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Dan Maynard

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  1. Reckon you're right, they must be on to him.
  2. Some more explanation, whether it satisfies your legal brain I'm not sure but scroll down to para 123. Tree Preservation Orders and trees in conservation areas - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Explains the legislation governing Tree Preservation Orders and tree protection in conservation areas. What happens when the council bat the application back for a stupid reason? I tend to go through the planning portal and then work 6 weeks from when it is 'validated' so goes on the planning system, which may strictly be a bit later than 6 weeks since I gave sufficient notice but the position is very easily defensible.
  3. I know a few people with the Oregon ones, ok for occasional use. Steel toe boots are so cheap it's not worth trying to combine, get some separate ones.
  4. I had a cheque last week, usually pay 12 months on card. Were you paying by direct debit, maybe then they have bank details so can pay back to there.
  5. Not had this, but then I tend to just pop the biner open and put the bowline in beside the RRP so the dead end is definitely at the side of the device, away from the slick pin ends.
  6. A looked after 660 goes on for a long long time, the problem with buying secondhand is that you don't know why it's being sold. In general I think big saws are less of a gamble than small, more likely you get a believable story of the saw just not getting used rather than not working right so dumped onto eBay. You have to be prepared to do some work on a secondhand one though, I bought a 90cc saw a few years ago and it needed new oil pump, bar, air filter.
  7. Ball valve goes from closed to almost full bore with 90 degree handle rotation, can be pretty quick.
  8. Maybe because I have the pro saws rather than home MS230, but number of starter pawls I have ever replaced is zero. Something else wrong here surely?
  9. Hmm, difference between should know better at 16, and actually does know better now.
  10. My wife is an ex-teacher too. It's baffling how the system is set up to thrash the staff and then be confused when teachers leave.
  11. 5m distance, I thought I had long arms your blokes must be huge! Would be a laugh in a lot of back gardens too - I'll wait in the van out the front while you have the saw going.
  12. That hasn't helped my irrational fear at all. Not buying one.
  13. How far away is the tree, you've said 17m tall. Also, what kind of conifer? Cedar is just getting going at 17m, Leylandii may be just about to fall over.
  14. You know you have a strap named after you, but Bolam strap is studded black leather.....
  15. Any chance it's sun? Which way does that face?
  16. If you can't find any, have you had them sharpened? Should be able to get some more life out of them. I don't know if you have anywhere locally but a few places will do postal service.
  17. They don't say remove the stump, just treat to stop it growing. Is it growing now? Sounds like already been acted on to me.
  18. Builders bags come in size 0.8 m per side, up to 1m per side. 0.8m side contains about 0.5 cubic metre (sometimes called a ton bag because that's a ton of sand) 1m side contains 1 cubic metre
  19. It's a confusing one isn't it? Unfeasible time, no other tree videos. What's the back story here?
  20. I'm in pfanners and in long leg they are sadly quite a bit north of 300 quid. Chris Forestry do patches, I've had to patch over the patches on mine as wore through but I'll keep going while I can. He's currently got the Solidur in hivis at £110 or comfy £150, worth a punt at that price even if they end up as a spare pair when the others are wet.
  21. .. or which of these transit vans is actually overloaded?
  22. Log goblin. Straight elm is ok. Split it as green as possible, goes hard when dead. Nothing I see nowadays is as bad as the big old twisted elm rings that we used to bang a row of steel wedges in as a teenager in the 80s.
  23. Hmm maybe I won't get one.
  24. Exactly, I'd be a bit miffed if he sold it to me with the 1.5, the 1.3 is the newer spec because it cuts faster. New 261s also come with 1.3 narrow kerf now as the 50cc saw market is so competitive and Stihl can't be seen to cut slower.

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