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A 57 plate Amazon would make sense but that could be 3 decades with the same car and I fancy a change. The new v8 diesel looks ugly from the back and a bit too electronic and expensive new and second hand not driven one in case I fall in love and end up shelling out 50k. The other problem with a car is you can only claim back 12k per year of the value. A disco commercial you get 40% of the whole lot in first year. I see some landcrusiers are vat applicable if you can justify it in your business does that also make it commercial ?

Logs seem to season quicker once they have frozen. Not sure if the cells have expanded and burst. Also found in the past you can almost dry beech too much a little rain water and dirt pollution etc you get a better flame.

I will have to split some measure it and try it in the stove that night. You would think 3 years in a poly tunnel that hits 45 deg would dry it out. If I split beech in there its below 20 % in 3 months and burns a treat low draw max heat and lasts well.

After an interesting year living with a 3 year old d4 commercial I have decided I am definitely more a LC Amazon sort of man. But mine is now 15 years old. My kids are turning into 6 footers and the truck needs to tow 3500kg so what to buy next ?

I am trying that at the moment cutting it much smaller seems to help too. I have a load of bits 150 x 50 x 10 that burn well. I have logs that have been in the poly tunnel 5 years that were dead standing and they still sit there and sulk.

I find if I burn oak on our stove I need to open up the flue a bit or it goes black and fire goes out. With the flue open most of the heat goes up the chimney so I am better off with beech birch or maple as it turns up in the yard. Currently burning beech,maple, birch,lime,hawthorn, sycamore and the odd bit of oak bone dry seasoned for at least 2 years.

oil gas and electric tend to compete so if oil drops so will gas otherwise everyone starts back on oil

I think the weather is keeping sales steady most people will use their fires and wood burners for effect when the weather turns cold. Nature always compensates so if it's unusually warm and wet it normally means in the next 24 months it will be cold and dry at some time

If you hit the key before the plugs have done there stuff they won't go a second time until the ecu is happy they have cooled. Some modern glow plugs heat in less than 2 seconds and on lots of engines are operating when the engine is running to clean up the emissions and stabilise the combustion. Our td5 was a pig to start if you pressed the throttle and rushed the glow. I was pulling my hair out at the poor quality of premium brand batteries we tried the lot including over priced Varta stuff all a waste of time. We monitor and load test generator batteries every six months then we hit on Bristol batteries own brand called Avon. We have used these exclusively for 4 years and they come up with 100% performance on every service yet to replace any for any reason. The only other brand we found good was Bosch but too expensive. The other poor performers were yuasa, hoppecke always had stick black gunk floating on the cells.

Last year we were scratching around trying to find joinery off cuts and reject timber to turn into kindling. This year we are over run with the stuff because its not worth turning into chip or plugs for others. Will we be scratching around again when they start burning again ?

Can you not put this chip into some sort of bio digesting methane electricity producing gizmo. There is a big farm up the spends all summer tipping leafy crop stuff into a big swimming pool. I assume they must get something out at the end.

Honda CR-V good vehicle worst thing I did was sell my 53 plate disco van a year ago and buy d4. You take the d2 in to garge when it gets a bit loose every 6 months and you get a bill for £500. You take the d4 in when there's nothing wrong with it and it comes back with a quote for £3500.00 every time. I could easily spend £500 a month on repairs and service ( mo re than the depreciation on a new one )

I tend to think the storage tanks at a newish largish garage are going to be in better condition than ones at a 1970 back street pump. Am I wrong ? Are they carefully checked and changed every 20 years ?

I think I saw them a while back would have been ideal but wife has pointed out our 14 year old has grown 3 ft in the last two months now nearly 6 ft I am agonising over 3 year old amazons with 60k on the clock for £40,000 or a new one for £54,000 + vat. I personally think spending more than 4k on a car or truck is mad . But saying that I paid over 20k for my vx 10 years ago and it has been virtually faultless and is still worth 8k

Its definately looking like a Landrover in that pic Although the list above looks like an average week on a discovery 4 should be ok when done. The 2008 d4d engine can have a habit of leaking on the injector seals and the carbon gets in the oil and blocks the sump strainer so well worth checking and cleaning while its off.

I think the jet stream needs to be in the right place for it to dump a bit of American weather on us. I think a dump of snow for a week would help a good few people on here fingers crossed at least for some hard frosts.

I just think its a bit slow, normally by christmas I have used 800 litres of kero in the house, cant see it this year gauge not moved since July. Kero is 50p a litre and people are still trying to get out the recession. A blast of cold weather for a few weeks will get things going.

I cant see the problem with spending £300 on a plate for a bit of fun and spreading the cost over 20 years then selling it for a profit. I think its called business. Mine has given lots of people a laugh. If someone has a chip on there shoulder about private plates and drives around getting stressed about it its not my problem.

I thought you did have a look at post 104

I know the toe rag and cayenne are related but the Porsche has a really good reputation do they share all mech components ?

Well said. Or they will sell you 6 permits and demand you go four courses to get 6 Certificates that will run out in 2 years.

I have tried to do that but different type of log

I recently had a generator install 700 kva, contract value £112,000 it was too big for us especially with all the others going on. I passed the job on and invoiced them a grand and we got the service agreement after. It looks a large amount of money but by the time you have installed and certified and found things you missed on the quote its often not great.

I would carry on with this contact and customer with the current status. Make sure you have a good customer base and avoid this sort of set up in the future. £100 on a £1000 job with £700 profit is fine but if you make £300 out the job you are working for two people. Once you are too busy to do the work you can ease the gardener in to your terms not his.

He could be waiting behind the milk man, coalman, plumber all scratching