Dan Maynard
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Yes, unsafe. Think it was Rough Hewn who posted a test video a few years ago, the cheapest saws have things like chain brake handle snap far too easily. A good secondhand saw from someone you trust may be a good option, the 261 is a different league to those smaller saws in cut speed.
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That's partly true, the thing is in 5 or 10 years you will still get spares for a MS171 or 135 so I would say you are better off with either Stihl or Husqvarna than the other Chinese saws.
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New business start up advise needed.
Dan Maynard replied to Lumberjock's topic in Business Management
I would suggest there aren't many arborists who don't have a van and chipper, in the same way you can buy one so can they. However, there may be a market where people with one van hire you in on bigger jobs. That would maybe be difficult to keep up every day though, and again not sure they'd want to hire your chipper unless say you have an 10 or 12" machine. Personally I'd say if you are paying out for van and chipper then you need to be running it as a business to pay those overheads, and hire in climbers as needed. You could do the tickets and do smaller takedown and prune jobs, no need to aim to climb everything. Or keep the overheads low and go subbie groundie. Plenty of demand for that round here at least, maybe not the money there is in forestry but I would think easier too. -
Still MS201t High, low and idle speed screw settings.
Dan Maynard replied to hesslemount's topic in Chainsaws
Not sure exactly but think mine is 2016, definitely MTronic. -
Or someone filled fuel with chain oil and then tipped it back out. I've heard that can make it smoke for a tank or two, apparently, never seen it myself obviously, honest.
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Still don't like Nestle products, have a leftover negative feeling from boycotting their products in the 80s and 90s as a conscientious teenager/student.
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Have you tried to chat to your TO? It's going to depend how they view pollard but it is a viable way to manage willow going forward.
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Bastards. Fed up of pigeons at the moment, seems they've kept on breeding like mad with the warm weather.
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I believe if you sell volumes of 2 cubic metres or more there's no need to register. This might be wrong though. Funny that they say consumers will be looking for ready to burn logo on the packaging. Going to be hard to stick it on the pile of logs on the drive. Also, technical support? They're logs ffs.
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I'm certainly not looking forward to them arriving here, maybe unless they sting pigeons and drive them out of the trees?
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Internal measurements like that with verniers will tend to under read, and you already have almost 0.1 difference when hole should if anything be slightly smaller than bearing. To me it looks like crankcase is shot.
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I think the top plate is like square ground, the side plate cutting angle will be different. Like you say though, if it's a step towards but much easier to file then may be a good thing.
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Or a 400 which is similar weight to a 362 but more power, think more money too. It's an extra kg on top of 261. I think this is a trick question, depends entirely on what you are doing.
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I'm sorry to hear that, maybe fair enough time to hang them up.
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TPO or conservation area?
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That sounds serious, are you well? PS What saws you got?
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I've just bought a muck truck, apparently there's a shortage of Honda engines so a good secondhand one ought to be worth strong money.
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Maybe he's taking it so his elderly neighbours can have the fuel they need to go shopping. Or maybe he's a complete twat.
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One of my customers has a little Hyundai 6hp thing and reckoned it was really good last year for shrubs etc. Got it out this year though and it won't start.
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It was slightly tongue in cheek, Woodsure is the body theoretically administering the firewood legislation that nobody has heard of. In my estimation something like 0.01% of firewood producers are currently registered, as eggs said crack on its only firewood for beer money.
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You probably have 2 cubic metres in the transit so conveniently that would mean you are above the size requiring you to register for Woodsure. Crack on, should be £200 for a van load seasoned at least, depends where you are a bit obviously.
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I believe if there's two of you on the job and you're not immediate family then you will come under employers liability umbrella one way or the other, as Steve says legal requirement.
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I've got a 112 and pretty sure that has no points. Not absolutely sure of the year but think 77 or 78.
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I've made mallets from hazel too, I would suggest two different woods is overcomplicating the thing. It doesn't really matter what the handle wood is, so it might as well be the same as the head - advantage being then you just cut down the wood thinner and no problems joining head to handle. That'd be my take anyway, simple is good. Besides, you'll leave it in a hedge somewhere so don't want to invest too much love into it.
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Good man. 140 poplars would have me investing in kit too.
