Dan Maynard
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I can believe the big rings are beech, thought it looked like pop bark on the left. I've got some half rotted beech, soaks water like a sponge. You're right though, how will we ever know we got it right?
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Sharp nobbly bits where the bark has fallen off, went rotten as left in rings, looks like poplar to me.
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I bought a 10 pack from Datatag, was just over £100 for what I figured about 6 grand of kit labelled, so all the saw serial numbers are registered with them. Having diligently collected and filed all those details I forgot about arbsafe but it would obviously be an indoor job to register on there. It is frustrating, when you see the pictures of tools at the car boot sales and know a good portion of that must be nicked.
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There's still a few Makita EA5000 around, not mtronic. At the moment still ok for spares but they have stopped production. Don't have one myself but the people who like them really like them. I am of the view autotune is like fuel injection on cars was in the 70s and 80s - when it first came out was unreliable and treated with great suspension since you couldn't adjust it. Nowadays people wouldn't know how to balance a pair of SU's, fuel injection is taken for granted.
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I had it done at local independent LR specialist, hopefully he used quality parts as he's generally good and knows what lasts as been doing it a long time.
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I had to have a swivel rebuilt on the Defender last week, bit of a deep breath but at least I know that's fixed. This adblue seems to be a gift that just keeps on giving!
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That's what I remember you saying. At a rough guess pruning enough to reduce the seed problem means chopping them in half, they won't like that but may be better short term than removal.
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They don't like to be pruned but you can do it, potentially you ruin the shape and start a cycle of decay leading to the ultimate demise of the tree in 20 years. IMO the issue with pruning is that you probably won't solve the problem, half the number of seeds would still be enough to be a nuisance. So longer term answer would be get planting a replacement tree which is further away from the house and cars, looks like your garden is big enough. Then take that one down in a few years time. Shorter term I guess carport, gutter guards, whatever you can build to keep seeds at bay. I believe @spudulike has similar trees at home.
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Around a third of the weight you're holding is water that needs to leave, through flow of air is vital for drying. If you can take out windows and/or doors then could be ok but a closed garage will just get really damp all round.
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Google has indexed arbtalk, so maybe some of the visitors are people who search a question there and get pointed straight to the answer? No need to post the question again then.
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.. and you were going to scrap the saw on page 2! Good job, well done.
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4x4 with 3.5t trailer is the biggest legal payload without going O license etc, challenge is what to do for a chipper and the fact that as a combination it's huge. Fine around the villages but rubbish in town, can't get it in quite a few driveways.
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Whereas 7m3 of connie chip in my trailer - still 300kg under limit. Tempting to put 7m3 of logs in though, that wouldn't be.
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I've never done a Kubota but crank pulleys I've had off car engines in the past are usually pretty tight, hammers bars and swearing involved - mind no access to impact wrench back then so maybe it shouldn't be so difficult.
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Good to check - if you put a 3 foot bar on going the wrong way it won't undo, then when you find the correct way you also have the problem that some tw*t has been tightening it up with a 3 foot bar and it's really hard to undo.
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I have a horrible feeling that this is not a joke
Dan Maynard replied to Billhook's topic in The Lounge
I did look at one of the YouTube videos, now what will that bring up from the algorithm? -
I have a horrible feeling that this is not a joke
Dan Maynard replied to Billhook's topic in The Lounge
1. How it works This is purely a conceptual art project and will not be acted out in real life. -
Right or left hand thread on centre bolt?
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My idea would be plant another tree nearby, with birch having poor natural decay resistance I think the rot will get it in the end. Nothing wrong with ratcheting it up but to me unlikely to have a long term future so good idea to get a new one underway. I'm assuming the road is too far away - if it's not then you should get someone to look in person.
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I think you can blame the pandemic, Brexit, Ukraine war, or whatever but supply has been patchy for a good while now. Last saw I bought was in our local dealer, online people were saying nothing around but they had about 30 saw boxes lined up so obviously just had a delivery. Which bit of Essex? If west then wouldn't be that far to come across to Arthur Ibbet, or Stuart Brown in Maulden. If you're happy to look online try these Stihl MS 261 C-M Petrol Chainsaw | George Carr Power Products | Bristol GEORGECARRPOWERPRODUCTS.CO.UK Very light, handy and powerful professional chainsaw. The electronic self-tuning engine...
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Hmm not huge per sq m but lots of area. Spec says 170-270w per sq m, call it 200 to make sums easy. My drive is about 5m wide and 10m long, so that's 10kW. Not cheap to run.
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The USA are bonkers though. I saw something the other day showing people putting underfloor heating loops into the driveway concrete. How much energy goes into those to melt all the snow landing on it?
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How many logs have you got in the firebox? A single log sitting on small amount of coals is hard to burn, two logs have a gap where the heat builds up so will burn nicely on much lower air flow. I just wonder if you need more pieces of smaller wood to burn with the vent at mid position. Our Hunter is a little bit the same, we never close the airwash below half as it loses draw. Spends all the time at about 3/4 and then regulate also with the fuelling.
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Sounds like good marketing, I sense a business opportunity go selling 1000bhp cars. Rebranded Skoda's, like.
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In the council's around me, once notification is on the planning public access system then the significant dates are set and displayed. This tends to be 6 weeks from date validated but I wouldn't argue the day or two that takes.
