Dan Maynard
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Equally, we do know the trees are only 7 or 8 years old so (as said above) that rules out heave anyway. No chance they can have been drying the ground before the extension was built because they weren't there.
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"Girls make phenomenal train drivers: call for more staff to work in ticket offices." "Girls make phenomenal bricklayers: call for more electricians to install smart meters." Clearly the people writing the headline have no idea about arb and forestry either.
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....whereas the firewood you can sell much sooner and more easily. If you can get a muck truck and splitter in then not too bad to shift it in small pieces either.
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Actually the other thing that's worked really well for me the last two noise complaints is to be up the tree and have a really charming groundie, I don't know exactly what they have said but the person went away so all good from my point of view.
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Yeah Haeksler, that's the chap. I would suggest this is not a generic design, but rather this is the one which the generic chippers have chosen to copy - Haeksler have been making them for quite a few years now. Really exciting to see those new models, I demoed one at APF maybe 5 years ago and they are really nicely built but the reason I hung out for JoBeau was the hydraulic drive - up until now they were the only people to do it.
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Seems to have disappeared too.....
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This is true, unless you are clearing a construction site. The only time I've had a customer ring the council to check they said if we could keep within the construction hours would be easier but not strictly a requirement.
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You got some good soil for digging there!
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I have an M500 which moves itself around anyway using hydrostatic drive. Haven't put a winch on but have used it as an anchor point for pulling tops over with 3:1 pulley setup. Think I saw Haeksler have an electric third wheel version which adds assist for slopes, it's not powerful enough to drive the chipper up much but certainly makes it easier. The owner was saying trouble with hydrostatic drive is just the cost. Presumably that charges off the engine somehow?
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I also only have a mini chipper which I run into a muck truck rather than dragging stuff about. I then hire a Timberwolf if the jobs big enough, sometimes roller fed makes sense.
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Can this Maple be helped
Dan Maynard replied to Hoe Moaner's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Are those sprouts at the base also maple? I agree the tree looks half dead and you can't regenerate old wood but what about leave it through this summer and carefully fell out the main stem next winter, let the sprouts take over and make a new tree? Sort of coppice idea, keep the established root so less likely to have water problems next year. -
What chipper did you get? I have thought about a loader but would also be useful to lift an ibc of firewood, so compact tractor would maybe be better. Hadn't thought that it could also be my bigger chipper, that makes a lot of sense financially.
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Maybe, but also very common. It's the end result of our society having lost the link between what we grow and what we eat - impossible to exactly match industrial scale food production to demand, and we don't like to see shortages in the supermarket, so there has to be a percentage excess which needs disposing.
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A really good soak every two weeks would be much better than a little bit of water every day, you'd be helping a lot and especially with a good layer of mulch to help it soak in rather than evaporate. I guess fingers crossed and keep and eye on the tree.
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These people are into compost and biomass, worth talking to I would have thought. They also have a stream for waste wood eg fencing, no idea about MDF though. https://www.envar.co.uk/biomass-production-and-supply/ Only other people I know in related field is Janbor, at least you could talk to him about what you need or potential markets https://www.janbor.co.uk/
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The negative is it spreads all over the place and the roots are about 3 miles deep so it's really difficult to get rid of.
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It probably be happier in the ground to be honest, although it's late in the year to plant now.
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I took down some leylandii for a Chinese couple, they reckoned to cultivate some mushroom on the wood. They said so many different types of mushroom, some will be ok.
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Oooh the plot thickens.
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That's a lorry load of aubergine next to a lorry load of flowers, you could tip 5 ton a week of sawdust here and they wouldn't hardly notice - as long as it's clean.
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Composting seems the best choice, round here they are pleased to mix wood in as it adds fibre to the waste fruit and veg.
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Photos of you/your work from days of yore.
Dan Maynard replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in Picture Forum
Ah I see there's only two of you, I thought there'd be "tree" fellas! (also heard circa 1984) -
Better start riding then!
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Top one could be birch as well, young branches are dark.
