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  1. gensetsteve
    Explain to the rest of the staff a grand missing from your bottom line will effect them indirectly and any info will be gratefully received and held in confidence. Then when your sure seek and destroy.
  2. gensetsteve
    petrol vapours and wood dust = explosion you are a walking bomb. I get hayfever and dog hair and mould spores can bring on asthma. Very rare but not nice when it happens.
  3. gensetsteve
    If you explain its men you are talking to all night she will think you have gone over to the other side. You cant win hopefully she did not find what you posted a month ago.
  4. gensetsteve
    I had a look in my training notes when I left school ( 1984 ) I followed the flow chart carefully and it said knackered:001_smile:
  5. gensetsteve
    Damp weather combined with 14deg c and a few mould spores can play havoc with asthma. You may never have a problem again. Or you may not make the night being pessimistic as you know I can be.
  6. gensetsteve
    All this legislation is great helping to protect your loved ones. Anyone noticed how many lorry drivers with LT or PL on the back are falling asleep at the wheel almost daily we see lorrys swerving all over the road and how many have been on the sauce. Every other documentary seems to feature a foreign lorry in a pile up or is it bias that way to make programs. I would not worry about the land rover being 50kg too heavy for an excemption as the juggernaut plows in the back of you at 56mph.
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    Change the oil and fuel filter. It may be worth getting the injectors tested for dribbling. refurb injectors will be cheap £30 ea ? could give truck whole new lease of life and pay back will be quick. Injectors should be a service item every 70,000 miles. If truck is old and high miles may not be worth getting into fuel pump. If the engine does not breathe you are in with a chance. As has been said fuel treatment will help long term but short term problem will be worse.
  8. gensetsteve
    Not so far in five years but we turn 1000 bags around in 3 weeks so not here long. Had a few wasps last year and the bags loose colour quickly you can see the difference in the pic in less than 3 weeks and these bags are the best out of three suppliers.
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    Yes we just use untreated joinery of cuts. Hardwood I suspect would be hard on the machine and burns too slow.
  10. gensetsteve
    My wife runs the kindlet and really enjoys the work I guess making 10-20,000 bags a year you would have to . A solid cubic metre of timber makes a cubic meter of kindling or about 80-100 bags. Like most of the timber trade you wont get rich but can make a living. It takes longer to make the bags than doing logs but generally the raw material is cheaper and the work is lighter. We sell wholesale to trade 40x50 nets with approx 4kg for £1.60+ vat they retail for £4. Thanks for the compliment will pass it onto the wife. If anyone wants a few hundred bags, nows the time to shout. If we have a mild winter we will have plenty but if its cold it goes nuts. We dont really do it for the money its a nice side line which if things go quiet is a good fall back. Our usp is our timber is kiln dried so we keep going all year so ideal for top ups in January ( no seasoning )
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    everyone driving in France including the french have to carry two testers. If the police pull you over you will be requested to blow in your own tester. Good idea really why should the tax payer have to pay for all the p**s heads driving around if your not weaving from side to side with half your lights out u are unlikely to get stopped.
  12. gensetsteve
    Spaulted beech = very. get yourself one of those cheap dust extractors for about £140 it will draw it away from your face and could also be connected to the machine. One of the advantages of a chain bar
  13. gensetsteve
    Been busy all summer with a large kindling order and this is the last 1000 bags ready to go. Bit of a lul now so will be getting 1700 in stock for winter. If any body needs a large amount now is a good time.
  14. gensetsteve
    Cant justify putting this 12ft frame on our ifor anymore if you need timber need to do it large. So found another use for it.
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    Knocked this up with a few g cramps this morning. I would give yours a try and then add some mods if it needs it my best tools have been perfected from bodges along the way.
  16. gensetsteve
    I have a hakki pilki 2x and two of us can do 100 cubic meters a day. If we dont stop for a pee, lunch, adjust or sharpen the chain never service the tractor, never grease anything, dont process into bags, always have 8" stuff and work 24hrs straight through, otherwise its 8 hrs of the above and we get 18 cubic metres
  17. gensetsteve
    I am going to bodge one up in an hour will put up some pics. I think yours will need another beam through the middle and another roller. Best place place for rollers is probably towsure.
  18. gensetsteve
    Agreed and you put it better than me. I feel there should be a welfare state to help able bodied people short term. People with disabilitys long term. Its not there for people to avoid work because they are 'stressed' you dont need a new all expences paid car to get you to weatherspoons and the bookies. Layzyness is going to kill the welfare state for everyone and fattys are going to kill the nhs.
  19. gensetsteve
    To get 8 tonne you will need the biggest grain trailer made or half an 8 wheeler load. IE it wont come on a 7.5 tonne truck.
  20. gensetsteve
    Depends where you get your figures I read recently that the benefits bill is no longer covered by income tax. There is a huge number of able bodied people claiming huge amounts of money on the disability. They are not causing benefit fraud because they have no intention of working even for cash in hand. Fat blobs parking their new mobility cars right outside tesco's so they can go and buy their pizzas. We have one at our kids school had so many kids now has a new minibus sits their smoking cigars the 13 year old kid comes out sits in the front and lights up. I dont like any of the politicians around at the moment but if cameron sorts the scum out in this country good on him. Some people just wont work unless they are starving.
  21. gensetsteve
    I like the look of the dalen well made and can handle stuff with a bend in it. Do you still have to buy your spares from Marshall or is their another dealer ?. We have a hakki with chain and I would go for either, chain is quieter and cheaper but produces more chip. tct more irritating noise and expensive to sharpen if you hit alot of metal. My chain loops cost me £2 ea and I electric sharpen at least 6 times ea. Ea sharpen last me a day or 16 tonnes on average so about 25p a day on chain wear.
  22. gensetsteve
    Not sure about Cannon but most printers dont come with full size cartridges just enough to get you going so you spend ££££,s soon after buying printer but proper cartridges last much longer.
  23. gensetsteve
    It looks well seasoned so if you try splitting it will probably break up. Looks like someone has been through and taken all the processor size stuff. We produce a cubic metre in about 20 mins if the stuff is around 8 inch dia. But I can remember putting 3 in stuff through with two men and after about 2 hrs we had 1.5 cubic metres on the floor.
  24. gensetsteve
    No matter what machine you get in that is going to be alot of hard work for not alot. I would chip it for the power station You will get a fraction of the money but it will take a fraction of the time.
  25. gensetsteve
    We have a kindlet which is great. I saw a demo of a posch but when they got a jam they trashed about 3 bags worth clearing it. Can you get it to do nice neat stacked bags like this picture. 60 bags an hour is about the max for two people my wife runs the machine by herself and turns it of about every 5 minutes does between 25-35 per hour. If we get a knot we can open the machine and clear it. Remember it can take as long to cut the wood to 6" as it does to kindle it.

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