Dan Maynard
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Everything posted by Dan Maynard
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5m distance, I thought I had long arms your blokes must be huge! Would be a laugh in a lot of back gardens too - I'll wait in the van out the front while you have the saw going.
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That hasn't helped my irrational fear at all. Not buying one.
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How far away is the tree, you've said 17m tall. Also, what kind of conifer? Cedar is just getting going at 17m, Leylandii may be just about to fall over.
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You know you have a strap named after you, but Bolam strap is studded black leather.....
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Any chance it's sun? Which way does that face?
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If you can't find any, have you had them sharpened? Should be able to get some more life out of them. I don't know if you have anywhere locally but a few places will do postal service.
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They don't say remove the stump, just treat to stop it growing. Is it growing now? Sounds like already been acted on to me.
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Builders bags come in size 0.8 m per side, up to 1m per side. 0.8m side contains about 0.5 cubic metre (sometimes called a ton bag because that's a ton of sand) 1m side contains 1 cubic metre
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It's a confusing one isn't it? Unfeasible time, no other tree videos. What's the back story here?
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That's what it says, 2 week elapsed time.
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I'm in pfanners and in long leg they are sadly quite a bit north of 300 quid. Chris Forestry do patches, I've had to patch over the patches on mine as wore through but I'll keep going while I can. He's currently got the Solidur in hivis at £110 or comfy £150, worth a punt at that price even if they end up as a spare pair when the others are wet.
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.. or which of these transit vans is actually overloaded?
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what logs have you been chopping today!
Dan Maynard replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Log goblin. Straight elm is ok. Split it as green as possible, goes hard when dead. Nothing I see nowadays is as bad as the big old twisted elm rings that we used to bang a row of steel wedges in as a teenager in the 80s. -
Bar Recommendation after totalling my Tsumura
Dan Maynard replied to Whoppa Choppa's topic in Chainsaws
Hmm maybe I won't get one. -
Exactly, I'd be a bit miffed if he sold it to me with the 1.5, the 1.3 is the newer spec because it cuts faster. New 261s also come with 1.3 narrow kerf now as the 50cc saw market is so competitive and Stihl can't be seen to cut slower.
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Bar Recommendation after totalling my Tsumura
Dan Maynard replied to Whoppa Choppa's topic in Chainsaws
I've looked at GB for next bar on my 372, reputation seems to be good but heavy but I only want 18". Can't remember who now, there is someone who swears by them on here. Chris Forestry carries them, wonder if he'd weigh one for you? -
Wonder how that will sell, not much coming up on Google so I guess they stopped making them a while ago.
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intelcompute is an interesting choice of user name if you don't want people to think you're a robot.
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I think the Stihl engine is good, they changed the design of hedge cutter gearbox a few years ago and it's now lighter (which is good) but less durable. I've got the 4 stroke engine which is fine, it has a maintenance on valve clearances that people forget, now the newer KM94 is 2 stroke so taken away that problem. Don't think you'd suffer the same as it seems you have with that one.
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Seems possible, indeed.
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That's funny, I'm in East Anglia and don't own a tripod ladder.
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That's a good point to check, mine probably has a trailer on three quarters of the time.
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You clearly can't fell the tree without owners consent, but there is nothing in the procedure to stop you applying for planning permission. Question was, would the council tell the owner, and I think no they wouldn't.
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AA RAC seem to have got really expensive, when I was looking for my Defender some of the cheaper places like Green Flag had age limit on the vehicle. I've gone with adding it to the insurance policy as they definitely can't claim they didn't know what they were taking on, touch wood not had to call them.
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When I apply as an agent on behalf of customers, I don't usually bother putting their phone or email in (and the council never request it) so it's only me that gets told. The application, decision letter etc goes on the public access system but they'd have to know to go and look. One of the councils request that I put up a notice, doesn't usually happen to be honest. I don't think there is a statutory requirement to put a notice up as with building works etc. In any case confers no right about the actual carrying out of the job. Branches overhanging boundary in a CA is a case where you could apply and not tell them I guess, it would just be pretty strange and as Mark says as a contractor you don't want to get involved in neighbours disputes like this.
