Dan Maynard
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I did one on Tuesday this week. Everything to be carried out through the newly decorated house so I was very happy when they said they'd clear all the brash. He'll manage it too, builder by trade.
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Unless it's wet? Is this in the rain?
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I would say change one thing at a time and make big changes - so that you get maximum chance to see the effect. If it's bar oil should be clear on changing to something like Stihl synthplus. Should be possible to run a bigger sprocket on short bar, I am running an 8 pin sprocket on ported 372 with 18" bar, it's gone through a couple of chains so far and I think the bar wear is heavier than I'm used to on Stihl bars - but that's a Husqvarna bar which are apparently like chocolate anyway. My theory would be your bar temperature is higher than most users because of the non-stop cutting, and the veg oil is broken down by this. Realistically I probably rarely cut for more than half an hour constantly - if I'm ringing a stem it'll all be done.
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Ah he started talking about a tree that needed felling but no clear path so it would inevitably get hung up. The answer to this is not to fell it but spike up and dismantle, no point creating a tricky situation. Agreed you wouldn't want to be spiking anything hung up. As chance would have it I've got a small dead elm which has fallen into a HC next week, current plan pulley in the HC and tip tie the elm then sections off the base.
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For grinders I found these: Tracker S7 Retrieve | Trackershop UK WWW.TRACKERSHOP-UK.COM Being battery there are no wires to trace and being VHF still detectable in a shipping container as Paddy says above. Buy 5 years subscription not too bad costwise either. Didn't buy another grinder though, have gone down the hire route and outsourced the whole problem.
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I'm thinking put the pull line on the upper trunk? Would that not work?
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Ah but there is a way, just spike up and dismantle it. Cutting so you have a vertical hung up tree with no control is a bad strategy in the first place, at least get some lines in before it's cut so you can control the situation from a distance.
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Witterings, what I think you should do is take the plunge and invest in CS30/31 training (whatever it's called now) - cross cut and fell. You're obviously using the saw a fair bit, it will make you safer, and you'll enjoy it more than a week's holiday.
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Yeah that's the point, stump grinding is cheaper than piling. My point as Khriss said above might as well pile it anyway. Otherwise in a few years the other neighbours might plant a silver birch and there'll be a thread about subsidence or heave and distance to the property if it's removed.
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Mine is 90cm but 10mm cord on 12.6rope and I'm heavy so have an extra wrap in the VT. I reckon that's about the longest combination you could ever need so somewhere in 70-80 is probably good for VT. I usually look at the price of premade ones and buy 15m of cord to tie my own, also means adjust the length as needed then tape it off and stop when it's working well.
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You ideally need a wider cut than a saw bench to let enough air in, to make it easy to light. Chainsaw happens to be wide enough, found 3/8 worked a bit better than .325 in the first ones I made. He will also disappear under a pile of noodles so you need to allow time for getting rid of waste every few.
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Good job. Keep us posted on how it gets on too.
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Could you help identify this tree?
Dan Maynard replied to Edksakd's topic in Tree Identification pictures
You can call it leylandii, as long as you sound authoritative and cut it down quick. Works for me every time. -
Fair enough if you have tried it, I was just thinking that 36" is top of normal bar range for a 660.
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Watch Reg Coates on YouTube, he's in a Stein Vega. Maybe more of a Ford option, but I really find mine comfortable anyway, more than the Treemotion I tried five years ago when buying it.
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Surely a properly working standard pump should be fine on 36" ? No need for a special upgrade just make sure it's cleaned out etc.
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Should I stay or should I go?
Dan Maynard replied to Ste2021's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
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I reckon we could all club together and help by finding you a few loads of conifer logs.
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I've seen recommended not to use the decomp button on a brand new saw as the compression is a bit lower anyway due to rings not bedded in. You should be able to click it back out carefully with a screwdriver, 241 won't be hard to pull anyway. First day I used my brand new 461 I couldn't start it second go but that was because it needs less choke than I thought and then I had flooded it so I know the sinking feeling. Found video by Donyboy in Canada, pulled it over a few times with throttle wide open to pump air through and that got it to cough and then start. Yours quite possibly is flooded too if it hasn't started, there are various techniques to unflooding - some take the plug out and warm it up as well.
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If the soil is any kind of question then pile it in case somebody else plants another tree in future.
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Well they don't make 'em like that any more, as the saying goes.
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I'm coming round to this view, those garden stumps with rubbish in are pushing me to buy a few cheap chains.
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Talk to the insurance companies, shop around. You aren't the only one, they should ask turnover figures before quoting. Mine includes professional indemnity insurance as long as I'm not paid for the advice, which I'm hoping I never need but is a good thing to have.
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The other thing is, make sure it's only a day - a couple of subbies will cost a lot less than an extra day closure. I've rarely worked on proper closures but I subbied in one recently deadwooding in Cambridge we had three climbers and@Wolfie in a MEWP, starting pistol 9am and get the whole lot done by 2pm so they could open the road before evening traffic.
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Many many trees are at an angle, no hard and fast rule about what angle is ok as trees react with extra wood and roots to balance load. However a sudden change in angle is a bad sign. Looking at the crown I think it has been growing like that for a while as the top third is all fairly straight up. Whether it's about to fail depends on how much healthy wood there is in the base, which I don't think we can see. So maybe, maybe not. Best guess it'll be fine for a while but get someone in who has professional indemnity insurance to have a look.
