Dan Maynard
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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. -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Dirt Mound at Base of Tree
Dan Maynard replied to bills123's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
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. -
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.
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The transwave people are pretty helpful though, you could chat to them.
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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.
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Makes sense. If there is a mechanical fuel injection pump then max fuel is usually an adjustment on that.
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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.
