Tom D
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I fitted some halfords extreme brilliance bulbs (white not blue) to replace the standard ones on my 110, they are noticably better and well worth the money. You can also buy a modern type headlamp unit which has a plain lens and the reflector has a modified profile instead of a plain reflector and a refracting lens like you will have at the moment. This will also give a significant improvement I would imagine, They are around the £200 mark I think. If your landy is old the reflector may have become dulled or even rusty so that will make a big difference.
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I have one on my landy, its excellent. If you drive exactly as you did before you'll get better economy, but in reality you tend to use the extra power. However My economy has not got worse and I have an extra 30 horses and better tourque which is great for towing. The other advantage of the power box over an ecu upgrade is that you can remove it in about 5 mins, so if you need to go back to the deallers for any reason its not a chore. also you can sell it on if youu sell the vehicle or decide that you don't need it.
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167k here. but we have around 300k worth of assets:001_smile:
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its off the pto:001_smile:
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Here's a vid of mine, woodline 16tonner [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlg9aarI1oM]YouTube - log splitting in edinburgh[/ame]
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I loose a job a month at least to this sort of thing, (not sneaking in after I've just quoted). Its a fact of life and you need to just get on with it. I'm not saying it doesn't hurt, especially if its a biggun. I lost a 3k+ job this time last year. I was fizzing but what are you gonna do? At the end of the day you need to remind yoiurself that these guys will never do any good in the long run, undercharging is the number one cause of small business failiure in the service sector. FWIW I think you're too cheap anyway. I wouldn't put out 3 men for less than 600 and I often get 6-800 for a 2 man team.
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don't bother plucking, just skin em, cut off breasts and pan fry inb butter and garlic, serve on creamy mash with a drisle of this stuff. Speciality, Gourmet Foods and Ingredients - Balsamusse Balsamic Glaze Raspberry (Powered by CubeCart) any sweet fruity sauce like redcurrant jelly would be nice but that stuf is the dogs:thumbup:
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Both are entertaining to watch, however I can't really remember learning anything watching BG, as others have said he is a bit " watch me jump into this raging river and climb this cliff etc" without much skill involved. For me enjoying the outdoors is not about eating grubs and roadkil,l its about travelling light and getting to fish in places where you can not see another soul all day. then cooking your catch over a nice little fire whilst enjoying a wee dram ( whisky takes up much less space than beer and gives more bang for your buck). I have a lightweight hammock and tarp to sleep under, if you like camping get a hammock. all those cold uncomfortable nights spent sleeping on the floor will be a distant memory, they are well comfy:thumbup:
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Don't listen to all this rubbish. What you need is Bullemia. I know this guy from coventry who can make a man puke up his breakfast just by talking to him. I can introduce you if you like.
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I fitted my own, both a rayburn and an aarrow boiler stove linked ny a dunsley neutraliser together with a condensing gas boiler ( I got someone qualified to connect the gas up) Its not that hard and done properly is pretty efficient. My heating, hot water and cooking eats up about 30 cube of good dry logs each year, so bear that in mind as thats quite a lot of wood. Then I live in a draughty old house where as your's will be a new build. If its not too late, I (if i was doing my own newbuild) would fit an underfloor system. This is possible if you use a heat store/exchanger. This is basically a large hot water cylinder with two coils instead of one the top coil feeds the underfloor system and the bottom one comes from the stove. This has the advantage that in the morning before you get up you have a store of hot water to get the heating going before you get up and start putting logs on the fire. It also takes out heat "spikes" and prevents the underfloor system being overheated.
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I have owned both of the old versions of these machines, the tw is slightly quicker on streight timber, the gm wins on leafy brash especially conifer, you will never block the wee gm. the round blades last way longer than the flat ones. The bearings are way better on the gm too. I'd buy the greenmech.
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Its not quite right as an arb truck as it doesn't tip. However as a second truck instead of my defender it would be great, except its not 4x4. I could get all the crap out of my 110 in that drawer and i wouldn't have to unpack it each time the thing I wanted was at the back. ant there'd still be room for the stumpgrinder on the back. Like Rupe says.. its almost perfect:001_smile:
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A friend of mine has this van, it has a decent sized flatbed and this awesome drawer. The drawer is very sturdy and lockable, its also dry inside. A great idea, I don't know if they make a tipper.
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The best groundies are climbers who happen to be on the ground. I would only pay a groundie the same as a climber if he could do all the usual groundie stuff without being told to...as well as..... He would be able to fell any tree that was fellable with the equipment that was available to him. As well as that he could tell an inexperienced climber what to do, IE where to tie, where to place gear, where to cut, what cut to use and so on. He would also be able to drive and operate all my machinery and fix it if it broke. He would be able to converse knowledgeably with clients and tell them why they can't have "just a bit more off". He would be able to speak to neighbours who enquired after costings and confidently price and win the job. And he would remain cheerful throughout whatever clients, neighbours or pedestrians said or did. Thats what I do when I'm not climbing and if someone came allong who could do the same I'd pay him climbers money.
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Nice work mate.
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Worth a watch, lasts an hour but quite a nice documentary on the history of scotlands forests. I recorded it on sunday and just watched it. BBC iPlayer - Making Scotland's Landscape: Scotland's Trees
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very sorry to read of your loss, you have our deepest sympathy. take heart form all the kind words on here. tom
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Last week so bit early. hopefully i'll get to see it again next year.
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Build a small fire with dry deadwood and build it up, light the fire on 4 streight lenghts of 4" timber to keep it off the ground at the start, wait for at least 30 mins. Trim your brash to 4' lenghts and add this once your fire is really going then wait some more. Once you have a 6'wide fire that is burning well then you can start chucking anything on it. It takes patience but it is quicker in the long run. Once going you can load it with a machine no porblem, I have burnt tons and tons of stuff this way. Its better spending an hour first thing doing it properly then having to repeatedly unpick your fire, or even worse wasting fuel and tyres on it.
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Cold and dry would do me nicely, snow is a pita which stops work. Having a 4x4 is great but once you stick a trailer behind it its not so much fun.
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Ugly?? Its a big log. They're never pretty. Thats a biggun, did you hi-ab it?
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I re-sew the buttons with whipping twine... they don't come off then!
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there's method in that madness, the chains on my little winch wont go round any thing thicker than about 18" so leaving a few pegs gives us domething to choke on to once its down. the really big one on the right in the first view was left to avoid dropping it on top of some other brash. TBH though pegs are only a real pain when you're rigging.
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That was a different one, much bigger than this one, haven't got the go ahead on that one yet, it belongs to a farmer and you know how tight they are. He's probably thinking about doing it himself:001_smile:
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A couple of the beech we did today.
