gensetsteve
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I thought you did have a look at post 104
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I know the toe rag and cayenne are related but the Porsche has a really good reputation do they share all mech components ?
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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.
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I have tried to do that but different type of log
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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.
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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.
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He could be waiting behind the milk man, coalman, plumber all scratching
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Whats that expression about leading a horse to water What ever you decide to do I hope it works out for you and if you cant keep up with demand I may be able help
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Were tight down south I am more a lady godiva man
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Why has the price of chip fallen so low is it due to the grants drying up. The recycling place near us charges per tonne £15 to take soil £12 to take rubble and £171.00 + vat to take anything wood ish. Even mixed waste plastic etc is only £110
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I think the reason people buy kiln is they think it went down to 15% and may be back up to 18 but at least its not 40 like alot of the tipped loads you see about. No advantage to kiln dried over enviroment friendly properly air dried local logs.
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I work on the following A drink = a tenner a good drink £20 -£30 Anything more and they just ask for a monkey.
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Not trying to teach any one to suck eggs or point out the obvious but since packing up selling logs a few years ago I still see it as a good decision because. The only year we made any real money was 2009/ 2010. When the price of kero nearly 5 years ago went to £1 a litre and £2 if you were desperate for a 200 litre top up. This summer I paid 50p a litre. Because oil is cheap the rest have to compete so fuel price rises are slowing while the cost of cord and processing is rising. During a hard winter when you need huge stocks you wont dry it in time and run out of stock unless you have a massive kiln On an average winter you will have too much and cant shift it. No one really knows how many people sell logs and how many people want them is there more demand than supply still ? This is sounding negative so I will put a spin on it. If we get 6 weeks of cold weather it will all sell out and be boom time again. Basically it all hangs on the weather good luck everyone.
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I sometimes sell generators to the customers of electrical contractors on say a £15,000 job they may ask me to add a grand to the job and charge for the cabling themselves. Often the grand kills the whole job and we get nothing. If we do get the job I point out that I need an invoice for the grand. I have to pay tax on my tight margin I am not paying theirs as well even if they did find the job. I currently have 9 installs in the pipeline so will be struggling to get all the work done with out doing it for nothing for a lazy middle man sat on his butt.
