gensetsteve
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Everything posted by gensetsteve
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I agree there seems to be a real atmosphere of if we cant make money why bother around at the moment.
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I think its a sign of the recession. We used to quote 10 jobs in the boom time then we were quoteing dozens. So we stopped selling Generators. We had some nice silent 80kva silent gensets for hire and customers said joe Bloggs was cheaper down the road so I shoved them through a plant sale, So did everyone else now there are less generators for hire and no one to answer the phone.
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True saw bench it is then
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I see you have had a bit of a run on would you like me drop some cord off with the hilux in the week.
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I had a customer last weekend that more than deserved that
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I think billets are good as they dry fast but you need a saw bench with conveyor to make it really work.
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Cut it down today, process it in the morning send it out next week. only joking but it would make it sooooo much easier. And the customer would have cheap logs next year.
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If difference was 63p 13 years ago things have doubled in price but the difference is not £1.20 now. What I was thinking was if I doubled my fuel cost by running on white and staying legal for more jobs. I would go from a £1 a mile in fuel to £2 . Or in laymans terms If I bring 10 tonne of cord 10 miles it wil cost me £20 which does not really impact on £500 worth of timber.
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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.
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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.
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A metre of green ash weighs about a tonne. So when part seasoned sell by the metre same amount of wood.
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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.
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Sell it at roadside
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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.
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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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advice on going from splitter to processor
gensetsteve replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Firewood forum
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You can still send him a message after the item has ended.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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advice on going from splitter to processor
gensetsteve replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Firewood forum
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. -
advice on going from splitter to processor
gensetsteve replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Firewood forum
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 -
Are logs a sideline or a full time business ?
gensetsteve replied to Dave Martin's topic in Firewood forum
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. -
Are logs a sideline or a full time business ?
gensetsteve replied to Dave Martin's topic in Firewood forum
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:
