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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    This HC was apparently hit by lightning, the major limbs fell and all except one sprouted. As far as I can tell they must have rooted because the limb back to main trunk are rotting away.
  2. Dan Maynard
    I think it's a really interesting idea and potentially good way to differentiate your products. As I have Will the 24" be 0.050 ? Seems narrow for the longer bars. The there's the changeover from.325 to 3/8?
  3. Dan Maynard
    I was thinking if you do a lot of commercial work. I don't, but do find parish councils have their own timescale for paying.
  4. Dan Maynard
    I guess ultimately you need to discuss it with the customer and agree an approach. They may be happier if you remove all grindings, and certainly no harm in it, I'm just not convinced it'll make that much difference going forward. The fungus will be spread well outside the grind area anyway.
  5. Dan Maynard
    I think top down warms the stove quicker if anything as it gets a flame going up the flue sooner. The gap at the front of my baffle plate is only about half and inch, I'd say your 1" is plenty.
  6. Dan Maynard
    Hmm you can go bust if you run out of cash, if you have staff on the books and can't pay the wages things will pretty quickly grind to a halt.
  7. Dan Maynard
    It's going to be all over the place anyway, I wouldn't particularly worry.
  8. Dan Maynard
    Actually that's a good point you said 60ish cc so that would be the 400 which compares to your 562, but you said to run alongside your 291 and 462. I've used a 291 at work, similar body size but the 261 is smoother, quicker and has more power. I'd consider moving the 291 on, get a 261. Which saw? All of them!
  9. Dan Maynard
    The best single piece of advice I got when I was fairly new was to never worry about speed. Climb safe, develop your style, all time in the tree is good. If you are happier on 2 ropes then climb that way, build experience. Efficiency and speed will naturally improve with time - mostly by better planning meaning you move less around the tree.
  10. Dan Maynard
    Yup MS400. Had about a dozen tanks through mine so still loosening up but it's a nice saw, especially for the weight - bit heavier than a 261 but a whole class up in power. Doesn't seem a big saw like the 462 when you pick it up. Got it as a climbing saw so have 20" on but it would be a hungry felling saw on 18". I went to dealer for something else and thought I'd try to handle it, didn't want to give it back when I felt how light it is.
  11. Dan Maynard
    I like the look of those, keeping the weight of the battery off the tool. Not used these but done a few limes or yew trims I could see them being good on.
  12. Dan Maynard
    I saw a thing saying Wright's doesn't have coal tar in any more, they use tea tree oil instead. Not used carbolic soap, used to have coal tar shampoo and my dad had coal tar oils around for treating psoriasis.
  13. Dan Maynard
    I think the wedge style ones can be used on smaller trees too so depends what you are felling.
  14. Dan Maynard
    I was going to say that, definitely had a few cuts off of chains.
  15. Dan Maynard
    Fair old bit of root veg in the Fens too, surprised if they ship it all the way up there.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Could maybe set the bar length so it just fits past second peg when slid all the way on to first. In use set midway, and you can get it out without moving the screws or sleeves. Plate comes out without removing the bar anyway.
  17. Dan Maynard
    I've had to change a few of those O-rings on older Stihls, they seem to take on a set so don't last forever.
  18. Dan Maynard
    If the fire doesn't fall out and the smoke's not leaking surely you might as well carry on using it even if there is a crack? Can you see the crack on the inside? If so I'd give it a wire brush and blob of fire cement and see how it goes. All this unless you are still in warranty of course but looks like it's fairly well used in the photo so guess not.
  19. Dan Maynard
    'kin ell mate, my fall back setup is me and a topper, out subbing!
  20. Dan Maynard
    We're on a fixed price energy deal for a while, fixed price mortgage deals which are 2-3 years will spread it out - but I agree a lot of people in for a shock when it comes to the end of the fixed period. I think we had a dip over summer as everyone concentrated on holiday but that seems to have been short lived. My guess would be £200-250 for each of those 3ft stumps which makes the bloke at £450 on the money, but people do charge quite a range. There is money in grinding, but then again stump grinders are expensive and break a lot, so it's tricky to work out the real costs. Now that I hire in I've got rid of that capital element to someone else, and I'm not paying for the grinder on days that I'm not using it. In a day going round to do 4 or 5 stumps I can make good money but it's not something I could do every day - too hard on the back.
  21. Dan Maynard
    It shouldn't cost too much for a crash and dash, you clear up.
  22. Dan Maynard
    Thixotropic is the opposite, thick when static but gets runny under motion - like ketchup flows when you shake the bottle.
  23. Dan Maynard
    That's it. There have been some half hearted attempts at strimming the grass back, and watering this summer but it's too little too late. I think they were planted too late in the year in the first place, so didn't stand a chance really.
  24. Dan Maynard
    Or similarly estimate 1/2 x base x height 0.5 x 1.6 x 1 = 0.8 Then multiply by length 0.8 x 2.2 = 1.6 + 0.16 = 1.76 which we can call 1.8 I always reckon if you get the same answer two ways it's probably right.
  25. Dan Maynard
    What you are seeing is fruiting bodies of the fungus, most of the organism is inside the wood and has been digesting away for a while. Yes it is the season for fruiting, not too dry or too cold.

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