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  1. gensetsteve
    I have an old Honda one for about 15 years should give it an oil change really. Use it more than one of those toy ones. more power and less string breakage with 4 spools. Less crap in your face and your not carrying it. Bit hard on the lower back until you build up the muscles. Not ideal for strimming along walls or fences or steep banks. If mine died I would buy another.
  2. gensetsteve
    I would imagine since engine oils have evolved to allow them to stay in the engine for 20,000 miles and hold the dirt in suspension there will be alot more crap in it than there was 20 years ago.
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    Ibc work better than the vent bags aswell. I cut the bottles up and get 6 lids out of 1 1000 litre bottle.
  4. gensetsteve
    The reason I want a hydraulic feed is our stuff is a bit tough bushy knarled and forked. We dont have nice straight hazel willow or sycamore. Its more elder, hawthorn, conifer and caked in ivy. If i have to cut it up too much may as well put it through my huge incinerator. Soon I will be surrounded by houses so thought I better bite the bullet early.
  5. gensetsteve
    I think the problem is if its wood its on its way to a power station with the government ( tax payer ) picking up half the bill.
  6. gensetsteve
    Our bags are 40x50 and we currently charge £1.60 a bag but we are booked solid for months and getting the timber is becomming a pita. You are right to get it local send it any distance and the only person making a good margin is the courier.
  7. gensetsteve
    Which did a test on all of them and zen were top with plusnet second all the other popular ones were nr the bottom with awfull scores
  8. gensetsteve
    Kindlet on here has one he hires out
  9. gensetsteve
    Plus net 60 gigs a month for £14 do you really use that much on unlimited ? Bt are not great but plusnet have been very good yet they are owned by bt. Does not make sense does it. My phone line account originally by mercury was bought out by talk talk they are dreadful to deal with.
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    As someone who services generators daily I put myself in the other persons shoes. How would I like to be approached if I had carried out the service. The last thing on my mind would be charging for further work more getting the customer up and running. When you service a machine often you can disturb something or new parts can fail shortly after. Annoying but hardly the end of the world. If I have too much work the first customers to go are bad payers the second ones to go are the chippy ones. Talk to them nicely if that fails you always have the dummy spitting option to fall back on.
  11. gensetsteve
    I was watching one of these used chippers on ebay. The seller thought it was 30k New but a quick google shows they can be bought brand fire new for 10k + vat. I am still looking for a hydraulic feed chipper for my large garden. I was hopeing to buy the ebay one for 4k but it made 7k and its 8 years old. There is a posch one with conveyor out on ebay but I have no idea if they would do the job. The conveyor may be better for us to load tonne bags rather than spit it all over the hedge and lawn. Anyone have any ideas ? Would and entec treebusta do the job.
  12. gensetsteve
    We used to produce tonnes of the stuff with the chain bar on the processor but with todays sueing culture we were concerned about the bar oil in it.
  13. gensetsteve
    1998 Hilux. I have tried to put it on Arb trader but it says limit reached ? £4995 +vat
  14. gensetsteve
    Give it to someone who makes bricks in exchange for the odd bag.
  15. gensetsteve
    No its 1.2 cu metres with air space. Thats how we sell with air space. If you want the air space out it will be 3/4 of a metre.
  16. gensetsteve
    Sold thanks for looking
  17. gensetsteve
    Lots of different ways of looking at this. My kindling is more pottering than graft, baking bread as one of my helpers has pointed out. Not so much need to as enjoy it. I paid my mortgage off in 13 years so can now work as much or little as I need. My plan was always to sprint for 25 years and plod for the last twenty where as a lot of people slog away for 45 years with nothing to show for it. If you work hard for 20 years and make your self ill well who,s to say you would not have got ill dossing about, with some assets behind you can recover with some piece of mind. Everyone is different you have to find your own pace no sense being miserable there are no dress rehearsals in life.
  18. gensetsteve
    I work 40 hrs a week on the generators and often potter about for another 40 hrs with my kindling business. The kindling is more of a hobby business which I enjoy. I can work with the weather as some can be done in doors so rarely get rained off. We work long hours but have at least 2 months on holiday every year. If I fly out to ( hostile areas ) to sort out generators I have worked 20 hrs with 4 hrs sleep for weeks at a time. I stay healthy on fruit and veg then and lots of it.
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    I have about 3 ifor williams trailer loads available of Larch cordwood. I bought it to try through my woodmizer then through the kindlet. Too many knots and to much work so if any one wants it for £10 a tonne I can load with a bob cat. About 8-10 tonnes in total.
  20. gensetsteve
    How can a chain bar set fire to hydraulic oil. The chain bar is being lubricated by oil anyway. If someone has forgotten to put the oil on then its operator error.
  21. gensetsteve
    I dont have a nail gun but did buy a bostitch compressor a few years ago to take on the van to blow out air filters etc. The best thing about it is they run much higher pressures than normal compressors so ideal for blowing up lorry tyres. Not sure if a normal compressor would work so well with a nail gun due to lower pressure.
  22. gensetsteve
    whats a pepper pot ?
  23. gensetsteve
    Late high mileage vans always seem to work better for us. 4 years old with 100k on the clock normally means a large company has sent them in for proper servicing. Older low mileage one man band vans tend to have alot of town miles with cold starts and cheap servicing with things skimped on. I think you probably made the right choice.
  24. gensetsteve
    Cheap non genuine fuel filters are not always bad news. I would rather have a handfull of cheapos than expect a genuine one to last a few years. You can get a bad batch of cherry and it will block a genuine filter as quick as a cheapo. Expect more fuel problems in the future with 5% bio now in the fuel.
  25. gensetsteve
    I am sure they will limp around for a few months with a tea cup full of oil rather than the 2.8 litres they should have. But wont be alot of good. I change my 4x4 diffs 25k or everytime they have been under water. My BMW transmission oils have just been done at 145k but they are supposed to be sealed for life. Oil =£10 new diff = £1800 bit of a no brainer really. If your pinion seal is leaking keep a close eye on the level.

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