Dan Maynard
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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.
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No heat from Stove ( Jotul )
Dan Maynard replied to Jack0's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
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. -
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.
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No heat from Stove ( Jotul )
Dan Maynard replied to Jack0's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
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. -
Tapping noise on Kohler 38hp (Predator 38x Stump grinder)
Dan Maynard replied to Clutchy's topic in Maintenance help
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. -
That there is why it's a game of 3 halves.
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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.
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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.
