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garth mc garth

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  1. cool cool, im interested in a bit, my missus lives up ur way so when i go see her i can drag a trailer and collect some wood from ya.
  2. you could always carry it round on the vomits bonnet!! little and large
  3. you already got loads of toys and you want more!! u must have too much money:001_tt2:!!! that nice mog and the big vomit. and now you want one of these bad boys!!!
  4. i have one that i keep with the chipper for snedding small branches before chipping. saves wear on my main saws and quick to sharpen a small chain when it goes dull. l think they have their place in a domestic or occasional user environment but commercially they not robust enough
  5. to sell it on a large scale to farms you would need to speak to cattle or sheep farmers who deep litter their animals. i think selling it as a processed product would be the way forward as i know farmers would only go start knocking down their own timber instead of buying it in, mind you i suppose if your chipping at an hourly rate a little extra timber wont be too bad. i very much doubt it will be used as a direct replacement for straw but used in conjunction with it either to reduce foot damage on concrete yards or to be used under straw. you only have to look at how gypsum is recycled now to see how its taken off, the sheets of plaster board are stripped of their paper which is now a animal bedding product and the gypsum itself is spread on the fields.
  6. it depends on how you use the chip as bedding tho, i find it works well as an absorbent base layer when used a few inches deep then a covering of straw ontop. i find dairy farmers the biggest user of it for cubicle building floors, alternatively they have been using gypsum paper as another low cost bedding. our use for it is in my parents poultry and waterfowl business, each pen has a minimum of 6 inches of chip in and the transformation it has mate to the quality of the birds we produce ie feathers and legs arent all muddy even in the depths of winter on heavy wealden clay you can walk around the entire 2 acre compound in your slippers. they're customer regularly buy hard wood chip from me for use in their domestic pens
  7. i have brought a few bits from atkinsons and been happy with the service i got, simon cut us a deal at the apf show on a rear body and some other bits, which proved to be good value, i brought a used chip box from them a few days ago and again have no gripes with that.
  8. all of the chip i produce gets used as animal bedding on our farm, cant get enought of the stuff so if any of the kent members need a tipping area let me know!
  9. i know the company that i do a bit for charges £76 +vat per ton for disposal of green waste whether its been processed into chip or not. they take all the council green waste from refuse sites, everything is then put through a 400hp shredder then sold as biomass to power stations.
  10. mewp = mobile elevated work platform or cherry picker, bucket truck etc
  11. congratulations mate. all the best to you and the family
  12. this year we got beef and pork joints as a change from turkey or goose. daft really as my folks own a large poultry and waterfowl business run from our farm and we got a 1000 or so birds to choose from!!
  13. i did some fencing for maidstone housing association and had a similar situation where they didnt give me the right specs on their jobs. happened more than once too
  14. was it housing association or a housing agency stoxs?
  15. i know mate, saw one firm in ashford b&q car park that offered driveways roofing tree surgery fencing and scrap collection!! complete service eh!
  16. are all the cowboys down our way getting to you mark?
  17. cool old school deere on the front of the heizo!

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