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  1. gensetsteve
    I made a firewood deck but never bothered to motorise it just used long hookeroons worked well. Load deck with forklift and 3-4 tonnes saves your back big time.
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    Possibly as it comes out fairly neat on the shoot and gets untidy as it hits the bulk bag. But we can offer what people ask for. At times we have to pay £60 a tonne for decent wood and there is at least half a tonne in a bulk bag when its green. so the wood has cost £30 before you start. There are no bargains to be had these days unless someone is exploited margins are just too tight.
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    Our nets are 40x50 and 124 bags used to fit snugly in our 2 cu metre tipper. A 0.72 dumpy bag of off cuts makes 35-40 bags of kindling. I would say I cubic metre of solid timber will make 80-90 bags. Jon your pm box is full it would take about an hour to fill a 1 cu metre dumpy bag. If people want to stuff their own bags we can do a metre cube dumpy from £72
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    My best customers are people who used to make kindling. Unless you concentrate on making it in a biggish way there is no money in it. You may gain an extra 40 p profit on a bag but use a huge amount of time and equipment doing it. We have tried using everything to make kindling but nothing works as well or looks as good as 3x2 and skirting board. Neat tight packed bags fly off the shelf random packed bags with bark and knots are a struggle to sell and pack,on a pallet for delivery. Our kindlet can do 70 bags an hour. But working on your own with smallish pieces of timber and a few jams you will be lucky to make 40 bags of neat kindling per hour. Take of the time to cut the timber up and I think we make about 25 bags an hour per person. So two people working the machine will make 50 bags an hour.
  5. gensetsteve
    Is it just me or does that 1500kg crane on eBay have more like 3-4 tonne on it. I have picked up fresh sticks of pine that size that weigh 700 kg
  6. gensetsteve
    Funny thing is Mcds actually have a good rate of pay for flipping burgers and a good career path if you want to go on to management. Same as shelf stacking in telcos if you progress and manage a large tesco store you will be on 100 k plus with bonus. Beats being a skilled man stood in the rain 8 hours a day 18 k a year
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    I am no lawn expert but I do know if I don't get time to get the sisis out end of September it stays in the shed till next year. The other big no no is scarifying in spring it tears the side shoots of the grass and leaves it bare yet everyone sees the moss and gets out their.
  8. gensetsteve
    Back up to nearly 2000 bags and increasing daily if anyone needs a top up. I was killing time at a petrol station yesterday before a funeral. I was on the a30 at bagshot in Surrey and they had bags a touch smaller than ours for £7.50 a bag:w00t: I have to admit I was not getting trampled in the rush but just shows they must sell them or they would not bother taking up the space.
  9. gensetsteve
    Lots of people seem to have full in boxs so it prompts them to have a look and free up some space.
  10. gensetsteve
    I went into the superstore yesterday first time in 6 months. 30 check outs 4 were open 3 people deep took half an hour to get through they just don't learn do they.
  11. gensetsteve
    I am a soft southerner anything below +6 is a big freeze 😊
  12. gensetsteve
    I was right looks like we could be in a freeze till March now so good for your log sales don't forget to hold up 3 nets of kindling for £12
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    gensetsteve replied to karl's topic in General chat

    I traded my 16 ft ifor Williams 3500 kg platform for the equivalent Brian James. If people want I can do a review when I get a minute. I have had the bj for about 18 months. Both good trailers for different reasons.
  14. gensetsteve
    I see the Santander but it was paying 3 % on max 2k and you have to pay a fee. A few hoops to jump through and you have to pay tax on the interest.
  15. gensetsteve
    Think I have had 5 or 6 cheques for about £25 a time may be a couple for £50 about on par with an isa but you never know when u could get a big one. never with an isa.
  16. gensetsteve
    I would agree and it's only 1984 so not the dark ages. I would like to point out we were the 16 year old apprentices not the people dishing it out. I handed my notice in the week I finished my time.
  17. gensetsteve
    After my experiences my business tends to nurture youngsters too much which can be a bad thing as well. I think the men I worked with worked out which youngsters were robust and needed their egos controlling. If you were timid and behaved you were left alone. The ultimate humiliation ( which I am glad to say I never endured) was to be stripped naked your privates greased and saw dust and then gaffer taped to a lamp post in the centre of town right opposite the tsb head quarters when dozens of dolls were going to lunch
  18. gensetsteve
    Looking at my other thread about apprentice training/ punishment we have lots to be grateful for now regards h&s especially if you are a trainee.
  19. gensetsteve
    When we left school at 16 the initiation was to sing a solo Christmas carol to 200 blokes and all the office staff inc some nice looking girls. The company made aircraft catering trucks. So we were stood 10 ft up in the air . If you were lousy or too quiet empty bear cans would fly past your ear. The encouragement was sing sing or show your ring. I was not engaged and had no rings so thought best to sing:laugh1: glad I did when I see what happened to one lad. story for another day.
  20. gensetsteve
    I did my apprenticeship in an engineering works with 200 blokes. The worst they did was locking the apprentice in the propane gas locker on the side of bt lorries. Filling the cupboard with propane gas then lighting it. I laugh now but not funny at the time. You got this punishment if you were goby. I spent many weeks not needing a shave or hair cut . They were very inventive with their ideas interested to hear other people's i will put more on later.
  21. gensetsteve
    My knowledge on running welders is a bit thin as I tend to deal with big standbys for buildings. I know welders are very cruel on Gensets. I would talk to Genset in South Wales they are big into welders or mosa they should have some good info. If we have some big start up loads ie motors we install a permanent magnet generator or pm alternator. This set often has an avr and a separate transformer excitation. Means you can often install a much smaller set and once the load is running the generator is less likely to slobber on light load and glaze up the cylinders. Hope this helps if I think of anything else will post up.
  22. gensetsteve
    I may have the wrong end of the stick but how does that help the contractor improve. I would have thought that would just move the problem on to another site. The owners /managers may not realise the staff have deviated from the paperwork . Hence people who work in h&s are sometimes viewed as gestapo hell bent on putting people out of work.
  23. gensetsteve
    I think they are more likely to get killed by a passing vehicle getting in and out of the van than falling off the back. Covering the van in beacons means everyone is driving past blind and can't see the workers for all the dazzle.
  24. gensetsteve
    I think the buzz word is tool box chat or something similar. The boys in the transit have it covered I can see the driver has an iPad balanced on the steering wheel filling out the risk assessment. I think it's called mul tit tasking. A year or so ago I had my rams refused because there were no tick boxes or colour. I felt like asking the idiot if he had just left uni or play school.
  25. gensetsteve
    Well I did think cycle helmets. I am sure the correct answer will be along the lines of get in the cab at every stop or walk behind the vehicle. Standing on the back is similar to what dustmen did years ago. Standing on a greased tow bar is probably a bad idea . Are these people in a lot more risk than a kid on a skate board or push bike ?

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