gensetsteve
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Everything posted by gensetsteve
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Looking to buy but would consider renting in about 6 months time if nothing has come up. Would spend up to £750,000
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If anyone has or knows of a cottage or similar available for a weeks let in august I would be interested. Snowdon or north wales area would be good.
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I am looking for somewhere with a house to run my log business within about 60 miles of Hampshire. About 2 acres ish would be good. Would be greatful of a heads up if anybody comes across anything
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You got a kindling machine and hot tub as well then. I wish my elec was £155 a month and we have oil central heating:w00t:
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I am not a tree surgeon so I may be stateing the obvious but the grass is long and green and there is no leaves on the tree so surely its dead and should have been cut down long ago.
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You having a dig at me or just anyone not anally hung up on accurate moisture meters.
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Might be worth a call to a dealer nr micheldever works on alot of older fords think his name is foot.
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Start with your local hire shops they wont have one but will find someone who does. Problem with hire a processor out is you could get a few hundred pounds a week in hire when it comes back u need to spend 4k to get it working again.
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I think it came with one spare set. I tend to ease it into the wood with a side to side action rather than throw it like a dart it contains electronics and sudden impacts have got to have an effect on accuracy. Not broken our pins but at £15 I would throw it and buy new.
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I have used a termatech md-812 cheap ebay fodder which I think came from a stove supplier for about £30. You should be able to get them for less. It has been invaluable and consistent showing up some suprises. I had some ash seasoned for 2 years that customer complained was slow and difficult to burn. When split it showed 30% in the middle. Anything I split from the store that shows under 20% burns a treat over 25% forget it. I would not spend much on a meter as it will get wet, run over, left on dash in sun etc. The only time ours lost the plot was when batteries are flat. Worth getting one that auto turns of if u leave ours in your pocket it turns on.
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Written off / burnt out Excavator Salvage
gensetsteve replied to David Riding's topic in Large equipment
cheffins in cambridge reading auction brightwells nr shobden southern counties in Salisbury -
Why take it in turns plenty of room around that tyre for 3
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With a kindlet
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That looked a better idea. problem with fitting a crane on a car trailer is it kills the payload which is not great to start with. Your not going to earn a living hauling 2.5 tonnes of cord back to base unless your paid to do it.
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Hows the firewood production coming along ?
gensetsteve replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
We have done at least half of that. Will be having a purge on collections in July so will give you a shout. Using the other large butts to practice on with my new toy if I ever get it finished. Just keeping up with generators and kindling has been flat out for the last few months not that i am complaining tis good. -
some of the worst crooks I have met can count very well. Some of the nicest most talented people I have met could not read write or count. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses with some its people skills
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Now sat indoors with aircon full blast like a wimp.
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Hows the firewood production coming along ?
gensetsteve replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Hi Joy I have got some irons in the fire so to speak but its getting too close for winter now so will process for next year unless i get some nice dry beech cord in. I tried lots of diffent species inc larch but the underlying problem is our kindlett does not like round timber. It loves square because it has the conveyor in feed rather than the ramp. I may give some slab wood a go as its flat on one or two sides and cheap. Look after your back Joy, we found hookeroons good for sliding rings about on the floor because it keeps your back straight. Steve -
I have just got a ifor TT105 made some cheap mesh sides. The 105 takes 3.5 tonne gross without being too clumsy for log deliveries and it does not lend it self to overloading as easily as a TT126
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Friend of mine got a chilled bottle of water from our van fridge. Necked it in one and got stomach cramps sick for 24 hrs went to doctor and was told no bacterior in water just so cold it chilled his stomach he was ill for 4 days like flue symptoms.
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I have some of those they tend to be a cu metre
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We have been busy in other areas of the business especially kindling. Not got as much firewood done as I need. Main reason has been the cost and size of cordwood it all seems to be 2" sticks or 20" butts. If anyone gets some beech fells or similar around Andover happy to pay a few quid and collect 10 tonnes at a time in 10ft lengths to save you dicing up. We dont seem to be able to get the £100 a cube round here so buying in cord makes it too tight on margin.
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Its no trouble we all have problems and sometimes someone else may have spent some time getting over it. If you need help just ask. We have had a 2x for 5 years.
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about £2000 -£2400 worth of logs not bad for a days work for 2 men.
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What to do after cheques get cancelled
gensetsteve replied to jaime bray's topic in Business Management
We had a streamline machine about 5 years ago. It was free but £15 a month to hire in the first year credit cards were 2.5% debit cards are 30p a go no matter the amount. In the second year drop to 1.5% . Unfortunately in the second year they took £2500 from my customer but forgot to give it to us. We took 6 weeks to notice by this time it was too late apparently. After alot of rude words I got my money and told them to stick their machine. I discovered that we were completely open to fraud and working the machine was a pita. We really dont want to go their again.
