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  1. gensetsteve
    The other thing that gets the business is delivery within a day or so. Amazing how people often wait 6 weeks for a delivery.
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    I am on my last handle, But may try a repair. The handles last longer if you clean the seal with dumpy flat blade screw driver as you need less torque to make a good seal. I was thinking bean to cup machine for about £500 maybe a miele or similar. The simple manual gaggia machines make an excellent cup and are fairly well made inside.
  3. gensetsteve
    I am guessing everyone on this thread will still be posting at 3 in the morning
  4. gensetsteve
    I have managed to kill three gaggia machines in the last 5 years so if anyone needs spare bits they are on the shelf in the workshop.
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    Hi Vikki is it for forest use or a large one for the road with brakes. I have a friend who was talking about building a new one his old one was unbraked but carried about 7 tonnes. I have just had a trailer built out of a brick trailer. Carries about 10 tonnes. 10 tonne crane, air brakes, oil brakes, air suspension cost about £6500 in total. I saw one this week on ebay for 3-4k
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    Gold blend was half price in tescos this week cant remember what it was like. Sometimes a mellow blend with more in ? . I find nescafe a bit sweet and plastic after decent expresso
  7. gensetsteve
    I sold 3 double ones on ebay for £25 ea to get rid. May be worth a try.
  8. gensetsteve
    I have no idea I think its the change of life style and the cost. Its cheaper to drink lager where we went. Also I find quality of coffee varies when your not in control of the machine. But thats just the view of a coffee additive control freak.
  9. gensetsteve
    Its alot of metal for the money and ideal for a little sky lift. The gross train weight is half what a proper mog is. Look good on the drive but no good for towing.
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    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.
  11. gensetsteve
    Energy drink = sugar and caffine = lots of money . Pepsi is the same 27p a can in lidls.
  12. gensetsteve
    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.
  14. gensetsteve
    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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    We had a new d22 on 52 plate had it about 18 months 36k got rid. Terrible dealers tried 6 . Never ending problems they could not fix. We had a lucky escape as soon after all the engines started to blow up. The later ones have citroen engines I believe. The back up service is more french than japanese.
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    I have a log here somewhere with a piece of rope through the middle of it.
  18. gensetsteve
    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.
  19. 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.
  20. gensetsteve
    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.
  21. gensetsteve
    Yes first 7 miles free then £1 a mile.
  22. gensetsteve
    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.
  23. 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
  24. gensetsteve
    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.
  25. gensetsteve
    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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