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  1. Dan Maynard
    I read an article the other day about the horticultural industry selling off the land with glasshouses on. My teenage job was on a tomato and lettuce nursery, there was turmoil in the 80s when Dutch tomatoes started coming in, and crops and methods changed but the business survived. Once you've built houses on the land there's no going back, we'll not have salad from there any more.
  2. Dan Maynard
    Chuck the prussic cord in the bottom of your climbing bag, get it out in a couple of months when you've gummed up another one, it'll be fine again.
  3. Dan Maynard
    Ha I was going to say something similar! (have got my 41 too).
  4. Dan Maynard
    I've been with Zen for years, relatively small company in Manchester who you can ring up - although to be fair haven't needed to ring them much, it just works. That's just internet though, we pay Netflix and Amazon separately and that's enough for us.
  5. Dan Maynard
    First point Gareth made - fuel to the carb. My Honda engine is not good at sucking fuel up an empty pipe, it needs the pipe to stay full of petrol. On my chipper over a few weeks the pipe drains down and then it won't run at all until I get a little funnel and fill the pipe and inline filter with petrol. Sounds like you might have similar if you didn't use it for 6 weeks.
  6. Dan Maynard
    Wow! Lucky you have a spare!
  7. Dan Maynard
    Seems logical to put the cedar at the top of the stack then, oak and beech at the bottom.
  8. Dan Maynard
    This is where I'm at, many of my costumers keep the wood but it's not worth anything to me because of the costs of dealing with it. Saturday took down a horse chestnut on the village green, no point picking up all the logs all I had to do is leave them in a pile and they disappeared on their own. Meanwhile I went off and did a cheeky £80 job, near home. I'd rather do that than try to flog the HC logs for £80 in the same time. My view, logs and firewood is another business which you can choose to diversify into but it's no guarantee of making money. It might be a really useful sideline as a way to fill dips in demand but for me it's not as well paid as tree work as I just don't have the space and machinery.
  9. Dan Maynard
    Thanks, didn't want to get in to insecticide so have taken it down, customer happy to see it gone.
  10. Dan Maynard
    I think they need a lot of perseverance and you probably better saving for a predator 360 or similar, it will get a lot more use. Second hand machines do come up for a couple of grand which would get you going - I did this which was good till it got stolen. Now I hire but I think I'm fortunate in having a hire firm just down the road. Customers don't seem to mind the idea of leaving the stumps till I have a day grinding, four to six stumps minus a days hire is still pretty good arithmetic and I have no maintenance to do, just take it back dirty. If you can't hide then in the current climate personally I'd continue subbing them out rather than take debt. May need the money for something essential like truck or chipper repairs.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Best not to put the indicators on at all, that way nobody can tell the ones on the trailer aren't working.
  12. Dan Maynard
    I saw them on the top shelf in Sainsbury's the other day and wondered the same thing - who is buying those in a supermarket? Airports only, surely.
  13. Dan Maynard
    That cut is the picture I would love to show customers why not to half their silver birch, that decay will go down a long way inside the stem too.
  14. Dan Maynard
    I was happy to defend the tree surgeons up to the watering story. We don't know what they charged, maybe it was two grand for a 200 tree? Could still be cowboys....
  15. Dan Maynard
    I wouldn't change it, I think those brass bars might be intended to support it but they will be much less stiff than the step so would bend under it if you turned the grain. To my mind the grain is the right way in that step.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Got a horse chestnut to do Saturday on the village green, reckon I'll leave the logs in a pile for a day or two and hope they vanish.
  17. Dan Maynard
    Brampton Valley Training in Towcester, give them a call. They used to publish course timetable on website but have to ring up now and ask, but they do fairly regular UA courses (amongst usual others)
  18. Dan Maynard
    I've got a leylandii to do soon but they aren't clueless tightarses, they are very nice people who have come up from London in lockdown, and have cash to spend on sorting things out. Also did a laurel recently for a rich widow, again cash to spend sorting things out so we ended up trimming all the other hedges as well. I think these hedges are only really really bad if you've underestimated them timewise, pretty bad if someone else underestimated, not bad at all if you've got plenty of money on it and no rush. I'll maybe have changed my mind in a couple of weeks of course, after doing the next one....
  19. Dan Maynard
    I don't think they need sunlight, they're not photosynthetic as they get energy from the diesel.
  20. Dan Maynard
    Makita bought out Fuji Robin so they have pedigree, I'm happy with mine which I would say are mid range.
  21. Dan Maynard
    Fair enough, just had a run of cherries which have upped and died and look like hatstands in the front garden - I guess I don't notice the ones which have come back nicely.
  22. Dan Maynard
    Looks like a pair of steps to me, difficult to spot anything wrong.
  23. Dan Maynard
    I visited a customer today, old lady who has hundreds and hundreds of wasps around her small willow tree. On close examination I found it was infested with huge dark coloured aphids so I'm thinking the wasps are eating the sap (honeydew). They are in the tree and all over the ground under it. She has a bad reaction to wasps so is pretty distraught, and can't sit in the garden. Now, she wants me to get rid of the tree to get rid of the wasps and get her garden back. It's not a big willow, maybe 10 feet tall and so nobody is really going to miss it, but my question is there another way to get rid of the wasps and/or aphids? Otherwise it's chipper at dawn before the wasps get warmed up....
  24. Dan Maynard
    My 2p worth 1.Short 2.Velcro, doesn't need to be tight just snug so adjustment is good. 3.Buckle, good and tight so positive pin in hole Of course everyone has their own idea.
  25. Dan Maynard
    Me too but interesting read, seems HVO not susceptible to diesel bug so could be a good alternative for a lot of intermittently used plant.

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