gensetsteve
-
Posts
6,693 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Classifieds
Tip Site Directory
Blogs
Articles
News
Arborist Reviews
Arbtalk Knot Guide
Gallery
Store
Calendar
Freelancers directory
Everything posted by gensetsteve
-
A tonne of green hardwood makes 1.5 -1.6 cubic metres of loose logs but will be half as heavy when seasoned.
-
I am guessing Galloway is not the place go processing. £20 to process + your free wood = £20 and the bags sell for £80 - £140 so the person gets £20 for doing all the work and you get £60 for doing nothing.
-
I hope the stoves are not as bad as the generators.
-
I have a friend who comes in and helps. we cut the cord to manageable sizes and load by hand. in a 7 hour day we get about 10 - 12 loose cubic metres processed. I would expect at least £300 for the day. I would not be charging £160 just to see the logs being sold for £1200 at christmas. Some people want to pay to little for their logs and some people want to charge to much but we all have to make a living.
-
Last time I see a post on here about pop at road side in cord it was worth £5 a tonne. If you get any jobs where you would like nice straight lengths of beech ash and oak removed I am just down the road. I have given financial advice to poor land owners in the past ( sell some land and run your new Range Rover into the ground rather than replace every year seems to help ) -
I would say most systems too much time and hassle. When we did billets we used to stack well and if we got one wrong we used to put a small ratchet strap round.
-
stretchy plant ties or insulateing tape.
-
I think both good quality machines. I would pick the one with the most powerful ram if you are going to put your oak through it. I think the Dalen is good for stuff with a bit of a bend in it.
-
Yes but they may just notice sitting in a warm cab flicking levers is a lot easier than standing in the rain pulling wet wood in and out of a processor. I like their logic though 'we dont earn much doing one thing lets see if we can earn less doing something else'. Mind you £20 an hour is more than we earn when we buy in cord and retail logs to the public so they must be doing something right.
-
I think Oak gets a bad press as it needs alot longer to season. Commercially that is bad news especially when you add in conversion factor. I expect it gets sent before its ready.
-
my 1.5 cu bags 3/4 fill my 2cu metre truck so I would say about right.
-
So that must include those 16ft 3 axle ifor trailers you see on 4x4
-
It could be, my thing is big diesels and it could be because we cancel the load for a few minutes to save the turbo before shut down. Maybe someone like spud could advise. I would have thought any oil round the bearings is more likely to evaporate if the saw is cooking with no air flow. You could be right especially with the new saws.
-
But processing is so profitable you may as well do it all yourself
-
I had a G reg with 19j engine about 15 years ago. Under powered compared with the 200 tdi . The engine let go at 65k so i did a proper rebuild in the workshop. After 6000 miles it started breathing oil into the air filter again. Bearing in mind I have been building 50 litre v16 lumps for over 20 years itstruck me as a very poor engine. We chopped it in for for a 300 which was vastly better. Apart from the crap gearbox, headgasket blowing between 3 and 4 every 80,000 miles and the cambelt snapping and the water pump gasket letting go it was quite reliable for a landrover.
-
If you allow the engine to tick over for a minute or so after heavy work I have a theory it helps extend the life of the coils. Shutting a hard worked 2 stroke down leaves alot of heat which travels up the crank to the flywheel. I would also think leaving an engine to tick over allows a better coating of oil for the bearings on restart. When i start my saws I tend to allow them to idle on the ground for a while then pick a small log and use 3/4 throttle. Just feels a bit cruel on a frosty morning to plough into a 2ft but 10 seconds after starting.
-
We had some ex battery hens. They often recover but problem is they often suffer prolaps as they are so inbred and not used to running about their guts fall out. I said if I get more hens in future they will be well bred sturdy jobs.
-
True and for the last few years there has been no cord about after November. Combine this with the huge stock piles the government has bought in grit anticipating a hard winter you should be quids in.
-
I produce a cubic metre of soft wood from my processor on a saturday. I cut joinery waste so its kiln dried virgin timber. It looks ideal for pet bedding ? . But with the hassle of bagging it and dealing with the public I send it down to the local chicken farm and they use it near the end of the crop under the drinkers. When cutting beech logs I must produce 20 metres of saw dust a month but it does not weigh much so not worth selling. I tend to allow it to rot down anyone need some top soil.
-
But if a Landrover Lover buys a Landcruiser what will they do with themselves at the weekend
-
If keeping the weight on is the idea I cracked that one without energy foods. We had energy drinks when we were kids think it was called Tizer. I did have some rehydration drinks back in the summer when logging had a sort of bicarb crossed with battery acid taste with blueberry thrown in but they were well passed sell by date.
-
I think the recession is really starting to bit now and it does look as if it will be around a while. Without a crystal ball it will be impossible to see how things will sell over winter. I think buy in only what you can afford to sit on. Or as the saying goes 'risk not thy whole wad'
-
I think you are right about the old boys. Unless you harvest and process your own wood or get it free from arb work you will be priced out in the future. The material cost has doubled in 5 years the retail price has not.
-
Who else is on hear cos X factor is on for 2.5 hrs
gensetsteve replied to gensetsteve's topic in General chat
Help, shes gone to bed I have never been left in charge of buttons and am too drunk to learn and its still on the screen. -
Who else is on hear cos X factor is on for 2.5 hrs
gensetsteve replied to gensetsteve's topic in General chat
Is that one of those dwarfs on right now that was on the other night
