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  1. gensetsteve
    I did not realise you were into the lube business. I would like to improve my knowledge on oil. I am more electrical side than mech but have my HgV tickets and endless certs from engine manufacturers. We have recently gone over to semi syn due to the lower cost. I have resisted up to now as I was worried about the effect of the oil on our 30 year old sets on contract ie oil seal damage leaks etc.
  2. gensetsteve
    I worked on alot of ktta 50's in 1990 do they still make the kta series. I remember them being V16 with twin turbo's and twin starter motors. I remember they had alot of trouble with crankshaft pulleys falling off as I run down the dock side with sparks coming out the top of the container.
  3. gensetsteve
    If anyone has any clearups or takedowns around Andover I can collect with an Ifor tipper or if its 20 tonne +. I have a large trailer and crane. For a decent drop of wood I can buy the buns at lunch time. Our bag of bones tractor is not really up to the job but can hire a new 200hp at short notice if the job justifies.
  4. gensetsteve
    The priority for people at the moment I think is getting through christmas without loading up the credit card too much. The priority in January will be keeping warm. The kindling side will be quiet because people selling logs are sitting on thousands of pounds worth of cord wood.
  5. gensetsteve
    I have tyraped the remotes in all my tippers facing backwards in the front cross member to keep the weather out . You just put your hand through the hole you cant see what you are pressing but it only goes two ways. Will take a pic if needed.
  6. gensetsteve
    green wood only gives half the heat of fully seasoned so unless its half price and you can wait a year its a waste of time. So fully seasoned at £90 a cube or wet crap for £60 which would you choose
  7. gensetsteve
    Things are steady here. I prefer things like this less vehicles and machinery getting trashed. We still have 4 months of winter to come. Things will pick up in January after people have christmas out the way and burnt all those logs.
  8. gensetsteve
    Jons post are part of the colour and fauna of arb talk. Always makes sense to us perhaps its cos we are closer to summerset than you. We are on the posh cizer now ( cava ) all the best steve:thumbup:
  9. gensetsteve
    If you split the log in half the reading will be much higher in the middle. What he was saying is the log was wetter than you measured.
  10. gensetsteve
    I would ask for a full refund and half the wage bill for that day. Aim high and accept a reasonable offer.
  11. gensetsteve
    I thought this was an arb forum not a literacy test
  12. gensetsteve
    I have had enough of logs for now so I think I have run out till after christmas. unless you are a good regular customer then I might be able to find the odd pile of 300 tonnes of beech I processed last march We had a huge stock of kindling which is going down rapidly so will be concentrating on keeping our wholesale customers happy. I have had my caveman log cutting fix.
  13. gensetsteve
    The chap that works for me has a stihl one looks ok a bit small but one useful feature is it turns of after about 10 seconds. Mine gets switched on in my pocket next time it goes off is when its eaten the 9v battery.
  14. gensetsteve
    Most round this way process straight into truck. They are busy all summer harvesting. I dont see where it says in the bible though shall spend £50,000 on cord then spend thousands on diesel and wages then wait 12 months to see your money back. If we process and send out green we tell people. But alot of my customers are ordering there wood now for next year they get there first load in feb march when there store is down I then have space and cash flow so I can send them bone dry stuff in Jan/ Feb next year. We are never short on customers just time and cord wood
  15. gensetsteve
    If you dont say something he may carry on pricing jobs on the grounds of you are prepared to do a 13 hr day for a standard day rate. If times are hard and this is the best job he could line up I would help him out then draw a new line in the sand for future jobs. £600 a week is better but £400 is better than 0
  16. gensetsteve
    £3000 will buy an ok one but not running a remote cottage 24/7 for the next ten years. £7000 will buy you a proper generator running at 1500 rpm and with servicing and 80% load will last 15- 40,000 hrs with some luck.
  17. gensetsteve
    I know you had alot of trouble with yours. But its the best available in that size at that price. I would imagine you were doing alot of stop starting. You can pay £5000 for a 3kva open set which is what you may have needed. If you are going to run 10 - 15 hrs a week the pramac will be ok. The yanmar l100 engine is due a major overhaul at 2000hrs I would say the unit has expired at 4000 hrs. We use perkins in our 30kva 1500rpm sets and expect 40,000 hrs before overhaul horses for courses.
  18. gensetsteve
    I did not recognise the hgi bit as I know them as Harrington. A nice uk company straight and helpful. I dont know if they manufacture that set in house or import. The ebay item looks genuine. Most of those other ebay sets esp kipor kama etc are not great in my opinion. They are a poor copy of the L100 engine. There was a P6000s on there the best you will get for 3k.
  19. gensetsteve
    I am not sure if that is made by HGI has a sort of prc look to it. That is defo not the quietest on the market. My choice if you want a small 3000 rpm machine would be the pramac P6000s . The s bit is important as you can hardly hear it running ie 70 dec at 1 metre not half way up the road. I have sold loads of these when we could do them for 2k now they come out at £2500 + vat. That ebay thing if its a genuine HGI from uk will make about 12-1600 on ebay. If it was rough 5-700. Small gensets are a minefield especially air cooled 3000 rpm stuff.
  20. gensetsteve
    Woodpicker thats 59p a litre does it come in daylight hrs:001_smile:
  21. gensetsteve
    Does that inc postage
  22. gensetsteve
    is that 86p a litre at the marina inc vat and 69p delivered ex vat
  23. gensetsteve
    I was being polite what I meant to say was 3120:puke: but did not want to upset anyone the 088 I think is out of date but at least it stays together
  24. gensetsteve
    3120 really not that great ms880 better
  25. gensetsteve
    We used to keep our hunter in all night. When you have a nice bed of health red embers empty the ash pan over the top. In the morning push some sticks of kindling in without disturbing too much ( I know a good place for Kindling ) some mornings it would be roaring in the middle some not. In the end we just let it die out and relight in a couple of minutes I think it clogs the chimney without giving much heat and uses up expensive logs if its slumbered.

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