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Dan Maynard

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Dan Maynard
    Honeys always been good but I'm a little bit wary now they've been taken over, we wait to see.
  4. 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.....
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Dan Maynard
    Sorry about that, didn't mean to start a Stihl/Husky derail.
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. Dan Maynard
    https://www.planningportal.co.uk/
  11. Dan Maynard
    To widen the gap and make the MS400 even better.
  12. Dan Maynard
    Can you scribble all over the washer with marker, and see where it transfers? Or colour the top of the tank and see where it rubs off? Just might give an idea of where it's clamping down.
  13. Dan Maynard
    No, we haven't.
  14. Dan Maynard
    Bugger that's further from London than us. Unless they went up the M1, like.
  15. Dan Maynard
    It won't do any harm but unlikely we will see anything. There is a strict order laid down in law in which debts get paid off if the company is liquidated, you find the taxman, banks, insolvency firm fees are all ahead of us. If they had enough money to pay us all back they wouldn't be insolvent. Strictly though, it's not liquidated yet. It is possible someone buys the business and injects cash to keep it going, then would probably need to despatch existing orders else the reputation won't survive. Given that HB has been taken over by Americans this is possible, maybe unlikely.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Anyway that's a thread derail. Chance of getting stuff we ordered presumably close to zero? I only split a few bits onto FRJ as they had some pfanner patches in stock, got free delivery as consolation but looks like lost £70. Some poor folk may lose ten times that if got a saw on back order though....
  17. Dan Maynard
    Interesting no discount in France, I always imagined they'd be cheaper online in Germany but when I tried looking this up (pre Brexit) didn't appear to be the case. Thought maybe they get trade discount but maybe not.
  18. Dan Maynard
    I have to say I couldn't see the endgame for driving towards Moscow, something seemed fishy about that part, and then it all suddenly seemed over without him falling off a hotel balcony. Worrying.
  19. Dan Maynard
    Wow daily might be less than an hour chipping. I didn't see a JoBeau recommendation so I thought about it from a bearing point of view, in most roller bearing applications 50 hours isn't much eg 2500 miles on your car wheel. I grease my stump grinder bearings daily, theory there is to push dirt out with the over greasing. I'm just using Comma High Performance lithium grease Produits : Moove Lubricants Limited WWW.COMMAOIL.COM Comma
  20. Dan Maynard
    I've got an M500 which might have the same bearings, I got an English manual by asking Global Recycling while I was ordering some parts. It is very light on detail though. Mine didn't have a working hour clock when I got it, since the drum bearings went I put one on, so now I check belts, grease bearings, change oil every 50 hours. Filter change 100 hours. The bearings are sealed so I don't want to over grease them. You can also find a Honda engine manual fairly easily, they suggest oil change 100 hours or 6 months but I don't do 100 hours in 6 months so compromise, trying to remember every 6 months doesn't work for me. Edit: so far 220 hours on this regime so it's not an immediate disaster, time will tell how much more I get out of the bearings.
  21. Dan Maynard
    I've heard of it in oaks, bottlebutt etc. Pops seem to react by turning to mush.
  22. Dan Maynard
    The drought problem is worse than you describe, the last 3 or 4 years have been dry. One dry year the trees can survive but it's a widespread problem now. I suspect it's too late for your tree unfortunately.
  23. Dan Maynard
    Have you got a knee ascender? I don't have a hand ascender, just foot and knee so it's two legs providing the drive.
  24. Dan Maynard
    I had a go with the husky one couple of years ago, it was smooth and extended well. I was just trimming limes though. You'd have to check what is available, battery supply has been a problem.
  25. Dan Maynard
    Definitely, as a tree surgeon I used to bring home lots of wood, but not this year - people either keeping it for themselves or a neighbour. Even been paid for leylandii rings which you couldn't give away before.

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