Dan Maynard
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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.
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Unfortunately, yes it can, called self-discharge.
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That pdf is out of date, rely on the .gov website linked above. If the tree is dangerous and you are going to do works without notification then you are only allowed to do the minimum to remove the risk, so probably not a fell. If you are cutting it down because it's dead then you must give 5 days notice. If you can give a 5 day DD notice, then you are completely covered so that's the easiest route. Send pictures to the TO.
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How often is the machine used? Batteries self discharge and gradually sulphate themselves up if you don't use for a few weeks, I used to get through a battery a year on the Spitfire until I bought one of the condition/charger units that you leave on all the time.
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4 to 7.5kW is the kind of range you could do. Transwave good shout, cheaper than inverter at that power level.
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Big single phase electric motors are expensive and not very efficient, so you don't really get them. Do you know the 3 phase motor power? If you can get enough energy out of a single phase supply then may be possible to run from an inverter, but can be an expensive piece of kit at higher power.
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Just got round to fitting a Light04 bar to my old 261 so will be interesting to see.
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I think maybe just take a quarter or a third off rather than come all the way down to your half way line - the less you take the easier it will be to reshape. I'd have been more 120 if it's an hour so making me think I'm too cheap, on the other hand small jobs are hard to price fairly as the travelling time can swamp the job time if you're not careful so that you don't fit many one hour jobs into a day. I'm lucky in that my work is small area so can juggle them together.
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Found the video, Patrick calls this the noose https://youtu.be/cMtgThQKdGY
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I've seen leylandii stumps that 'tree surgeons' have drilled and poisoned, but as Steve says do nothing as they will die anyway.
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Other issue with throwbag in the tree on your mainline is the chance it gets stuck in a fork, then you're a bit scuppered.
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I think it has to be parish council, county council, or highways then? Round here that's the approximate order of pecking, unless in/close to the brook it might be environment agency.
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As above sprocket is matched to pitch rather than gauge so same part number - but if you're changing the bar and chain then do put a new sprocket on at the same time.
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As I've been doing it longer I find my throws get luckier (to paraphrase a famous saying) How are you throwing the rope? If it needs more height or a bit of punch for twigs then I would quite often build the end into a knot, looking on the internet I saw a lot of heaving line knots but best not to put the rope through the end loop before wrapping as then if it hangs up you can pull and yank to undo and retrieve. This seems right https://images.app.goo.gl/wjPLZRzN1PyXLuXG7
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... and they avoid associated costs of storage, labelling, LOLER inspection, and the person to manage all that. I can see it makes sense in a way. My dad used to work for Esso on projects in the refinery, they would dump all kinds of perfectly usable stuff at the end of a project rather than spend time cataloguing and storing. When he worked in the right area he used to take a trailer in, all our sheds were made from 18mm marine ply.
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Bark will fall off the willow when it dries anyway. I'd definitely not waste time stripping it.
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Oven ready Brexit deal. Maybe things will improve with the new deal? 5 years a bold prediction, they've been going a lot longer than that already.
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I don't remember these either. Maybe I do need to go on that refresher course!
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How long's a piece of string? Or, how long to trim hedge?
Dan Maynard replied to sloth's topic in General chat
I guess for me next step after hedge cutter is the MS150, 1/4 pitch means it can cut small stuff. One to think about, I'm remembering a privet hedge I cut side back where the clipncut could have been great. -
Getting insurance for tree work on a private lake
Dan Maynard replied to Acer Palmatum's topic in Insurance Forum
Fair point, obviously there's a serious side to the subject. I volunteer with the wildlife trust, they are pretty hot on the competence and insurance but they have some full time staff so not quite your situation. Maybe you need to set up a ltd management company? Doesn't have to pay salaries. -
How long's a piece of string? Or, how long to trim hedge?
Dan Maynard replied to sloth's topic in General chat
Reviews mixed on the site though ... -
Pondering this yesterday I came across a thread with David Humphries talking about a beech on his patch which was coexisting with merip.
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Ah missed the 200mm bit. So a spear cut then?
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Getting insurance for tree work on a private lake
Dan Maynard replied to Acer Palmatum's topic in Insurance Forum
Blimey never had fishing down as a dangerous occupation. -
Are you asking about the 80% ? This is the width of the notch, which always seems a strange way to describe it to me. Roughly 20% of the diameter will be how far in to the stem to cut ie how deep. From the opposite side sounds like back cut, don't angle this just come straight in at a height slightly above the bottom of the notch.
