Dan Maynard

Whenever I see yes minister I think that is still exactly how the government is run.

That looks like it could just have a bit of 3mm plate across? Make a template with cardboard.

Quite possible to make one, it's only a frame to hold the bar steady.

Will be interesting to see, when I replaced the battery on my chipper I found a car battery was much cheaper than the small one I had, think maybe 40Ah and about half the price. Seems to have been fine since.

I don't care which section you post, it's just there are loads of pictures of wood which has been milled with one. 572 is enough power if you are patient, probably you want a lo-pro 36" bar and then with that you can mill up to about 24" wide. You lose a disappointing amount of bar in the clamps each end. If you're only ever going to do one log then cost of parts is not that far off paying someone with the gear for a day to get it done.

True a lot of the branches you could do natural crotch, but the ring you can slap anywhere on the branch, maybe just inside the cut so as well as the rope wear argument I would take it because it's more flexible. Other times I would not natural crotch would be on conifers, or if pruning branches. Another option because you can choke it on is go around the stem just below the top crotch and then multisaver over the crotch. Rigging lines nicely below and out of the way of climb line. Sometimes ash or pop are like this, not much to use for natural crotch. I used to carry sling and steel biner and you can do a lot of the branches that way, but the ring is smoother and gives more friction so can cope with bigger pieces. It can also stay as top anchor if you decide that you need to get a bollard out part way through. I really like that for one piece of gear it has loads of uses, definitely a gadget I have bought and used rather than one stuck in the kit bag. I bought a rigging wrench recently too, which I'm hoping is the same but with additional feature that you can pull pieces back up. Only tried on one job, so far it was a bit annoying that the friction seemed a little too high and not adjustable, so I'm going to try it with 12mm rather than 12.7mm rope next time. We did pull branches up though so that part was handy.

There are lots of pictures of stuff alaskan milled in the milling forum. The mill is just a cheap frame though, the expensive bit is a big enough saw.

Script writing for the Tiktok generation. I reckon £300 is right sort of money, you're likely to get the job again at that sort of price so you decide if that's too cheap or not....

Same, except I only tried SJ once - that was enough.

You would put one every 2-4 inches in a ring around a larger stump, so they are strong but you use quite a few on a big stump. Only disadvantage to those is the plastic bits left in the ground afterwards but they are easy to pick up if you're nearby.

Yes, you can buy stump killer poison in DIY stores. May not work the first time. The best way is a stump grinder, hedge roots are really easy to grind even with a pedestrian grinder and if they're gone they don't grow well . Otherwise mini digger on hire but then you have a huge pile of roots to deal with/burn.

That is cool, could also go in the remarkable trees thread.

Ivy is a pain in the backside that's really hard to estimate, do you think they'd take working on an hourly rate? On the other hand it's all good experience, don't sweat too much about the price. Some you win some you lose.

It does say "premium suv" Blimey though, forty grand!

Any of the above really, keep cutting it back to ground level every ten or so years and enjoy the firewood. No need to let it grow to an unmanageable size.

I would saw all the stems off just below where the break occurred, it will sprout back straight.

Trouble with these is knowing someone to sell it to, I was asked the other day about wood for turning so maybe I'd keep a bit for them. Otherwise you find wood turners are always keen to have wood but maybe not so keen to pay enough to cover the time it takes to process and deliver it.

There's a theoretical advantage of reduced load at the rigging point, I don't think you should be close enough to breaking the rigging point for this to be real though. Maybe it makes everything run smoother. In my area there's a lot of small trees in small drop zones, so I carry spidersling with arboring in my climbing kit as a general light rigging device - dead easy to set, no need for bollard, easy to move around to the best position as you go. It gives the equivalent of say half a wrap of friction on a bollard, so in a removal you can rig all the branches and light wood off using it. It's only real disadvantage is that it's hard to pull limbs back up. When the groundie pulls down it adds friction, so sometimes I end up pulling up on the up rope to help. Maybe also rings are not midline attachable but pulleys are. I don't find this too important though.

Did it look smaller in the picture when you ordered it? You'll have to set a block first to get a hauling line to bring that up the tree!

I was looking for an ascender to go on my spikes and didn't really resolve that. Not absolutely sure this is the one I saw but here https://skylandequipment.com/collections/husqvarna-t540i-xp-spare-parts/products/husqvarna-battery-kit-bli200x I guess if Husqvarna do it then any dealer could order the part though?

And you got a photo there so you know you weren't seeing things later. Good plan.

You can wash the ropes too, I don't use the washing machine for this but lots of people do. Maybe put it all in a pile on the lawn and hose down would be good enough? I guess hard to quantify the risk and thus know what is appropriate level of decontamination. How long do any pathogens survive in the faeces?

I was sure it had dropped to 198.9 when I passed in the morning so I went back on the way home. Maybe I was seeing things but back to 199.9 anyway.

Browsing around arb suppliers the other day, somewhere was advertising replacement husky battery boxes. If I remember where I'll add it here. Think around £30?

Maybe there's a "most notifications" badge in the offing?