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  1. Dan Maynard
    The training centre had a range of different spikes to try when I did my CS38, I hated the Treehogs from the moment I put them on and I don't think anyone else liked them much either so your answer might be nearly anything else. Its also not a one size fits all - I have the Stein X2 which are designed to suit taller climbers, super comfy for me but I know other people find them terrible.
  2. Dan Maynard
    Keep going, won't the ashpan fill up?
  3. Dan Maynard
    Surely if you have a grate and want to burn wood then just stop emptying it, let the ash build up over the grate? Ash melts down much much smaller, there's no need to keep taking the fluffy ash out. I only empty ours every few weeks and that's burning every evening.
  4. Dan Maynard
    Or Predator 460? I'm a big fan of it pushing itself, it's a lot bigger though with the battery box and everything.
  5. Dan Maynard
    It is likely to be ash bark beetle, have a careful look and see if it's holes in the bark but not from the ends of the logs. This is very common and because it's not in the wood itself not a problem at all.
  6. Dan Maynard
    My latest enquiry is to remove a conifer which the customer says is 8-9 feet tall, and customers always overestimate tree height. Didn't realise I was eating the icing off the cake, thought I was doing all the small crappy jobs.
  7. Dan Maynard
    Me too. I'm right handed but have taught myself to file the left hand cutters left handed, makes it a piece of cake as sit behind saw and do both sides.
  8. Dan Maynard
    No sadly it's just when you look at the TPO map there are multiple tree spots with the same TPO number. Seems it was a farm before development, looks like they went round with tree labels and listed them all out as each one has tree species and label different.
  9. Dan Maynard
    Intriguing, was that a red saw with new blue fuel tank, or a blue saw with new crankcase? Also, do you always run the solid nose bar, apparently you lose a lot of power with it? My one was knackered when I got the saw so I went straight to sprocket nose. Ring L&S Engineers and see what they can do, their website will likely say out of stock but if it's available they will get it in a few days usually. This is my experience with 9010 parts like oil pump, chain brake handle, air filter.
  10. Dan Maynard
    I've got a customer with one of these at the moment, same TPO number on multiple trees across the estate. Giant sycamore happens to be the one in her garden, she hates it but stuck with it.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Other point, wouldn't rely on that chart too much as saw models stop at MS260 and MS200T so it's at least 10 years old - there have been some new chains since then.
  12. Dan Maynard
    Replaced the 390 as well I guess.
  13. Dan Maynard
    I was going to say, no harm removing the clutch and brake band anyway and have a good clean out, you'll see exactly what's what then. (LH thread)
  14. Dan Maynard
    I wondered if it was young polyporous squamosus, on the theme of not being grown up enough to decide what it is yet. Common on HC.
  15. Dan Maynard
    Thanks Mike, interesting read. I volunteer at our local ancient woods which is Wildlife Trust owned. In recent years the price of timber being higher and desire to thin ash has led them to use contractors to clear some areas, but they left some massive massive ruts behind. Seems like there is nobody with low impact gear covering East Anglia/Northants area.
  16. Dan Maynard
    That's funny because I'll reduce but can't be doing with thinning because I think it's pointless, and lions tail are both damaging and pointless.
  17. Dan Maynard
    Are you saying there was sawdust inside the carb though? Other way in I guess is through the fuel, keep the tank clean around the fillers before you open it to refuel, try not to drop dust in while it's open, make sure the fuel filter is good and change it every now and then.
  18. Dan Maynard
    I would have agreed with this, except maybe the leaf cover looks thinner than it should. After the recent rain and wind though it blew down a load of leaves and quite a few of the ones which came down are brown. Must have been up there but couldn't see them.
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    Surely this is the answer then? I've had a problem on my petrol chipper of too much air in the inline filter, seemed to stop it building up the suction to get fuel through. Not sure your arrangement but I tipped fuel in to the suction pipe and that got it going.
  20. Dan Maynard
    In the end the 17m Nifty was spot on, clock was at maybe 14m so had the outreach to get it nicely. Also went up and checked gutters. Took the MEWP back early then as didn't have another job lined up where I could get it in.
  21. Dan Maynard
    Obviously I wouldn't ask a lady her age but I'm wondering how old KateH is that she thinks 30 is old.
  22. Dan Maynard
    I have always used the dates which get recorded on the open planning system as the accounts for the weekend, bank holiday, full moon, tides, festivals etc. Not seen any get extended, the end date is set when it get validated at the beginning.
  23. Dan Maynard
    The lichen grows slowly, the branches you are seeing it on are dead and hence bark stops moving so they get colonised - in other words the lichen is a consequence of the branch being dead and not a cause. I would agree the cause is the pruning pattern, branches are being shaded because there is no light below. I don't know who has been pruning the tree, sometimes the cause is a gardener who just keeps trimming the shape back to size, it ends up with growth pattern like a hedge with leaves on the outside and nothing in the middle. I would say it's restorable but over a few years.
  24. Dan Maynard
    Makita were producing pro saws in the old Dolmar factory in Hamburg, I think thats EA5000 and up. Smaller saws such as EA4300 were made in China. I don't know how many saws they are actually making now, as Makita made a corporate policy to move away from petrol tools but you can still see them all on the dolmar.de website. Stihl, I've bought an MS400 recently and it has a Made In Germany sticker on, I'm pretty sure the low cost domestic stuff is made in China. I guess for both companies it's tough to produce a saw for £250 in Europe.
  25. Dan Maynard
    1m seem more popular in Europe. Jas P Wilson, deal in Posch. Fuelwood in Warwick should have something

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