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I am not so much thinking bits of conny but alot of jobs on sight I see 8" chippers and people trying to get whole trees through them. Alot of brash contains 3" stuff upwards alot of heat trapped in this stuff. I have paid £40 a tonne for cord in the past and 1/4 the lorry was 3" sticks:001_rolleyes:
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= job for life you can retire
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sounds like a good little machine but I am thinking no cutting in the machine just 10 tonnes of pressure. a bit like a dust cart pushing everything to the front. I would think 20-30k for a machine but you would produce a sellable product rather than waste.
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Even 3" stuff cut to 10" long can take an age to season unless the bark falls off. We have some beech logs bagged 2 years ago still 25% in the middle. I have beech cut and split last summer now under 20%
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Not been to a show for at least a couple of years. If its out there it should filter through. I have in mind a machine the size of a big tow behind chipper with small diesel engine running hydraulics to compact it down so its dense but still light enough to hand ball. When hedge cutting you would aim to cut everything down to 12" as you go which would avoid being hit in the face by a 4ft rose hip stem. You could rack everything off the floor as you have no blades to worry about.
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The whole wood burning thing has increased massively over the last five years. A lot of woody material gets turned to chip and left to rot. I struggle to get bushy brash into my incinerator and if I chip it green its hard to burn. But if I had a machine like a cardboard baler that made 18" bales they would fit nicely into my incinerator and I bet when dry, would contain a large amount of btus ideal for a large farm straw burning incinerator. The machine would be quieter than a chipper and not require the blades sharpening or bearings changed. The bales could be stacked in a chip box and still tipped out at the end of the day or loaded onto a cheaper vehicle ie ifor trailer and staked high. Is this a mad idea anyone have any thoughts.
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Years ago I had a 1997 300 tdi, used to tow 3.5 tonnes and did 300,000 in 4 years. This was my 3rd one and we worked out the head gasket would blow between 3 + 4 cyl at about 80,000 miles. Because the engine only bent push rods we never bothered with cambelt change ( a simple job made difficult ) until it snapped or head gasket blew. We did get 145,000 once before either happened
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too much for one load not enough for two. Maple splits and burns the same as beech hard to tell the difference in my stove.
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If it aint broke dont fix it most of my saws probably have the same spark plug for 5 years. If it starts on the button and runs right why fiddle with it. As soon as I have a problem new plug compression check and carb kit. If that does not sort it stick it on ebay and off to joneses.
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There are too many of everything its a small island and 1500 die, per day and 2000 are born. Thats without counting the europeans that flood in every day because their economies are stuffed. There was a shortage of plumbers so they trained 250,000. If you can buy a 3 bed house back home for 40k £6.75 an hour looks good. Nobodys fault just the way it is unfortunately they are not as easy going when we rock up in Barcelona looking for a bar job.
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Toyota colorado or 300 tdi discovery if you need to pull more than 2.6 tonnes
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The 3.1 troopers were superb but now much too old. The common rail 3.0 troopers were a disaster thats why they are cheap to buy. The Rodeo has a totally different engine and is very good. If someone gave me a 3.0 trooper I would put it straight on ebay especially if it still actually runs.
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Yes but was he paying £1.40 a litre for derv paying a mortgage and getting through a recession
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Rodeo or hilux for me. Owned a new Nissan never again drove a l200 felt like 1972 and service every 3500 miles. Bear in mind we are talking 10 years ago had amazon since built like brick sh
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Whats the best seasoned logs ash beach oak
gensetsteve replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
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I have been self employed for over 20 years and although you do have to work hard especially in the first few years its not a race. Even I still have 20 years of graft to go. Sounds like you will need to make the jump to full time self employed soon. I have found occasionally we loose a large customer but its surprising how quickly you fill the time. One thing I would say is if you are supplying logs give that up even if you get the wood free. Profit on logs is appalling and it kills your kit. The turn over looks good especially since it comes in fast and you have forgotten how much work went into it.
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In the end my solution to this problem was to buy a cheap 1 tonne all terrain forklift. The bags fill so fast you may as well leave the engine running. Our forklift now has a blown head gasket so given some proper work it overheats we have run some big hours on it. Left ticking over all day it uses less than a gallon 3 cylinder ku boat diesel. For this job I have not found a better way of doing it and will shortly be fitting a new gasket.
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Because we are not lifting 800kg have found two handles diagonally works fine forks together in middle two side handles lifts ok. The only time it falls apart is when the bags are years old but you are only supposed to use them once so getting ten years out of them is a no no
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Check it's got the right oil in and enough of it. If it has a filter make sure it's clean. Some have a fan to cool the oil. It sounds like its nackered and stops working when the oil thins.
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Best of the best I think still got quality in the body combined with the reliable and economical d4d engine
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It was so wet over the last 18 months we have had some mould problems with our stripe vented bags especially processing September onwards. The see through bags may be a better bet if the weather stays the same for years
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Nothing on the Firewood Forum for 13 hours???!
gensetsteve replied to ThrustSSC's topic in Firewood forum
Everyone is on holiday in the bahamas spending the money they made from selling logs. -
Are pick up tippers worth the extra £££?
gensetsteve replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
I thought the crack of your butt was automatically on show at the age of 45 its a combination of beer and value jeans. I am lucky because i can still get my 40inch waist in to a 28 inch jean luckily for everyone else I have a tipper. -
I can remember a 17 tonne load of beech about 18 months ago not bought from anyone on here. It was 40% 2in sticks 40% stuff over 18" 20% of stuff that went through our processor. It was about that time I thought stuff it and started to wind it down and not budget for new processors and large kit.
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I have had vehicles that can be a pain so when it needs to be quiet I did not bother with the fob and just lock the doors with the key. That way no alarm is set, should tell you in the manual. Make sure you dont have a spider walking around at night all the ideas above are worth a try. Orvis was a special edition something to do with the fishing equipment sold in Andover by Orvis.
