Justme

On pallets over hard dry standing will last a good while.

On pallets over grass / soil will not.

Birch will rot out first.

I think that some got just pictures and words whilst others got pictures words and speech.

When the data has been collected I might be able to post the totals. But not individually. 

They are limited on what pre info they can give.

Thank you to everyone that tried or completed it.

9 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

Survey doesn’t work that’s why no one’s completing it 

It does on chrome. It is slow but thats intentional

Hi All.

Can a few of you please do this survey for my daughters degree work.

Ensure that you do actually get to the debrief at the end as so far most do the survey but are not finishing so the data is not captured.

https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/36161DBA-E97C-49F7-B6FF-71501A5D9E27?fbclid=IwAR2PYEKBcAff8vjZKvtcq1d8YECxceWLpQJXJLsHzvu-gopzVTjaBt1eag4

Thank you.

8 hours ago, Doug Tait said:

 

Fair enough. I'm lucky living in a quiet area of Scotland where you can go for miles without an issue. Seems such a strange idea to hire a field with a secure fence by the hour!

Me too, but Wales. I was very surprised when I got to site & had to drive through it to get to the wood.

30 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

It's a strange world, of all the dogs I've walked it's never occurred to me I needed to hire a small compound to do it in, there's a hugely engaging world out there to go have fun in!

Try living in a city.

6 minutes ago, Justme said:

Per paddock. 2 or 3 paddocks to an acre.

 

Charge more for the bigger ones or ones with stuff like agility kit in.

Just looked at one online.

Open for 12 hours per day thats £96 per day if fully booked.

The one I saw was fully booked all day.

On 12/01/2024 at 21:57, AHPP said:

 

£50 a day for 250 days is £12,500.

Per paddock. 2 or 3 paddocks to an acre.

Charge more for the bigger ones or ones with stuff like agility kit in.

On 12/01/2024 at 21:52, GarethM said:

You need full planning permission, along with parking area etc.

 

All for an amazing £8-10 an hour on a 10k investment, there are about half a dozen within a 15 minute drive.

There are half a dozen in the area for a reason  

On 12/01/2024 at 21:52, GarethM said:

You need full planning permission, along with parking area etc.

 

All for an amazing £8-10 an hour on a 10k investment, there are about half a dozen within a 15 minute drive.

More than you will make running sheep on the same area.

On 10/01/2024 at 16:43, GarethM said:

 

 

I had one the other month asking about dog fields, she quickly realised fencing, planning etc etc makes it unviable. If it was I'd have done it 20 years ago 

Not so sure about that.

I did a processing job on a site that had a few paddocks full secure fenced with electronic access, cameras, secure parking. While we were there they were all in constant use by dog walkers. All booked online, given an access code to the paddock booked that only worked for the time booked. Yes lots of cost to set up, but after that run the sheep in to mow it as needed.

The older 50c130 6 speed, the first gear was more a crawler gear or for when towing heavy. Even towing 3500kg it only needed 1st on a hill. Downside terrible on a damp surface unless you put a tonne over back axle.

2 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Is there still an exemption for under 50km from base?

100km BUT not for carrying goods. Only for tools and equipment gor you to use onsite.

On 28/12/2023 at 09:00, Mark Dudfield said:

Hello can anyone recommend a good European supplier of Kiln dried firewood . It seems to be a mine field out there!  I am getting prices ranging from €50 a Tonne to €250 a Tonne!  Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

They dont normally sell by the tonne.

More normal by the crate / m3.

3 hours ago, htb said:

Right on this topic. I will be towing a trailer from North of Scotland to South Wales do I need a Tacho? as part of my house move. Tow vehicle will be a Land Rover Hicap and trailer 12Ft Ifor, Total weight approx 6t.

This is not for hire or reward as it is my own personal move. L/R is insured for business use.

Nope.

Until you move the business kit.

Then you do.

7 hours ago, doobin said:

Tacho would only apply if over 3.5t gross weight vehicle, or if over 4250kg with trailer and not covered under an exemption. For example, the village baker's 3.5t delivery van doesn't need a tacho.

 

And it's 'hire or reward'....

Dont know of any 4250kg tacho exemption.

Under 3500kg exempt or over 3500kg needed it unless another exemption applies. Be that vehicle or vehicle & trailer the limit is still 3500kg. So a 3500kg vehicle towing a Halfords special 200kg trailer need tacho if carrying goods on trailer or in vehicle.

There is a small trailer exemption based on the unladen weight of the trailer BUT as soon as you are carrying "goods" that no longer applies. Plus thats for O licence.

On 28/12/2023 at 09:31, Squaredy said:

I sort of agree it seems un-necessary to have the steel container when such a good job is done of the log "cladding".  BUT, imagine the look on the face of some toerag trying to break in, and he discovers that underneath that lovely hobbitesque exterior is an impenetrable steel shipping container!

There are lots that will tell you that steel containers are def not impenetrable. 

3 hours ago, peds said:

We needed it because we were building a house and needed somewhere for deliveries, tools, storing furniture mid-move etc., and didn't have the time to build anything else. 4 screws in the ground one afternoon, containers delivered the next day, finished. Usable secure and dry storage space.

Now that they are there, it's a lot quicker and easier to just clad them and roof them than it would be to get rid and start again from scratch.

 

I don't see the reason for the negativity towards them. There's certainly enough containers kicking around for people to do whatever they want with them. 

Just seems a waste of resources.

However I can understand why in your case it was done that way.

Or build the inside of a few to spec off site.

Then assemble into a bigger structure quickly & clad later.

1 minute ago, woody paul said:

Good set of chains and good tractor and you can move it around. 

Could do the same with a wood cabin on skids. Or wheels.

What are people doing to grinding the rakers back?

On 21/12/2023 at 15:32, GarethM said:

Haha, the makes more sense 🙂.

 

I thought it was bog standard from WP and couldn't get the numbers to work in my mind as I've a single cylinder silent pack, 2000rpm gets around 30lpm.

The wp was standard with honda petrol.

The Dunn 420 not so much standard  

55 minutes ago, peds said:

One advantage is that it no longer looks like a shipping container.  I have 2x20ft containers with a gap between them, they were hugely useful when we were building our house, and my wife says we can only keep them if they get clad to a decent standard. 

But why do you even need the container if your doing this to it?

A bit extra work would make it un necessary to even have a container. 

22 hours ago, GarethM said:

Aren't they both little 3,000rpm engines with the same hi/low pump as the petrol?.

 

Unless they had the common sense to just fit a constant output pump.

No, the wp 30 had a little single cylinder honda screaming its t!ts off. The current has a 4 cylinder 2.8l turbo diesel thats running at about 50bhp / 1200rpm but can do 110bhp at 2.5-3k. The wp30 had a single pump. The current a triple stacked pump plus a 10bhp pto pump via a T box.

On 22/10/2023 at 14:14, GarethM said:

Is that because quieter ?, always found using petrol became something of a gulag style form of punishment.

Def not quieter. Prob more to do with efficiency curves. The petrol would be at max revs whilst the diesel at just 1.2-1.4k.