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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.
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Winter 2014/15, forecasts conditions alerts etc.
gensetsteve replied to peckerwoo's topic in General chat
Agree the ideal snow is here for a day or two then nice sunny crisp days followed by another day of snow two weeks later. Followed by 6 months of summer at 26 degrees. But I have a feeling it's more likely to be rain followed by two weeks of 34 deg in October -
The government used to subsidise it u could get 3 rolls for £15 when the grants stopped they went to £45 not sure if the grants are back or coming back may be worth doing some research before u buy. The money came from the energy compAnies that's why they used to sent energy bulbs in the post nobody wanted.
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How old is the fuel . I know it's 2 stroke but I have a few 4 stroke engines about and after about four months they will not start often just draining the fuel bowl gets them started but change the fuel and they start first pull.
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Sounds like it's the lift pump again especially if it had a pattern one. Even genuine ones are cheap. If it has a priming lever lossen a pipe after the pump it should squirt out well if you give it a few pumps. Could be something completely different but lift pumps are cheap and known for it.
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We have a glut of timber for making kindling at the moment and renewablejohn thinks it is because power stations are not burning at the moment but from March the new grants start. It will be interesting to see how this effects the price of timber in general. Last year we struggled to get a 100 bags of kindling on a pallet before it was sold and we were lucky to keep a few tonne of raw material flowing in. This year we have nearly 20 pallets ready and spare and must have at least 50 tonnes of off cuts and building. How times change. We are ticking over nicely but certainly no need to put in long days. Making a living and enjoying it a good way to be
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I dont think cutters gained from the increase in cord price. I seem to remember the government brought in a £15 a tonne tax for timber from forestry commission sites. Private land owners then jumped on the band wagon and cord went up £10 a year for 4 years. This seemed to mirror the increasing price of oil very well until it reached £65 a tonne delivered in last year. Now it seems to have dropped to about £40
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Explains why they are giving the logs away around here. We gave up buying cord in 3 years ago and it was £55 + vat a tonne delivered in. There are lots of people selling logs around here now. I was paying low 20's in 2008
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May be hedge your bets buy cordwood and get a pile of arb waste just in case it goes nuts. May take longer but at least you can keep ticking over and your not sat on dead money for another year.
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We did have lots of regulars but even some of them could be suckered into buying some cheap crap. Also there memories were short they often would then do it again 3 years later. What you need is a good cold spell when people need the heat out of a decent log. I think the cold weather may be on its way. You can all get some logs gone and buy some of my kindling otherwise I will run out of room for the summer.
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Estimated amount of time spent reading Arbtalk.?
gensetsteve replied to Darrin Turnbull's topic in The Lounge
If x factor or similar are on, more if kylie minogue is on much less. -
Problem was in 2010 once your stock pile ran out you were dead in the water. We could have sold ten times as many logs but the following year we did not sell a tenth of it. When there is no demand plenty of cord about hard winter = no cord or inflated prices for the following year. At the moment log merchants are paying through the nose for cord yet oil has halved in price. To make it worth doing logs again I would have to be buying in at £35 a toone delivered and that would put me back on par with 2008.
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Yes does not matter how much cord you have or how fast your processor works if its 14 deg outside it makes life difficult for people. I feel for anyone making a living from firewood at the moment as i have been there and know how hard it is. Hopefully things will come right for everyone.
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couple hours with a splitter may prove the ash cord was a good idea.
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Perhaps I should of said my crap hakki pilki 2x when I had it rather than the 16" £30,000 wood scoffers you lads play with now
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If you were closer I would take some off you. I would even collect from your work site if it was decent stuff like beech, ash,oak,birch,syc,maple etc. Yes its a bit more work but its virtually free in comparison to cord. You dont need a processor. A decent chainsaw, 13 tonne vertical splitter and you are away. For a bit more luxury load the rings with a bobcat on to a big table or boarded over processor deck it saves your back and you will be surprised how much you get through I bet you are only a 1/3 rd behind a processor. Forget the horrible crowns chuck them on the bonfire. Some quality firewood there next year everyone will be killing for it in fact 6 weeks of frost now and everyone will be searching for the thread.
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I can see I am digging my self into a hole here
