Mr Ed
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Builders bag is only .56 m3.
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How can I put this simply... Do you have a ready supply of raw material, such as perfect scots pine / larch rings, or sawmill offcuts? do you have £7000 +vat to invest in a kindler? Do you expect to supply more than 2000 bags a season? If you answer no to any of these, then buy it in. Its called wholesaleing, and works for plenty of entrepenuers.
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Teehee. I hope you never get a really bad Job Dean, one your stuck on for weeks and weeks. In all honesty, that looks horrendous. I would have told him that I was no longer interested in his job and walked off...
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX0JXybkcB4&feature=rec-HM-r2]YouTube - Vintage wood spliter running with steam powering[/ame]
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It works by sufficiently advanced magic.
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Amazing.
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I was going to ask similar. Is Barry Shannahan working with you?
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Never realized they were US built. And they seem to be alive and well!
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Nope, not for about 20years I think.
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You might want to buy it off someone else because investing £7k in a kindler is a lot of money, and will take a long time to recover if your not selling a LOT of kindling. And if you have'nt got aready supply of the right timber, its going to cost you more to make it than to buy it in at the right price. Buying it in will still give you a healthy profit margin, and allow you to build up that side of the business.
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Nothing wrong with that Lime. Just needed a man with Balls
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Hope you did'nt log up the butt...?
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Very hard to come by nowadays, they've mostly been superseeded by the alpine tractors.
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It doesent have square edges for putting through a machine.
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I always hate the way softwood / connifer gets lambasted. A nice dry sappy pine log in a woodburner is a delight to behold.
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Yep. PM me with details, I can see if we can help you out. EDIT- Are you looking for a contractor or some employees?
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Terrible material for making kindling. I certainly wont go through any kind of Kindler
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They have their uses. I see them as a usefull small tractive unit - great to tow a big self powered chipper, a small low loader, or high capacity trailer. I see them mostly as an Arb status symbol, and often used as a jack of all trades, master of none. Expect to fork out £30k for a good one, and a lot for any ancillary equipment. I prefer running trucks with more specialised equipment to do the job. Most of the arbo unimogs I see look rediculous as oversized chip trucks. Like Stevie says, dont buy one if your not already busy. I would also say dont buy one unless your getting regular large site clearance work.
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Dont be so negative Ian:001_rolleyes: Your supposed to be encouraging these young fellows:laugh1:
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Is this a joke question?
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without trying to be negative... Why would other tree surgeons go out of their way to help you? Its not as if they need the business of clearing other peoples rubbish, and if they help you they're helping the competition. Are you saying you have no transport at all? no car even?
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Yup. Wet ash is ****. sits there hissing with the sap bubbling out the end of the log. That old rhyme is nonsense anyway. Most timber has similar calorific values when dried, some better some worse. But they all burn and produce heat.
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Did you not watch the video? there is no way wedges or a felling lever would push that big back leaner over like that. I know the swdesh foresters have been using them with great success. Kristoffer (swe kip) has one and highly rates it.
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old cargo engine not so good. very heavy. Cummins is the daddy. your gearbox is the Santana box, so should be good enough.
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I think I saw that 6 wheel unimog for sale on ebay a while back.
