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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    Heave is only a worry if the tree is older than the house, doesn't look to me like that is the case here.
  2. Dan Maynard
    I give the blades on mine a tickle with a file on the machine, need to file all the ones you can get and then start it, blip the throttle until the other side of teeth comes open.
  3. Dan Maynard

    Tacho

    Dan Maynard replied to Cuttup's topic in Chainsaws

    I got one on Amazon for about £20, it comes with a wire which I just make into loose coil and hold near the top of the saw - picks up just fine. Check the rev range, and update rate of 0.5s is worth having but there are quite a few that fit the requirements.
  4. Dan Maynard
    They say time speeds up as you get older....
  5. Dan Maynard
    I used to work with someone who had a protos, he would always take it off and leave it on the ground somewhere straight after coming down from a tree. I never could work out why he didn't look after it better as cost a fortune. On the other hand I keep my Petzl on the whole job - keeps the sun off my bald patch and if put it down I'll forget where I left the flippin thing. Horse for course.
  6. Dan Maynard
    I was looking at it and thinking the exhaust blows up and over the log away from you, rather than down at the log and back at you. More of a thing as you get near the ground I grant. I've always done it other way to the pictures, too - fuel caps uppermost.
  7. Dan Maynard
    Even the dead wood takes years and years to fall off - normally. Like Mick says though worth getting it checked out as something attacking the base would be bad news for stability.
  8. Dan Maynard
    I can't understand why they sent the lorry either, you had told them loading was their job and it was not sorted. It's a cck up but not yours as far as I can see, I'd be sending the invoice back. Only snag is you need to find another haulage company then, but these do sound like a bit of a shower anyway.
  9. Dan Maynard
    You need a different knot with a pulley really, this is where the hitchclimber scores because you can choose a good friction cord and knot combination. I haven't got on well with the mechanical devices either but wouldn't go back to Blakes.
  10. Dan Maynard
    I think there's an underlying problem that proof loading to prove the anchor won't fail doesn't work on branches, because there are elements of history and time as well as load in the failure - as fibres stretch and cracks gradually grow. Therefore you can't be certain that for example swinging two people on the rope and it not failing hasn't just caused a load of crack growth and made the anchor worse. The only thing you can do is be sure by inspection and if you're not then anchor lower down to a point where you are. Rope round the stem not round a side branch is a good starting point usually. I do agree you've got to lean back and check before using an anchor but this is really a double check that everything is configured correctly in my opinion, eg ropes correctly routed, biners closed, hitched to correct points on harness etc. "Check, double check" as was drilled into me when learning.
  11. Dan Maynard
    I've seen Oregon bar mount diagrams, or Sugi and GB have them. I'm assuming it has a slot for studs, pin for tensioner and oil hole on the side like chainsaw bars? Be a case of measure the slot width first - 8/9/14mm etc
  12. Dan Maynard
    I've always found it confusing that an engine should run different on different oils but seems to be possible, comes up frequently when talking about the Echo 2511T (don't have one so not experienced it myself)
  13. Dan Maynard
    Four pages of discussion on arbtalk when the answer was actually a simple one liner? Impossible! Would never happen!
  14. Dan Maynard
    As they say in the military - if it's not written down, it didn't happen!
  15. Dan Maynard
    As above I'd check out the house insurance first. There is sometimes a clause that you must notify them of trees above a certain size and they might have an expectation about inspection regime. I often refer people to this site for a common sense approach, there is a free short guide for householders. The National Tree Safety Group (NTSG) is composed of a number of organisations with an interest in tree risk management NTSGROUP.ORG.UK The NTSG National Tree Safety Group Aims to carry out research into tree risk and produce a set of...
  16. Dan Maynard
    I remember Jack Hargreaves but not too well, I always assumed he was the inspiration for the coughing bloke on the Fast Show.
  17. Dan Maynard
    https://youtu.be/NALxm6m7dVI
  18. Dan Maynard
    Ah fair enough, forgot that. FB it is!
  19. Dan Maynard
    I'd rather burn leylandii logs though and there's never a shortage of those around. Most of that construction waste is softwood anyway.
  20. Dan Maynard
    Probably like you tried chainsaw, circular saw pinches, jigsaw works but slow, thinner ones you can smash up quickest with an axe. Given up cutting pallets now really, use other wood. Bits of wood for kindling I usually cut with a bowsaw.
  21. Dan Maynard
    Groundwork operative nowadays Stubby.
  22. Dan Maynard
    I don't usually bother with wood either as have plenty but the wood from ride side coppicing gets extracted because that is traditional practice and helps keep nutrients low in the soil. It goes various directions, some to volunteers for firewood. The guy at our local wood always says he was asked to be warden years ago, just because he had a chainsaw. Didn't know much about wildlife at the time, they needed someone to clear the rides and get some light back in.
  23. Dan Maynard
    I love the "Dried by the power of the wind and sun". It's great marketing - softwood page doesn't mention the dirty word conifer either.
  24. Dan Maynard
    Synthplus is same price as Oregon at FrJones -£60 for 20l Stihl vs £75 for 25l Oregon. Hadn't thought about it compared to fuel, per litre it's more but saw uses two or three times as much petrol as oil so per day I'd reckon is less. Bit like the 2 stroke oil debate, I don't have any problems with bar or chain wear so stick with what I know.
  25. Dan Maynard
    If it's for conservation they may not want the plastic bits left over. Tip the granules out of an eco plug and seal over with beeswax.

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