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  1. gensetsteve
    I love my expresso machine so much so I used to drink 3 buckets a day ( big cups ) I went abroad for a week. After 3 days had a banging head ache. Thought may be the heat but found beer took the edge of the pain, so carried on self medicating for the rest of the hol . Came home 3 days later still got banging head so thought better make sure not brain tumour went to doc. He asked do you drink coffee. I said normally yes but I was good on holiday never drank any. Apparently going cold turkey is not good when you are a junkey I have cut it down to one bucket a day anyone else enjoy there super brew coffee too much.
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    Energy drink = sugar and caffine = lots of money . Pepsi is the same 27p a can in lidls.
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    You could go all natural and eat the right foods. I think pasta and bananas are good. Drinks give you an instant high which does not last you need something that realeases for a few hours.
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    Would help but may increase your turnng circle. I use 4x4 to shunt trailers around yard lwb trooper a nightmare Daiahatsu fourtrack ideal.
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    You do a lot more firewood than us Nick. Firewood is a side line to our wholesale kindling. I think If I did more firewood I would have to rethink. Problem I was faced with was how do you get a tipper conversion on a vehicle that cant exceed 3500kg. The stronger the vehicle the smaller the payload. Landrover 130 by my calcs will have a payload of 500kg. By my calcs 5 metres of 20% moisture firewood will weigh 1750kg. Green it will weight 3500kg . As Vosa said to me at the side of the road we check some of the other makes but always check the transits especially the double cab tippers. If you drive over a weigh bridge you may find you are approaching 5 tonne. We concentrate our deliveries in a 5 mile radius and find we can keep moving when the snow hits.
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    I would think long and hard before I bought another processor but I would buy a decent splitter in a flash. Cord is getting bigger and not only do you need a larger processor you need a log deck and something to load it.
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    I have a log here somewhere with a piece of rope through the middle of it.
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    I like that . If you could shorten the arms on the loader you may not need so much counter balance. Because the loader is closer to the ground if you dont need the height and can see the forks may be an improvement.
  9. gensetsteve
    Depends on the the quality and quantity ordered to what actually gets delivered. How much softwood is in it, how green it is and how much trash is in it. Your customers return for your product because you are in control.
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    We use a tipping hilux which does just over 20mpg when loaded and booted with muds. so round trip of 40 miles would cost £12 in diesel which is a large chunk of profit out of a load of logs. Also you will be out for 1.5 hours so only 2 deliveries in a morning. If you average 6 mile round trip 4 deliveries in a morning.
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    Yes first 7 miles free then £1 a mile.
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    If you go back that way the Museum is good. Wife and kids did it in an hour and half. I was well into it and took 3 hrs to get half way round went back and did the rest on another day. The weather was borderline when we went a couple of weeks ago so give the train a miss as it would have cost nearly £100 to look at cloud. Will visit again in next few years. Hope you enjoy the rest of your holiday.
  13. gensetsteve
    £36 a tonne last year. Harvestors or processors all in the same boat. 2 years ago the government were giving out grants for processors and harvesters. Its not coincedence they have doubled the price of the raw material
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    Prices vary between £45 - £55 delivered. Over £45 delivered we are not going to bother this year. We were paying £36 a tonne delivered last year we cant add a third to the price of the wood going out the yard in our area so what is the point. I am buying for next year and will see how the winter goes. There is alot of cord sitting about roadside because the forest commission want £25 a metre before its felled.
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    If you need to buy a temp gauge try Murphy switch gauge in Laverstock nr Salisbury. If you measure the space for the battery I will work it out from my list. we now only use Varta and steer well clear of the budget makes not worth the few pounds saved. Varta hella bosch all good batteries.
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    Did you go to the free slate museum at the bottom.
  17. gensetsteve
    I think the price of fuel and cordwood is going up so fast that people either dont recalculate their selling price or are afraid to put prices up too fast. If wood and fuel cost 20% more than last year what choice do you have.
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    I could put £6000 together + vat as long as our end of quarter is coming up. I start my new financial year in sept and I have spent enough this year. I would be interested in the Mb Trak it will give a bit more speed and is well built with air brakes. I saw the TW15 on ebay I dont think there will be much history with it but it does look clean transport may cost me a bit as its so far away. Thanks for all the advice this is probably a simple problem but I am stood too close to it. I could buy all my wood for next year within 6 miles but it would be nice to go 25 miles for some free/cheap loads of beech if they come up.
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    I have an idea for a processor loader but not the time. I think an out front mower like the toro about 25hp. You see them about with decks trashed or missing. Can be bought for a few hundred pounds. Mount a loader and log grab on the front. Lift would only be about 200kg but enough to load a log deck. The machines come with hydrostatic drive and 4x4 and hyd pump. fast and agile
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    I think often the junk is more reliable and easier to fix due to the lack of electronics
  21. gensetsteve
    A bedford is a thought thing that worries me is if I have to go to court over a grey area it would be difficult to prove ag. I forgot about MB traks worth a thought. Once harvest is over hireing should be easier. Getting someone to pull it could be another idea but they would need to be good with a crane. I doubt it would be a day a week. I was planning to buy the wood road side then hire a tractor for a week for about £500 7 day hire you can move alot of wood.
  22. gensetsteve
    I found having one decent tractor I needed it in 3 different places with 3 different attachments. I now tend to buy junk for £1500 and leave the processor on it all the time. More junk with loader or grab for loading the log deck.
  23. gensetsteve
    If its £45 a metre and you need to allow for wasteage is it not worth more as fire wood ?
  24. gensetsteve
    Loaders cost money and run on diesel and you really need another pair of hands.
  25. gensetsteve
    Shiney tractors £40,000 plus or fastracs and unimogs have air brakes. I have hydraulic brakes if needs must but with 14 tonnes on the back feels better with air brakes. Some times its cheaper to spend an extra hour or two on the road than spend 10k especially if you dont need it every day and the jobs worth it. Not sure I fancy doing 50 mph with a fully loaded trailer anyway 30mph is enough.

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