Dan Maynard
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Will a lot of small domestic tree firms go bust?
Dan Maynard replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
'kin ell mate, my fall back setup is me and a topper, out subbing! -
Will a lot of small domestic tree firms go bust?
Dan Maynard replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
We're on a fixed price energy deal for a while, fixed price mortgage deals which are 2-3 years will spread it out - but I agree a lot of people in for a shock when it comes to the end of the fixed period. I think we had a dip over summer as everyone concentrated on holiday but that seems to have been short lived. My guess would be £200-250 for each of those 3ft stumps which makes the bloke at £450 on the money, but people do charge quite a range. There is money in grinding, but then again stump grinders are expensive and break a lot, so it's tricky to work out the real costs. Now that I hire in I've got rid of that capital element to someone else, and I'm not paying for the grinder on days that I'm not using it. In a day going round to do 4 or 5 stumps I can make good money but it's not something I could do every day - too hard on the back. -
It shouldn't cost too much for a crash and dash, you clear up.
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Thixotropic is the opposite, thick when static but gets runny under motion - like ketchup flows when you shake the bottle.
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That's it. There have been some half hearted attempts at strimming the grass back, and watering this summer but it's too little too late. I think they were planted too late in the year in the first place, so didn't stand a chance really.
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Or similarly estimate 1/2 x base x height 0.5 x 1.6 x 1 = 0.8 Then multiply by length 0.8 x 2.2 = 1.6 + 0.16 = 1.76 which we can call 1.8 I always reckon if you get the same answer two ways it's probably right.
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What you are seeing is fruiting bodies of the fungus, most of the organism is inside the wood and has been digesting away for a while. Yes it is the season for fruiting, not too dry or too cold.
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There seem to be various suppliers of non branded parts, are you saying you've emailed them and no joy? I wonder if you could buy something that's for a bigger stove and cut down, if you have a grinder. Otherwise it's make a pattern using corrugated cardboard and take that to a fabricator. Not too critical but smaller gap at the front, hang on the pegs at the sides, and reach down to the top of the firebrick at the back. My stove just has a rectangular piece of 3mm steel with single fold line.
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How did the saw get broken? Er, don't know, boss.
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I don't want this to be the start of everyone thinking I'm obsessed with soap, but I think the most choice was probably the 90s. I reckon this is likely to be because of all the coloured bath suites, so you could get soap in white, pink, blue, green, yellow to match the sink. You'd also get small round handbasin soap, small bar hand soap, and bath soap which were bigger. Multiply up all the combinations and there were shelves of it. Another example, Imperial Leather in your link only available one size in white, packs of four. You'd get hand and bath sizes, white and yellow, singles and four packs. Ah those were the days.
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No, its a battery not a capacitor. Seems there's plenty of the lignin just being burnt already so seems like a really good idea to me. Recycling afterwards should also be easier, is another of the problems with Li batteries.
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They finished a massive A14 road building project a couple of years ago and planted thousands and thousands of trees, almost all dead now. I can imagine them saying in Yes, Minister "Well we promised to plant a million trees, we didn't promise they would grow."
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All right, not totally gone - but look how much space is taken up by shower gel and pump soap. Rows and rows of it.
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Soap is one of the things in the modern world that confuses me. When I was young we bought bars of unbranded green or white soap, they were really cheap. Now it has to be shower gel or pump soap in plastic bottles, whilst we need to cut single use plastic going to landfill. The soap has gone off the supermarket shelves though, so clearly not enough people were buying it any more.
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Lot of mess there, also a lot of weight and potential for injury. Once you've had it cut up you can probably sell the wood on FB marketplace but don't expect it to cover cost of cutting and clearing.
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Yeah maybe so - I don't honestly do enough to get good. Normal tree reductions my thinking time has come down over years.
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I do apples with a silky too though, there's more thinking than cutting time for me and the precision of a silky is important.
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I'd have done it with a 261 but they'd all be cut a bit lower to the ground. I have to agree the 1/4" chain is where it's at for small pruning and that looks cheap as chips, but I have a Makita battery saw which does this job as is a professional tool. Only thing I don't like is looks like a small saw designed for homeowners to use one handed? Or do you have to keep hold of the back to make it work? Otherwise it's a recipe for left hand cuts.
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We need the area of the end of the bucket, if that can be made of a rectangle and a triangle (close enough) then well and good. You shouldn't need the angle finder, the area of a triangle is half of base x height - so pick which edge is base and put tape measure straight up to the top corner. If you can take a photo straight on the end, and measure one of the dimensions to get a scale, I can get you a pretty good answer from that.
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Tried www.sawmillers.co.uk ?
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Might be because it's forged rather than machined which would make it pretty perfectly symmetrical. I'd send the picture to DMM though, they are friendly people and you want it to be right before you hang on it.
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Given the amount of decay in the middle and significant growth of the columns at the side it's been like that for a while. I'd go for second opinion from someone else, ideally get a recommendation from someone you know rather than Checkatrade. Alternatively there might be someone on here close if you're prepared to give a rough location?
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Somebody posted a ramp supplier in the thread about going from trailer to back of truck recently.
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Chimney soot in roof drinking water?
Dan Maynard replied to Haironyourchest's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I guess the soot probably isn't marvellous but the dose is low, especially compared to a chimney sweep. Soot on toast is carcinogenic on some scale, isn't it? -
Possibly damage from planting, the tree has a column of dead tissue up that side. It's young and if everything else is fine then I would let it make its own arrangements, living wood will swell on each side of the stripe and close it over.
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