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  1. gensetsteve
    I have 700 sat here ready to go. Do you have someone who would do it as a return load. 7.5 tonne curtain sider would be ideal. Excellent well packed bags of kiln dried pine.
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    ebay

    gensetsteve replied to Dave Martin's topic in The Lounge

    I must have been on ebay 8 years and cant remember selling a single item to someone who asked a question. I had an item worth £3000 and it sold for that but one bidder asked dozens of questions and dropped out £400 I am sure there are still alot of good people still on ebay but in the last couple years it seems to have been over run with crooks and war babies looking for something for nothing to prop up their pensions.
  3. gensetsteve
    £35 a tonne roadside for processor sized beech here. I doubt we will need to buy much as we have so much left over from last winter.
  4. gensetsteve
    Its not in their interest to inflick even more pain on your business than they already have. If they help put your business under they will be shelling out £350 a week to support your family.
  5. gensetsteve
    I think when our td5 van bites the dust I will look at a toyota LC4 van possibly from ireland. The LR D3 and 4 is just too much money too many faults and difficult to work on. Shame as I will still need to get my LR fix somewhere the Jap stuff is just souless
  6. gensetsteve
    With the standards of driving on the roads you would not get me sat in front of 12,000 litres of unleaded for 45k a year . When these drivers arrive at stations its there responsability to decant fuel safely and I bet the H&S paperwork is a nightmare. You will need to be on your guard for people wandering about with phones and fags etc.
  7. gensetsteve
    I am sure if you copy the authorities in on your post they will look into and create a whole new raft of legislation for you. They may even create a days course with a certificate that the 20 somethings seem to love adding to their cv's
  8. gensetsteve
    People were selling big xmas trees from their front gardens last year. If they had been closer I would have paid £25-£50 for one for our front garden if it was 15ft +
  9. gensetsteve
    The weather has suddenly warmed up so no tick over while scrapping windscreen. No cold starts or lights on pulling alt lighter evenings combined with different type of driving and checking tyre pressures it can all add up. Our van even does slightly better after an oil change.
  10. gensetsteve
    Our little kindling venture good last year and going well now. Generator work dried up last year but booming now. Logs waste of time this winter hopefully will have the sense not to bother in future
  11. gensetsteve
    If you need a hydraulic jockey wheel may be worth measureing the nose weight its surprising how little even the Amazon should have on the back. Ifor do a triaxle trailer which may suit your application well. Putting 600kg on your hitch will quickly kill your back axle. I should know
  12. gensetsteve
    Not done an MB trac but had similar problem on a disco we had to get the bleed nipple at highest point by jacking vehicle way up in the air. Otherwise a small air bubble got caught in top of slave cylinder. The other thing is to let it settle over night and gently bleed last of air out in morning.
  13. gensetsteve
    Bought some off a guy with good reviews on ebay just off the M4 does 20kg bag delivered for £35 . I bought a bag but not tried it yet could be pants
  14. gensetsteve
    I know someone that has started a company making van flat bed things with a fifth wheel and trailer to carry two cars on the back the tractor would be under 3500kg and trailer would be 3500kg so tacho needed but no operators licence. The idea was to exploit a loop hole in the law I guess they just plugged that one. Its easy to see who complicated terminology and rumours lead to people thinking different things.
  15. gensetsteve
    Yes but I like most dont have a tractive unit or a semi trailer.
  16. gensetsteve
    Yes thats cleared it up you DONT need an o licence
  17. gensetsteve
    This a new one on me. My understanding is if the tow vehicle max weight is under 3500kg you dont need an O licence ?
  18. gensetsteve
    I would sell my processor long before I sold my Vertical splitter. A splitter is a lot more useful than a processor unless u know you have 8" stuff coming in for 5 years then its a no brainer but I think half the wood we get in would not go through our HP 2x . Theocus Dalen machine is probably one of the best machines for coping with big stuff and timber with bends in it but doubt you get much change of 20k with the vat now
  19. gensetsteve
    Thats almost exactly how we do it. I load the hilux tipper with logs until we have about 60 cu metres in the poly tunnel then fill the vent bags. I use a teleporter to hold the bags open then drop them on pallets. When the logs are dry the bobcat brings them on the pallet from the bottom field and we tip the bags out on concrete poly tunnel and scoop with bucket. Similar process with large rings. I run the chain saw andy is on the verticle splitter from large cord straight to 10" log in the bag.
  20. gensetsteve
    I have thought of this but my hiab skills would worry me so close to the Dalen operator I assume one person is loading and changing the bags.
  21. gensetsteve
    Unless the man with the croppers has a florry jacket on then no one would notice.
  22. gensetsteve
    Which ever way you do it its hard work I did not have a saw bench with conveyor so cant comment on efficency. The billet idea is brilliant for getting the work done early and wood seasons superbly and allows the logs to be cut exactly to the customers requirements. We had to move 24" timber 4ft long onto a vertical splitter I caught my finger against the wedge once to often dummy flew out and so did the chainsaw not done billets since. A horizontal splitter with log lift would be a better method. followed by saw bench. Its satisfying making long rows of billets and with new toys to play with even better.
  23. gensetsteve
    Yes thats nothing to do with your driving licence entitlement and you have needed a tacho since 1997 for business use over 3500kg gross train weight.
  24. gensetsteve
    or 3 cut into rings and straight into vertical splitter 10" logs thrown into 1.5 cubic metre vented bag. Bags last a few years and can be reused have tipping loop on bottom.
  25. gensetsteve

    Chain oil

    gensetsteve replied to davey_b's topic in Chainsaws

    I buy the 25 litre oregon stuff from jones about £40 lasts for ever and looks after bars chains sprockets health and no gumming up.

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