Dan Maynard
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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.
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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.
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Oooh you are awful!
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That's good to know, thanks.
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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.
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I'm not quick to judge but you may just be right here..
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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.
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There you go mate https://www.sakertool.co.uk/pages/saker-mini-chainsaw-1?xqp0819&gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw_uGmBhBREiwAeOfsd02UD4hNiju4HsAgpTzDwDlDCLKHG3dBaHVfQPrsU1SUoNTfQETgjhoCUc4QAvD_BwE
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I'm afraid once it's dead it's dead no matter what you do with water. Replant.
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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.
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Tool and plant insurance is my killer.
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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?
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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.
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It's an interesting one, I think the market might be changeable. For one thing I reckon there are still a dozen piles of logs within 10 miles of here that need cutting and splitting, where homeowners last year said they will keep the wood from a takedown but don't have a splitter and won't enjoy using an axe when they start. I don't think they want to do the splitting though, you'd be operated hire.
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Yes I'm just on the monthly Wildlife Trust work party through the winter, need people with tickets to do the saw work. For me it's a good opportunity to fell without sheds or fences nearby and I don't have to clear up any sawdust. The good wood mostly ends up as firewood locally, I have had the odd load. Ah not exactly, got one Husky then mix of Stihl, Dolmar and Makita. That one went to spud for conversion from 365 to ported 372 so is a good saw.
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Really interesting, thanks. Tree won an extra 10 years then.
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I don't know, every grinder seems to have a different pattern. 4 teeth seems like the minimum you could get away with, if it works without excessive vibration then go for it. I had a Carlton with 12, I'm converting my current grinder to Green Teeth and looks like it will have 6.
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It's mainly coppicing, so we clear to the ground. Because of limited labour we just do a strip 5-15m wide around the rides, this gives maximum diversity benefit for the labour input. Being SSSI there is a pattern of patches agreed between Wildlife Trust and Natural England for the next 20 years so we can't just fell anything.
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Other question, how many teeth do you have on that wheel? Looks like maybe you've taken some of the holders off, which you don't normally need to do?
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They look like 500 series Green Teeth to me. If you're not familiar, have you already turned them? If you take them out and clean up a bit you find 3 flats on the back of the tooth so can go back in with sharp bit at the front. My new ones come from Global Recycling but there are other suppliers and also some reproduction available.
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I think if you thin then the canopy will quickly close over, so not very helpful to wildlife. I do conservation work at the local woodland and best practice seems to be coppice areas in rotation so that you end up with a range of ages of plant, then scrub/bramble, then saplings push through and finally close over for a few years before being felled again. You'd probably want something like 7 year rotation so divide the plot into 7 coupes and cut one each year, or 14 coupes and cut 2 etc. Given the long term nature of the game you want to get this right though so probably worth trying to get advice through someone like small wood owners group. Other thought looking at that you should maybe invest in a branch logger, super quick turning those poles into burnable wood.
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Ah if you need to ask, you won't understand the answer.... I have no idea either.
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And they don't pick up on indirect replies at all .
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Ah interesting, would make more sense in that case.
