Dan Maynard
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Stihl and Husqvarna are very expensive now after price jumps, but they are good. If you happen to have two 5Ah Makita batteries the 36v Makita is a good saw for a lot less money, if you buy bare. As @pleasant has pointed out before the cheap battery stuff is soon obsolete and difficult to fix so I would personally avoid things like Ego, Lidl special but again they have their fans.
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srt SRT/ddrt rope recommendations please
Dan Maynard replied to Carteeni's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
I climb ddrt on Yale Hedera, haven't done enough SRT to tell you if it's any good but it is supposed to be: The characteristics of Hedera 117 delivers one of the most static, spliceable lines on the market to date. Ideal for use with traditional climbing techniques and single rope technique (SRT). -
You got me looking at the MDL diesel one and thinking it's quite reasonably priced, maybe I should get one. I shouldn't, don't need anything that size as I have a small Posch that does me just fine.
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It'll run on 10% ethanol fuel but you have to watch the storage. Some do swear by the fuel conditioner, yes. Some (me) carefully buy Esso Super which is 0 ethanol. Others buy Aspen/Motomix which is guaranteed to avoid petrol problems by not being petrol. Edit: I also wouldn't run any of my kit on Stihl red, not bought Husky from a dealer but my Stihl dealer steers me away from it.
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Is that Stihl HP as in the red stuff? Or HP Super which is green? And what unleaded? Normal from Tesco or super from Esso - determines what ethanol content is likely. 1:50 isn't the problem, separated out petrol with red Stihl oil could be. There's another current thread about an MS880 which suddenly stopped and seems to be fuel related.
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Meetings with remarkable trees, the Arbtalk version
Dan Maynard replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Picture Forum
The pound is currently weak vs dollar, that's why Americans are loving their UK holidays at the moment. -
Ah I have no problem keeping within the rules, I run 12 foot Bryan James tipper so easy 2t payload with a bit spare which is plenty for what I need. I still think the arbitrary 3.5t limit is a bit daft and would like to know where it's from.
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employment Work and employment advice please
Dan Maynard replied to John Hathaway's topic in Employment
All fair points, at 3 months if you're getting a reasonable amount of climbing then it's a good opportunity, all climbing is good practice. We had a lady on the forum a while ago on the IoW who never really got off the blocks as didn't find that first rung. Hard to say how long to stick it, maybe get a Suzuki Ignis to save money on fuel? -
If it wasn't for the rules that would be a perfectly usable 5t truck. Why did someone set the limit at 3.5t? Why not 4.5t? No difference to the trucks.
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Apparently not so light! I have a 12 foot Bryan James, interesting to see how high you can go.
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I think this is why people drive them, so because of the current rules it's convenient on a car licence. But who set the stupid rules that mean these trucks have basically no payload in spite of being designed to carry a reasonable amount? The 3.5t limit is arbitrary and maybe silly.
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We did it the other way round, kept upstairs and top of chimney stack supported on a steel. (In the 70s renovation they rebuilt the lounge chimney with no foundation, oak mantel exposed to flue, and was leaking enough to burn rafters.) Now we have insulated solid flue going from stove up between rafters and up a little way into the old stack, then transition to uninsulated Flexi liner up the old stack through roof and to top of chimney. I'm not an installer but sounds like there should be an answer to what you need, maybe insulated through the roof.
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Bugger, just spilt my cocoa laughing.
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It'll be fine in the garage. The problems will start when you take it to the log pile and try splitting with it. I haven't owned one but know someone who did, it didn't last very long at all. I guess it all depends what you try to split with it though, going to be a very light duty machine.
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We're his original figures dry wood? I was thinking a 20cm log at 4.9 would be harder to move than 83kg.
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I think hp per kg is the fundamental. More RPM means more power in general, and in this case the difference is enough to overturn the better efficiency of the 4 mix. You could run a saw at 7000rpm with a bigger sprocket, if you had the hp at that engine speed.
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Yeah I guess it would, just thinking unless you do something about the sharp end then it's always going to need a certain amount of power. On consideration I suspect the friction against the bar is not that much, even running a 261 which is near 3kW power would get the bar hot really quickly if a significant percentage of power was going in to heat. Hence blueing the bar when lubrication fails. Other thing is in general chains are pretty efficient for power transmission, region of 98%. Not that much gain available.
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Actually this threads reminded me I need to drain out some of my saw tanks into glass jars, following the last aspen/fuel/ethanol discussion we had.
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.. and unlike electronics where energy consumption has been reduced, motor efficiency is already very good and it takes a certain amount of energy to rip the wood open. We need a more fundamental change like roller chain to get rid of bar friction, or different shape teeth.
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It's still pretty useless for builders with a transit tipper of sand. 3.5t panel vans make more sense I guess. Was it a European unification of rules thing? Think when I was a lad the 3.5t didn't really exist, a 3t truck was 3t empty, sort of equivalent of a 7.5t now.
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I was messing around volunteering in the woods on Thursday and used 4 tanks of fuel in my 261, you'd need more than 2 batteries for that. I love climbing with battery saws but switch to petrol when it gets to the bigger cuts. I just don't think there's enough energy in a battery to compete with petrol.
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I'm a bit confused, the top of the taper out of the stove looks parallel to the end of the tube. Is it meant to be like that? So that condensate runs together to one side or something? If it's a decent installer then ask them about it.
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That's a good shout, like to see the bark on stem too really.
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Also add to the list a few Lyon slings, few steel biners, ISC 70kN pulley for redirects.
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This is what I like about the Treerunner, but it's smaller and lighter so easy one person setup. I have that, 12 and 14mm lines and haven't ever needed anything bigger. I do live in the land of small trees though.
