Dan Maynard
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Came across this guy who builds saws and also puts them across a dyno. Significant gains from porting both 200 and 201, not that much between the two. https://youtu.be/lcX6yAFTZEo
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Makes sense. Musing really, problem seems to be the amount of man days it needs to move a load. On the Rhine the boats I saw are much bigger so one man moves many lorry loads at once, divides the labour cost per tonne back down again.
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I reckon the wood would probably go below 20% over the summer, more sun and wind than rain. The challenge is then keeping it dry until you want to burn it. -
Fair enough, I was kind of thinking side hustle has to depend what you're good at - any good at chainsaw mechanics? If you get into porting saws there seems to be plenty of demand.
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I reckon your ideal job would be travel round to do tricky fells for tree surgeons on a Saturday. Most of us don't do many fells especially any size.
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The two pictures aren't the same chipper either. Definitely a bit suspect.
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Where do canals have an advantage though? Low fuel cost for heavy stuff?
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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.
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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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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.
