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    Good post
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    Have used the echo one with hedge cutter but it's a bit of pig and you wouldn't want to use it for long!
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    Quick for sure, but not a particularly clean or uniform end product, and from what I've seen, pretty much makes kindling out of some woods, especially if they are a bit dry for it.
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    Can understand your frustration, but surely it's not the guy in the kiosk's fault? He's only carrying out his employers instructions. Letting rip at him's a bit low in my opinion.
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    See what you mean - more of a tidy up/re-spacing exercise, with a bit of firewood where you can, than a commercial thin. Should be able to swing that on a "do it for the wood" basis and do quite well if you can keep a green wellied agent type out of the equation
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    Good advice.
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    @ £15 a tonne standing, that leaves £30 or more per tonne to fell and extract it. Is it really that bad a site you can't do it for anywhere near that?
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    Give them time. They'll either try to get it down and out themselves and realise how much work's involved, or it will just stand there for ever and a day. That's when you can go back in with a lower offer That's interesting Jon, do you find the Ash really generates that much more roadside round you? Round us it might get a little more but not much - especially as most of the ones worth dealing with know Alder's worth having too.
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    :thumbup:
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    We've done similar and, like you said, it's nowt of a job Not tried it on hardwood but have seen it ork well on standing Spruce, though we left them for a good few months.
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    Just for you Got the results back from Saturday's hare and hound - an Arbtalk 1-2 back in the Sportsman class Buzzsurgeon took the win with me in second
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    That's not how I read it. If you were expecting 0.7 cubic metres of solid wood then it would have filled 2 or 3 dumpy bags. Though if you're finding pine in among the hardwood then that's a bit off if it was sold as all hardwood but £50 for a dumpy bag is cheap however you look at it.
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    The dumpy bag probably did measure 0.7 cubic metres - that same amount of wood stacked was always going to take up less space. Where's the problem with that bit?
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    Reckon it's just a waiting game til one comes up at the right price - some one will buy ne, scare themselves on it and then sell it to the first person who comes along I'm aching like hell but still buzzing after the weekend - H&H was ace, the KTM was definitely the bike for the job. Timecard was good too but front wheel bearing collapsed with a lap and a bit to go so limped it the rest of the lap and swapped onto the DR (I did ask first). What a revelation - I reckon somehow I was faster on the 125 than on the KTM. The guy on the KTM 600 I rode round the outside of on the stubble was as shocked as I was
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    No prob Sorry it took so long to get them in the post.
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    How compact does it need to be and what other roles would you want it to do Jon? I'll be honest, I've no real experience of the little loaders, but regularly work alongside a 28hp 4wd landini with loader that is so versatile and with a few sensible mods from new, will travel over some pretty serious terrain and has a surprisingly big lift for it's size. We use it for all sorts from simple yard work (splitter etc) and loading logs/chip, out on scrub clearances (either burning up or flailing), skidding in the woods and pretty much anything else where it will fit or make the job easier. I'm heading out the door shortly but there are photos of it on here smewhere - if you don't find them let me know after the weekend and I'll find some fresh ones.
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    How bad do I miss my old one
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    Thank fek for that - thought I was on my own with that one
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    Unless you are picking it up as actual sawn and split logs (or chip) and it's going on your own personal fire at home then no, it's 20%. Roundwood stacked at roadside isn't firewood until it's been processed.
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    Wot he said ^ It's not until it's processed into a domestic heating fuel and is being sold to the end user that it gets the 5% vat.
  24. Chris Sheppard
    Nice one - so when you taking it racing? We're at a two day vintage event in Northumberland this coming weekend - Hare and Hounds on the Saturday afternoon and timecard on the Sunday. KTM's coming together nicely - managed to get hold of an original front mudguard and headlight for it as well as a proper EXC subframe and mudguard. Even managed to get the forks working something like now too. Well looking forward to it as haven't ridden it properly since June.
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    Only wore the wide ones once but seem to remember it sits quite low and probably wouldn't be tight enough to offer any support to your back, more spread the load of what's hanging off it. I didn't get on with it, but I don't really like having a tool belt anyway unless I really have to.

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