Dan Maynard
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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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I don't get this, you want to keep the dead tree? Until when? Until the roots decay and it falls over? Until it's a pain in the backside removing a dead tree? Why not remove the tree now, killing it only ends one way?
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Seems to me the axiom is useful on the macro scale, say if you stand back from a tall spruce and look at the stem tapering thinner as it goes up. Doesn't work for detailed analysis of complex shapes. There are parallels in science, thinking of Hooke's law and springs, or Ohms law and electrical resistance. Useful "laws" for understanding how things work but plenty of things they don't apply to. I think it's the job of scientists to keep arguing and trying to increase the detail of theories to cover everything. They end up with stuff like quantum mechanics, later on engineers pick out what's useful to get things done in the real world. So I'm waiting for stuff coming from Duncan Slater et al to be filtered by time, until we can see what is useful.
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Over wintering cattle in a forest.
Dan Maynard replied to Mrblue5000's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I felled some fairly young ash and lime which had been ring barked by cattle on a farm, so they can cause damage. However the cows in this case were really hungry as they weren't being fed enough in summer while grass not growing - the guy renting the land was kicked off due to the general mismanagement so in more normal circumstances I'm sure not a problem. -
We're going in circles aren't we, need George Osborne and his austerity program to balance the books. Also, the last three PMs have failed to actually sort out Northern Ireland position in Brexit so the phrase "get Brexit done" still haunts the next one. The Boris effect is absolutely shocking, he did so much in power that other PM's would have resigned for that he created a whole new lower standard. The fact that he's managed to shrug all that off and even remotely be in the frame is just astounding. But I wouldn't bet against anything right now.
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Fair enough, there is. Seems to me unlikely the TO could prove it was over 75mm and hence that S211 actually applied, I'm intrigued by this because I've definitely cut down trees that are close to the margin and wondered how it would be enforced. This probably not a legal argument you want to get into, but all the cases I find online relating to CA prosecutions are much bigger trees where there is no doubt. If the TO has already been told it was over 75mm then I guess there is an admission, so it becomes a discussion about what 'appropriate size and species at the same place' means in a legal sense. Same place = same address?
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Emperor's New clothes I guess, it is a stupid idea but nobody dares tell the prince. Distance between places is worst possible case, whole thing would just be one big queue. They'll be finding out about logistics when they start building.
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I don't think there is any clear replanting requirement in a CA, no. Has it been established that it was over the 75mm? Seems difficult to prove if it's gone, and if it wasn't there is nothing to answer for.
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I think partly she wants to stay in, but as eggs said the MPs can't kick her out and retain credibility either - they only just voted her in.
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Advice on SRT, where to start
Dan Maynard replied to Treepigmatt's topic in SRT (Single Rope Technique)
I have bought the Schultz effect, it's a really interesting watch. Not actually done the srt bit but I would say it improved my climbing anyway, good to think about things from a different angle. I would recommend it. There's a LANTRA course that I have seen but also not done down south, arborventure training. One of these days... -
It makes sense that drying it out would stop the fungus.
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I got an advert from Gustharts today for Orion boots which have vibram soles. Only go up to size 11 though.
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We chipped into a gator for a customer with a big garden a couple of weeks ago, from TW125. We put a board up to protect the back window glass and tarp gathered round sides a bit to reduce spray. Worked pretty well, I reckon if you built 3 sides from 12mm ply it would be great, especially from a CS100.
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Hand file without a guide removes material faster if it's hit something bad, then finish off with a guide to get the top plate angle spot on (precise file height). Otherwise few strokes with guide to freshen. On job site hold saw between knees for short bar, bigger bars cut slot in a log, or lean it against chipper exhaust.
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Maybe they just haven't got round to it yet - fake ones probably won't be fuel injected, people that buy fakes either don't know or don't care.
