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  1. Dan Maynard
    Yeah and weirdly I can think about bars in metric and imperial, happy that an .063 or 1.6 are the same - but have no idea what the file sizes are in imperial. Can only do files in metric.
  2. Dan Maynard
    5.5 is recommended by Oregon and Husqvarna for 3/8 chain. I just use the 5.2 for everything as started with Stihl and got a few boxes.
  3. Dan Maynard
    I believe planning conditions are mainly intended to protect the trees from the builders during the development, but a planning condition continues to exist until it is "discharged". One of the options on planning portal is applying to discharge a condition, seems like another way for them to take a few quid off you but I think that would finish the protection. Be great to hear from someone more knowledgeable if there is a default time of expiry in the case that it's not stipulated in the condition.
  4. Dan Maynard
    Fell off the table you were dancing on?
  5. Dan Maynard
    That's going to be the biggest inverter I've ever seen!
  6. Dan Maynard
    He pulled a fast one there didn't he! Bet he was hoping to quietly "mistakenly" take it home.
  7. Dan Maynard
    That's really interesting, great to see it documented like that. I've a customer who has just had a wall built quite close to a tree, it's flood defence so I can see why they've gone ahead even though I pointed out the risk to roots. Think I will take a photo this summer as a baseline.
  8. Dan Maynard
    It depends also what you mean by get started, CS100, small trailer, pickup, harness, topper, hedge trimmer and off you go. Not as efficient for larger jobs but plenty you can get on with and earn some money, upgrade gear as you go.
  9. Dan Maynard
    I agree, unlikely to pull out an app to see what chainsaw cut to use. Looks to me like you need to decide what size firm you are trying to cater for, one man band or bigger firm with multiple teams, vehicles, chippers etc. Feels like if you make it too capable then will just be too complicated to use for smaller guy. Dealing with job enquiries, scheduling and completing seems the important task to me. Then manage all the job paperwork, risk assessment, permission, etc.
  10. Dan Maynard
    My limited experience of flue thermometer (my one) it's rubbish - there is nothing wrong with my wood, the ash is all melted down below the fire and nice blue orange flames so everything nice and hot and clean burning - yet the thermometer tells me it's too cold. That fire looks fine to me, there's plenty of heat energy in the firebox.
  11. Dan Maynard
    My tipper trailer has a battery charger plugged in to the battery in the toolbox so all I have to do is carry the mains lead over. I have thought about solar but where would you put the panel that it's not going to be in the way or else stood on? From what I could see was either really cheap and nasty or else hundreds of pounds as well, so put me off looking more.
  12. Dan Maynard
    Like difflock says energy in = energy out. If the heat is coming out of the sides of the firebox but not being taken away from the gap by convection of air then the firebox will get even hotter. Doesn't sound to me like the recess is really the problem. On my stove the thin flue pipe gets hot within minutes but to properly get the whole thing warmed is probably an hour or two and it's not a nice cast one like yours. My money is either time, or as peasgood says above if it's had too thick bricks retrofitted then these will be reducing the heat flow. It's an awful lot cheaper to change the bricks than the whole stove so I'd definitely do that before selling it.
  13. Dan Maynard
    Was it spot on correct grade oil that you topped it up with though? Could be too thin at high temp but ok at low temp. Oil and filter change sounds like a good place to start in any case.
  14. Dan Maynard

    Pricing.

    Dan Maynard replied to RobG 86's topic in General chat

    That there is why it's a game of 3 halves.
  15. Dan Maynard
    Or something fairly quick growing like sycamore so you can see under it? Or if you're isolated try some ash as it might not get infected? You'd have the last outpost of English ash in the land. I'm struggling to see how you get wind break tree which doesn't block the view tbh.
  16. Dan Maynard
    I think that's true, but as I understand it assets get sold on in liquidation deals so it becomes murky, and the crown estate aren't keen to take on more land so you more or less have to prove that they are responsible. I'm leaving it to the parish council, they have paid me to take down one tree which was dying and falling apart already.
  17. Dan Maynard
    Another thought leading from that, had poor starting on the Spitfire for a while which I thought was bad battery but actually some of the cores in the battery cable were broken near the crimp, age and fatigue.
  18. Dan Maynard
    That's shot my theory then, should survive that. Could be vibration, if you have bad luck it causes fatigue which can obviously break connections.
  19. Dan Maynard
    I'm guessing they call American ash just ash. Cedar for WRC I only ever call trees by the Latin name to avoid this confusion. Joking.
  20. Dan Maynard
    That's true I missed that off my list. We have some patches of that round the village, housebuilder went bust years ago so bit of a mess who's responsible.
  21. Dan Maynard
    The transwave people are pretty helpful though, you could chat to them.
  22. Dan Maynard
    Later, a hitchclimber setup is a cheap way to make a massive improvement to your setup. For now I'd stick to prussic, keep things as simple as possible. Nobody failed their assessment for using a prussic.
  23. Dan Maynard
    Makes sense. If there is a mechanical fuel injection pump then max fuel is usually an adjustment on that.
  24. Dan Maynard
    This is the way modern batteries tend to fail, not like they used to. If it's a splitter does it sit for a few months over summer? I'm back on the idea of charger/conditioner, costs less than a battery and will treble the life.
  25. Dan Maynard
    Unfortunately, yes it can, called self-discharge.

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