Billy
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no drugs, just firewood, honest. 132L tank:lol: Just done first few days work about 12 miles motorway and 20 rural/town each way today and she averaged 21MPG, 1 MPG better than my transit! and by rural i mean real dicy lanes stopping every few miles to give way etc, should be good for mid twenties + on long hauls. Pulls amazing a load genuinley makes no difference at all, just burbles along the same at 1200rpm not straining at all. The bed is massive, it looks good as it is imo but i may consider putting a tipper on it in future.
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Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 5.9 Cummins Turbo Diesel, 8ft+ bed Awesome machine pulls same loaded or unloaded, pretty much same capacity as transit tipper, better on fuel, SO comfy and sounds great!
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Spot on:thumbup1:
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Had ago on some of these a few weeks ago, couldn;t beleive how effective they were, great product!
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Good points guess it depends how set people are on doing enduro, everyone I know went more h&h and mx as it was less hassle.+ you can't beat the feeling of the ruthless first lap
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leaving the saw in the first cut of next block, whilst throwing the one thats ready to go when chogging down, to avoid letting it hang pulling it up etc. Chuching stuff so it lands butt towards the truck/gate so the groundy doesn't need to turn it around. sending the top out BIG!
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dehumidifier? a really big one.
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Interesting, I also get o tip for free at this place...But then i do very cheap tree work for him, its a tricky one for sure.
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Interesting post alot of it is in long lengths, up to about 20ft. I didn't really consider manufacturing fencing componnents from it, what sort of money do posts and rails go for compared to firewood, does the splitting of long lengths take much longer or require particular precision...is it difficult?:001_tongue:or just a case of it splits right or it splits wrong n becomes firewood? This Threads deffinatley had the desired effect thought some pretty major negotion needs to be done before we go any further, and i have a few more possibilites for uses
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not loads, around twenty possibly a bit more. if i tried to broker that deal i could see the middle man getting cut out . Ideally I want to try and negotiate to process and sell myself effectivley as it will pay more, I'm just tyring to use you guys to figure out what would be a reaosnable proposition as i've only sold my own firewood before so this is quite new.
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that is right, and yes its not a good fair deal imo. trouble is i know i could get a better deal by lieing like others have (one guy had him believe a whole transit load was 1 cubic meter and said he would buy this for £20) but i'm not game for that so i think best i can do him is a 20-80 or 30-70 my way to make things worth doing?
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Sorry, I havn;t made things as clear as i should have done. the wood is already felled and has been sitting in stacks for a few years next to some dirt roads in the woods, i can only get ot it with my tipper reliably in summer but it all still needs cutting to length and splitting then dry storing for next season.
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ah yes, by cut it is already in stacks but in long lengths not still growing, its been sat a while so not green, but hardly dry stored either, just to save any confusion. must say these prices sound alot better to me though!
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as i thought, but whats the going split on this sort of deal/if buying cord in?
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I've donea quick search and can't find any decent info on cord wood prices or cost per load. The reaons I'm after this is I have been offered a deal by a land owner friend of mine to sell the frewood on his land, mostly chestnut on a 50:50 deal on load prices weather it be a truck load or a bulk bag. this doesn't seem too great of a deal to me but i don;t know if i'm being unfair? basically he owns the wood and i will need to advertise cut, split and deliver for 50% of each loads sale price, I'm pretty sure its not too great of a deal, but a safe easyish one never th eless whats everyone elses views? Tose who are buying cord in how much does a load's worth of cord cost you in relation to the sale price of the load?
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Thats what i was thinking, don't think it'd take me long or need air bags etc.. strange
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Quite alot I would imagine, but to an extent this is the sort of work where to an extent you need to take a little risk or bend the rules a fraction fairly regularly to keep/help things moving along swiftly. Sometimes fun like riding a crane or excavator bucket into the tree and sometimes not so much. it sup to everyone to make their own judgement its your safety at the end of the day.
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I race MX and have done the odd hare and hounds, a few mats of mine bought endurops withh a viw to doing it but found they were a pain inthe arse to enter with leots of funny rules and stuff, and their bikes were crap for MX practice tracks and racing which in reality became their main riding spots. So from my experience of it your best off getting a motocross bike, you can still do enduros on it sometimes with the addition of a FIM tyre and a light kit maybe, but hair and hounds (3 hours as many laps as you can through the woods etc) which are more relaxed and seem to be more common, down here at least can be entered on a mx machine. And haing an MX bike will mean your free to ride far more accessable MX races and practice tracks as well as your enduro and woods stuff, for me and the people i know this has worked out much better as a MX bike will do enduro and woods riding just fine, but an enduro on a mx track is terrible so leaves you stuck with less options. and whatever you do get some knee braces!
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"How much?! I had just as well do it myself!"...They never learn:glare:
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Of course! Tea protection has to be right up there:thumbup1:
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Just picked up a pair of stretch airs on eBay for £160 and they're great trousers. Way stretchier than I expected and the water resistance when I spilled yea on them whilst driving the van on Friday was a huge improvement over my old trousers:thumbup:
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The Cove is brutal!! something is a miss with those people!
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My ex was seriously into marine biology oceanography etc and it really opened my eyes to the destruction fo the oceans. unfortyunatley its out of sight and out of mind for most but theres alot of bad stuff going onthat we will pay for later, throwing away by catch is the least of our worries, Coral bleaching from rising sea temperatures, the vast damage done tot he sea bed and reefs etc from trawling, polution of coastal waters from fish farming, loss of mangrove regions, the savage dolphin slaughter that goe son every year in Taighi (sp?) etc etc...bad times. Whats crazy is they have to throw alot of by catch back by law!! and none of it lives as their swim bladders ar eoften destroyed form being brought up so fast, or just hanging about out of water for so long.
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Running excavators and groundworks, logs, scrap:blushing:, removals etc. the van can be very useful someone you know always needs one.
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your posts reflect my attitude, work and attitude should count above the look.
