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Dan Maynard

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  1. You'd better get some cod liver oil if you're doing another 18 years. Maybe a tin of waxoyl for the van too.
  2. I think Ukraine put a hole in the plan to stop the war by freezing borders at the current front, can't see Putin letting them keep part of Russia.
  3. I've bought some of this on recommendation here but not used it yet https://www.ryeoil.co.uk/shop/chainsaw-oil/
  4. Also, don't let the branch tear below as you cut - either hold it up or cut from below first.
  5. https://www.trees.org.uk/Help-Advice/Help-for-Tree-Owners/Guide-to-Tree-Pruning
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.....
  9. Always love a wild area!
  10. So Stormy Daniels could save the world from Donald Trump after all?
  11. I had that thought but was letting the more knowledgeable lead the way.
  12. No, I can see that.
  13. I'd suspect robot post.
  14. 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.
  15. 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...
  16. 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.
  17. Short answer - no.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Hmm trouble is your heat cycling it too, which is going to stress it.
  23. Sounds like a bad sycamore gap joke to me.
  24. Tickets vs competence?
  25. Why use graphite powder? Not what DMM recommend and they make the biners.

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