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  1. 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.
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    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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. gensetsteve
    You are better off buying by the tonne especially if its ash or other species that have been sat around a while.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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
  16. gensetsteve
    I think you are right they did not plug anything in or spend much time on it.
  17. 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.
  18. gensetsteve
    Back in February they brought in some tougher tests inc towbar and electrics, rubber gaiters in good condition on ball joints and catalytic exhaust must be fitted if it says so on the screen.
  19. gensetsteve
    sorry to hear that. I think its even worst when its not a range rover owned by a banker or footballer . Pick ups are often the main stay of alot of small businesses. The mot rules changed a few months ago if it was fitted when built needs to be on there for the ticket. I would find some way of fitting for the mot then remove after.
  20. gensetsteve
    I bought a couple last time. Been very good for us on the processor. For the money a bargain if I was to criticise it the peg that holds the chain in the right position is plastic but once you master it all fine just got to watch you dont take too much off some teeth. I buy loops of carlton chain cheap so if the grinder is a bit more aggressive than hand sharpen does not bother me. I am ashamed to say it sharpens better than I do by hand.
  21. gensetsteve
    More hot air
  22. gensetsteve
    As I thought hot air
  23. gensetsteve
    2 of us do 9 cu metres in 5 hrs on a saturday morning. Arb waste can be heavy going especially the bits that look like an octopus. We tend to get 3-4ft wide butts of beech 10ft long. The 20" stuff is too big for our processor but with good chain saw and splitter I dont think it is alot slower than 8" cord and you get alot more wood for your money.
  24. gensetsteve
    If you cant comply with all the regs why bother with any ? I can see a disco van with 300 tdi false no plates, speeding through london, no tax, no insurance, no mot, no seat belts running on red pulling an 8 tonne trailer without brakes:thumbup:
  25. gensetsteve
    Which dealer ? not purchased anything new for yonks could be tempted if the price is right.

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