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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    You'd have to have a short memory to say this has been a cold winter though, I was working outside in a t-shirt in November.
  2. Dan Maynard
    I stand to be corrected but I think breeks are trousers north of the border, long way from Sussex.
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    It feels like everyone wants to keep the logs from tree work nowadays, some of the people are used to processing firewood but I have a feeling a lot of them aren't. They will find out it's hard work when they try, so could be a market there. It's not been normal for the tree firm to offer splitting as far as I know, too expensive at tree surgery crew rates.
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    Got one on Amazon with replaceable battery, 0.5s refresh, for about £20. In amongst the cheap ones there is some variation , have to look carefully at specs. You're supposed to wind the sense wire around the plug lead, I just have mine cable tied in a coil about 3 inch diameter and put that on top of the saw cover, it's enough signal to trigger the count.
  5. Dan Maynard
    Interesting idea, hydrogen cars need infrastructure investment to get started. But hydrogen is always going to be difficult dangerous and expensive to handle. Electric cars don't need infrastructure investment to get started, but they sure need investment if we're going to switch over any number of cars. If everything went electric car overnight we don't have enough power stations or grid cable capacity. Synthetic diesel would be really really easy to implement, we just put it in the existing cars.
  6. Dan Maynard
    I keep looking at the Eder range too. Seems not worth fitting one to the truck, get one of these and keep it in the dry. Think @openspaceman has one.
  7. Dan Maynard
    He's talking about arb waste though, not firewood grade timber you could whack through a processor. Personally I'd sell for £30 a ton especially if that's straight off the job site. I guess good wood being harder to find is going to drive firewood prices up in general, I think OP will have to put prices up next year to reflect that and then can make some money.
  8. Dan Maynard
    Yes thanks, been just fine this afternoon.
  9. Dan Maynard
    Think there's a case for changing rubber ones on age, but these are metal springs so can last a long time. I haven't changed my 2010 springs and haven't lost any sleep over it.
  10. Dan Maynard
    Yup, that's a shit day. I you've just got the multisaver can I suggest you set it longer? If you let the rings be lower than the branch on the right then when you move around the stem side to side, your rope won't rub on the branch just on the rings. Maybe not the best spot to explain it but keeping the loop as long as you can will sometimes save a lot of rubbing against branches. Also the lump of shit would fall out.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Yes, exactly. Get on the blower and don't be afraid to ring a few as people's workload will always be varying so you just have to catch the right person at the right time. There are lots of threads on rates, you're starting at the bottom - depends where you are but anywhere in region £80 - £120 per day. Someone will tell me I'm wrong, in the end whatever you can get. Powerline work will be good for your muscles, if you hope to go into domestic tree surgery later then you won't be learning a lot about making the tree look good.
  12. Dan Maynard
    I do wonder if that's worth sending to a good industrial electrical repair place, they would solder and sleeve to sort out broken wires, and the connector pin is unlikely to be specific to Husqvarna to be honest.
  13. Dan Maynard
    I stuck this up quick when it became clear our dog would dig over the vegetables, it's just on metpost spikes banged in. Looks nicer than stock, quick, will last 5 years, and removable. That's what I'd go for, don't know what supply is like now but at the time it was difficult to get hold of so ended up ripping down some old planks.
  14. Dan Maynard
    I have a heavy maul, makes my elbows ache if I do a lot whereas X27 much less. I would have said the X27 shaft is a bit springy and good for reducing shock tbh. I bought a splitter though, that has cured the problem completely.
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    Had cloudflare error page a few times last evening, were there so many arbtalkers not concentrating on the football it overloaded the website?
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    Also to accommodate any slight misalignment between the engine and pump shafts.
  18. Dan Maynard
    I'm picturing a banner with a rope at each end, struggling to see how you tie the second end.
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    WILL YOU MARRY ME
  20. Dan Maynard
    Are they not imported in containers from Denmark or somewhere similar? Whoever's doing that must be shifting a lot of trees, but at wholesale price sounds like they'd need to be shift 200k trees to just turnover a million let alon be a millionaire. I would guess there's more margin in decorations, but it must be difficult to get right so you sell everything you've bought each year.
  21. Dan Maynard
    Nail on the head.
  22. Dan Maynard
    I think you need to poke your head through the green and work out a 're-cut' factor. Sometimes the inside is quite open, sometimes it's a mass of branches and old footballs. Then the answer is probably 4 to 10 depending on factor.
  23. Dan Maynard
    I've lost a pair of braces, when it rained a couple of weeks ago I took them off to put chainsaw trousers in the wash (try to wash them once a month whether they need it or not). I've looked all round, I'm blaming the dog at the moment but anyway going to order some more to make them appear.
  24. Dan Maynard
    Not on my 2004 defender either, key is just lump of plastic at the top and no coil around the ignition barrel. Think some defenders had central locking etc but anything electric best avoided on LR. Can't see how it would be compulsory?
  25. Dan Maynard
    .. and what the stump is, some softer than others, cherry like icebergs. How deep to grind? Some people just want grass across so don't want a deep grind as it'll sink more. 20 inch stump can't be less than £100. I'd struggle to get £250. Somewhere in the middle of that.

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