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  1. Dan Maynard
    Maybe I'm lucky, if you go to FRJones and set the size to 49 you get to choose ..... Meindl. That's it. So Airstreams for me every time. Easy.
  2. Dan Maynard
    And check the oil, low level cuts out which might happen you dip it to the stump?
  3. Dan Maynard
    I think you should check into building regs approval as well, as I recall if you go over 30m2 then you need to go through building control, hence why my garage is 29.5m2. It's not supposed to be too difficult but I found it just one more thing that I didn't want to tackle. Maybe you could initially build smaller sheds with doors which are near each other?
  4. Dan Maynard
    Having said that the advice is pretty likely to be to get someone reputable to have a look at it, so may be helpful to say where you are. Increasing cracks aren't generally a thing to ignore.
  5. Dan Maynard
    Agree with this. Fast forward another year and you look at the empty crates in your yard and wonder what you're going to do for firewood next season. and then ... Fast forward 20 years and you have a van with kitchen and toilet as you're fed up of peeing in compost heaps and behind sheds.
  6. Dan Maynard
    That picture really makes me want to dig the gravel away and find out what's going on - seems bizarre that the tree would get so big a buttress after the house was built so was it cut back to dig foundation for an extension?
  7. Dan Maynard
    This has been bugging me all day, but I think I have the answer. I'll blunt all the teeth on my silky so that as well as chainsaw trousers and Airstreams I can wear my sawpod.
  8. Dan Maynard
    I'm not particularly against HP either, just that the HP machines I have bought tend to have a lot of HP enhancement software and I don't like that. Each to their own and all that. Windows 8.1 though, you've definitely lost me. Better to have made the move to 10 which we are recently doing from 7.
  9. Dan Maynard
    You see, I would say don't spend less than £500. A laptop for £300 is the cheapest of everything in every department, it won't last. MacBooks do last, but so do more expensive Windows based systems. I have spent £1200 on a Lenovo laptop in 2010, it's still great. I spent about the same on my desktop PC plus a £350 graphics card, it has lasted years just like Steve's Mac system that cost £3k. I'm not particularly against Apple, I think it's good but expensive. Same as what car you choose, do you buy VW or Audi? One lad I work with has an iPhone, he pays out £85 a month for the latest plus a full whizz data package. Good, but expensive.
  10. Dan Maynard
    Stoves also win when not in use, all the rest of the time you have a howling draft up or down an open chimney. I would say it's worth it to get new glass.
  11. Dan Maynard
    £15k? Spend £10k on new chains, never bother sharpening again, and blow the rest down the pub.
  12. Dan Maynard
    We've just bought 4 Lenovo E590 laptops at work to get Windows 10 (and the old ones were pretty old), I like Lenovo because they come with less rubbish on than the HPs I've used. We got the i5, so £619 which is £140 off if you buy direct from Lenovo ThinkPad E590 |15.6" SMB Laptop (RapidCharge) | Lenovo UK WWW.LENOVO.COM Buy Lenovo ThinkPad E590, a Skype-certified SMB laptop with upto 13 hours of battery (RapidCharge support), delivers excellent web conferencing with HD webcam. My opinion is spend about that much to get something that will last a few years.
  13. Dan Maynard
    I reckon if you're keeping firewood then chip it onto the ground by each tree, the throw of the chipper will spread it out enough.
  14. Dan Maynard
    I think I read in Timberwolf marketing somewhere that chip is about 6 times smaller than the brash. Personally I think the answer is definitely somewhere between 2 and 20 but it all depends....
  15. Dan Maynard
    I've been building special purpose factory automation for a long time, every company I have worked for has always self certified the CE marks. It's not hard if you know the the required directives, £3.5k sounds a lot but I guess you have to look them in the eye and see if they are earning the money through expertise.
  16. Dan Maynard
    I have a 24hp air cooled Honda engine on my chipper, think this may put the dampers on the idea.
  17. Dan Maynard
    This speed thing is sounding very German, you know. Average speed cameras on the A14 between us and Cambridge reduced jams and reduced accidents as people used to brake hard at the old cameras.
  18. Dan Maynard
    I think you do have to ask what the ten year strategy is for that tree, it isn't mature and slowing down - it's only just got going. Cutting down isn't ridiculous. Reduction may just make it angry.
  19. Dan Maynard
    I get that you don't want to hire a chipper, it's money out and if you have more time than work it makes sense to watch outgoings. Again without seeing it up close difficult to be sure but I would not be surprised if you have 3 loads of branches even after stacking and cutting them down. Two things I missed thinking about before buying a chipper were the time saving against all that faffing about stacking the trailer, and the fact that branches are something which you have to pay to tip - whereas woodchip is useful to people and you can tip it for free. So my chipper saves me time, journeys because it all fits in one load, and tip fees. Depending on distances and fees this may add up to the chipper hire being quite cheap if you can get a CS100 for say £75. I also have to admit that my experience of hire was bad, blunt and bad maintenance, if there's not a good place nearby then it may just not be viable.
  20. Dan Maynard
    I'm a formative pruning believer after reading Dr Gilmans book on pruning. Haven't watched all of them yet but was excited to find a set of his lectures on Educated Climber website. Dr. Gilman Teaching Series - Module 10: Pruning - Educated Climber.com WWW.EDUCATEDCLIMBER.COM Module 10-1: Tree form & substandard pruning Module 10-2: Approach to pruning Module 10-3: At planting Module 10-4: Young trees Module 10-5: Young tree case studies Module 10-6: Medium aged trees Module 10-7: Older trees Module 10-8: Mature tree considerations Module 10-9: Structural pruning Module 10-10: Raise crown Module 10-11: Reduce crown Module 10-12: […]
  21. Dan Maynard
    Has it been reduced before? The diameter seems to reduce very suddenly on the centre stems. If I'm right there may be a load of branches there in a bunch at the old cut, you could probably thin those out without too much harm but whether it would keep the customer satisfied I don't know. Have they had a survey that says it needs the work or maybe had it done before?
  22. Dan Maynard
    No need to be sorry for the rant, that sounds infuriating - to have taken so much trouble to explain and then have the trees wrecked is bad stewardship on the part of the council.
  23. Dan Maynard
    My PC story, I quoted a load of work in my village after they paid for a parish tree survey. Two years on, the only piece of work on the quote to get done by anybody is one of the trees that was actually on private land - the owner has since paid me to fell it as it died.
  24. Dan Maynard
    I sort of get this, the customer usually has no idea how long it will take so to them it's more a question of "That's a £500 tree because it's quite big." You have an idea of how long you want it to take but all your factoring in different machinery, number of people, vehicles etc are completely unknown to the customer when they accept your quote. Difficult to say without seeing it but my guess would be on the low side of 500 as it doesn't look that big, my method would be park chipper at the base of tree and wheelie bin the chip out so comfortable two man job.
  25. Dan Maynard
    Tree surgeon? That's what I call builder pruning - pole chainsaw.

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