gensetsteve
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Thanks everyone for the advise on Hitachi I will look closely if I decide to buy a new drill. My Panasonic works fine it's just battery life has dropped off. Shame batteries are so expensive even building your own.
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I see a hitachi with two lith ion bats for £100 in screw fix catalogue stood out as a bargain if they are any good. I need a new cordless give my Panasonic a bit of a poor review on this thread thinking it was just over 5 years old but looked this week and it 11 years old so its done good.
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I can see where the problem arises both sides need educating. I don't think it just happens when cyclist ride up the side. Lorry drivers forget there is a cyclist. An idea I had was to fit a micro chip in the handle bars and fit to the zip on a pedestrians coat if it comes close to a truck sets of a warning to the driver.
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Jon you will need that 2000 kva just to keep up with your internet use
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Best investment for small businesses?
gensetsteve replied to Treeation's topic in Business Management
200k is ok even I can't blow that on toys ea year -
Best investment for small businesses?
gensetsteve replied to Treeation's topic in Business Management
Is there a pension worth doing ?. I have looked carefully at investments over the last ten years. Pensions look a complete rip off the only person to guarantee a good wedge of your hard earned is the stuffed shirt and tie that signs you up. Land I think is worth doing. Buy to let needs very careful looking at or you will end up giving cheap housing to careless chavs. Tractors tools and plant are a good investment in your business and keep your tax bills down. Need to remember I think the 1/2 million capital allowance has gone and you can only spend 26k a year. Step of the gas occasionally invest in your self and take an extended holiday see the world we are not here long. -
If you are going to try and use it for the family in any way has to be double cab. If you are going to try and use it for work in any way has to be an extra cab preferably with the suicide doors. Personally I think the load space is too small and too high for most jobs they are good for pulling a 2 tonne trailer through a Forrest or quarry ( as long as it's not wet ) I would think most people in this game would be better off with a £400 ldv tipper for work and a nice car for the family.
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It's been 11 months give him a chance. I seen some of Elfins projects and he finishes them unlike me never finished anything in my private life every job on the house is half done never seem to get the last 5 % finished. I avoid taking on projects I just loose interest more a buy it enjoy it scrap it sort of person.
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Jon just sell up and buy a house where your nearest neigbour is 100 metres away. That was our set up with one next door neigbour who we get on well with. They are building 1000 houses around us now so time for a move soon. You don't need to go from one extreme to another to get some piece and privacy. Remote but still connected is good.
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I would say it's a 2000kva fg wilson set it has a wilson control panel. If it is made in China it will need 500 pieces a month to keep it running 😊
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But not for long those Perkins engines were not the best. I think they took over the design when they bought out Dorman. Judging by the colour and the p2000 made by fg wilson in Ireland.
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There is something satisfying about loading an arctic with the result of many hours of toil. How many bags on that load looks about 48 pallets. What timber do u use and how many bags an hour.
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We still make really nice kindling but we still don't deliver unless you take at least 14 pallets at a time the haulage will probably kill the profit for you. 200 bags on 2 pallets will be £65 per pallet + vat just for the haulage.
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You forgot marriage guidance Joy I think everyone has the ability to ask stupid questions just some are better at it than others
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The reason I don't lend kit out is most people do not look after your kit as you do. If a job gets hard rather than pause and find a solution they abuse your kit as the repairs will not come out of their pocket a few months down the line. I used to have a small fleet of large silent hire generators. In the space of a week I was chasing payment on several hires paying for a new injection pump as someone had refilled the tank with water to save acing for diesel on off hire. The new set I had just paid 20 k for and sent out on hire someone with thick grease on their boots had scrabbled up the side and walked all over the roof. I sent the whole collection to auction banked the money and not looked back.
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I had a mk 4 and got a professional tipper conversion done very versatile but a bit lacking in the payload stakes. About 400 kg if you need to stay legal. The ram and steel work eat well into the Load margin. For chip I would go for a 3500 kg gross truck
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composite or steel toe cap? You may think twice!
gensetsteve replied to jaime bray's topic in General chat
If I wear steel toe caps within an hour my ankles are crippled. I have broken and twisted my ankles on several occasions. I think the weight of the toe cap causes a lever effect on the ankle. Better that than loosing your toes. Shame they don't make a tough alloy toe cap. I assume the composite cap is plastic. -
The wood worm only migrate for a month in the summer I think ?
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We tried a container load of Chinese canopied silent diesel generators. Most where dead within a few months. We had a demo which has the oil changed at less than 50 hours and never gets more than 70 % load and is still going strong after 10 years so it does make you wonder if it's operator error. The genuine yanmar is 3 times the price and smokes like a pig when cold unlike the who flung dung. Thieves don't seem so keen on the Chinese stuff either. There is a good dealer network every scrap yard in the country has one on the pile.
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I have the same problem. Big drive way currently scalpings. I have just put 4 inches of clean 20 mm limestone down. Small version of what you see on the central reservation. I did not go for Tarmac due to price also if anything drops oil on it it softens and you end up with a whole after the bobcat has twiddled on it a few times. We get a bit of dust wash down of the road and I would spend my life brushing it up. I think Block pavers would loosen with a skid steer about. £500 goes along way with gravel. I think a proper Tarmac job would be in the region of £30k . The gravel looks good and stops the dust blowing about and walking in the house time will tell when the mud drops of the machinery as it leaves. I was thinking of hireing in a machine to clean it in a year or two.
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How much is the one on the Landry
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Good to hear they found it and you are on the mend. Hand an examination couple of years ago thought the doctor got the rough end of the stick so to speak
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If you got lots of money you will get more. If you don't and don't earn much it's going to get tougher. If your too lazy to work it's going to get even tougher than it was. Same as every other time the Tories are in.
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As a regular drinker for 30 years last October I almost cut it out altogether. I have been experimenting and have found even a bottle of magners makes me a happy drunk but grumpy the next day. Three bottles and it seriously knocks my energy levels the next day. I like a drink but it just does not agree with me after 3 months I felt 20 years younger and lost 2 stone.
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I never understood why people carry strikers about flicking stones at their teeth. I have a very old honda 4 stroke. I think it spins slower but has more torque I get a lot less thrown at me. The negs would be getting the wheels through the ruts. Also narrow paths are hard work and following a wall involves a bit of dancing other than that built to last less emmissions in your face. I think they are more ideal for large areas of rough grass.
