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  1. Dan Maynard
    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.
  2. Dan Maynard
    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.
  3. Dan Maynard
    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.
  4. Dan Maynard
    Hmm trouble is your heat cycling it too, which is going to stress it.
  5. Dan Maynard
    Sounds like a bad sycamore gap joke to me.
  6. Dan Maynard
    Tickets vs competence?
  7. Dan Maynard
    Why use graphite powder? Not what DMM recommend and they make the biners.
  8. Dan Maynard
    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.
  9. Dan Maynard
    You hold the blunt end at the top of the picture.....
  10. Dan Maynard
    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.
  11. Dan Maynard
    eggsackerley
  12. Dan Maynard
    It's quite a curious picture really, four climbing ropes which are all orange - even matching the T shirts, four matching zigzags. Certainly seem to have all the gear....
  13. Dan Maynard
    I've a 6 foot shed which came from the local sawmill at least 25 years ago. The frame is inch and a half square, if you look at the cheap sheds they have over the years shaved cost so the frame has got thinner and thinner. I've refelted it at least a couple of times and reboarded the roof once, so felt is not super durable. Side cladding just starting to go, probably won't move it again.
  14. Dan Maynard
    Folding, it spends some time straight but a fair bit of time not. I reckon the straight ones are only really good for large perfectly flat hedges, so maybe the ideal is one of each. The folding part is a point of weakness to be honest, which I have seen online review say as well. I'm using my own so just try to be careful and so far been ok. I don't do a huge amount of hedge cutting either.
  15. Dan Maynard
    £880 per m3
  16. Dan Maynard
    Ah come on, you don't have tall trees cause it's too wet and windy for them to stay up. But whatever the reason, East Anglia where I live isn't the land of tall trees either.
  17. Dan Maynard
    I'm thinking it's a bus route, it'll be busy. I feel as if we are supposed to use Mewps because they're safer, but I also feel that as more and more people use mewps the operation standards will drop and they will get less safe.
  18. Dan Maynard
    I've got the long Makita, it's great for trimming because it's super light, but I don't think it's tough enough to stand up to an average tree surgeon employee to be honest. Not good at mashing down conifer hedge tops thicker than your thumb, I would use my Stihl petrol kombi for that.
  19. Dan Maynard
    https://m.petzl.com/INT/en/Professional/Access-on-single-rope-with-ASCENSION-and-CROLL-and-ZIGZAG-in-double-mode I didn't know what a Croll was. Not sure I see it being really useful unless you do massive ascents, maybe it keeps you upright easier but I tend to think the trick is using minimum gear else you're faffing around all the time getting things stuck.
  20. Dan Maynard
    Muck truck designed and made in the UK https://www.mucktruck.com/
  21. Dan Maynard
    If you're going Stihl the 211 is a waste of money, I'd say the only one to look at is the 50cc. equivalent to the 550, which is the 261. Costs more, may last better, some people hate them, actually very similar power and cutting speed.
  22. Dan Maynard
    That was another mark against the high tip I hired, couldn't even reach over the high sides on my trailer. Would be able to reach a skip, which I guess is what they are designed for.
  23. Dan Maynard
    With carabiners I find you need something after the hot water, so I usually put a squirt of WD40 in and blow out excess, because thats what I have. It works ok, they don't stick up again. My son uses GT85 on his bikes, and from what he's said that should be better as designed to dry out and leave PTFE layer behind. Never actually tried it, would be interested if anyone has. On the other hand I've just bought a 20l canister of light penetrating oil from Rye Oils, which will be enough for my carabiners for the next 100 years or so.
  24. Dan Maynard
    3in1 then, doesn't work on mice but good for everything else.
  25. Dan Maynard
    I'm not a user, so I can ask the daft question - have you read the manual? Does it mention lubricants? Dose of WD40? Blob of petroleum jelly?

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