Dan Maynard
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Have you tried a 230 with sharp rollers? If you're chipping straight stuff it's just the hp and so maybe not a huge difference but give it something gnarly and the 230 gobbles up stuff you'd have to dress and fiddle about with to get the 150 to take. Huge difference to throughput, I think if you go with a four man team anywhere then a 150 could easily become a bottleneck whereas a 230 won't.
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I would season your wood outside in pallets and then bring a winter's burning in to the lean to in September/October before the weather turns so that it stays dry over winter for burning. Put some pallets over the floor first so as to keep damp out of the bottom. I have mostly IBC cages, these work really well as airflow is good but the only snag is getting the logs out after. If you are building from pallets I would suggest put three sides around a base but leave the front off with maybe a couple of low planks across, that way will be easy to lean in after and grab the logs.
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Turnover is vanity..... Well someone had to say it.
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It is definitely a field and not just a really really big garden? I think we've had this question before and not sure we really got an answer where you draw the line. -
Battery saw.
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Here Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Explains the legislation governing Tree Preservation Orders and tree protection in conservation areas. Paragraph 132 . If you click "protecting trees in conservation areas" it gets you close.
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I hadn't heard of this but looks like it's exempt from needing a 211 if it needs a felling licence (pasted from .gov). Never had to get a felling licence, imagine it's not quick. What other types of tree work do not require a section 211 notice? A section 211 notice is not required where the cutting down, topping, lopping or uprooting of a tree is permissible under an exception to the requirement to apply for consent under a Tree Preservation Order. Nor is a section 211 notice required for: the cutting down, topping, lopping or uprooting of a tree by, or on behalf of, the authority; the cutting down, topping, lopping or uprooting of a tree by or on behalf of the Forestry Commission on land in which it has an interest; or cutting down a tree in accordance with a felling licence or a plan of woodland operations agreed by the Forestry Commission.
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Stop it, you'll have him out buying a nail gun.
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That's a good shout, used to have one for my petrol camping stove. Personally I'd get a 5 litre metal Jerry, the Stihl measuring bottles have a mark for 3 litre so you can top up from the pump before it's empty.
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When people say they'll try anything once, they should be reminded it is not a good rule to apply to everything.
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Well I'm 17 stone and don't snap too much, you'll be fine. And I started at 45 and maybe wish I'd done it earlier too, but then life's like that - all you can do is move forward. I did my 38 and then had a gap, it worked for me because I managed to get some climbing in doing prunes etc so by the time I was on the 39 I was more confident dangling on a rope and could think more about the saw.
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I'd upgrade the TW150, but keep it as a second chipper. Then try finding one more staff member, maybe subby and run two teams some days and see how it goes. Some days a team of four is great. If it's going well then add staff, you have the major equipment already. I think in a way the question is one we can't answer, with bigger firm you have more logistics, equipment maintenance, extra paperwork, talking to more customers, etc etc. This is either enjoyable and a welcome break for your aching body - or a load more hassle when you'd rather be in a tree.
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38/39 is the essential, 40 and 41 are usually listed as desirable in job adverts. I have 41, for me it was useful as it made my rigging safer and more effective but a lot of people just carry on without and pick up skills at work. Lighter is always better as less work to pull yourself up the tree, if you start climbing you will probably find the weight magically fall off. It's not a barrier though, more fitness than weight.
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Isn't it just that lopro isn't up to the power of an 880, ie nothing wrong with lopro as long as you use it for what it's designed for? I'm not a frequent miller so I have a lopro 36" bar that I put on my 372, the low profile compensates to a degree for not having as much power. So far not broken any chains that way.
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Hopefully someone can chip in, I've never seen carbide chain or met anyone who says they've used it so I reckon it's fairly uncommon stuff. In theory diamond is about the only thing you can sharpen carbide with so maybe the answer is to give it a go and see if it works?
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Crikey, Blake's? Not still got a hitchclimber pulley in the bottom of a bag somewhere?
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Yeah, fair point there are plenty of other trucks. It sounds a bit like the 750kg chipper which would in general be a better machine if not built down to a weight but it's what everyone buys because it is easier on licencing, so in the end it's nearly all you can buy unless you go up a big step.
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Curiously there's no hinge at all in the cut so which direction it fell is down to wind and luck. If a utility arb felled that then he needs to go back to school and do CS31 again. Also not sure why they would cut the top up like that and leave it? Doesn't quite add up to me.
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I think if you don't go 7.5tonner then it's trailer (2.5t payload) or 4x4 tipper and then you can't fit in enough chip to overload. It is weird though, I'd be interested in just how we got to this 3.5t figure in the legislation that is now controlling the design of trucks. It doesn't make sense really, it leads to useless trucks so why not 4.5t? 5t?
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This. Follow the manufacturer instructions, some recommend loctite and some don't.
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I bought my garage from Passmores Portable Buildings, range of standard sizes available: Passmores Timber Workshops are available in 21 sizes from 2.4m x 2.4m (8' x 8') to 9.0m x 3.6m (30' x 12'). That's been nearly 20 years and it's stood up well. Think they'd run up to Durham.
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Or a wee chipper with a big spout - not going to say I love hawthorn but it's not too bad in an M500. Spend the money on welding gauntlets too. I've fed hawthorn into a TW150 and that was no fun either so rollers aren't the whole answer.
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I seem to recall reading that two things that surprised arborists after the 87 storms were how shallow most roots actually were, and how many trees carried on growing after they had blown over. Might be a long way from dead.
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This is the kind of stack, just the first pics I came across in Google search. They are quite often across the end of a field, with some sheets or boards just across the top. I think they do it like this because they are easy to stack and handle, there are various machines for cutting them down to length if you look on Posch website for example. Thinking about it someone on here has a system for wire bundling split lengths.@Billhook ?
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Some grotty photos for you to look at (scored piston content)
Dan Maynard replied to Darkslider's topic in Chainsaws
Not disagreeing it sounds a dud. Just to point out the counter argument, people can buy a good saw and swap out the original parts they want, then send back for refund as eBay will probably favour the buyer in a ruling. This is why people put to refuse returns, and also possibly why they are wary of you taking it apart at all. It's a minefield, especially as you don't know if they are genuinely naive or not very honest about the faults. I've recently bought a saw off the bay after saying I never would again. Knackered oil pump, clutch bearing collapsed, air filter totally choked, chain on backwards, he gave me four chains as he said he kept replacing because he didn't know you could sharpen them. I reckon in my case the chap probably didn't know the faults, I've just taken the parts cost on the chin as not worth time arguing. Bit different to piston and cylinder though.
