Dan Maynard
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I guess ash. Not the sharpest pics though...
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What about lawns? Not done much myself since a teenager but at least you're standing straight most of the time.
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Hmm 2 ton of wood in the stem, bucketful of soil.
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Not much. The big challenge is that the important fine roots which give a large surface area for water absorption are spread over a large area around the tree, for it to survive after transplant it needs to keep enough of those roots hence the need to move a huge rootball. Think of root protection area in building sites being 12 times trunk diameter. What size lump of soil do you estimate you can lift with the 16 ton digger? I'm not very familiar with machine sizes.
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Depends where in the UK you live too, piece of cake in East Anglia here , not so easy if you live on Dartmoor. -
Some Oregon stuff is good quality, chains for example. Helmets serviceable , not top notch. Their boots that cost £80 aren't as good as branded at around £2-300 , one of the wardens at my local wood has them though and they last ok on being worn a few times a month.
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Online that seems to be a good price, just been going through that as Esso stopping the ethanol free and think I'll start using ethanol treatment instead.
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I was going to say get the basic chainsaw maintenance crosscut and fell tickets, it's a fun course and it'll make you safer with a saw. For hedges, small trees etc crack on - anything bigger then make friends with local tree surgeons. You won't have the gear or people to make it efficient, makes a lot more sense to collaborate. I know a few people now that do lawns, gardens, when people ask me about gardening I just refer them because I don't know anything about it, likewise they refer me trees.
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Oregon, or as an alternative take a look at Englebert Strauss. Think £200 will be a struggle, you'll have the cheapest of the cheap which will not last well.
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That kind of thing, yes.
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I'm waiting for madmaxtree to say something that isn't very generic before forming an opinion.
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If you hit a stone badly on an old chain then bin it. I actually have some semi chisel Rotatech chains for the job so they are easy to sharpen for small dings but if I hit something big I'm not going to spend 20 minutes sharpening it, just bin and move on.
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That's a good point, especially if the chains a bit blunt so that it's not biting in well, saw will rev up high.
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Bit like there's money in a bag of flour if you sell it as cakes, it's a raw material which needs a lot of work. Local selling pages, FB, network neighborhood. I can't see what's around the tree though, looks like a fair bit of work to dismantle so probably cost money to do.
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How best to drill through bolt in Stihl hedgecutter head?
Dan Maynard replied to Cordata's topic in Maintenance help
I think spark erosion is the best/only way to drill it out, but may be more expensive than a new hub. -
Yup, church outing so not even any beer. Don't remember/admit to it very often but this thread brought it all back.
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Cause for one sided dieback on Oak tree?
Dan Maynard replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Tree health care
Sounding bit like a trench going through. Looking at a Scots pine today which has developed a lean, seems mysterious to the owner but a few years since driveway installed about 3m from the tree. People don't seem to think the roots do anything, when they're in the way of a building project. -
Urban sycamores get bashed about because it's too big a tree for a city garden. I would guess it's been cut back hard some years ago and the narrow fork has happened because of the sprouting response to that. Check for other similar narrow forks, if you don't feel confident to recognise then get someone in.
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I think it will have a cat, which do apparently get hot.
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We could start a new thread but probably be less popular. I saw Cliff Richard at Wembley in about 1990, church group outing which I went on as fancied my mates older sister. Nothing happened, Cliff was Cliff.
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Try the repair, worst outcome is a bit of oil leak again. I've got some "Petro patch putty" on my Spitfire radiator that I stuck on in about 1995 halfway down France , has maybe started to leak a bit now but I would recommend it as easy to use and strong. It's reinforced epoxy so will bridge the hole and designed for fuel and oil leaks. As above I'd rub/wire brush the outside so you're not just sticking it to paint.
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It depends what it is, doesn't it? One of the things mentioned a while back is all the really cheap/value ranges disappeared so pasta went from 45p to 85p for the lowest income people. It's the old 'typical shopping basket' that nobody actually buys.
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Cause for one sided dieback on Oak tree?
Dan Maynard replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Tree health care
Can't see root flare, is it under the grass or under the soil? Seems to me needs to be something big to take out so much of the tree, root excavation/damage? -
If you ask L&S they'll get parts that aren't listed, needed a new switch for my Makita saw recently, when I emailed in they added it to the website.
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I'm less sure on a 201 though, consensus seems to be most of the gain available is from opening the exhaust outlet bigger, then a bit more from a small timing advance. If you need a lot more power get an MS400 sent up.
