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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    Did you do the deal through eBay? I think if you did then then buyer protection may apply, it has to be as described but you have cracks undeclared.
  2. Dan Maynard
    That's it, and a box of sparks to help it start once you've got it all back together.
  3. Dan Maynard
    Health and Safety Case in Forestry and Arboriculture: Case studies WWW.HSE.GOV.UK A selection of case studies relating to incidents and accidents in Tree Work. Farmers in telehandlers, people on ladders with no ropes at all, they're all in the list. "Self employed arborist" Several lacerations to the neck in the tree, number 5 was rescued by the groundsman and other climber but already unconscious and died. One thing that came out of the recent first aid training I did was that you've got about 3 minutes after a severe laceration so having the first aid kit in the van at the front of the house, maybe keys in the climbers pocket is useless. I have never managed to keep a kit on my harness but have celox bandage in side pocket and a harness kit with celox, tourniquet, bandage in my rope bag so it's always at the bottom of the tree.
  4. Dan Maynard
    Delivered?
  5. Dan Maynard
    I'm extremely frustrated that we have no proper statistics , or reports on accidents, that would help us be safer. Id climb on two ropes every day and practice aerial rescue every 6 months if I thought it would really help. I think the example of speeding is actually a good one, we end up finding a level of risk which is tolerable. It would be safer if everyone drove at 50mph but we tolerate the increased risk and crack on. Hundreds of people get killed every year on the roads too.
  6. Dan Maynard
    I guess not more than £50 a load, though you've got to decide if you're doing it to get rid of the logs (so you'd be loading them anyway) or to make money. Time taken cutting, loading, delivering is going to mean it's not that lucrative. Can you get people to collect it? I've got a pile of rings on my hardstanding and people keep stopping and asking if I'm getting rid. If you cut it up small enough to fit in a car then people will take it away.
  7. Dan Maynard
    8 cubic metre tipper trailer is what I use, cut the hedge then chuck in all recent sawdust rankings etc. There's a couple of places to tip green waste by the load round here, I figure it's cheaper to do that than buy chipper blades which are fearsome expensive for a JoBeau M500.
  8. Dan Maynard
    Personally, I wouldn't. It's had a tough time, hard winter and dry summer, I'd leave it be a year or two until you are confident it's healthy.
  9. Dan Maynard
    Go down to stores and get some left hand thread spark plugs, young lad.....
  10. Dan Maynard
    Think about 4-5000 for elite athletes, it's not totally implausible but probably a bit high.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Broadly, removing leaves takes away food and shade from the tree so isn't helping it. If you need to keep it away from the neighbours then summer is the time to prune, otherwise I'd leave it be to get as much food as possible this year.
  12. Dan Maynard
    Leaves mostly, at this time of year.
  13. Dan Maynard
    Rust protection like an 80's Alfa Romeo.
  14. Dan Maynard
    Keep an eye on that if you want Rotatech chain, that's 0.050 gauge. Id stick with narrow kerf given the engine size, but Rotatech might only have standard 0.058.
  15. Dan Maynard
    As far as I'm aware there hasn't been an epidemic of poplar failure so tempting to conclude the risk hasn't been driven up much by the moth. Maybe this will change now with the drought though as they seem to like it. Only case I've identified where it was important the pop had codominant stems, shading a nice cherry, next to a road, so PCC elected to take the safe option and fell.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Thinking about it, the state of the arb market and failure of FrJones throws a new light on the takeover of Honeys, maybe they were sailing close to the wind as well.
  17. Dan Maynard
    Honeys always been good but I'm a little bit wary now they've been taken over, we wait to see.
  18. Dan Maynard
    Late ones were a lot cheaper, so much that it was cheaper to buy the 365 and send it to spud for porting than buy a 372, which is what I did just in time. Can't buy 365 now and spud's retired.....
  19. Dan Maynard
    Yes, although sprouts and ends up a weird shape so often difficult to do anything nice on a reduction. End up hedge trimming into a ball. Maybe ground level and start again.
  20. Dan Maynard
    You may be all right without the report then, you can upload photos to the portal which would support the dieback diagnosis. Id say the planning portal gets easier each time, but I've actually got one held up at the moment where apparently I put in conservation area notice instead of TPO app, I know it has a TPO so must have just clicked wrong button somewhere.
  21. Dan Maynard
    Sorry about that, didn't mean to start a Stihl/Husky derail.
  22. Dan Maynard
    Finally, as it has a TPO they'll probably require an arborist report unless it's actually dead or immediately dangerous, have you managed to speak to the TO about removing it?
  23. Dan Maynard
    You can buy maps, these are geared towards building planning works but I have used them to make a very professional looking plan. For tree applications the only requirement is that you are clear which is the right tree, so map drawn with a pencil and scanned is actually fine. Some people use a screenshot from Google maps but strictly that isn't allowed under their copyright. I think it's inside the planning portal that there's a link to the guide for making an application.
  24. Dan Maynard
    https://www.planningportal.co.uk/
  25. Dan Maynard
    To widen the gap and make the MS400 even better.

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