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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    30 degrees top angle.
  2. Dan Maynard
    Ah yes, if someone's being paid then it's H&S at W/PUWER because it's a workplace. Employers liability insurance needed even if volunteers helping, and they need to be competent for the tasks being carried out.
  3. Dan Maynard
    Sorry read title again. Somerset. Ignore me.
  4. Dan Maynard
    Other thing with them across your land, if he sells to someone unreasonable then the problems down the line could be worse. Likewise if you wanted to sell for any reason a buyer might be put off and then it's cost you more than £15k.
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    The nearest experience I have is wildlife trust volunteering, where anybody can rock up and join in with hand tools but only people who have CS30/31 and have been assessed by a member of WT as competent are allowed to use a chainsaw. I think it's down to WT insurance. In this case I guess it would be a question of how the council permits the volunteers to operate. I've also volunteered in our churchyard and one of the local farmers tends to rock up with a chainsaw and flat cap PPE. I have said my piece and can't watch, but what can I do? You need to get on and get your 30/31 really.
  6. Dan Maynard
    Location please?
  7. Dan Maynard
    Cos of all the purple leaves on the lawn....
  8. Dan Maynard
    Orange and blue should make it a Balfour. Have looked at these too.
  9. Dan Maynard
    Kingwell is the name that crops up, send them pics of whatever you want to chip or grind and they have a machine big enough.
  10. Dan Maynard
    And while you're here Erik, appreciated your video on spur climbing. Here's what I climbed the next day, not a lot of chance to get a rhythm going and didn't want any pendulum action as dead elm.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Gotta depend on your legs too though, I have the Steins that the OP hates and spent most of Monday in them perfectly comfortable. I'm 6 foot 7 or so and so far it does seem they suit longer leg.
  12. Dan Maynard
    If it's really just firewood at home, my dad uses a Bosch plug in electric saw for this. Small, light, quieter, you can use it in the garage when it's raining or cold outside. Battery saws are getting popular but much bigger investment to get going and I guess you will only get so many years out of a set of batteries - whereas my dad's had that saw ten maybe fifteen years.
  13. Dan Maynard
    Sounds a bit like the "no I haven't been sick in the last 48 hours" forms you have to fill in food factories. Presumably a form which says neither you nor anyone in your household is showing symptoms?
  14. Dan Maynard
    Does the Rock one still work ok? If it does and you keep it for those narrow access jobs then you could go up a size as a first grinder, something hydraulic like a Bandit ZT1844 or wheeled Rayco etc. Just the job for a row of stumps up to 24". I'm enjoying hiring at the minute as the hire place is nearby, so I have Predator 360, 460 and 38X tracked in the fleet. Low insurance cost (hired in plant), low maintenance, low security headache, right machine for the job every time.
  15. Dan Maynard
    Yes, but when I checked it's a 300 mile round trip so thought there must be someone closer.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Deep down I don't trust eBay for new stuff, so even if something comes on a search I always skip across to the companies own website to check them out. Recently done with some paint.
  17. Dan Maynard
    I wear Breathflex Pro, type C though. They are worth the extra money over regular Breathflex in my opinion, much harder wearing. Can't comment how that would compare pricewise or wear wise to the Husqvarna forestry products.
  18. Dan Maynard
    Well get ya saddle on then, you've got the job!
  19. Dan Maynard
    What kind of wheel nuts though? Tractor or car?
  20. Dan Maynard
    Thanks guys, I was almost there on deciding the 285 is enough, I have a JoBeau not a Heizohack and Defender wheelnuts are the same as Disco. Until the last couple of posts... Conclusion: it's like saws, the final answer is get both.
  21. Dan Maynard
    I've also been watching the BBC and thinking that they don't seem aware of the guidance. Maybe we need Points of View back so we can write in 'why oh why do the BBC ....
  22. Dan Maynard
    How much chip? We brimmed Steve's Brian James on Friday and it wouldn't tip, had to fork a bit out. Once it starts to lift the centre of gravity moves towards the pivot so gets easier for it, it's the initial lift that is the problem.
  23. Dan Maynard
    Have to say, in the Oregon manual it says to soak a chain in oil overnight before using it. Never done that, usually just give it a minute low revs until the oil is flinging and then check tension. Anyone here a chain soaker?
  24. Dan Maynard
    Blimey, I thought I was stacking up above my ibcs but now see I'm a total amateur!
  25. Dan Maynard
    I would love someone to point out I'm wrong, but antifungal treatments tend to only be of any use for mild leaf infections on smaller plants. The difficulty here is that the fungus has probably already spread throughout the wood as evidenced by poor leaves over the whole tree, so it is really impossible to treat as such. The tree will have to fight it's own fight really, the best you can do is help it not be drought stressed, maybe mulch around the base and address any compaction. Not pruning is good advice as it needs all the leaves it can get to make sugars. It may recover, trees do have bad years and last year was very dry. It may not, in which case fell and replant I'm afraid. Don't rush though.

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