Dan Maynard

Not far from Cambridge, near the border with Northamptonshire. There's a newish centre near Kettering called VMT, it's very tempting to do the course near enough to not stay away.

Do you mean at home or while out working? For my trailer I looked at the motorcycle world and bought ground anchor and 19mm chain, this is too thick for bolt cutters so will need grinding off. The anchor is under the trailer so you can't sledgehammer the lock. The other type of security product is from caravans, concrete in posts or locks. The best wheel clamp I've got is Bulldog but it's a heavy beast to use, in the end though it needs to be thick steel else it will be too quick to cut off. Tracker too, there's a fair chance if it gets nicked it will be dumped in a layby for a couple of days to see if it has a tracker - in which case if you don't have a tracker you won't find it. Ideally I think you have to layer the security so it takes a while to nick, and hopefully the delay puts them off. Finally, my experience of having things nicked is I ended up buying expensive security products in the end anyway and the one thing I wish is I'd spent more on security in the first place.

In addition to the ground chain and wheel clamp I put a huge pile of logs in front of my trailer while we went on holiday. It worked, as in trailer still there. Trouble is it took me half an hour to shift them yesterday to get the trailer out.

I'd have thought that would come out with a stud extractor? Doesn't have much to tighten up against and shouldn't be rusty.

Nah he'll just hide all the brash behind those bushes.

Just double checked dolmar.de , sales of Dolmar brand have been discontinued in Germany and it redirects to makita.de Same blurb then about focus on electric equipment.

Looking myself at the moment, plenty around as you say. Just need to ask providers sometimes when their next one is scheduled.

A stainless steel Tesla........

I always try to remember to ask if they want me to quote on stump grinding as well. Say the cheapest thing is to put a plant pot on, so not too much of a sales pitch, but it makes it nice and clear what we're doing and half the time sell a nice extra.

I've got an M500, ended up cutting the bearings off with a grinder as I couldn't get in behind to pull and one had broken up anyway. I don't know if you have the same belt cover as me but I would have mounted the right hand bearing so the grease nipple was easier to get to if I did it again, but I'm not taking it all apart to change that. Pretty sure belt pulley was taperlock so take the screws out and insert one into the spare hole to split. If you Google there are plenty of instructions and videos on taperlock. Other than that it's all pretty basic mechanics so I don't think you can go far wrong. Post a pic if you get stuck.

Yes I think it's a similar solenoid. Plug is first thing I would always do, so cheap and easy. Fuel filter likewise, couple of quid, worth doing just to eliminate them from your investigation. Quite often plug is enough.

I did mine with a 16" bar, used to be difficult to get a 15" on Stihl so hopefully they'd still have a bit of leeway.

The problem could be below ground or lack of water but either way from what I've seen sometimes cherry just decide they've had enough and die. If it's down to water then mulch and water will help but I think yours looks beyond that. Once a branch is dead it won't come back, so you can cut out dead branches and see what is left. It won't be much. Otherwise bite the bullet, fell and replant.

Oooh you are awful!

That's good to know, thanks.

Vesp.

You like the roulette game? I wouldn't risk it. Lockwood Saws always get a good report on FB arbtalk http://www.lockwoodsaws.co.uk/index.asp?textpage=home I've just found a local company Bedford Saw and Tool, can take the blades in and collect so will report back when done.

I'm not quick to judge but you may just be right here..

Which plastic ones have you been using? Euro crates are pretty tough and stack together well. Most of my stuff's in bags though to be honest, easier to handle once it's out of the van but quite expensive to get going.

There you go mate https://www.sakertool.co.uk/pages/saker-mini-chainsaw-1?xqp0819&gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw_uGmBhBREiwAeOfsd02UD4hNiju4HsAgpTzDwDlDCLKHG3dBaHVfQPrsU1SUoNTfQETgjhoCUc4QAvD_BwE

I'm afraid once it's dead it's dead no matter what you do with water. Replant.

Your customer may be very reasonable and agree to this but if you smash nextdoors fence then it's not your customer that will come after you. I have been told about a tree surgeon being pursued by the insurance company which had to pay for a new roof on a thatched cottage. He plainly wasn't liable but it cost his insurance £10k in legal fees to defend the case. Public liability costs me a few hundred, wouldn't work without it.

Tool and plant insurance is my killer.

I was thinking the screening is a pain to make sellable product but if the logs are for your own use then you are benefiting from the ease of cutting, so worth the hassle. Or can you just chuck the bits in the fire with the logs?

To me seems pretty fair money, you've obviously wear and tear on saw/bar/chains to consider but not providing any heavy equipment, chipper, van etc. I've done days ringing up willow stem and humping the lumps round for a lot less, as a subbie.