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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    I don't think there is any clear replanting requirement in a CA, no. Has it been established that it was over the 75mm? Seems difficult to prove if it's gone, and if it wasn't there is nothing to answer for.
  2. Dan Maynard
    I think partly she wants to stay in, but as eggs said the MPs can't kick her out and retain credibility either - they only just voted her in.
  3. Dan Maynard
    I have bought the Schultz effect, it's a really interesting watch. Not actually done the srt bit but I would say it improved my climbing anyway, good to think about things from a different angle. I would recommend it. There's a LANTRA course that I have seen but also not done down south, arborventure training. One of these days...
  4. Dan Maynard
    It makes sense that drying it out would stop the fungus.
  5. Dan Maynard
    I got an advert from Gustharts today for Orion boots which have vibram soles. Only go up to size 11 though.
  6. Dan Maynard
    We chipped into a gator for a customer with a big garden a couple of weeks ago, from TW125. We put a board up to protect the back window glass and tarp gathered round sides a bit to reduce spray. Worked pretty well, I reckon if you built 3 sides from 12mm ply it would be great, especially from a CS100.
  7. Dan Maynard
    Hand file without a guide removes material faster if it's hit something bad, then finish off with a guide to get the top plate angle spot on (precise file height). Otherwise few strokes with guide to freshen. On job site hold saw between knees for short bar, bigger bars cut slot in a log, or lean it against chipper exhaust.
  8. Dan Maynard
    Maybe they just haven't got round to it yet - fake ones probably won't be fuel injected, people that buy fakes either don't know or don't care.
  9. Dan Maynard
    Try Duracell direct for a new battery, I've had a couple as they seem to need changing about every 4 years. They still do one for my Lenovo long after Lenovo themselves stopped. I'm never quite sure what you get on eBay. Also, SSD upgrade is worthwhile to improve battery life, no moving parts reduces the power consumption a lot.
  10. Dan Maynard
    Lenovo E series are pitched at low frill, business user. I think they are good value, we've got half a dozen users in the office and they have been well made and reliable, also USB C charged. Might be slightly over your budget though. As Spud said though I'd have a look into SSD upgrade, it's what I have done to mine.
  11. Dan Maynard
    He said £500
  12. Dan Maynard
    Heave is only a worry if the tree is older than the house, doesn't look to me like that is the case here.
  13. Dan Maynard
    I give the blades on mine a tickle with a file on the machine, need to file all the ones you can get and then start it, blip the throttle until the other side of teeth comes open.
  14. Dan Maynard

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    Dan Maynard replied to Cuttup's topic in Chainsaws

    I got one on Amazon for about £20, it comes with a wire which I just make into loose coil and hold near the top of the saw - picks up just fine. Check the rev range, and update rate of 0.5s is worth having but there are quite a few that fit the requirements.
  15. Dan Maynard
    They say time speeds up as you get older....
  16. Dan Maynard
    I used to work with someone who had a protos, he would always take it off and leave it on the ground somewhere straight after coming down from a tree. I never could work out why he didn't look after it better as cost a fortune. On the other hand I keep my Petzl on the whole job - keeps the sun off my bald patch and if put it down I'll forget where I left the flippin thing. Horse for course.
  17. Dan Maynard
    I was looking at it and thinking the exhaust blows up and over the log away from you, rather than down at the log and back at you. More of a thing as you get near the ground I grant. I've always done it other way to the pictures, too - fuel caps uppermost.
  18. Dan Maynard
    Even the dead wood takes years and years to fall off - normally. Like Mick says though worth getting it checked out as something attacking the base would be bad news for stability.
  19. Dan Maynard
    I can't understand why they sent the lorry either, you had told them loading was their job and it was not sorted. It's a cck up but not yours as far as I can see, I'd be sending the invoice back. Only snag is you need to find another haulage company then, but these do sound like a bit of a shower anyway.
  20. Dan Maynard
    You need a different knot with a pulley really, this is where the hitchclimber scores because you can choose a good friction cord and knot combination. I haven't got on well with the mechanical devices either but wouldn't go back to Blakes.
  21. Dan Maynard
    I think there's an underlying problem that proof loading to prove the anchor won't fail doesn't work on branches, because there are elements of history and time as well as load in the failure - as fibres stretch and cracks gradually grow. Therefore you can't be certain that for example swinging two people on the rope and it not failing hasn't just caused a load of crack growth and made the anchor worse. The only thing you can do is be sure by inspection and if you're not then anchor lower down to a point where you are. Rope round the stem not round a side branch is a good starting point usually. I do agree you've got to lean back and check before using an anchor but this is really a double check that everything is configured correctly in my opinion, eg ropes correctly routed, biners closed, hitched to correct points on harness etc. "Check, double check" as was drilled into me when learning.
  22. Dan Maynard
    I've seen Oregon bar mount diagrams, or Sugi and GB have them. I'm assuming it has a slot for studs, pin for tensioner and oil hole on the side like chainsaw bars? Be a case of measure the slot width first - 8/9/14mm etc
  23. Dan Maynard
    I've always found it confusing that an engine should run different on different oils but seems to be possible, comes up frequently when talking about the Echo 2511T (don't have one so not experienced it myself)
  24. Dan Maynard
    Four pages of discussion on arbtalk when the answer was actually a simple one liner? Impossible! Would never happen!
  25. Dan Maynard
    As they say in the military - if it's not written down, it didn't happen!

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