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  1. gensetsteve
    I think sometimes you just need to get through the pain barrier. You keep chucking money until suddenly you get another 5 years of cheap motoring. But thats assuming its not all nackered and hanging. 100k on the clock is ok 200k let someone else own it. I used to buy range rovers and disco people had spent 3k on and given up another £500 and we used to use them for another 40,000 miles towing then sell on. I dont seem to get the time or interest now to go looking for fresh toys.
  2. gensetsteve
    My disco and trailer goes over 6 tonne gtw but I am alright as I am far too old to take a trailer test.
  3. gensetsteve
    If you need a new solinoid try harrier they supply all the bits for this pack alot cheaper than ifor. I would talk nicely to ifor and get them to sort it.
  4. gensetsteve
    I have some conifers at the front of my house. They give great privacy but are now about 12 ft high and nearly that deep. There is about 120ft of it down the side of the drive another 120ft of young trees I put in a few years ago. It takes me a day twice a year to trim and dispose of the cuttings. I may need to rip the front ones out as they have over grown the road by about 2ft. What would you guys replant with bearing in mind it needs to grow to about 9ft to block out the passing lorries. We are on well drained chalky soil.
  5. gensetsteve
    I remember when the td5 was the devils creation and we steered clear of it. But a nice cheap clean one came along about 4 years ago and has not given us any bother. The d3 cant be too bad as they still command 10k for an early one. We have a Lancruiser Amazon and they are not as good as people think sometimes and the parts are horrendous price. If you have a vx with all the toys like ours the suspension packs up and the hydraulic spheres are £600 ea. The moving steering column packs in and its £400 ea for the little motors. If you bought a 54 plate the air con pipe corrodes cos of the salt on our roads its a body off job to replace £1300 the list goes on. If you buy a high end car full of toys and elecro gadgets its going to cost you to keep it on the road.
  6. gensetsteve
    there has been a few threads recently if you do a search they should come up and give you loads of useful info.
  7. gensetsteve
    Are we talking 2500kg inc trailer or 3500kg inc trailer. The first is easy most 4x4 will do it . If you need to pull 3500kg we have td5 disco van ( long over due for change) or we have Amazon 1999 also over due for replacement. I personally will wait for the latest amazon used prices to drop. Or if you cant wait a good used amazon on 57 plate still 22 mpg but at least it wont fall to bits.
  8. gensetsteve
    apparently its a simple op. I have been close on a number of occassions to getting it done but have been talked out of it. Some how nuts and knives dont seem right together. You get yours done and let us know how it goes and I will look at it again. A guy I know had his done in the morning and replaced my flat roof in the afternoon. It was blazing hot and a big roof so it cant be that bad.
  9. gensetsteve
    You could interpret the hse rules as should rather than must but will need to justify your in house training in a court of law. Most of the lads on here with years of experience will be more than able to train staff in the correct and safe use of chainsaws. This must be one of the few proffessions where your certs are good for life. I had to pass a cs cs course to go on a building site and service a generator. 3 months later they binned the old cert and brought in a new one. £40 up the shoot and half a day lost work. The test can be passed if you are east european and dont speak much english as its multi choice and mostly pictures. How would you guys feel if over night they binned your qualifications and created a whole new set for you incl fees.
  10. gensetsteve
    It would be worth talking to the people that own the land. At this stage the developer will have given them a hugely inflated price of whats its worth so they will be feeling rich and greedy. When they have outline planning the develper will drop the bomb shell its worth alot less. I know this from first hand experience. You will need to think outside the box and forget logic and proceedure to beat this. If its council land they will be keen to develop it as they get money for it and 40% will be handed over for social housing.
  11. gensetsteve
    single cab hilux gross weight 2500kg with load. so once you have body on will be lucky to carry half a tonne. I think unfortunately the defender is your only option. The hilux is vastly better made but carries less than half the weight.
  12. gensetsteve
    I am only talking for myself but we used to pay £35-£40 a tonne for processor sized ash or beech. We used to give a drink for a lorry load of arb waste and sometimes used to regret taking it in. Once the nice pieces of limb are cut into handleable sizes ie 2ft long they are a nightmare to process. most of it is full of crowns and knots. The beauty of cord is its grown in forrests and nice and straight with few branches. the diffence in time between turning arb waste into logs and cord is huge. Notice I said we used to because we hardly do logs anymore the price of kit fuel and material is now so high compared to what people are prepared to pay its not worth doing round our way. We have concentrated now on large production of Kindling.
  13. gensetsteve
    Yes you can get the wheels all over no probs. I bought one of these machines about a year ago and its served me very well. I have hardly worn the stone and I even dress it up with a diamond every now and then.
  14. gensetsteve
    We pay top money for cordwood and I would say 20% is under 3 inches. Trying to cut 2" sticks with a processor is ball aching with a cahinsaw must be hell. Maybe you could gather all the sub 4" stuff and get a machine in for a day ie saw bench.
  15. gensetsteve
    We have a tough old hedge with hawthorn in it. I bought a stihl hedge cutter for the job about 12 years ago. Too heavy for conifers but will happily much through 1/2" stuff all day and anything bigger it will nbble through. I cant see a model like it in the new stihl book will have a look at ours later.
  16. gensetsteve
    This like everything now is about collecting revenue. If it was about safety they would have demanded he went on and paid for all the relevant courses and passed all the certs within 6 months or the fine would be due.
  17. gensetsteve
    I would sit tight. I dont think people are in log mode until they have had a summer ( which is this week ) . Last winter was mild and logs a plenty ( and cheap ) I think alot of people after the previous winter were overstocked and managed to get through last winter. So this winter if we have a cold snap in October less people will be doing logs and alot of people will be run out. Because last winter was mild the public have lost the idea of stocking up in July. Last winter was a waste of time for us on logs luckily I had plenty of other work on.
  18. gensetsteve
    You are better off buying by the tonne especially if its ash or other species that have been sat around a while.
  19. gensetsteve
    I may be missing the point here but I dont know anyone round my way that sells by the tonne when delivering cord. They may work out the metreage based on green wood then deliver ie 1 tonne of green beech is about 1 cubic metre of solid timber or just under 2 cu metres of space on the truck. If I buy a metre of wood it will still be a metre of wood when dry. If you buy by weight and sell by weight once the wood is seasoned you could be out of pocket.
  20. gensetsteve
    My hand sharpening is just about passable. If I start making banana cuts its normally cos I have sharpenened the teeth too much on one side. The cure for me was the £20 lidls bench grinder. Used gently after about 6 hand sharpens works for me, they are in stock today normally sell out quick as the stone is about £12 on it own. Bench grinders can eat chains but I am more precision engineer than wood man and an electric grinder in my hands is better than my hands if that makes sense.
  21. gensetsteve
    I think you are right you cant beat 4x4 and 6 tonnes on the front for that job. 200 hp is nice as well
  22. gensetsteve
    I stay at this site atleast once a year. There are signs telling you not to go near the cliffs. Any additional barriers would be washed away by the tide. Witnesses said that there was a small rock fall and people were straight in there looking for fossils when the rest fell down on them. You cant really say you were unaware of the risk when you just seen it happen.
  23. gensetsteve
    I think all the discos benefit from no cat because its a fairly large turbo to spin up and its not variable vane like the newer engines. Old worn out faulty clogged up emission control devices cause more pollution than none at all. Although the owner is supposed to maintain them
  24. gensetsteve
    I think you are right they did not plug anything in or spend much time on it.
  25. gensetsteve
    I think everyone needs to hire a kindlet once just for the experience of making your own kindling. But its a bit like making bagged logs takes longer than you hoped. Thing I over looked when I started was how long it took to prep off cuts to 6 inch.

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