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  1. gensetsteve
    Superb a proper usefull bit of kit. Surprising how the smaller trailers with no sides or ramps you can save weight over the 18ft triaxle things you see about.
  2. gensetsteve
    I never worried too much about power verses weight as its fairly flat round here. The thing I paid more attention to was stopping it all. You often will end up with more weight on than you planned. With green cord wood you can get allot of weight in a small space. We had commercial air brakes with proper large brake linnings. I never felt safe with a small tractor ie 100 hp and hyd brakes if the hydraulic hose fails at the top of a hill how are u going to stop it. If you are going to pull 14 tonnes + behind you need 160hp and 4x4 then at least if the worst happens you have have a good chance of not killing half the village.
  3. gensetsteve
    That looks a nice crane but must weigh 1500kg on its own. Would be good if you can load another trailer all day long.
  4. gensetsteve
    I think the confusion comes from 1 cu metre bags are 1mx1mx1m so to the layman a .5 cu metre bag should look half the size or 500mm x500mm x 500mm but of course its 800mm all round so does not look half the size. Its an optical illusion unless you put the two bags side by side.
  5. gensetsteve
    Yes they have already included an extra £70 in their price.
  6. gensetsteve
    The most I ever saw was a two gallon bucket full but we used to process green beech then season in vent bags for 18 months. Part seasoned beech would shatter an make mess
  7. gensetsteve
    Sat on beach at Burton bradstock watching the waves come in not a cloud in the sky going to be hot one today.
  8. gensetsteve
    If they are paying £200 a cube for snob logs then got to be done. If they are paying the average £100 a cube then wtf is going on with the world. You don't charge by weight and the bark is not taking up volume. I am sure normal people are prepared to collect a few bits in their dust pan when THEY have finished stacking.
  9. gensetsteve
    I have a year old varta battery in the workshop shows good voltage off load ie 13 volts but no cranking and our drop tester could not test it as the volts disappear as soon as a load is applied
  10. gensetsteve
    Surprising what a good oil change does especially if it feels a bit gritty on the fingers. With fuel costing the same per litre as lube oil its worth changing at half intervals.
  11. gensetsteve
    Easy enough job but don't think you will feel that much difference. When people complain of sluggish pick up landrover did a software fix on the throttle. May also be worth getting the airflow metre checked out. A good service with air filter and fuel filter would be worth a try
  12. gensetsteve
    e All worth doing but keep your cat they are checking for them on the mot
  13. gensetsteve
    how does that pick up 500kg at 6 metres or do you mean 6ft
  14. gensetsteve
    A poor device fitted at manufacture to improve the emmissions. Very soon in service it starts to coke up and cause more emmissions. It puts hot dirty exhaust fumes back into the engine just after the air filter. Decreases the life of the engine dramatically and soots the oil up within a few hundred miles of a change.
  15. gensetsteve
    I have only seen the posch machine work for a few minutes but from what I saw if it jams you have to keep going till it clears. We have never found a good market for scruffy randomly packed bags so we would waste alot of product. I like the fuel wood machine its built like a brick privvy and you can see whats going on. You get a big knot you stop the machine lift cover and chuck one little piece away. I would hire a machine in for a week and see if you can spare the time away from your main activity. Its twice as much work as bagged logs and there is not twice the money in it.
  16. gensetsteve
    I normally work on about 80- 100 bags depends if you reject the scruffy bits with knots. bags 50x40 weigh about 4kg
  17. gensetsteve
    I bought a new Nissan Navara in 2002 instead of a Hilux because it only had about 100hp compared with nav at 130hp and was 3k cheaper. Big mistake the Hilux performs better than the figures suggest If I bought a hilux we would probably still have it. The Navarra was distroyed in 2 years could not wait to see it gone. Have a 1998 hilux tipper now and its indestructable.
  18. gensetsteve
    As long as the wood is not too far away
  19. gensetsteve
    I have owned both and would say about the same when towing. The hilux is alot lighter so when solo has bags more power than the defenders.
  20. gensetsteve
    try Dave riding I think he is more up your area or chris Gagen I think he does pallets I know Log Barron does.
  21. gensetsteve
    With all those qualifications I think there is no room for the rest of us. You should get out and do the work yourself
  22. gensetsteve
    You could reduce the nose weight by mounting the power pack behind the rear wheel. I thought about doing this years ago but which ever way you work it on a decent trailer you are left with 1000kg payload. We cut it small and get 2500kg on a TT105 tipper.
  23. gensetsteve
    I think you can get a universal rot kit on ebay for about £15 screw brkts to any barbecue used to be in homebase as well.
  24. gensetsteve
    The description of affordable housing conjures up images of working people getting a foot on the property ladder. But in reality its greedy councils and private companies screwing a good living and stealing land. The only people that can afford the rent on these houses is the long term unemployed who dont pay the rent we do. Rant over, sorry if I derailed it, Its government policy to whack houses up where ever they can so council could even be on your side but powerless.
  25. gensetsteve
    When you say diesel mike do you mean tractor. I was possibly looking at a processor with 13hp petrol engine which uses about £10 in a working day. I had thought about fitting a 11-20 hp diesel engine.

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