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  1. gensetsteve
    I am sure your right I normally buy beech which is possibly closer to a tonne than ash. Its all irrelevant to me as I dont know any one round here that sells by the tonne especially part seasoned.
  2. gensetsteve
    Because its a small amount the cc fees will be low. If it goes to court it will really hurt there credit rating. If you feel strongly about it and fancy a fight this would be a cheap one to practice on for the future.
  3. gensetsteve
    A metre of green ash weighs about a tonne. So when part seasoned sell by the metre same amount of wood.
  4. gensetsteve
    I used to fit eberspacher heaters over 20 years ago easy to fit and hardly changed. main thing remember is to make sure the exhaust does not get near or point at anything flammable like fuel lines or tank. The other heater is a propex which runs from a calor gas bottle same principle but runs on propane I suspect cleaner burning and possibly more reliable as less moving parts.
  5. gensetsteve
    Sell it at roadside
  6. gensetsteve
    I am buying at roadside £35 for good stuff averaging around 8" . £40 a tonne I walk away. "2 twigs or 2ft buts I walk away. I think you may be too far away transport would kill it . At £30 a tonne I would buy it all looks good.
  7. gensetsteve
    There is something satisfiying about being surrounded by neat stacks of billets. I dont get the same atmosphere with my white vented bags.
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    You can still send him a message after the item has ended.
  10. gensetsteve
    My hand sharpening is ok not great. I bought one from lidls for £20 it looks identical to the small oregon one which is £150. It does 325 3/8 and 404 and is great no way would I spend more.
  11. gensetsteve
    Looks like the dodge trucks I used to work on when I was an apprentice. We used to cut the back of the chassis off to make tipper conversions and a tool box at the front. The chassis was about 4mm thick from memory and I remeber building over 100 trucks in one go for the seb well made and surprisingly nice to drive. Torquey engine and positive gearbox.
  12. gensetsteve
    Are we talking on ag ticket if you cut the trees down yourself and bring back to yard. Is there an airfield somewhere with more. What sort of money are we talking.
  13. gensetsteve
    We had a three phase sheppach 10 tonne ish we have converted it to a 11hp Honda. When 3ph was superb but now we can stall the engine. I would say get 10 tonne with 13hp honda we sometimes feel we could do with a bit more oomph.
  14. gensetsteve
    Yes I did not mean to knock it £35,000 is cheap for a processor if you do enough cord but I would imagine steve gets alot of chunky stuff like us.
  15. gensetsteve
    You have to sell alot of wood to make £12,000 back. Anyone got a used hakki x37 for about 4k . I think Barnsley Bob was selling his Steve
  16. gensetsteve
    I can just see the job advert. Wanted person to cut up wood. Must have been to school, college and university. Persons under 26 need not apply as they will still be mature students. Applicant must be able to understand all long words and be able to spell them. Experience in forestry not required as training will be given.
  17. gensetsteve
    It would be difficult to run as a main business because there are so many people doing a few loads in November for £40 cash. I know a few people who sell logs in a big way go on holiday for 6 weeks and come back end of November and then start selling their 1000 tonnes. There is a huge market but prices are kept low by the minority and once someone has bought a bargain load of logs in september sets the price for the winter. Sorry If i sound like the robot out of your sci fi thing Dave:biggrin:
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    I had a basic w reg hilux dc on lease hire for 5 months while I had the new navara on order. I actually waited 5 months for the outstanding new navarra to arrive ( little did I know ). The hilux had nearly 200k on the clock and was wrecked but I thought it was great. I now have an s reg with nearly 200k on the clock which is wrecked it starts on the button and does the job and actually has a much better feeling of quality ( the bits left we have not smashed off that is )
  19. gensetsteve
    This sounds like a better idea even then it needs some decent trees and good access. Maybe you could supply 4 cu metres of logs for his own use. Then he will feel like he is getting something out of it.
  20. gensetsteve
    I have never covered them before but have pushed the bags under an over hanging hedge. We are running out of hedge now though so may cover some from now on just to see. Someone pointed out when bags are more than 3 deep the ones out of the wind can go mouldy. I used to pile logs up in the field uncovered and the black dirty looking logs burnt the best.
  21. gensetsteve
    We did a test a few months ago. our trailer holds 3 cu metres so we prepared straight 10" timber to 3ft lenghts. Andy loaded the conveyor and I operated the machine took 30 mins to fill . So in theory with two people you can do the 6cu an hour. We then put 2-3" stuff through after 2.5 hours we had about 2 cu metres. With average timber with me working on my own takes me 1hr 20mins to get 2 cu metres in the trailer allowing for chain sharpening oil refilling and jam ups.
  22. gensetsteve
    It all depends on your set up and what you have available. I cut beech into billets and it dried really well and could be left out. But I had an upright splitter so had to man handle 1000x600 lumps. Beech starts 100mm and finishes at a point like a wedge. When they were dry the larger bits I put through the processor which then mashed them a bit so lots of trash. If I had a good horizontal splitter and different species I would have another go. What I do now is process into 1.5 metre bags vented then when poly tunnel is empty tip them out for a few weeks. Tunnel has new concrete floor and holds about 100cu metres. With the bobcat I scoop, load and deliver 16 cu metres on a saturday if we are busy.
  23. gensetsteve
    If you get to the end and still no luck. Hire one of those advertising trailers and list all the faults you have had and the dealers names. Park it out side Nissan Uk. Tv regional centres where the camera points, out side the dealers etc tell the local papers and get them to photograph. I had a new transit for two years it was dreadfull a similar stunt on a Ford corporate day at Thruxton race circuit did the trick.
  24. gensetsteve
    To answer the original question it depends how much you send out a year. If you get a bit of arb waste in cut it up and send out 50 loads its a hobby. If you buy in 150 tonnes of cord and send 225 loads its a side line. If you buy in 700 tonnes and send 1000 loads its full time, but if you are doing that you will know if it pays.
  25. gensetsteve
    I think they have all been chipped to a degree. Dragging 160-200 bhp out of a 2.5 litre 4 cyl eng, a cheap alloy rad for good measure there is going to be tears at some time. Normally 3 years 2 months.

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