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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    There's a theoretical advantage of reduced load at the rigging point, I don't think you should be close enough to breaking the rigging point for this to be real though. Maybe it makes everything run smoother. In my area there's a lot of small trees in small drop zones, so I carry spidersling with arboring in my climbing kit as a general light rigging device - dead easy to set, no need for bollard, easy to move around to the best position as you go. It gives the equivalent of say half a wrap of friction on a bollard, so in a removal you can rig all the branches and light wood off using it. It's only real disadvantage is that it's hard to pull limbs back up. When the groundie pulls down it adds friction, so sometimes I end up pulling up on the up rope to help. Maybe also rings are not midline attachable but pulleys are. I don't find this too important though.
  2. Dan Maynard
    Did it look smaller in the picture when you ordered it? You'll have to set a block first to get a hauling line to bring that up the tree!
  3. Dan Maynard
    I was looking for an ascender to go on my spikes and didn't really resolve that. Not absolutely sure this is the one I saw but here https://skylandequipment.com/collections/husqvarna-t540i-xp-spare-parts/products/husqvarna-battery-kit-bli200x I guess if Husqvarna do it then any dealer could order the part though?
  4. Dan Maynard
    And you got a photo there so you know you weren't seeing things later. Good plan.
  5. Dan Maynard
    You can wash the ropes too, I don't use the washing machine for this but lots of people do. Maybe put it all in a pile on the lawn and hose down would be good enough? I guess hard to quantify the risk and thus know what is appropriate level of decontamination. How long do any pathogens survive in the faeces?
  6. Dan Maynard
    I was sure it had dropped to 198.9 when I passed in the morning so I went back on the way home. Maybe I was seeing things but back to 199.9 anyway.
  7. Dan Maynard
    Browsing around arb suppliers the other day, somewhere was advertising replacement husky battery boxes. If I remember where I'll add it here. Think around £30?
  8. Dan Maynard
    Maybe there's a "most notifications" badge in the offing?
  9. Dan Maynard
    Hard to see how wedged it is, but the other option to pulling the butt away with the winch is to create some rolling action that may bring it down. Can either wrap sling around the stem and pull to the side, or throw line a rope in higher up. Also, don't want to state the obvious but worth reading up on where not to stand during winch operations, especially if using redirect block
  10. Dan Maynard
    I would have thought the neighbours are quite welcome to kill any roots that cross the boundary. Glyphosate is going to be a lot cheaper than solicitors though.
  11. Dan Maynard
    Nobody suggested popping to Costa? Deliveroo? Have worked with one chap who would call them up if he'd done a private job at the weekend as feeling flush.
  12. Dan Maynard
    Surely quick check on tank pressure is open the filler lid? Does this stop the dripping? Definitely had saws that don't want to restart when too hot, let tank pressure out and off they go.
  13. Dan Maynard
    Secondhand, still possible previous owner had problems in hot weather and that's why they sold it.
  14. Dan Maynard
    We had loads of wood that dad called macrocarpa after the 87 storms. Used to crack and spit chunks out of the fire so had a guard up, would be ok in a woodburner. I'd say somewhat similar to leylandii, slightly more orangey colour.
  15. Dan Maynard
    I don't think I could be doing with separate coffee, milk powder etc as not always in my own truck. I usually make the coffee into the flask, there is a brown layer inside it to be fair but I reckon that just adds to the flavour. Once in a blue moon it gets a dose of Miltons, no aftertaste with that.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Just thinking if you're selling it to a Vat registered firm they don't care if you do put vat on, so not really a hit to take.
  17. Dan Maynard
    Also, it's possible but far from given that they will interfere with your foundations. Tree roots are relatively shallow so if you have foundations they will very likely be deeper. This makes it a hard case to prove, so not a strong argument from the TPO point of view.
  18. Dan Maynard
    I clicked through, I don't think you can use that VAT margin scheme. There are specific rules for secondhand vehicles and they don't apply if you have paid VAT on the vehicle when you bought it. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-vat-margin-scheme-for-second-hand-vehicles When you say conflicting information from two different people, were they both accountants?
  19. Dan Maynard
    Even softwood? I'd generally give or throw away conifer as most people don't want it and once I've split a few cube for myself it has to go somewhere.
  20. Dan Maynard
    Copper should be doable clamped between a couple of bits of angle iron, slap the flange over gradually with a shorter piece. It's how we used to DIY car sill patches out of steel when I was younger.
  21. Dan Maynard
    I think we're fairly early stage, the more I look the more I see at the moment but I think younger trees generally are better. There are quite a few thinning trees with a huge number of keys, does sort of make sense that if the tree detects the end is nigh it diverts resources to reproducing.
  22. Dan Maynard
    You might have luck on here but I would say worth ringing people up too. SP Landscape at Red Lodge must be your way, I sub at Richardson Tree Surgery in Cambridge and one of the regular guys has gone to the Lake District for the summer so you might get a few days there - don't know what the plan is not my shout. I'd say ring everyone and try to get a day here and there, all experience is good and makes it easier to get the next job.
  23. Dan Maynard
    Id go a bit lower, the other factor is that lower gives more swing. For me somewhere around knee height, can't remember where I read that. On the ground is too low and you lose energy as the log bounces more, set against the advantage that the log can't fall off so saves on picking up. I've gone mostly hydraulic now but I did set up one block with a tyre which saves a lot of bending and picking, and another block for busting down bits that don't initially fit in the tyre.
  24. Dan Maynard
    Can't listen to JV. Had a nostalgic feeling for Steve Wright show but particularly hated his joggin fishin runnin "no g" feature on a Friday afternoon. Any joke explained is not funny, this was the same joke explained over and over and over again.
  25. Dan Maynard
    Yikes I'd better check my KM90!

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