Tom D

Good effort, I hate climbing those things, scratchy sappy yuk.

Just admit it Stevie, you can't do it, It will be on a loader to AC Price before the end of the week.

Imagine the blisters Rich!

We have this all the time, especially when the apples are starting to fall. Its great served warm with cream as a desert, or cold with a cuppa, and being a danish its also great as a hasty breakfast. Danish apple cake. (Mary Berry) 8oz self raising flour 8oz caster sugar 1 level teaspoon of baking powder 2 eggs 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 5oz melted butter 12 oz cooking apples, peeled and roughly chopped (large lumps work well) 1oz flaked (or chopped) almonds for the topping. Grease a loose bottom 8" cake tin. mix flour, sugar, eggs, almond extract, butter and baking powder in a large bowl and beat for a minute. Stick half of this in the cake tin then chuck in the apples, top with the rest of the mixture. (it looks like there isn't enough mixture at this point but it expands) sprinkle on the flaked almonds and stick it in a cool oven 160C for an hour and a half. Its done when its a light golden brown and a skewer comes out clean when its stuck into the cake. Its really nice this! and at this time of year there are loads of apples about..

Rapid boiling removes disolved oxygen from the water, this affects the flavour apparently, electric kettles tend to boil rapidly rather than the gentle simmer of the stove. It is for this reason that you are supposed to pour tea from a height to re-oxygenate it... wether you can taste the difference...

Processors can "feel" slow when doing arb waste because of the awkward shapes and having to stop to sort things out regularly, however if you look at the end result you will produce way more with a processor. We used to use a fuelwood 16ton dual speed PTO splitter, which as splitters go is pretty good, and has a nice fast stroke, however we now have a posch 350 processor which will produce more than twice as many logs in a day. we have a posch 30ton horisontal splitter which deals with the big stuff and produces billets which we can then put through the processor. For arb waste its important to get a processor with a decent tonnage push, some of the wee ones only have 4-6 ton, the posch has 11 ton which seems pretty good.

Tim's right, I have done jobs like that before, no point siting in the house bitching on arbtalk when you could have been out there earning some loot.

This thread prompted me to change mine! There's some classic winston one liners. like this.. Lady Astor " If you were my husband I'd poison your drink!" Churchill "If you were my wife I'd drink it!"

Heated floor works well for drying wood chip, I have seen this in action..

If you're serious about your work then finance is almost a must, unless you have been given a large inheritance! I try and finance half of the cost of new kit, that way if i need to shift it quickly I'll never be in negative equity as it were. I currently have finance on my new land rover, and on my valtra, I have used it in the past to buy chippers and the alpine tractor. If you wait to save up for all your kit you are loosing the advantage of having the kit straight away. The new kit should make you more productive and therefore make more money. If it isn't going to make you more money then why buy it? Just make sure you can afford the repayments!

I got £10 per ton from Jenkinsons (who are stobarts) they rejected 2 loads and I got £6 per ton for these. You need to haggle and drive a hard bargain. For £3 I'd just set fire to the pile....

£16k for an alpine tractor, sounds a lot but it has made that back many times over.[ame] [/ame][ame] [/ame]

Based central Scotland. We are needing a groundie / climber for next week, with a view to a permanent position commencing shortly thereafter. Please call Tom on 07801 538 717 for more information..

Have to agree with all the above, I was sick of spending out on PC's only to have them get progressively slower to the point of uselessness. I bought a mac and haven't looked back, downloading open office (free) gives you word / excel equivalents and other than my sage accounts which wasn't compatible it has been great. Interestingly I downloaded Parallells so that I could run windows on the mac, I stuck windows on it and even though I only used windows for the accounts it has rapidly slowed the whole machine down, really badly, to the point where I no longer use it. Shut windows down and the Mac is back! Awesome machine. Why windows cant build something as good I don't know. Windows sucks.

Good luck, I hope you get it back. Great idea putting the reward on ebay BTW.

Looking good! get em boxed up!

its a leupold vx6 3-18x44...

They sure look clean Spud, sorry they were so dirty, that have been languishing unloved in the back of the van for some time... Can't wait to try em..

Remember this one?.. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/6915-guess-height-3-a.html

Stevie's right john, wood isn't that heavy, we used my trailer to load road planings for my drive, we were taking 9 ton at a time, that was way heavier than any load of timber we have had on it, and we have really stacked it too!..

This is my latest acquisition, tikka 590 rebarreled in .20 vartarg ASE SL5 mod, which is a really nice compact unit....

You're mad if you think you can make one for less, the price of steel these days will make the raw materials over £100 when you add wheels and paint, then factor in the time, collecting materials (add fuel cost) 1 day to cut and weld, and a day to paint, (wait for primer to dry, then top coat x2?).... I value my own time and wouldn't work on my own for less than £200 a day so there's £400 for a start! I used to make stuff for work, I used to fix all my own vehicles too, I have realised that if you want to make any money its better to get these things done by professionals who have the workshop and equipment to do the job quickly and efficiently. I may spend £2k a year on servicing and repairing my "fleet" but i am aiming to turn over £1000 per day within the company so I'm far better off doing what I do best, killing trees, and leaving the rest to others, as every day lost is £1000 we didn't earn.

95 horse, 14 foot...

Mines a 9.5 ton payload Jon. she's about 14 fully loaded, but thats a lot for my tractor.

This is what I have John, seriously robust compared to grain and silage trailers, don't be tempted to get a timber bogey as you will only be able to put lengths on it. with this you can put big rings on, loose logs, chip, and you can still drop the sides and remove the bolster to put really big lumps on. Strip Down Trailer