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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    On the face of it, seems like Dave is taking the piss and you will now always be known as the fat bloke. On reflection, Dave was subtly reminding the customer that they had started by insulting you but now asking for a favour so that wasn't such a good thing to do.
  2. Dan Maynard
    Ah I've got Makita hedge trimmers as they bought Robin, sensibly comes with a grease nipple from the factory.
  3. Dan Maynard
    I've used requestaplan.co.uk for site plans, super easy and very professional but limited to 1:1250 which isn't much good for fields. Looks like emapsite has some really good details and features but a bit less easy to use. Seems that field boundaries are less of a priority on many of the maps, if satellite image gets you what you need then that may be the way to go. I know people use screenshot from Google maps for tree work notices but strictly that is breaking the copyright.
  4. Dan Maynard
    I reckon he'd need to move over to the "injuries that made you retire" if his elbow bent like that.
  5. Dan Maynard
    No it's the leisure maps as you say, 1:25k.
  6. Dan Maynard
    I can't remember where I picked it up but top tip is drill through the Stihl grease plug and tap M6, then fit a normal grease nipple. Easy greasing forever.
  7. Dan Maynard
    I sub at a firm running the 94R as hedge cutters, plenty of power. They get a ragging on all sorts tbh, hawthorn, conifer, laurel etc etc
  8. Dan Maynard
    So the free ones are not good, and the good ones are not free? I pay the OS map subscription, for having the proper OS map of wherever I go in the country (in my pocket) and being able to print pages off I reckon £25 a year is good value.
  9. Dan Maynard
    This is a huge problem, yes. It's a big constraint on business.
  10. Dan Maynard
    Can't see it being business amongst arborists, I would just run a file over without taking it off.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Don't see why not. Good question though, I don't really know.
  12. Dan Maynard
    Well we're up there for a week soon so we'll have a look round , never know....
  13. Dan Maynard
    Fair enough, I think about moving to Germany or Canada as a theoretical exercise sometimes.
  14. Dan Maynard
    I don't think I'd take EV either at the moment, I'm a little bit similar in that I've a 7 year old diesel car and what it does is the longer journeys when I'm working away. I guess I just meant that it's not that much of a jump to the EV though, so maybe less than it would be to drive a new diesel the same mileage.
  15. Dan Maynard
    But you chose France-shire didn't you? I always say watch the feet if you want to know what someone thinks, much more reliable than listening to what they say.
  16. Dan Maynard
    We've been discussing where we'd move to if we could pick anywhere, we sort of landed here due to jobs and then had kids so stayed. They're now 17 and 19 so not a tie for much longer. I grew up Hampshire/Dorset border, near the sea. It's bloody busy now, traffic and people, New Forest a national park with 40mph speed limits everywhere. To be fair maybe not as bad as Kent though. I'd say Yorkshire for countryside and space, but I'm not sure if I'd like the winters. Derbyshire a compromise? Like the idea of Northumberland, there is something about being near the sea.
  17. Dan Maynard
    So in round numbers, £20k to run 10 year old cars and £30k to run brand new ones? To what extent are these car prices still subsidised? We were thinking of what to do with wife's 10 year old Yaris a couple of years ago, the comparable EV were around £30k to buy. Yaris stayed.
  18. Dan Maynard
    Fairly young ash I saw today whilst walking the dog. To me doesn't look the same tree.
  19. Dan Maynard
    My heating goes to 10C from 11pm to 6am, would be much cheaper to get a really good duvet than heat the house. Trying not to sound like a Yorkshireman but I do remember when we had naff all heating upstairs as a kid.
  20. Dan Maynard
    Heard today from a chap doing our tiling that fibreglass insulation cost is up 100% since the start of the war in Ukraine.
  21. Dan Maynard
    There's a corner of the internet for every taste.... (apparently)
  22. Dan Maynard
    I'm wearing them right now under my long trousers, snow has melted and sun coming out so will whip 'em off and be cool this afternoon.
  23. Dan Maynard
    Interesting, I would have said 50% as good for half the price so I just buy them for cutting stumps down really low before grinding - no point filing out really bad damage just bin. I buy Stihl for arb work, but I also reckon chains are a tiny percentage of arb overhead and it makes no real difference to overall profit. But each to their own, as they say.
  24. Dan Maynard
    I filled in a BMI health questionnaire for the doctors the other day. Apparently I'm overweight, need to do more exercise, and my waist being 40" means I'm at very high risk of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke. I should buy those 32" trousers to make me healthy again.
  25. Dan Maynard
    You're probably right if you don't leave it wet that much not a huge problem, it's just that your soapy water has the potential to be conductive so you can get much faster corrosion from the pair of metals effectively forming a small battery. Pairing zinc with stainless leads to the zinc being corroded away, so ideally use stainless screws if you have to screw the tray down and you might find the bottom edge of the galvanised sheets rust out faster by being in contact with the stainless.

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