Dan Maynard
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I got involved as a subbie on a row of these a couple of years ago, started 30 foot ish high, spec was fell the trees and leave at 6 foot. Complete nightmare, took days longer than quoted, loads and loads of chip. Looked completely stupid at the end, 6 foot high and 10 feet wide. Customer is not always right.
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Last to finish has to pay the bar bill!
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It is a lot of saw for the money, on the other hand I remember RoughHewn putting up video of the safety tests being done on fake saws, chain brake handle just snapped and pinged off when it should be strong and reliable. Put me off for sure.
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We got my son a drive experience when he was 18, he chose Lotus which was a great car and he really enjoyed it. As I recall it was going round with a driver next to him, so he listened really well and got a few laps in the circuit. I remember there was a young lady there who apparently didn't listen well and span off, think it was Lambo. Broken spoiler, end of lap, car had to be towed back in, lost deposit, etc etc.
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I just imagine you'd tie the bag off then grab and squeeze the whole thing if it's just rakings, but I just had fizzy water with dinner so obviously not in a thinking mood.
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Other problem with employees is when things go quiet you can end up backed into a corner. I'm going through this problem in my engineering business, two good guys that have been with us for years but reality is we've not got enough work to pay the wages, and not enough money in the bank to pay redundancy either. Rock and a hard place.
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Are you using your own tools and equipment and paying some costs to do so? Have you done similar work for any other clients in the last 12 months? If you go through and answer all the questions (anonymous) then you can get a determination which HMRC will stand by, I would think you are self employed. /assets/static/govuk-opengraph-image-dade2dad5775023b0568381c4c074b86318194edb36d3d68df721eea7deeac4b.png Check employment status for tax - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Use the Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool to find out if you, or a worker on a specific...
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Is that machine plus one operator? Farmer I have worked for in the village was charged £500+vat I think for two guys, saws, tractor and splitter per day to process pile of wood I'd dumped in the yard over the year.
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There isn't much free wood knocking around at the moment, even my own firewood store looking a bit bleak as just about every customer keeps every scrap of wood.
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One more possible thing to check, I found that my Makita got difficult to start, worn sprocket was tripping the momentary pre-start test on jammed chain that it does. Thought the trigger switch was dodgy but just changed the sprocket and absolutely fine since.
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If you don't want to end up with a 661 I'd have a look round at what's actually available, that might decide it for you.
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I guess that broadly a fast tree has more leaves earlier. More leaves should mean more energy captured. I do agree there's something in it though, willow or lime say will grow faster but then be lighter when dry than something like ash - so you need a bigger volume of willow wood than ash to end up with the same weight of wood and hence same heat from your fireplace.
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I periodically think about doing more subby climbing but just not sure I've got the required skillset and attitude to do it properly.
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Yup, that's why I go for it. I was born by the sea on the south coast so anything north of Basingstoke can be the north to me. More seriously I guess the petrol pipelines must run to Liverpool/Manchester/Leeds and probably Teeside, but maybe don't run across the Pennines to Lake District or Carlisle as not the population density.
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This might make you laugh then, I dragged mine out today for first cut this year, it's an over 20 year old Honda, left nearly full of fuel from last year (Esso super). Started first pull.
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You're not, I am always wondering if they are real or chatbots.
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Does he normally run 25:1? Enough oil hanging about in the crankcase I guess. No, never tried it myself.
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I don't have such accurate records but usually for me March is when things pick up after winter. This year it's kind of stopped after a busier than usual Jan and Feb. Definitely a strange year, customers um and ah over £250 jobs like you say.
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Might just be acer campestre but I'm with you on the maple idea.
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Large Drill bit for steel rod bracing approx 1.5m trunk
Dan Maynard replied to Tommy O's topic in General chat
Maybe need to get creative with some steel bar, buy a long auger bit and Loctite an extension on. I've extended drill bits with high strength Loctite, its plenty strong enough to pass the drive of a drill. Otherwise the green oak framers probably have tools for this but guess expensive. -
I was thinking that, countertop worn out by too many customers will be a good problem to have. All the best with the shop, Steve.
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I had it for a few years. Problem I had is that for easy stuff it's right but you know that anyway. For difficult stuff you're not sure it's right so you end up finding the Collins book to check. Also it's US biased so you don't necessarily get the most likely option here. I'd give it a whirl for a year, if you use it a lot then keep it but if not then don't bother.
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Have you got any decent stack of batteries? If it's a small amount of use then maybe buying a bare tool would work? Might still struggle on your £300 though. My brother's got a system from Screwfix, think it was Ryobi, seems to do him ok.
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Think that could be the alignment pin , should stay in the side cover and go into this hole when put back together. Is there a corresponding hole in the cover? Not got my 150 handy.
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I think that's what they call a farmer saw, so might be fine for what you want. Thing with any secondhand saw is you're taking the risk it's actually scrap or needs expensive repairs, so if you're prepared to throw away £200 trying then go for it. Unlikely all the saws you buy for £200 are bad, but you might end up spending a lot more than you think. Commercially anyone will say buy a new 261.
