Dan Maynard
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Laurel – Love the smell, but is it really bad for you?
Dan Maynard replied to John Hancock's topic in General chat
74 year old man sick of cutting hedge says to wife "I feel terrible, I think that hedge has poisoned me - you'll have to get someone else in to do it next time" -
This is the problem, I think what you would need is someone who is insured to give advice, so that their insurance covers the liability. Then the insurers argue, the lawyers win, but at least the customers are insulated from that. I think that such advice would cost a lot of money for this reason.
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Difficult to get in back gardens.
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Fair play to UKPN, guy with fibreglass poles has been out and pruned the tree in the rain to get the conductors apart again. No more flash bang, power on all night fingers crossed.
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I'm posting while the power's still on....
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Windy here, my wife caught this. Ironically they had a shutdown scheduled to change these cables on Thursday but it was too cold.
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There are spares on eBay but I doubt anyone is making a fortune breaking 181s, you might have to keep an eye out for a donor saw but same parts could be failed.
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At our local one you pay to tip greenwaste but logs and chip are free. But yes, sometimes you just need to get shot and on with the next job.
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Ring up L&S, see what they can do. It says out of stock on the website for nearly all my Makita spares, just means they aren't on the shelf so take a couple of days longer to get in.
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Last time I was asked to half some trees I pointed out that taking them down would be a similar cost because we can spike up and take all those annoying branches off at the bottom first rather than having to not break any of them. Result - remove 3 keep 3. Anyway , we can't see the trees. Maybe the beech is only 7m tall?
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Have shipping container costs gone back down a bit?
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Take the biggest ladder you own, figure it out when you get up there. There's knubs and stubs up there to stand on, big vee on the right for a rest. See if you can slide out some of those fancy fence panels before you get going too, that trellis work looks a bit fragile.
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No not that college, miles away that is.
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On the other hand the big pile of dead euc we left there last week was all gone. Even had a couple of guys excited about turning bowls out of it, I thought they were crackers but didn't like to say.
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I don't think they are aimed at unattended running though.
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We were pruning beech branches in a college today, apparently 4 people had asked about the wood before I got out of the tree. I said we should have put it on eBay.
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No. In fact boring a hole down through the middle of the stem probably would just cause it to sprout loads from the base. Very unlikely to die unless you pour glyphosate into the hole, and even then I wouldn't guarantee it. It's a laurel.
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Now CE marked too
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I had the overrun pulley go on my Volvo, sounded really awful. As you say recon alternator was the fix.
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Is this the wettest (firewood selling )autumn you have known !
Dan Maynard replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Weigh the log then dry it in the oven if you want a bulletproof method of calculating moisture content. I think ash is only about 25% when green, 32 sounds too high. This is why people say you can burn it green, but actually it's better seasoned. -
Maybe there was a laurel hedge which got ground out to put the fence in, and they left a bit of root?
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Husqvarna 236 XTorq....too far gone to waste any more money on?
Dan Maynard replied to Lehobbit's topic in Chainsaws
Stihl 026 is a solid saw, but it is 2 generations ago so I'd check spares availablity. Piston and cylinder less likely to be required but clutch springs, brake band, anti vibe mounts, starter pawls etc. Saying that you'll probably get what you need on ebay even if not available new. -
Hospital and school roofs haven't been built strong enough to hold themselves up - RAAC disaster.
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Anchoring to regrowth is one case I think two tie in points can make sense, especially if one is lower down as a backup. I've also become a fan of the SRT redirect as you can put a sling and biner round those stems high up, multisaver also works for that DRT. Or final thought, depending on how much you are taking off and what the bark is like on the old stems, sometimes the special pruning spikes can be used to good effect.
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Looks like a post size lump of concrete next to it, you're welcome to that one. I do agree though, only way I can see to keep the tree is step the fence in a bay few feet away from it which will look daft forever, especially from the other side. Or take the fence down and plant a whole row of laurel?
