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  1. Dan Maynard
    Husqvarna 550 is 50cc, broadly equivalent to the 261 and really the main choice unless you go Echo. There isn't a huge amount between them in performance, the 50cc sector is fiercely competitive and they have all wrung amazing performance from the size. Stihl slightly lighter, slightly wider, Husqvarna slightly quicker pickup. Stihl saws are a little scarce at the moment and they pushed up their prices a lot in the last two years than Husqvarna. If I had to buy one tomorrow I'd probably go 550 but ask me again tomorrow and I'll say 261.
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    Gloves

    Dan Maynard replied to Trist's topic in Climbers talk

    Showa 310, look like other gloves but much harder wearing. Toolstation are good for a pair if you just want to try but they've put them up to £4. You can get them online for £3, wouldn't recommend gloves'n'stuff (look at their Trustpilot) but recently used mstore and they've been good.
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    Strongly depends on species - most conifers absolutely will not sprout.
  4. Dan Maynard
    I think I'd stick with prussic though, it's simple to tie and simple to check. Under stress, dark, raining etc you could get the Blake's wrong. I don't see the MBS of the prussic being a problem at all, you're not in a vertical fall situation so there is no risk of shock load as you reach the end of the slack as with climbing.
  5. Dan Maynard
    Ah I see what you mean. I don't see why not a Blake's, that would be the preferred knot for a split tail I reckon. https://honeybros.com/shop/climbing/prusiks-split-tails/split-tails/marlow-gecko-split-tail/ I never bought one of these, used to have 2m of rope attached to a biner with double fisherman's. I prefer the Blake's to prussic, smoother and easier to grip, not used it since switching to hitchclimber though.
  6. Dan Maynard
    The 4x4 tipper is quite a compromise, so it depends where you are and what work as to whether it's worth it. Around town, small Nissan tipper is brilliant.
  7. Dan Maynard
    @monkeybusiness it's not submitted yet so not yet a condition.
  8. Dan Maynard
    I'm no more of an expert than Joe, but the laws around TPO and CA protection of trees are all part of planning law. Once you've got tree protection and root protection areas written in as a condition of the planning permission then the protection has a similar basis. This is the reason some people knock all the trees down first on a site, before planning goes in. Saves the agro. The supervised excavation is only with the RPA - presumably you now have a drawing showing the root protection areas so you can tell if there is any excavation in the RPA?
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    Tie the prussic with 10mm friction cord? It's doubled so load shared in two legs of cord - I don't think the prussic snapping is a risk then. I think the risk with a prussic on its own is if it starts to melt, then the friction reduces and you're in a runaway. As an idea if the rope also went round a figure 8 then it would limit runaway.
  10. Dan Maynard
    Didn't know that. Looking at articles about also realised I hadn't noticed SAAB quietly go bust. Those spectacles on the 9-3 evidently were a really stupid idea.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Sounds a bit confusing - is 5m an accurate height? That's only up to the gutters so doesn't sound a big tree, there are lots of trees that big at that distance to houses with no problems. Did the insurers prove it was the trees or did they just pay, as it's cheaper than proving? And what repair did they carry out? Pics would help for context. Maybe not the legal query though.
  12. Dan Maynard
    I'm 50 on Sunday, hope I make it that far climbing.
  13. Dan Maynard
    It does say in the blurb 10 year lifetime, so maybe would save you buying another in 5 years. Of course you've got to be planning to climb for another 10 years for that to be an advantage.....
  14. Dan Maynard
    Good question, thought it might be a bot. My money for Vesp was Welsh Cleaning Service because of the similarity to Scottish Cleaning Service, but the posts don't sound enough like Vesp. Either way if he's joined back it'll be a game to keep us guessing.
  15. Dan Maynard
    I'm not totally sure this samurayjack is a real bloke anyway, and he revived an old thread from 2014.
  16. Dan Maynard
    I was going to say I've mostly changed over to battery but didn't want that to get confused with the beautiful woman earlier.
  17. Dan Maynard
    For forestry as well I seem to remember?
  18. Dan Maynard
    Brampton Valley Training are Towcester, which part of the Midlands do you need?
  19. Dan Maynard
    Haven't heard of the C250 so googled, saw 2 adverts. One had a bespoke alloy tank fitted and one had the tank replaced by a Jerry can so seems a common issue. JoBeau use a Jerry can, replaced the tank on mine recently for about £25. Maybe worth the effort making some brackets and converting? Got to cost a lot less than £280 in bits.
  20. Dan Maynard
    My splitter is single phase 16A so slightly more, runs off blue plug. I came to the same conclusion about speed and power and got a Posch 6T rated. It's two stage pump so its fast but won't do really gnarly bits, I just throw those away - lifes too short to be sawing firewood into blocks. On the easiest to split logs, an axe is probably faster. The splitter wins out on bigger or tougher wood by being incessant, it doesn't take a long drawn in breath when looking at a big log and think about where to hit it. It also doesn't slow down after an hour. The other thing, my splitter is the vertical table type where the ram pulls down from below. This means you do everything at waist height, and after an hour or two that is a great improvement too. But back to the original question, no I wouldn't buy the really cheap splitter.
  21. Dan Maynard
    Higher than a house isn't huge for a tree. In terms of removal, there's nothing under the trees to worry about breaking. Often a lot of labour goes in to moving everything from the back garden to the front, we can park right next to these so everything goes straight off the tree into the chipper. It would be a fun job for someone.
  22. Dan Maynard
    Somebody very recent posted from NZ, bit further back for the last guys from Aus. I think it helps enormously if you find a firm first who sponsor your application, they then help with all the visa stuff too as they know the ropes.
  23. Dan Maynard
    Get someone reputable to have a look, we can't inspect for defects from these photos. The size doesn't look excessive so may not be, if there's something nasty in the undergrowth then maybe. Its in the unwritten rule book not to price off of photos but they look more like 2-400 per tree to me than 1000.
  24. Dan Maynard
    Looks like you would suddenly be liable for a big chunk of the VAT you've reclaimed. I ponder the other way round, I could register and get the vat back on my trailer, saws etc all at once and not sure how much difference putting price up 10% would make.
  25. Dan Maynard
    Obviously I haven't seen them but if it's outside your garden so I can park next to it they would have to be flipping massive to be a grand a tree. I've just priced today to remove 3 trees for 900.

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