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  1. gensetsteve
    You could try an oil sample test to see if its leaking in the engine cost about £12 trade . Does the oil level increase or does it have a strong smell of diesel.
  2. gensetsteve
    Get the money off the stove. I dont know anyone who prefers heat logs to our beech and we sell both.
  3. gensetsteve
    Sounds like ideal stuff for hedge cutters. Hot still days when the fumes hang about. Not sure I would want to use it when ringing up with a 660 at £18 a gallon
  4. gensetsteve
    And the crazy thing is it will be destroying small viable businesses along the way. Small scale locally sourced timber processed for wood burners which are 80% efficent. A sustainable and viable heat source for homes while providing employment could not get more simple.
  5. gensetsteve
    I see alot of stuff on the internet trucks tractors etc and often its still there 2 years later. I have seen p reg tippers for 10k with 300 tdi engines why ? they are 15 years old a new body is 3k and the truck is worth 2.5k
  6. gensetsteve
    you should not have too many problems because you know where they live. Helps if you are 17 stone have blue eyes and an earing and look like david essex.
  7. gensetsteve
    We had the identical cheque book lost thing from a stove shop. Took 6 weeks of chaseing. Never again. You need to try kindling we supply small local gargages they average about 125 bags a week and make at least £2 a bag. An easy £250 for chucking a few bags out on the forecourt.
  8. gensetsteve
    Price it at top end money if you dont want it. If you get it will be worth while get a subbie to help you if they bin you you bin the subbie I know it sounds harsh but at least you are both in work for good money and if it goes well could be for years. Hope this makes sense. Some of my best jobs I didnt want. If you price it and get it you can say sorry to late already committed.
  9. gensetsteve
    I did think about doing that but any tractor that I am likely to justify for logs will probably give trouble. I will then need to hire in and it will be easier to get a tractor than a mog. I may buy something for 6k just for local work, if a job comes in with meat on £700 for a hire tractor for a week should not put a dent in the job when you consider wear and tear and tyre wear.
  10. gensetsteve
    Been too busy to sort anything yet still thinking on that one. Have space on front for tool box, chainsaws and petrol compressor maybe. Or I may go with the pto compressor idea and just flick the lever in cab when required.
  11. gensetsteve
    May be may be not . He could be out of touch with the operation. He could also spend alot of time in court answering unfair dismissal claims. Easier to bang the pegs in your self. I try to promote good karma I believe what goes around comes around. Soar with eagles dont gobble with the turkeys ( although I seem to be with the crows most of the time)
  12. gensetsteve
    Thanks for the input I can see what you are saying I will mention it and see what comes back.
  13. gensetsteve
    The guy that owns the Big Top will never hit the tent pegs in That is a good saying but in my experience of supplying gensets at events the man who owns the show runs round like a headless chicken banging pegs in emptying blocked toilets and rallying the troops. The circus is always a total team effort. I was once on one of 42 large chicken broiler farms. The owner ( a multimillionaire ) got out of his jag rolled up his suit sleeve and unblocked a drain. The ideal is not always what happens in reality.
  14. gensetsteve
    Firstly I must thank b101 for offering to pay alot more tax so I can sit at home on the dole. But as I have some pride a mortgage and children I am going to continue to work. If that means buying cordwood and causing the price to increase I am sorry. The reason wood has increased is. Supply and demand The tory government has increased the tax on fsc sourced wood 3 fold The cost to extract, transport and process has doubled in the last 5 years The demand for power stations is making the resource scarce. The idea a few people cutting wood for wood burners and open fires is driving up the price is hilarious
  15. gensetsteve
    I hate ringing 0845 because it may be cheaper to ring from the other end of the country but not if you are next door and the owner of the number rakes money off. They also are not covered in your free minutes.
  16. gensetsteve
    I was thinking 2000kg for crane 700 ea axle rest for body.
  17. gensetsteve
    Thanks steve
  18. gensetsteve
    I have seen alot of their trailers and to say I have complete faith in their fabrication would be an understatement. I will bear in mind your advice and will look very closely during its early life for cracks etc. I have ringed a couple of places where there was alot of fabrication going on. If all else failed I carry a couple of tubes of no nails and a roll of gaffer tape
  19. gensetsteve
    Its finished just need to screw deck boards back down and put grab on. Then need to save for big tractor begging and hiring for the mean time.
  20. gensetsteve
    4-5000kg maybe
  21. gensetsteve
    Ok you cut it down for free I will take it away for free.
  22. gensetsteve
    Perhaps I should service their generator for free and give them £200 for the waste oil and filters.
  23. gensetsteve
    I was looking to purchase cordwood on wood lots when I see an advert from a bloke selling his oak tree to pay for the felling recently done. Another lady has a walnut tree for sale Just needs taking down ?. I guess it must be in vertical storage with automatic watering, perhaps we need to pay for that aswell
  24. gensetsteve
    I went into Ottons in Salisbury in 2007 and test drove a 110 new unregistered and it was £17,000 + vat how can a defender be 22k in 1995. I did not buy it because I could not see us driving it long distance so we stuck with the disco van.
  25. gensetsteve
    Trouble is with the 3.5 tonne is when you have fitted the tipper the toys and the people you can only carry 500kg.

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