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  1. gensetsteve
    Did you go to the free slate museum at the bottom.
  2. 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
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    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.
  7. 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.
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    If its £45 a metre and you need to allow for wasteage is it not worth more as fire wood ?
  9. gensetsteve
    Loaders cost money and run on diesel and you really need another pair of hands.
  10. 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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    Bobcat small great machine but hard on unmade surface. Teleporters can be slow and big. Cut to around a metre with chain saw and man handle would be one answer.
  12. gensetsteve
    Have built a trailer with air and hydraulic brakes to carry 8-10 tonnes of cord. Need a fastrac or unimog but cant afford 10k plus for something decent. Too late in the season to process for this year. Would you buy a ford Tw15 or similar for about 6k and struggle for a year or 2 most of my wood is within 6 miles. Access to yard is no good for arctic. We have someone with an 8 wheeler who is great but booked for weeks and sometimes you just need to turn the key and go.
  13. gensetsteve
    Good info I never knew that. I read somewhere you need to exceed 650 deg c to burn of treated wood.
  14. gensetsteve
    Getting a business of the ground and earning a good living was the easy bit. Employing people I never got the hang of and 20 years later still none the wiser.
  15. gensetsteve
    I would say be honest. I assume you will start as a sole trader this is a business rather than a company. You will be a proprietor rather than a director. Present your skills and qualifications rather than an image at first. As you gain the trust your business will grow. Good luck I hope it goes well for you starting a business I think is a combination of luck, hard work and common sense.
  16. gensetsteve
    Someone moved into our village and complained to british rail about the noise. Their response was its the main London to exeter line and has been their since 1840.
  17. gensetsteve
    Billys right never heard anyone else complain may just be we never had the right round wood.
  18. gensetsteve
    I bought a little german electric machine from Lidls mainly to true up teeth half way through life of chain. I sharpened a chain just kissing the teeth gently no blueing. Thought I would need to finish by hand but tried it first and was amazed. Maybe My hand sharpening was not as good as I thought . The grinder was £19.95 and I would not bother spending more. I used to have a problem with bars jamming half way through cut on wood processor and new it was due to my sharpening grinder sorts this problem.
  19. gensetsteve
    You are guilty of trying to earn a living and with that information they will work out you probably earnt some money. This what they are after and unfortunately we are an easy target.
  20. gensetsteve
    You can transport something like 900 litres of gas oil with out an adr licence. One of my rival companies refuelled gensets and it did well, then packed up over night. I have heard alot of old wilderbeasts say the price of logs has never been so high but cord, gas oil and processors is even higher and its the margin in between thats important. And for that reason they are out.
  21. gensetsteve
    I have some ifor tippers the pumps are not great. Most common cause of failure is water gets in and seizes the bottom brush often free this off and back in business. If you can live with out the back up hand pump, any taillift pack will do as long as it fits the space. The quality of the ratcliff and smiths industries stuff I think is better. Now you have a new pump I would craft a cover out of a 25 litre drum to fit over to keep the water out. I spray my motors with waxoyl or battery terminal protector. Sorry to go on but I have a shelf full of dead motors.
  22. gensetsteve
    Is that why I could not post on one thread but could on another.
  23. gensetsteve
    I had a couple of hirobos in the early 90's mine were more in love with kissing the ground. very addictive and cost money in those days about £100 if you landed even slightly heavy. Often used to rebuild 2 a week.
  24. gensetsteve
    I get reject timber for kindling production. long lenghts of feather edge and tongue and groove. Sometimes a bit small for kindlett but could be ideal for this job. Pm if interested I would imagine you need to be based in the south of england to make it pay otherwise transport will kill it.
  25. gensetsteve
    If you are vat registered you can also claim vat back on vans processors or anything else you buy that has it on.

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