Dan Maynard
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I looked at the datasheet on the website, there is a chapter on lubricity. It appears that the pure fuel is poor so they add lubricity improvers to make the GTL product at least as good as diesel. I hadn't heard of it or seen it for sale though, have you got a source?
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I was going to agree, what I've heard about silver birch is poor regeneration from coppice but prolific seed production so maybe the answer is to fell them in small blocks over several years. A range of ages in the regrowth is probably no bad thing.
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Complaint about my Wood Burner
Dan Maynard replied to Danny Boy's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Wow, I'm a amazed the lengths some people go to when they are annoyed with a neighbor. My common sense approach would say that arb waste which is split and seasoned certainly isn't commercial waste any more as it's gone through the process of seasoning. If you could sell it to the public as seasoned firewood then it's not arb waste, it's firewood. -
I believe you ought to ask for the money back on your chainsaw carving mushrooms course.
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I have had a JoBeau M500 for a couple of years, not doing my own jobs full time. My experience with gravity feed is it makes a massive difference what you are chipping. We took down this field maple a couple of weeks ago, all that straight stuff flies through as fast as you can chuck it in - hawthorn on the other hand can be chipped but is a bit of a pain in the arse. Just thinking woodland tops may be ok but if you're doing scrub clearance then you probably have a lot of hawthorn. I have also used tw150 and tw230 subbing and I would compare feeding hawthorn to a 150 to spooning vegetables in to a baby that's not really hungry, whereas the 230 more like feeding cake to a teenager. Maybe get gravity feed to keep cost down and then hire in a 230 when the job needs it?
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He's in Canada. Harness saddle, spikes spurs, colour color etc.
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M500 blades are £225+vat for genuine. They are 500mm long though.
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I bought a diamond file and sharpened my last silky blade when it was blunt, it improved but not back to original. I just thought I use it so much better to buy new again, it easily earns it's money back.
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I don't think this like porting, the previous owners had removed safety features which the manufacturer designed in and then sold it on without saying so. For a saw that would be like removing the chain brake to stop it getting clogged with sawdust, and selling the saw without saying anything about it. I think the not declaring it is key, if they had sold it as needing refurbishment or for scrap that would be fine. I think anyone who has modified a log splitter for one hand use should definitely take note before they sell it on. It is right the company shouldn't have put the equipment to use either, anyone competent would know the guards were missing.
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Safety Gear - Order Of Importance
Dan Maynard replied to Witterings's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Surely helmet first? Hearing damage from no ear protection is an assured outcome and likewise it will chuck bits of wood at your face sooner or later. Then I'd go boots because a lump of wood will land on your toe. Even my dad wore a helmet and steel toe boots back in the day, with his chainsaw protective boiler suit. -
What's your secret for blades then? Have a special supplier?
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Get in quick on FRJones, they have a few 550xpg mk1 at 337.50+vat you can swap your bar and chain across.
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Ideally yes, but 25A is far more than the stop circuit can need to switch a relay. I looked at the Spectrum plant spares and it seems to be Pizzato FR501, which is 10A rated switch - I would say that is pretty typical for industrial type switches. I don't know why they have a 25A fuse, I guess they haven't had a lot of electrical problems to make them fit more fuses in the design.
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I would just put walls in front to back, to create a series of bays about 1m wide. Logs chucked in will mound up, you just need to line up a little bit at the front to create a wall but this is dead easy as the logs rest on the side walls. This way you can also rotate stock a bit if you empty out a bay completely before refilling.
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Falteimer folding cube - fibreglass leg replacement?
Dan Maynard replied to arborlicious's topic in Climbers talk
You can get replacement rods for tents, but maybe they would be too thick? Have to epoxy end fittings back I guess. -
Crikey you'll get a lot of logs in one of those. Cheap too for the size.
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Maybe you do need an electrician, but in the end there has to be something physically wrong somewhere. The stop switch isn't wearing out normally, should last for years. My suggestion was some rubbed through cables causing too much current through the switch, which will burn out the contacts. If the fuse is 25A then there could be 20A going through the switch without taking out the fuse, this will certainly melt it. Alternatively, bad connections cause a lot of sometimes weird looking electrical faults so it could be that. I'm guessing you shouldn't need to change the switch to sort that though. My brother had a MK2 Ford Escort years ago, all sorts of things would happen like indicators coming on when you braked. At first we would try to work out what strange electrical magic was going on but in the end it was always a bad connection from the wiring loom to the body somewhere so the fix was emery paper and a blob of vaseline to keep the moisture out.
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Where did you buy it, have you asked them? When I needed to know about screws and nuts for my harness couldn't find any info online, so I rang FRJones where I had bought it and they contacted the manufacturer and sourced me a few.
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I have contacted Altberg and they reckon they can resole my airstreams, I was going to give it a go for £50plus postage. I don't know what your boots are but maybe drop them an email.
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Sounds to me a bit like there is a short circuit somewhere, wires chafed through and shorting to the chassis. The old rule with fuses is change once because they can sometimes just blow but if it goes again then investigate for underlying fault.
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Depends where you live too, in East Anglia we don't get as much rain and I don't tarp at all.
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I just found this article, they went to significant lengths to make the testing controlled. Importantly all the products had an effect, and then at around 0.5p per litre I'm starting to think additives may be cheaper than breaking down. 12 diesel bug treatments tested - Practical Boat Owner WWW.PBO.CO.UK Diesel bug can clog filters and starve your boat engine of fuel just when you need it most. Can diesel bug treatments kill it off? We test 12 to find out
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Strangely engaging, had to keep watching. But then I'm supposed to be doing some invoices.....
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If it's not the beginning of the end it may just be the end of the beginning. Actually on reflection I'm sure Mick Dempsey posted a picture of his slippers once (grumpy 50 year olds?) so maybe it's not as far away for me as I thought....
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It is really poor, isn't it. Thing is I've got a 1977 Dolmar 112 and a 1995 PS6000i and they both run great so Dolmar definitely used to know how to make proper saws that last.
