Dan Maynard
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Willow struggling for light?
Dan Maynard replied to Peter 1955's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Fighting nature is hard work and pointless imo. Knock out the major deadwood if they want, it won't help or hinder the tree. Then let the tree crowns balance according to the light available, you can't make branches appear where it's shaded. If they want the willow to grow evenly the only way is to fell the other trees. -
Be interested to know how this works as I've just converted T- Mech grinder to Greenteeth so starting up my collection of old teeth again.
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Ah ha! Annex 3 exclusions include "dual-purpose vehicles and any trailer drawn by it " My 110 is a dual purpose vehicle so I'm happy.
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Looks like my trailer unladen weight may be 1110kg so need to saw a bit off the back. Didn't know anything about this, assumed by being outside tacho scope I'd be fine.
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Well if touching a Makita saw makes you homosensual then I don't know what using one of those must do... But I would have done that with my 8" bar Makita saw from the start, bugger using a great big petrol topper for that type of job.
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I went for PCW4000 winch with clutch and locking cleat so overcomes some of those problems, but agreed I've not really lifted with it. It has been brilliant pulling things over, pulling lumps up out of the brook or out of undergrowth. GRCS I guess can do those things but you're winding by hand, slower but more controlled so it's better for lifting rigging.
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This, pop the plug out of the cutter into a lathe, drill and tap M6, fit grease nipple. I reckon plenty of EP2 is better than being stingy, not getting round to, or forgetting the special Stihl grease. The Makita cutter I have came with a grease nipple on the gearbox.
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Blimey that makes my capstan winch look cheap, and that has an engine on to make it go round.
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Yep, that's the one.
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Meanwhile a thousand people in tiny flat newbuild gardens are desperately trying to dig in some interesting changes of level.... It seems to drop quite a bit on the far left corner to me looking at the steps in the fence, what happens the other side of that? Might need a retaining wall? To me it seems to need stumps out, then some beds defining and then new turf.
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I do too, it's another thing you can fascinate the wife with as you drive around pointing out trees you worked on.
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I'd push for UA1 at least, which is basic electrical awareness and only 2 days. I have no intention of doing utility arb but it's been really useful - learnt a lot about what's up the poles, and how far to steer clear of things. Definitely did things before that I wouldn't do now eg I wasn't driving the telehandler we were using to pull stump out of ditch but it was too close to the 11kV, I didn't even know it was 11kV at the time or I'd have been more scared.
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Tree ID - native poplar, hybrid, or aspen?
Dan Maynard replied to GW1's topic in Tree Identification pictures
From what I read true native blacks are so rare you are unlikely to see one, everything is hybrid. -
Ah that's not the question, we could probably all have done something else for more money but where's the fun in that?
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Could anyone help me ID this tree?
Dan Maynard replied to Rock Monkey's topic in Tree Identification pictures
The wood looks like ash though. Buds are opposite like ash, bark different. -
I'm not going to say I've done this, but I have pulled the cord far too many times on a saw that's switched off. I'm going to blame having some saws that switch themselves back on and some that don't.....
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Think theres four ejector pin marks, looks like a pressure die casting to me so zinc or ally alloy. Soft as anything. I reckon if you knew someone retired into model making you could slot where the teeth are and machine up a bit of brass that sits in the slot behind and has teeth coming up. Never going to pay to do it, buy a MS181 instead.
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What type of tree is this from?
Dan Maynard replied to Daveb82's topic in Tree Identification pictures
I don't know, why do snakes hate connys? -
Did this willow a couple of weeks ago, friends TW165 out of action so we put it all through the M500. Willow is nice and soft, chomped it all up, two loads of chip. Wish I'd taken more photos of the petrol winch in action, was very handy for pulling stuff back in from the brook side.
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I was initially thinking ditch work either digger or flail, but there are branches behind that have been affected. Maybe all a trick of angles in photo of course.
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A little fire at the bottom might damage the base, but a big fire quite far away would radiate heat like the spear.
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I see, thanks @Bolt. I'd agree with fire, maybe a tree next to it fell down and they burnt the brash on the spot?
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Historic flail damage? Can't see your pics though, you're speaking apple with those .heic files.
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I've been watching an old ash round here dying back gradually, it just fell over in one with white rot in the roots, so I'd say have a careful look for secondary fungal activity too.
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Is it manual carb? Could it be worn in and just need the idle speed knocking down a touch back to spec? Have a good clean round the carb,linkages etc too and check throttle not being held by sawdust.
