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theres good karma and bad karma one day you will have to sit for 8 hrs in a jam while they clear an accident and you will think back to this post
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The mild weather has slowed things down as people who buy in advance have and the last minute .coms dont need to yet. Just give it a few weeks of frost and sleet and you will be flat out.
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Starting up a business .... ??
gensetsteve replied to abigail.waddecar's topic in Business Management
I would forget grants, very little about and those that are you will spend more time jumping through hoops than you gain. Start small and you will learn by small mistakes. Money easily won is easily lost. -
with a bit more cladding you get a nice little business in there paying you £800 a month looking on the bright side.
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I have a large mesh sided poly tunnel. I tend to process into 4 smaller piles and leave in the summer for a few weeks then pile on top. One big pile the ones in the middle will go mouldy. The more wind blows through the better.
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I had a new piston and possibly rings would need to hunt it down.
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about 6 weeks ago delivered 2 cu metres to a slightly awkward customer from last year. Wife took the order. I rang back to check our standard 10" logs were big enough. When I got there his wife told me he had not left the cash as arranged he would bring it that night. 3 days went by, I rang his response "I suppose your worried about your money" my reply "yes" the logs are too small and there is bark and trash in it. I will offer you half the money. Within ten minutes the whole lot was back on our truck the dust and trash swept up which did not fill a gallon bucket. The load was probably the best I have sent out in 5 years bone dry mix of ash beech and oak. I was extremely polite and left without a cross word but had a big smile on my face as we wont need to go there again and for me chapter underlined and closed.
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hardwood cord available.. 26 ton loads
gensetsteve replied to nick channer's topic in Firewood forum
I would sit on it for a while. A month of cold weather you can ask what you like. -
Do you think we will have a hard winter in January. I remember still cutting the grass in December about 3-4 years ago your predictions are normally spot on.
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I have an idea which bits
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Yes and I was impressed with my politeness and maturity. I think alot of people in this country in the middle ranks are in the same boat. Unless you are a banker, politition or crook then you just fiddle a bit more.
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Very quiet here luckily as we concentrated on making kindling this summer. I have seen people slash their price locally. I have a large stock of beech which was cut and split a few months ago but its still 30% so will miss this year unless someone knows better.
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I bought an 051 off ebay well made heavy but a bit gutless I think I leaned it out a bit too much and it went puff. It felt like it revved lower than modern saws was torquey and relaxed to use. It went back on ebay and Made the money back.
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I did look into that but lack of tech advice from toyota would make it difficult. Also mine does not drive or stop great when loaded to 2900kg and driven on private grounds. I have coil and leafs fitted.
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I bought the single cab thinking with bigger bed and only 2 seats it would be more of a work horse and carry alot more but is 1800kg empty and gross kerb weight is 2500kg. The dc and ec is just under 3000kg to keep it on a car mot test. Even the latest single cabs still only 700kg
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I dont think so. I tipped of 1 cu metre of perfect cut ash beech and oak all bone dry under 20% . The woman shrieked you got to be joking expecting alot more for the money. We had a long discussion and I apologised that she expected more but explained that we probably made £30-£40 out of the load. She assumed the wood came to us free. On leaving she asked if we were definately giving up logs in future. I had explained we were calming log sales down to concentrate on our wholesale kindling.
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The hilux extra cab carries 1080kg the single cab only 700kg ? so the extra cab would be useful for kindling etc. I assume looking at my single cab 2cu metres would be too much ? . 1cu of dry beech 325kg but green can be 600kg so if we were supplying 1.5 cu of green it would still work as long as you dont have passengers.
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I would be interested if you can make one for an extra cab that could carry 1.5 cubic metres the sides would have to be fairly high almost leve with the cab roof. The only thing that worries me is C of G especially that far back over the axle.
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My hakki processor choked on snow last year. Not much chance of that so far still getting sun burnt.
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I have always been a fan of conveyors. I swear it halves the effort and doubles the speed. I have just bought a used upm conveyor on ebay for £300 for one of my saws. You need at least 4.5 metres to reach the middle of the truck with raised sides. The motors are normally only 40 - 120 watts so could be run of an inverter or a hand bag generator.
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Bags of Kindling for sale in the south sticks
gensetsteve replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Just a quick note to everyone who purchased their kindling this summer thankyou for your business and it was good to meet you all. I bumped this thread up because it has some good pics of kindling on. We are currently flat out building stock up for the winter. If anyone requires kindling now drop me a pm and we can sort something out. The bags are 40x50 and weigh about 4kg all virgin untreated kiln dried pine bone dry and ready for immediate use. We have an advert in the firewood directory if you need to find us in future -
Lots of Misleading Firewood Ad's on Ebay
gensetsteve replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
Even then they would be getting a good deal as that would be approx 1.5 cu metres of loose logs. -
I was going to put a pic up but it actually looks good in a photo. Look forward to seeing some pics of the outfit when its had some love. I never seem to get the time to overhaul things seems to take forever to source parts these days. I think there is a full time job here gardening and changing oil
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Not sure if you can see in the pic but this is on my pm crane which works well. Not a huge travel the thing that worries me with the recoil tings is how long will the seal last with a bit of frost and dust.
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I have a large pile of beech I can offer for £80 a cubic metre loose loaded. It looks good but I dont sell it as seasoned as its 26% outside 30% inside. 5 cu metres will be around 2.5 tonne in weight. If Butlers still have the pile I looked at last summer best go there first.
