Rupe
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Good stuff!! Never knew there was such a thing as a "really nice poplar"
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Stevie, I love the simplicity of your life!! Kids, food, wife, arbtalk, work! Not necessarily in that order! I know you have plenty other stuff to deal with too mate but your cheerful approach to the important things in life is refreshing. Now f&*k off, I'm in a bad mood and so is everybody else!
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A cheap old quad will get the chipper in the same places as the tracks will just about. And then you have a quad too to do doughnuts with at lunch time! -
But a tracked chipper is an expensive lump to have sitting around. How about changing it to an equivelent tow behind?
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Go away! I have a pain accross my forehead! I think its called anxiety! It needs sunshine to make it go away!
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I'm in the same boat! Can't pay any bills and have nothing due in! I've been sayign for years that I would liek to have january off every year, but you need to be in for that one phone call that will start the year off nicley! That won't happen till the snows gone though!
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Yes it bound to lose you jobs. A chipper is expected these days to be included in a standard day rate, so unless your day rate is 100-200 less than everyogn else then there is no space to allow for that addition. I used to hire one (6 inch) at about 225 a week if I remember rightly, but buying a new one was only 300 ish a month. Plus, dependign on where your hire company is at, you also have to figure in cost of collection/ return in terms of time and fuel costs, that all comes out of your profit.
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Wherabouts in glos are you?
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I've been doing some sums! This is the way forward IMO. My two trailer will carry more if in these bags so two deliveries at once, simple!
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I don't think so, the action looked just like he using a vt.
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In the first pic of the beech/wall and then the later pic of the Elm/wall, I think the walls have been built up to the tree years ago and the tree has grown and engulfed the "ends" of the walls, as apposed to actually growing over a complete wall which would not be possible IMO.
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I hire mine to customers who are physically capable of using such a machine, that way I make money from the splitting but don't actually do anything! I offer it when they say "what am I supposed to do with those rings" £150 for a week inc vat and delivery, only been hired about 5 times but it makes it all helps.
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Are you sure you've seen the right vids?
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We had quite a few lakes by our house as a kid, they were gravel pits refilled, and they always seemed to freeze over, and we would walk accross them quite happily. They froze over last year for the first time in about 10 years but I wouldn't have walked over them. I'll be over there tomorrow, I'll go for a walk and see how frozen they are now, probably won't walk over them now, age and wisdom etc!
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In the states they offer a discount off the quote for no clear up and the option to have them come back in the spring to clear up instead. Most customers (so I'm told) take the discount and do the clear up them selves. (Only final racking etc not full clear clear up!)
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I'm so skint now! If I start work next monday (unlikely) then I will still have 2 weeks before I get paid or get it cleared in the bank! I've had everything owed to me as well so nothing coming in! Christmas is a pain! The only way to be prepared is to have enough in the bank to not worry about it and go on holidy for january, but then you might miss those vital site clearance jobs that come along for february!
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Just stick it on with the velcro, whats the worst that can happen? I used both pads on the helmet and just the one large one on the mount so I can move it forward and backward as required.
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They do an inhalant for teenagers who are dispondant with the world of technology around them that they can't afford............iglue
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We were working to the limits of the rope not the device. I have a bigger rope for bigger bits.
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Why the 4th April? Thats far too organised!! January the 31st surely?
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You need to sleep the night in it before you can call it an igloo! Until then its just a mound of snow with a hole in it. Go on spend a night in it, they are good fun!
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Thats the one, still worth a read now!
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Good review!! They do a diesel now. Most diesel engines would fit into a leagacy so they designed there own, the first ever diesel boxer I believe. Subaru don't do things by halves.
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A 16mm rope is capable of far more than a portawrap will allow, if you can let it run then much larger peices are possible if you use a decent bollard type device. I wouldn't have wanted to lower these on a portawrap!
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It is strange about clothign isn't it!! I own maybe four pairs of suitable hiking style boots and a coupel of goretex jackets, and a down jackets, maybe 6 fleece tops/jackets numerouse hats and gloves etc. and this includes non of my workware, its just my normal clothign collection for year round use. Some poeple actually only go outside when its snowy its seems and never at any other time of year and then they wonder why they get cold. In fact they think they are cold because of the weather when it is in fact because they are not prepared for it.
