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gensetsteve

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  1. The r380 gearbox was designed and built by leyland and fitted to one of the rover cars I think. Picked up and used by Landrover.
  2. We pimped the engine on a 300 tdi auto it was two years old but struggled to get to 70 mph even with no trailer . Extra intercooler, gas flowed the head, better exhaust, no cat, no egr. adjusted the fuel pump, boosted the turbo amongst other things. Went like the clappers for about 3 months then left bits of gearbox all over the road. jpat in bristol built me a superb gearbox with additional oil cooler that lasted a year. I think the R380 box in the Td5 stuff will struggle with 200hp.
  3. I seem to remember working on a 6.2 gmc engine and it was a good conversion although massive was light, possibly with an alloy block but it was along time ago. I work on loads of phaser engines on a weekly basis good torque at 1500 rpm thats why they use them for generators but no top end. The TD5 engine was a good design often badly built by LR. If you get one rebuilt by someone who knows what they are doing and chipped to 200 bhp they are impresssive. Our current TD5 tows 3.5 tonnes all the time and did 80,000 miles in its first year. 9 years old now still on first engine with no major work. I would not chip a TD5 with out some major upgrades to the cooling system especially if towing. The old 300 tdis we had never made it past 80k before the head was off.
  4. I can understand where you are coming from. But as someone who sells logs there is not alot in the job especially if you dont carry it through to the end. What will take you a morning will take a log man 3/4 hr. As said best to go for a split load of logs.
  5. problem with most of these conversions is the engine is too heavy for the Landrover makes it easy to overload the front axle. If you want 200hp just buy the Landcruiser and be one with it.
  6. I would get some beech now to mix in with the oak next year as well. Wessex woodland often have beech cord that has been cut 18 months and it seasons out quickly.
  7. I must be losing my touch I was £55.55 out.
  8. Thanks john will have a look. Been looking into scaffold boards. Its a shame we are so far apart our dust and rejects would be ideal for you.
  9. I am thinking along the lines of used entry level woodmizer if it pans out in a month or so and the figures stack up buy something with a bit more whizz. I think the double circular would be good if all the timber was the same size but I think I will get stuff from 12" upwards and have the kit to handle it.
  10. I am thinking if that was loose loaded more like 2 1/2 to 3 cu metres. £300 is good for 5 cubic metres as long as its decent wood and seasoned.
  11. Put up listing on ebay with the title Our kindling is so good others on ebay have to hijack the pictures.
  12. A business nr Newbury did exactly the same thing to us last year. They are not arb talk members. Its annoying but also a compliment as your stock is clearly much better than theirs.
  13. were you looking to pay £300 or were you hoping it would be cheaper if you split it yourself. I only ask as I may be able to find someone if you give an idea of what you would expect to pay.
  14. Thanks for your posts Big J and Chris the max size for my kindlet is 6x6x6 but any decent size that can be easily man handled from saw mill to crosscut would be ok. Up cut saw has a 500mm blade and the mouth will take about 12x3 and still drop onto conveyor. So 3x3 4x3 5x2 anything around that really. I have set a low budget incase its not viable and need to move bandsaw on. If I find it works ok or looks viable will sell saw and use experience to purchase better kit in about a month. A good idea about getting a man with a saw mill for the day. I have a good selection of forklifts and a 9x9 metre poly tunnel. Chris thanks for the link When you mentioned this machine I thought it would be a band saw about 10ft high. That machine looks compact. It looks like it could be set up just to get the slabs of the side of 8in round wood. If I was starting a business from fresh I would probably give it a miss but having 12k in machinery about to become redundant and a good customer base I think its worth fighting for especially as we made the decision to finish the log business last week.
  15. Cut up soft wood then feed through my cross cut then through my kindlett. I have a feeling the labour element may kill the job. But my wood supply is not keeping up with demand. The idea I had is spend 2k on a woodmizer or similar if its a disaster back to the drawing board. I need speed not accuracy. we will put planks up to 9x3 through my crosscut. Any advice welcome even if its a bit negative, rather learn cheaply now than expensively later.
  16. 2nd this if its a honda will have a little rubber tipped float needle. From experience if you dont change the needle and seat problem will come back.
  17. I think abacus have some nice new ones based in Bournmouth also have a big depot in Andover
  18. Every time I have been to the shaftsbury auction in Wiltshire they have a couple of mb's like this one and they make 5 1/2 k . I can remember speaking to someone a few years ago reloading his not sold machine. It had gearbox selector problems and he would have taken 5k not to take it home apart from the gearbox it was supposed to be good and I think it was a 1300 . Probably the same tractor.
  19. Or buy a few cheap ones and swap the bits about.
  20. Prices are always rock bottom until we have some frosts. Trouble is once people have bought their wood in september for £50 they wont want to spend £100 in December when its in short supply. As with everything its supply and demand we need to be harder when its in short supply and jack the price up. You cant get a flight for £30 with easy jet the day before? unfortunately if their is too many people doing logs we will be giving it away at cost again this year. Lets hope for a hard winter.
  21. If you build one like woodworms by the end of the week the extra efficency will pay for one like mikes. I have heard it said a processor with out a deck is half a machine. I would say more like a tenth of a machine. When we bodged one up we did twice the logs with a fraction of the effort and no aches or pains.
  22. I think the size of the tractor is more to do with moving the machine safely without tipping up or over. Alot of smaller processors seem to run with a 13hp petrol engine. If your tractors a bit big get an adaptor from sparex ( about £30 ) and run off the 1000 pto with the engine running at just over tick over. I have a hakki running off a 80hp tractor but uses very little fuel.
  23. I would say customers dont care how it comes as long as its fully seasoned quality timber. We did ask what customers would like before we committed to the tipper. But some even said there is no way they wanted a builders bag of logs dumped on their drive or left in their way in the garage. With the supermarkets cutting down on packaging it just flys in the face of public opinion. Most people stack their logs in a corner out the way as soon as they arrive. If they want the bags it would suit me down to the ground as we may be selling most of the kit soon anyway.
  24. [quote=Alycidon;743191People these days do NOT want a pile of logs tipped on their drive. I find log customers have a totally different outlook in December when logs are running out everywhere else and there is a foot of snow on the ground. In October/ November go on holiday and save your self the stress and head ache. Your reliable early customers have already been and gone in the spring / summer.
  25. I often have 4 or 5 cubic metres of saw dust a week but just put it in the incinerator. Shame but anything else I have tried just costs me in time or plastic bags.

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