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Thanks Eric. Ive also bought a second hand Grillo Climber 9.22. My thinking was this had the largest engine without being 4WD. 4WD would have been nice, but these are more expensive and there are more parts to go wrong. I havn't felt I have needed the extra traction in the past, but maybe I will regret this. For some reason the tyres have been shifted from tractor tyres to turf tyres, so I will probably return it to aggressive tractor tyres that will help with the traction. Regarding your electrical issues, you might try a 'contact spray' to control the oxidization - the kind that you use to protect trailer electrics? Alternatively I have bypassed all the safety systems in various mowers. I haven't looked at the Grillo's electrics yet, but normally you have one circuit running to the ignition key that needs to be closed by the various safety switches to work. Normally the safety circuit is a different colour from the black/red of the earth/positive - yellow or blue. A bit of continuity testing with an electrical tester will normally work this out. Let me know if you want me to figure out how the safety switches work on mine?

It's hard to put a figure on someone else's business. Do you know how much it costs you to run your business? Everything from wages, machinery costs, insurances PPE - everything. You need to include costs for replacement tools machine vehicles etc. This will give you a base figure upon which you build on. Don't forget you actually need some profit too.

You -could- throw logs through a kiln for about an hour and they are 'kiln dried'... like you say, it is dryness that counts - air dry them will do the same job, need more yard space but no expense of a kiln. Repeat customers will be the indicator if you have them dry enough - too wet, no repeat customers.

It's difficult to say how its going to go, people getting heat pumps may well still have a stove for the very cold days, I logged up some ash for a baronet in this position. People like me who heat with wood do so because they cut for themselves rather than buy it in. Not much chance of that you have to build up your own goodwill and customers come and go. I think dryness is an issue but I guess most wood is air dried, what yo will need is space and time plus the ability to build up a stock. In my village one log merchant gave up with the coming of woodsure and another stopped logs and went for biomass. ps I used to do business with a woodman with your name some 30 years ago

I use 5w30 synthetic everywhere for last 10 or more years so you absolutely fine with that one ! Try avoid w20 very modern C5 oils too thin , I’m testing this on push mover,it’s still working but I only started can’t say what happens in long term!

And don’t forget this Mark, you would feel naked and unprotected without it.

It will be like any business, is there a local market? Some areas loads of log burners going in, and like you say, some areas the fireplaces are being ripped out. Housing associations and councils will be removing open fires. New developments will be adding them as a feature, but how much demand that will drive for their Christmas day fire I am not so sure. How many local companies will you be competing with? Round here the coal man does his log deliveries for about half the year, see him on the main road 2 or 3 times a day. In the summer he has diversified to other stuff and has a good summer holiday. Think you'll need to consider summer work too. Kiln dried adds a premium, the wood sure and ready to burn don't demand one but it adds a certain proof of the wood being dry - can't just sell bulk loads of logs so easily for the customer to finish off - so it is easier. I don't know what you have going on at the moment but personally it is a tricky market to jump into and make a living out of unless you have facilities and a back up income to rely on till the customers remember your name - for example yard space and a van would be useful to have rather than diving in with a few thousands in assets and no business yet. A lot of people buy their logs in from overseas - almost as viable as home grown and processed without the hassle, then all they become is a delivery service.

I’m 100% sure it will work just don’t expect immediate results, more and more people fitting stoves in AA HOUSES, heat pumps not as cheap to run as was promised and most AA buildings is not AA at all at least there in Ireland, so unless government make it absolutely illegal firewood will be in demand!

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Woodsure was the final nail in the coffin for me. Hard work for not much money and customer loyalty not there any more.

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Ok, understood, the fuel leak is right on the seam, and as you are aware the 2100 cannot be split and simply reassembled with gaskets like many other saws, I did some investigating and it appears many have tried numerous ways to cure leaking fuel tanks, using a sealer seemed to be the most common and effective method, next to swapping out for a 480 tank and losing the manual oiler. in my case the oiler seems to be working fine with no transfer of fuel to oil or vice versa, would this indicate the existing plunger seal was intact?

Do you wear a chainsaw jacket as well? And a johnny?

Get out not in personally.

The only seal is an o ring at the bottom which is why over time they can leak between tanks, to get the manual oiler to the oil tank it has to pass through the fuel tank which is above the oil tank, if the o ring is disturbed your sealant could flow into the oil galleries.

how do you earn a living currently?

Good Morning All.

Essentially I'm looking to possibly go back in the firewood trade along other things, my father done it and earnt a living off it so did my grandfather. My father packed it in when I was too young to join him but we kept all the gear, nothing fancy but got the job done. Now the issue is alot of houses around me are going electric heating route and having fireplaces ripped out (especially the council houses as thats what happened to us) would you say its worth doing or no? Obviously competing against the lads that kept going would be a challenge but I would be hoping that my last name might bring a few customers because of the good name my father had then hopefully build from there. Another issue is I dont have a kiln is it really that important or have people decided not to think for themselves when judging if a log is too wet to burn now as we never had issues with it before. Sorry for the long post and thanks to anyone that answers. I think I already know what the answer will be.

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