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  1. gensetsteve
    Spend all week analy looking after £100,000 gensets. When I go out to play logs with horrible 2 stroke things I use them till they stop then chuck them in the corner of the workshop till theres a big pile then sort them out in one go. the air filters not blocked till it pushes the cover off. I would in no way recommend this behaviour on nice saws. I tend to buy trade ins at the dealer for £150 then when dead after 5 years go and buy another. works for me
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    From the album: Kindling

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    From the album: Kindling

  4. gensetsteve
    If you get really stuck or it does not work I have a box full of different types somewhere but will take me an hour to round them all up.
  5. gensetsteve
    We were working at a hospital recently and reversing the trailer when an inpatient pedestrian decided to save time by stepping over the draw bar on the trailer as it was moving. It turns out it was a hospital porter with a bad attitude luckily he never bent anything on the trailer.
  6. gensetsteve
    I was in winchester garden machinery and that 236 is on a deal at the moment £79.00 off so you can buy one for £140 new . That may not be posted out but may be worth ringing them.
  7. gensetsteve
    The amount of cheap wood about is irrelevant. Cheaper wood means more people will turn away from gas and oil. Higher demand will mean your services will be more in demand. The way I have always looked at it is I am only interested in the hourly rate after all costs have been accounted. The reason we are now packing in the logs is I am not prepared to stock 50k in cord and 30k in machinery to earn £20 an hour. I am in no way saying logs are a waste of time its just in my area we are now over run with people doing logs on a very large scale in some cases. I probably work 70 hrs a week and now concentrating on large generator service and kindling wholesale I might actually get my life back
  8. gensetsteve
    I got this image of someone humping logs.
  9. gensetsteve
    £10 an hour candles are romantic maybe put the set to bed on aspen then run on petrol during the outage.
  10. gensetsteve
    Maybe not in a 13hp though.
  11. gensetsteve
    Ay steady some of us make a good living out of other peoples fear of the dark. You can buy an additive that extends the life of fuel in the tank. With Labour policy on wind turbines you may all need those gennys soon
  12. gensetsteve
    Problem with that poem is alot of the general log buying public use it as a buyers guide when they ring to order logs.
  13. gensetsteve
    Do you get a lot of condensation in that office of yours? Yes especially now the roof leaks into a bucket. I give those sticks another ride on the wood burner yesterday and now they are now so dry cant get a reading, one ride still 30% two rides and they have gone black on the ends . Meter still seems to tell the truth on everything else though. As you say coomon sense, it just surprised me how quick they dropped this time of year in the wind.
  14. gensetsteve
    less the wheel arches
  15. gensetsteve
    I have used quicken invoice for about 18 years but the version we have I dont think will work on later operating systems so we are in the same position as you. I have heard it can be done on excel. I have a pc guru coming tonight will know more then.
  16. gensetsteve
    If it does not affect your work tues - friday I would think they would be ok but if you show up half asleep tuesday with a bad back it might not go down well.
  17. gensetsteve
    I would imagine the gov will use health and safety to send it somewhere but the real reason will be money for the boys.
  18. gensetsteve
    Do they fit a different hitch because the biggest overrun unit in the uk is 3500kg and its plated so cant get round it.
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    The large pic is kind of the image I had of you in my mind dave
  20. gensetsteve
    If the ash is cheap we will make more because the end product will compete with gas and oil we will sell more. General public too lazy to cut up their own logs so you will earn the same for your labour but wont need to invest £50 a tonne in cord. If people have their own wood to cut up I remove the cost of the wood and charge for my labour same result. If everyone has cheap ash to cut up there will be a shortage of log men so you can charge more. I would imagine the government will send the ash to a power station to stop it ruining local businesses.
  21. gensetsteve
    I had one complaint last year one of my first loads out. I had a bad feeling about this very strange man the year before. Complained logs too small and not dry enough. He had failed to leave the money with his wife the day before so when I reposessed my logs I did not need to refund his money. I was polite firm but not aggressive. My advice if you catch some strange ones on the line throw them straight back lifes too short
  22. gensetsteve
    Oh back to drawing board. I am not sure how an ifor williams drawbar would survive on the back of a tractor with no suspension and overloaded. Caravan dealers were rejecting warrantee claims if you towed behind a double cab or commercial vehicle.
  23. gensetsteve
    Yes you are right not exactly accurate and nothing is 100 % they came from the same plank. Yes it could be tried again. My office is not heated and the sticks were only on the boiler lit once for approx 6-8 hrs during the two weeks. The bag of sticks were 38% when put on shelf in barn and now two weeks later the whole bag is recording 20% . I would expect the shelf bag to be higher and the cooked sticks to be bone dry ? surprised me if it keeps my interest I will get more anally scientific and have another go. What do you think would be an easier test. Leave one bag in wind one in container ?
  24. gensetsteve
    If the tractor has air brakes I assume it is a late large tractor. Would it even notice the weight behind ? . To put a simple air brake system on a light weight ag trailer I would think would be about £1500 for two axles. Otherwise a small chieftein trailer from ireland with air brakes. I bought a nice 20ft low loader used in ex con from a plant sale for £1200 sold it for 5k so they are about.
  25. gensetsteve
    I expected the results to be the other way round. I even put a new battery in the meter and checked several times. I am guessing a dehumidifier would be a bit ineffective verses the power used. I am thinking container vented either end with 4ft fan and shutable louvres. like the ones they use in broiler farms for supplimentary cooling on hot days. They are fitted with big fan small motor. when logs are green, on still days fan on, even if the air is damp outside it cant be worse than 40% when the wind blows no fans required. As the logs get below 25% if its damp out shut down the louvres and fan.

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