gensetsteve
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My wife thinks I am having a mid life crisis and I have gone loopy. After my d4 experience if I bought another I would agree. We have had 9 discoveries over 2o years in the business. With the pressure of work I was heading for a nervous breakdown last year and the constant battles with land rover never helped.
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I prefer proper vinyl lettering. I found magnetics damage the paint underneath and getting reflective stuff after a few years normally means a re spray. I have sign written many trucks over the years can't remember actually getting a phone call from the signs possibly should my competitors where my jobs are.
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I think that vito is going to need a new wing mirror. Was the driver hurt? for every one to walk away un hurt would be a good thing a new chipper is small price to pay especially if its insured.
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I loved mine fantastically good to drive solo great for towing. All leather interior, upgraded stereo to die for. Unmarked unworked condition like new but it just fell to bits. I spent 3 times as much on it in 3 months than the landcrusier in ten years.
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I had the therapy now Jon and can say the £1200 a month saving is coming in handy. There was just too many inferior components falling off mine at such a low mileage when it had such an easy life.
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Yay snow plough now your talking. Think positive bit of fun in the Wight stuff for a day or so and a few logs sold. We just got to remember to look after the old and frail if it does come. I not keen on weeks of it though.
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Yep still looking nippy got me balaclava on now carrot for the snow man in my hand nose pressed against the window.
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That looks fairly nippy to me lots of hovering around zero when things are normally 6-8 deg got me snow shovel ready
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Sounds about right cash is king. I had a call last week from a big distribution centre 1 mile up the road. Large site generator failed when I got there they wanted me to do a site induction but would take 2 hours before they started as they had no power. The lunatics are running the asylum .
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When I say next week I am thinking ten days time. Feels like this week has started after my busy weekend.
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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.
