gensetsteve
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I am hearing about the jet stream dropping and bringing cold snowy weather like we had in 2010. Can anybody add some weight to the rumour.
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I tend to avoid soggy logs and briquettes. But saying that there is always a bucket of hotmax on the hearth and it gets used.
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I found sites that insist on Cscs tend to be a pita. Next thing they want is huge in depth job specific Rams none of which they mention at the quoting stage. When you finished jumping through hoops and show up with 200 kgs of ppe on some spotty ,paper clip counting ,clip board holding pleb tells you the jobs cancelled because there is not enough h&s people on site to oversee it. I like simple common sense jobs
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What did you compare them with. I sometimes start my fire twice a day and never slumber it. It always lights with half a firelighter, hand full of kindling and a dry log. I dont even adjust the flaps for the benefits I dont find it a chore or we would have scrapped it 8 years ago. I think lots of wood burners fall into disuse as the owners did not realise the cost of firewood and the mess left behind. But i think there is a breed of people that will carry on especially when the price of oil goes back up.
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I found if you try and include delivery in cost of logs. You charge too much to people on the door step and not enough to far customers. So you end up loosing the man next door and spending all your time on the road delivering 14 miles away. On the other hand if your area is overrun with people selling logs you may just have to suffer a bit of mileage to the next town.
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We used to go 7 miles which could be done in half an hour on a good day. But 15 miles ea way seemed to blow half the morning out and by the time you reload it's near people's lunch time.
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Verdo and hot ax are 2 miles from my house. Had a sample of each The Verdo burns bright and lasts well but no heat out the stove so through the last of it on the bonfire no point using it in doors. The hotmax lights easily and gets the stove really hot ideal as a starter wood to get heat quick in the mornings. I have never found anything that burns hotter but it lasts less than 20 minutes so up and down all the time. You can 't beat a properly seasoned beech or ash log
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If you drop the voltage the amps increase and so does the heat in the motor so may be worth keeping an eye on how hot the motor is especially if having a chain sharpening fest.
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Mild weather, low oil prices and recession means slow log sales it wont last forever and will probably come back with a bang and catch people out.
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Who ever gets in they will try and keep most of the biscuits to themselves.
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All the politicians will be keen to play down the state of the country as we are coming up to an election. The figures suggest things are getting better but does not seem to be improving for the man on the street. As soon as things pick up the mortgage rate will go up to 5 %.
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Next week Aldo will be sold out and won't bother restocking. Most people will assume aldi logs are poor quality and not locally sourced. Who wants to put logs in a trolley with there food or queue for half an hour for a trolley full of timber. Most people want there nets put in the boot and hear where they come from what species and how you produce them. As a small business I don't look around for the cheapest price and try and beat it. If we cant sell product or service for reasonable money it's time to find something else to do.
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I should not say this but have towed big trailers for 20 odd years. Never changed a clutch. Some did 140k with me and were not new when purchased. I always use low box when moving loaded trailers and when stuck in traffic. I may have been lucky but cant remember changing a clutch.
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It does make you wonder. I like the engineering principal of kiss. Keep it simple stupid. But I would also consider they may have made the gearbox lighter to save fuel. Also years ago the average van knocked out 80 hp. Land Rover are just about to launch a 2.5 litre 4 cyl engine that pokes out 250 hp. Combine this with people that use the clutch like a switch you can see why they chuck some springs in.
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I would imagine as long as you have travel on ram you would need to adjust manually as you lift. My bobcat forks dont self compensate as you lift like my jcb tele does.
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Big thanks for everyone's advice one thing I never appreciated was how much lower the ball would be compared with my big trailers and how far under. I have contacted alternatorman and when I get a minute I think will get the alt away to them. The only thing stopping the hilux from doing the job is the poor steering lock but this may be due to the high lift springs and big wheels someone fitted in the past. May be worth getting smaller wheels and tyres and adjusting steering lock. Otherwise it ticks most of the boxes big load area so don't need a trailer. 4x4 and seems to go through the deepest mud and reliable. I don't want to spend £1000's on a compact tractor because I have no need for the pto 3pl or front loader if fitted. A rav 4 for £400 would probably do my job.
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Agreed lots of all terrain tyres are not marked for snow and ice either. Our 205 van went round an icey bend into our industrial every morning for weeks bit sideways sometimes but the Range Rover no chance straight on its roof. Winter tyres are amazing especially when new that's how a lot of Europeans get about. There is a line of thought that the weather is wet and mild enough in the uk to keep the winter tyres on all year. If I did 20 k a year and a car I would fit in September and bin after a year.
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Good to hear joy. We could up the advertising but then the stuff goes over night and we can't keep up and let our regular customers down. I think it's just due to the mild weather. Last 5 years we were hunting round for timber and 3 weeks to delivery. I don't want Lindy kindling 5 days a week as she looks after the house family and helps run the generator business. Kindling = fun. Generators = better money. I guess you can't have it all ways.
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There is 300 bags in the pic she has done another 2000 to go with it 23 pallets of it.
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I had a sanderson 2.5 tonne machine about 12 years ago. I gave it an easy life but the chassis snapped in half which apparently was common so we spent several hours welding it up. A few months later the king pin on the rear axle snapped and the whole lot fell into a hedge tree. It was recovered and taken for scrap. I have had a jcb 525 for ten years and been good as gold.
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I keep looking for a 527 - 67. Everything seems to be knackered or huge money. The later 535 looks value for money but am guessing cheaper because they are too electronic.
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The coldest weather in years next they say thanks
gensetsteve replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
I find the bbc 5 day is normally spot on for next day yet the 10 day gets it completely wrong even next day ? I like the format as its plain and simple like me. Looks like we are in for some nice frosty weather and the phone has started ringing already. -
She is still in training she still not got the hang of fags and kindling don't mix so she could be starting from scratch soon.
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We use monofilament nets which I laid outside for 2 years they went white within a few months but after 2 years were as strong as day one. On one of my gallery pictures you can see the day light has changed the colour of the bag from the start of the 1500 bag run to the end which would only be a few weeks.
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My wife has filled every available shed, workshop and covered space with pallets of nice neat kindling. She is like an 8 stone Duracell bunny. My landcrusiers is on the drive and she is now weighing up the double garage hopefully the cold weather will get it moving.
