gensetsteve
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Everything posted by gensetsteve
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Hideous the engine is twice as heavy as the front axle can take and he has put a winch on as well for good measure. The Gm 6.5 is too heavy and that has an alloy block. Just as you reach 55 mph the engine will top out on revs and still only do 12 mpg. I have seen a few of these conversions most are poor drive like a boat and un insurable.
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Link for a generic risk assessment for using chainsaw onsite
gensetsteve replied to Rob D's topic in Business Management
I recently had a 42 page risk assessment rejected for not having enough detail. When I asked what they recommend I do to improve it they felt it needed a few more tick boxes and a bit more colour. If you have been doing the job for 20 years without major incident do you really need to write a manual for an idiot every time you go on site. BS legislation to create jobs for lazy civil servants. -
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There is a plate on them which says the empty weight which will be near 3 tonne. They are 8ft wide which looks huge behind a car. I towed a 7ft wide 9ft long one back and that was pushing the limits and we had marker lights on.
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They said it was amazing the amount of people that had pulled in and had been on it all day and where stopping for a top up. The old boy also said ' well that's how we used to do it, just feel a bit shifty doing it these days'. Having drunk all morning they drove back for some more
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toro 325 I think, had them for years 6ft deck with recycler. 25hp diesel 1 acre 20 mins no grass to collect very little left behind if you dont allow it to grow too long.
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So the 3.5 tonne must be a very well made little truck ?
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About £1.72 + vat last year from Mca Kingstone nr winchester also on ebay
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Stuff like this must be prime candidate for a massive chipper and out as biomass for power station or is it worth a lot less than £1700 that way ?
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By that time we would have decided its not worth the bother and bought elsewhere. Its a pile of cheap softwood you agree a price.
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We dont use pallets alot are treated and most are dirty full of nails and make horrible kindling. You are too far away as for how much I would pay for the timber it all depends on how it kindled but if I was collecting it would be £15 a tonne max. If you click on the lower link you will get a slide show of what we do.
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Tippers can be difficult to insure as it is. Nfu will not insure full stop unless the conversion was done proffessionally and has a serial no. I found alot of the others will not even quote for it.
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collecting it too far away transport will kill the value of it. The reason I ask about knots is too many and its a pain to get through a kindling machine. If you click on the banner below my post it will take you to our directory listing and our gallery may answer some questions on how to kindle it.
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You will have to keep us updated. They look a nice truck very similar looking from the front as the new Amazon. Is it alot better than the old mk 6.
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Yes it was following a defender when its wheels fell off
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Where abouts are they. do they have alot of knots
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I have a brand new refurb turbo if you know someone who needs it cost £750 want £250 to clear it.
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The public dont know what they are buying. If you cut a load of ash into logs and took the truck round to him and charged £120 he would probably call trading standards because he thinks your ripping him off. They also seem to think a heaped truck load of rings is going to volume up by three times when cut into logs.
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3 1/2 legally if your brave enough
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had a tractor loader for 7 years never used it once bobcat 751 fast and rarely gets stuck even with 750kg on the front. Depends on size of load for pallets and cordwood a telehandler or tractor loader is a bit cumbersome.
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I hate the whole money for medals culture that has been created by a redundant unskilled army of pen pushers.
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£150 an hour cant get out of bed for that they are under selling themselves install generators for 2 weeks 50 weeks making kindling
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Starting at 4.99 does not cost alot or even 14.99 . If you want £300 for it start on a free listing weekend and start at £300 no reserve fee. I dont think you can set a reserve below £50 so if you have a reserve people will know it starts at more than £50
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Supply and demand if there are not enough cutters you can charge a premium for your services. You dont find many plumbers earning less than £500 a day inc expenses why is it any different for hand cutters. Both have skills, and expenses.
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If its what I am thinking its like you twist them inside out. Put a pair of gloves on and watch your face especially your nose the manual says not to use two people when you do it.
