Dan Maynard
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If you're using mileposts for navigation then you're so old school you have to use the old road. There's mileposts on the road through our village from it being the Great North Road, wouldn't be so useful moved up onto the A1(M) where it goes now.
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My stump grinder guard is a bit of 18mm ply cut into 3 with hole in each corner for a rope, so I just lay those down first and park grinder on top. Unless it's on the way home from a fell and grind then I'll just push the grinder on to the edge of the chip pile.
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As above, have a customer with Cordyline Australis in a conservation area which she would like removed. I'm thinking if it's not a tree then it can't have a TPO therefore no need to do a S211 notification. Searching for cordyline or palm in the planning brings up almost no results in our area so either nobody applies, they rarely reach the 75mm at 1.5m limit, or they are not trees.
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Are you asking if they can go straight back in the containers in the diagram? They seem to have a very strange root shape on there.
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I think there might be different types of buyers, pro users are less likely to just order one or two items, so a flat rate per parcel is fine. Also looking for quality and service. Occasional users probably order one chain and it's going to be difficult to keep them happy as you are competing purely on price which means against Amazon. Probably not a game you can win. I think as tree surgeons we all try to convince our customers not to just choose the cheapest price and we need to take our own advice sometimes.
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Are you just going up a screw size or going for the helicoil? Helicoil tap is approx diameter of an M6 but pitch of M5 so bit of a special.
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Cool, I'll have to dig out some pulleys too.
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I haven't sorted this myself but seems to me you need to hold the handlebars as well as operating the winch so quite tricky unless you're thinking of electric with remote control. I was going to get something like 3:1 pulley so the rope comes back to me.
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Ideally bring the handle indoors for a couple of weeks before fitting too, then it will swell a little when it goes outside again.
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It's pretty big to relocate, would need a big root ball. I'd collect a bunch of conkers and grow a new one, then cut that down in a few years time.
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Do you have a legal helpline on your house insurance? I think you need proper advice, I agree he sounds like a chancer, Google will tend to lead you to worry more than appropriate. Not every broken pipe requires all the trees in the area to be cut down, there'd be no trees left in London. -
Voice activated would be perfect. Alexa, release my saw. ... Alexa, grab my saw.
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Fell it. Keep cutting branches off. It is doing its best to get to 100 foot tall though, so you've a fight on your hands. Some say the trees are just watching and waiting till they can eat us....
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I'll give that a try, seems like a good simple idea.
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Started using Hylomar working on Triumph car engines with my dad, as you say in the 70s. It was easier to use and easier to clean after than stag paste that we used before, which set hard on the gasket faces.
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Looked at one last week though, from underneath the leaves all looked pretty brown, but from the side you could see a layer of green leaves over the top. It was also sprouting from the trunk low down. I don't think it needs to be a rush to fell euc anyway does it? Bloody hard wood once it's dead and seasoned and I think it's pretty durable in the ground too.
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In general once wood is dead it's dead, so the upper branches which have died won't come back. The root which has been protected from frost underground may well have survived and will sprout. If you take off all the dead and let the sprouts grow you should end up with a multi stemmed tree, but like coppice wood tree.
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Is it a 116 then? I've got a 112 and a PS6000i, both Husky small mount so same as 550, 560 but not 372 - so Husky bar will be cheap. Should rip, reckon I could carry my 6000 around for one day but I'd be thinking all the time about how nice it is that modern saws are so much lighter.
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I believe I've seen people on ope forum in the us using the Motul 2T in saws, they might be slightly different to saw oils but can't see them being a million miles apart. Stubby uses Red Line Racing 2T in saws.
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Why are Horticultural professionals SO devalued?
Dan Maynard replied to Trailoftears's topic in Landscaping
I write industrial automation control software part of the week and do tree surgery part time, suits the bones. Guess what I say when people ask what I do at BBQs? Bet @Steve Bullman still says he's an arborist down the pub. -
UK rules on filling cans with diesel at petrol station
Dan Maynard replied to Squaredy's topic in Large equipment
Is it not the case that there are HSE guidelines but in the end they are not obliged to sell anyone fuel, so can make their own extra rules? So if Tesco say only metal containers on the forecourt then that's up to them, otherwise go somewhere else. I think you could be right it's to make it very easy to enforce people not using milk bottles and carrier bags like they were in one of the panics. Think HSE rules are different for petrol and diesel, as I have a petrol chipper if it's over 10 litres has to be metal and limit on number of containers in the vehicle. Diesel I think you can do anything you like. -
Morning all. Glorious sunshine here, lifts the spirits.
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UK rules on filling cans with diesel at petrol station
Dan Maynard replied to Squaredy's topic in Large equipment
Not long ago I was on that website looking at metal cans, after the discussion about how much leaks through the material of plastic cans, didn't see the screw top so they must be pretty new. I'd ring them up or email, as in the description it says "Extra wide breather valve for a fast, smooth pour" -
Timberwolf 230 vtr petrol problems
Dan Maynard replied to timber wolf 230 vtr petrol's topic in Timberwolf
Strange times we're living in... "My Timberwolf is really unreliable, wish I'd have bought a Forst" -
Log splitter help please
Dan Maynard replied to devonbrion1998's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Thor have a good reputation, others which occur as good brands are Posch (Austrian sold by JasPWilson) and AMR (French sold by Fuelwood) or Oxdale (UK brand, less choice of models).
