55 drive links for 16" bar so not sure where the 57 DL came from?
