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  1. gensetsteve
    I thought riko were nr Petersfield about 80 miles the side of the M25 from you ( dont go on a friday or drive back after 2pm
  2. gensetsteve
    Same position as eggs. Important to get one without damp for health reasons especially with nippers. You can have as good a time in an old one and often its a bit more real. We gave up because as soon as kids on holiday every where was full or £40 a night and the wife will not ruff it or use built in shower and bog. I would see a local caravan dealer for a trade in bargain I am sure they would be glad to get shot since ebay is now such a pita.
  3. gensetsteve
    I left a message on your mobile phone.
  4. gensetsteve
    Mikey10 put up some pics years ago of a old 7 tonne lorry he put a rack on and finally a hydralic drive. It saves tying up a tractor and you can move it around cheap to buy. I have a frame I use on my ifor williams like a pole trailer. When I have finished I turn it upside down and use it as a log deck.
  5. gensetsteve
    I am going to try meths and then white spirit if that fails. I think you may need something spirit based.
  6. gensetsteve
    Yes I know what you are saying as long as people realise euro are not losing out they are just charging more for the same amount of wood. You are not getting more wood because they cant get more on the lorry. A full lorry is a full lorry thye dont have roof racks
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    I have heard a lot of good things about the new processors around. I am sure they have improved over the years. If serious about processing logs the difference in price between entry level machines and a decent quality machine that will handle big stuff is marginal in the grand scheme of things. IMO the margins are small and if you are going into it you need to go small or large not in between. If you do not have a powered in feed you should think hard about trading up sooner rather than later.If you have a loader Get a log deck even if its just a frame with a hookeroon it will save your back big time and could double your output.
  8. gensetsteve
    We had a hakki Pilki which was 10 years old when we sold it and it must of had 6000 tones through it . The Posch has to be the best quality machine out there. And I am sure should give 20 years of service but you pay for quality up front.
  9. gensetsteve
    I need to build a saw horse in the next few days to ring big stuff to 6" for our kindlet. Needs to be within 10mm accurate. I am going to build one with 4" brackets with wood guides that can be changed. Will get some pics on when done.
  10. gensetsteve
    A full arctic trailer will take about 25 tonnes of green timber @ £40 a tonne = £1000 . So even if the trailer has the same volume of wood why would you pay £1500. 25 tonnes of green timber takes up approx 50 cu metres of space on a lorry. 50 % is air space roughly. So 25 cubic metres of timber 25 x £40 = £1000
  11. gensetsteve
    If I sort the timber into different sizes and pick the 8-10" straight stuff I can do 6 cu metres in one hour. But not for 8 hours. If you buy your timber from a dealer they tend to keep the nice stuff and send the 3" sticks and 24" monster butts its this that brings it down to 2 cu an hour. If you harvest the timber you can keep the good stuff and send the bent knotty rubbish to your competition down the road.
  12. gensetsteve
    A processor with out some sort of log deck is half a machine. With two of us we used to get 14 cubic metres out in about 7 hrs including lunch, breathing, rehydrating, cleaning up, sharpening and screwing the never ending list of bits that fall off a processor.
  13. gensetsteve
    Half as many cubes as the manufacturers say and 2" small than the max capacity. If you are going to do it, do it with at least a 14" machine unless you have you own 1000 acre forest full of 8" thinings. Processors work best with straight pine and beech and oak will always be a bitch to get through them.
  14. gensetsteve
    They grow like mad here. If you plant that here it will be 20ft high in the morning with babies all around. Well maybe not the 20ft bit but you know what I mean and yes it makes excellent firewood similar to beech imo.
  15. gensetsteve
    I dont think the dealers care less about selling defenders especially to working people. Why would they when they can sell vogue to a wag for 100k. I tried to buy an ex demo disco 4 van 18 months old 60k on the clock and they wanted £1500 less than new price. When I haggled they were down right rude.
  16. gensetsteve
    Also later vehicles look better to the customer, are nicer to own and drive, Feels better going to work in a new vehicle rather than a pile of smoking bones.
  17. gensetsteve
    Busiest time of year for kindling sales so flat out. We have given up logs but even we are surprised not one phone call since March just shows how many people do logs round our way and cheeeeeap.
  18. gensetsteve
    I used to buy a new vehicle and save up half the cost put the rest on a personal loan. If you put it on hp its easier for them to snatch it back and leave you with nothing if you default on payment. I never intended to stop payments but in these times you never know when a breather might be needed. If its on a personal loan and you have paid a large part off they will struggle to get your truck especially if its essential to earn a living. After loads of problems with new trucks I now run 4 olds ones all now over 10 years old. New diesels have become far too electronic and unreliable.
  19. gensetsteve
    I think he took the advice to wait till winter. You could try sending him a pm That way you can discuss a deal in private.
  20. gensetsteve
    Kill or cure gallon of jons cider and 40 mins in hot tub full blast at 37 deg an idea but not recommended
  21. gensetsteve
    makes me break wind but my backs ok
  22. gensetsteve
    Yeah its got to be worth a go I will get my wife to grow one so she makes more kindling
  23. gensetsteve
    We use soak mats that only soak up oil not water. If I have a leak I glue them to a piece of wood and chuck them under. I have not tried stop leak but dont like the sound of it especially in modern engines with really tight clearances. I would worry if a seal is rejuvenated ( softened ) will it break up and if it does where will it end up.
  24. gensetsteve
    I cut logs with a friend for 5 years when we started he had to watch his bad back. But did not have a problem after a few months. We stopped doing logs a year ago and since both of us have had more back problems. I think alot of bending and stretching helped keep the problems away. Doing logs does not neccessarily give you a bad back. Overdoing it will kill your back. The other thing we found is too warm up gently with small stuff. He recently put his back out looking under the bed. That seems to be one of the worse postures to put your back out pulling stuff from under the bed.
  25. gensetsteve
    Best get and cancel mine if its not worth the paper its written on save £3000 a year.

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