Dan Maynard
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Bg86 handheld type used to be pretty standard, the backpack blowers are easier to use as you just sweep the tube around but much bulkier to store. Personally I think for general use the 800 is bigger than you need, even 500 does a good job. When I get around to upgrading that's probably what I will do.
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Is Cordyline a tree which can be TPO'd ?
Dan Maynard replied to Dan Maynard's topic in Trees and the Law
Hmm that's the thing, if they can't have a TPO then it's just a waste of everyone's time doing the paperwork - but if there are cordylines with TPO then logically I guess we should give the council a chance to decide. -
Ha ha not 5 minutes a metre, that's 5 metres a minute! Looks a lot easier to carry around too .
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I was thinking of L&S Engineers, they charge postage and nobody worries about that because they are good at stocking and finding spares.
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Ah makes sense, I have wondered about braze but only got MIG nowadays. Most important thing it won't fall off.
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It'd be hard to rule out drought so I wouldn't panic.
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Good job, very rewarding. MIG welded? Never tried but wondered how it would go.
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We had one flash of lightning but fair bit of rain in the last hour. Went to look at a tree with a cracked branch just before the storm, weight of rain finished it off apparently.
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I'm sure it's because of the massive increase in number of parcels, actually they are all struggling to keep up. Computer systems make it look like everything is under control but it's too complicated and difficult to make all those drops on planned schedule like a machine. It is a bit nuts though, you have to think it could be more efficient. Some days there are 5 or 6 vans down our street dropping off a few parcels each, and next day delivery means they have to drive almost the whole round every day instead of batching areas. Weirdly for us Evri is really good, because Roger that does the round has lived in the next village for years and years, and knows everyone.
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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.
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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.
