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Kindling ready for collection in Hampshire
gensetsteve replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
No we are still down south in Andover. We take it as a sort of compliment that our kindling is vastly better than theirs and they are ashamed to photograph their own :lol: someone near Newbury did the same thing a few years ago. -
Don't panic I know someone who has been selling logs for forty years and done well at it. Has a place in Barbados and goes beginning of November when he has 1000 tonnes logged in stock. Comes back a week or two before Christmas when all the idiots and spongers have sold out and sells the lot out by March and at good price. winter only just began a few days ago two months time the firewood forum will be full of people looking for dry cord.
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Our kids are going from Xbox 360 over to play station 4. So that's two machines and a Miele tumble dryer this week. Think I put £2700.00 on the card this week with nothing to show for it.
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I would fit the spec of oil recommended for your engine and buy something with quality and change regular why save a £5 on an oil change and bring a full rebuild on sooner. I would avoid putting the latest low soot thin syn stuff in older engines as it has additives missing that your engine needs. The person to ask is timber cutter as this was his specialised subject a few years ago
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I have run my 100 series now for 10 years and the 80 series before that. The 100 series land cruiser is a brillant truck but very long in the tooth now compared with the competition. I fancy a change or I will have the same car for two decades. The disco 4 is a nice drive and easy to fall in love with on a test drive . I don't think there is such a thing as a good or bad ones the compressors and diffs are weak it's more likely to fail if you do high miles or tow. I don't want to dis anyone's pride and joy if your happy with your truck and it's reliable then maybe I was just unlucky. I bought a 3 year old Vito to back up the disco on bad days and got sick of coming down the m3 in rush hour at 45 miles an hour.
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I had this as well once you start digging bar in at a funny angle it soon wears the bar one side and problem accelerates. Also as old hand says left and right sharpening on the machine. We got round this by tickling with a file 4 or 5 times then removing chain and putting on the bench grinder.
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Ours was just out of warranty. I could buy a new one and get the repairs done under warranty. But unless you give the dealer 2 weeks notice you will spend 3 months a year driving round in a french hatch back courtesy car. The engine is finished and tested as far as I know. I think it will pop out with the new defender and disco 5 in about 2 years.
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Discovery 4 Best 4x4 I ever drove. Worst vehicle so far I have owned. Superb to drive models over 200hp great for towing, Harmon Cardon Stereo system the mutts nuts. Reliability absolutely none check out Landrovers from hell its all true Things just fall apart on a daily basis and the bills are 1000's not hundreds engines £8000 and a pig to do simple jobs like cam belts on. Gearboxes suck the coolant up and go bang the list just goes on. Landrover will release there new 2.0 litre 4 cyl twin turbo 250 hp soon watch the value of the v6 guzzlers fall were we glad to see ours go
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I can buy a new 200 for £54,000 which makes the 3 year old stuff at 40k look expensive. But 65 k for a truck just seems insane. But then spending 10k a year repairing a 3 year old disco is even worst.
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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 ?
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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.
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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.
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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 ?
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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.
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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.
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I have read this thread and feel for all concerned. Maybe we should all agree if something like this happens we should sort it out by pm phone call or face to face meeting. Your welcome to flame if you like but I don't tend to lend or donate to people or causes unless I have met them or researched where the money is going. I never met big J but have messaged about about mills and he seemed a good chap. Hopefully this will work out well for both of you.
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oil gas and electric tend to compete so if oil drops so will gas otherwise everyone starts back on oil
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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
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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.
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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 ?
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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.
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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 )
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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 ?
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The Burning Issue - Truck MPG becoming a major headache...
gensetsteve replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Arb-Trucks
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.
