Dan Maynard
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Also, don't let the branch tear below as you cut - either hold it up or cut from below first.
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https://www.trees.org.uk/Help-Advice/Help-for-Tree-Owners/Guide-to-Tree-Pruning
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At 52, I'm all about the easiest way of gaining height. Always got ladders on - just bought those new, the old ones were worn out and rungs all coming loose.
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Yes, heat capacity can be the limit. The piece being lowered loses gravitational energy (mass x distance lowered) and this energy mostly ends up as heat in the portawrap and the rope. Lowering a big piece a long way will heat the bollard, letting it run lowers the peak force but the same amount of energy has to be dissipated overall. Safebloc will share some of the energy, and being aluminium helps it spread the heat away from the surface.
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Spoke too soon, love a wild area unless there's a bee's nest 5m up the tree. Abandoned that job for today, come back with a plan another day.....
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Always love a wild area!
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So Stormy Daniels could save the world from Donald Trump after all?
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I had that thought but was letting the more knowledgeable lead the way.
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No, I can see that.
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I'd suspect robot post.
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How is this field maple still alive?
Dan Maynard replied to spandit's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I've seen some fairly young limes which were stripped by hungry cattle, after a couple of years the top seemed to be still growing. I could only think there was still water going up the sapwood so the top still growing, and roots had enough food either stored, or from adjacent trees to survive for a while. We were there to fell them anyway so the experiment ended before they died. Did a ring barked HC couple of months ago, stone dead but had taken a couple of years to die. -
Sounds like you're well up on it already, but if it's an older one is it in these batches? Rope Runner Pro Inspection Notice - Notch Equipment NOTCHEQUIPMENT.COM We have received limited reports of users experiencing malfunctioning “Birds” while using the Rope...
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I had another look at mine, that part is all sealed in so yeah definitely shouldn't do that. Also looking at the spare parts, you don't seem to be able to buy that bit as shouldn't wear.
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Short answer - no.
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Ah I saw the B&S on the website which I guess is Europe as you say. They don't come up used very often at all, I have an M500 and have seen maybe 3 others come up in the 7 years I've owned it. I think mine is around 20, main label long gone. The other yardstick is the CS100, these never seem to fall below half new price as long as in reasonable condition, so if you could find a used M300 I guess it'd be somewhere between half and full price. I believe I have seen one on eBay but not often at all.
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I guess you can ask Global a price for a new one and work from there. Looks like that is more domestic so I guess lower price - just been looking at the jobeau website and there's loads of new stuff, log splitter, scarifier, seed drills. I guess they want to start selling more stuff as they kind of have a problem selling me another chipper since still running a 20 year old one.
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Seeking advice on best tool to deal with bramble infestation
Dan Maynard replied to jonrec's topic in Landscaping
That the perfect kind of safety ban - can't use a brushcutter so wave 261 around instead. Not safer. I've seen an electricity cutter who was banned from using top handle saws holding the branch and one handing just the rear handle on a rear handle saw. Not safer. -
That sounds a bit like our village display, which has been pre sold ticket only for the last couple of years - maybe some of the same restrictions. Did used to get a bit chaotic with Clive trying to take money from everyone turning up on the night, in the dark. I think crap plastic costumes and especially the amount of plastic crap draped around peoples houses does ruin Halloween for me. Maybe it's because we have an American airbase nearby but it's been quite American that way for years round here, certain houses lead the decoration charge and that starts the trend.
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Hmm trouble is your heat cycling it too, which is going to stress it.
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Sounds like a bad sycamore gap joke to me.
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Tickets vs competence?
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Why use graphite powder? Not what DMM recommend and they make the biners.
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I'd leave it alone, to me it looks like it's been quietly doing it's thing for a lot of years already. Oak deadwood decays very very slowly, and even if not adding a huge amount of bend strength it's keeping the other wood in the right shape. Bit like ribs in a hollow tube structure, take out the ribs and the tube can buckle.
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You hold the blunt end at the top of the picture.....
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I just took the honest approach and answered no to most of those questions, I don't have all those records and procedures. Was able to provide details of last loler so gave that. Only thing they queried was that I said I didn't do written risk assessments, they said not every hedge and trim but can we change that answer to yes. Not a bad idea to do some RA with subbies anyway so I thought fair enough, that's where it stands.
