Kev Stephenson

finally get around to moving house, before the kids start school.

Keep a business yard somewhere for surplus (or for the purposes of planning 'share' with another surgeon) but deliver very very regularly timber for your own use and chip for the paddock. Unless there is a covenant in place oryou are not causing a nuisence you can run the tractor to process YOUR OWN logs just not for profit or gain, i.e personal use only. Construction of temp buildings for storing logs won't be an issue unless you are wanting brick built and big - personal use only. If the council come knocking you can state the timber/logs/chip is for personal use the business stock is held at ????? yard. You might have more problems using home as an operating base if your 2 lads come in their own cars and parking at the house is an issue. Kev

People need to check Post dates. Tommy got engaged Xmas 2008

yp did, BT didn't. You are sold a 1/3 of a column or half a page with no mention of how big the page is.

The west yorkshire FLO is a firm believer in this as well. He was more than happy that I had done DSC1 before issuing my FAC, especially for the bigger calibers.

you have got a cat sleeping under the warm engine and it is taking a pee before it leaves in a morning????

I've got 80cm cube bags which work out at 0.512 cubic meters, the back of my landie measures at 1.98 cubic meters as a level load. A full load works out at about 40 logs short of 4 bags.

That is the basics, yes, the posh student have beans on their toast and wine without a screw top. Degrees are from 3 years upwards and you start to pay back the loan when you earn over £21k (I think that is the current figure). You pay back 9% of your earnings over the £21k limit and the interest rate on the loan is supposed to be inflation. However, if you leave the country you don't pay it back, if you don't earn £21k (for example working part time) you don't pay it back or if you default for 5 years or fail to earn £21k for 5 years you never pay it back. If you or I went to the bank to finance a new chipper then 2 years later went in and said "that chipper isn't making me as much as I thought it would, will you write the loan off?" Do you think they would say no problems, leave it with us. My sister in law (to be) has just finished studing medicine at one of the London Uni's, she has now got a £40k plus student loan and expects it to take 15ish years to pay off (on a surgeons wage) provided she doesn't take time off to have kids. I fully agree that people should pay (or be sponsored) for uni education as it now appears that everyone thinks that going to Uni is the done thing and no one just wants a job. But, who is going to fund the student loans for the next few years until these students start paying back into the system? Should parents be forced to fork out a percentage (e.g 50% to be funded by parents/other means upfront with the other 50% given by means of the loan)

Sounds about right, I was going to say 7-8k for the landie depending on actual condition/service history

Mine cost £5k per acre, has no TPO's, a fishing lake, good access and no footpaths within a mile so is quite private. £10k per acre sounds a lot

If you sold them a cubic meter bag then I would leave it at that. If you give away 2 barrow loads for free it might be expected every time.

don't forget the insulting tape for ALL electrical problems

Was it Emmerdale that tipped you over the edge?

Can I throw a bottle of homebrew Sloe gin into the raffle. Hopefully this one will travel more than 6 miles.

I use a winch wireless remote for my tipper on the land rover. Cost about £26 from ebay. Very easy to wire up when you find the relays which send 12v feeds to the pump and release solonoid

Do a search for waster or waste carriers, there is loads of info on this site

Bids are supposed to be legally binding contracts unless the bidders can prove the item description is misleading

LOG on eBay (end time 06-Dec-10 07:57:41 GMT) Yes I know they will be joke bids but it made me chuckle

If Dean was holding the gun and the camera, who was holding the 'pen'?

:lol:I think his winky looks like a 12 bore:lol:

Such a posh bird that Stacy. A meal of her choice and she went for Savaloy and Chips!!!

If the chipper hasn't had a recent set of springs for £60 I would change them. It has made a huge difference to mine. Mine is a Yr 2000 model and needed a new top spring hanger as the new springs are a bigger diameter so would catch if you just use the old hanger.

You don't need to take the rollers out. Take off the infeed chute (only 4 bolts and 1 electrical plug) and you have easy access to the rollers. Below is an extract from an email I got from Graham at Orange plant when I was having a bit of trouble with mine. I ended up just changing the springs and spring hanger for about £60 and it solved my problem. The roller 'blades' are not cheap Try sharpening them a bit with a dremel or similar - you can do this without unbolting them Kev

The number on the bar coded sticker is the serial number

Dean, there is another thread on here with the names of the tree surgeons involved. It might be worth making contact with them as I am sure the same 'it can't do that' will be applied to their case