Dan Maynard
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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. -
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.
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Reading there it overwinters as adults, one of those things that would have been reduced more by some decent frosts but we've just had warm wet weather. We might get loads of wasps this year too, who knows. I don't think your other shrubs are really in danger, they have the lovely alder tree leaves to eat.
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Maybe you're right there, we went first thing Thursday morning. Friday afternoon speed is an altogether different thing....
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From arrival to departure, so not just the tree - get tools off, cup of tea, chat to customer, dismantle tree (mind phone lines), chat to neighbour and price up reducing his walnut, chip other stuff cut by customer, cut back pyracantha that now sticks out over path and looks stupid, rake up, sweep up, load up tools, blow driveway, depart. This is the problem pricing small trees, the faffing before and after is about the same as a big tree.
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Is that photo from ground level or an upstairs window? Can't quite get an impression of how big it is so 3-4 hour job? I didn't take a photo but this is street view a year ago, did this lawson on the end for £250. Would have been 2 hours arrive to depart if the back wheel hadn't fallen off my chipper.
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The other thing I do which people think weird at first is use a 10m lanyard, but set up with pinto pulley and VT hitch so it spends as more time as a second climbing system than lanyard really. This means I'm on 2 climbing systems a lot of the time but without dragging 3 ropes around.
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