gensetsteve
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No I am sure thats the discovery 4 currently in my drive with full MOT soon to be famous on Autotrader.
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Toyota landcruiser 79 double cab at the APF
gensetsteve replied to stanoverlander's topic in Arb-Trucks
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A good way to look at it. Our figures come out different depending on how much time it takes to prep timber. two girls working the kindlet make 40-60 neat bags an hour. With the right timber the wife can make 50 in an hour on her own. To prep joinery offcuts to 6 " I think realistically it takes half hour for 40 nets worth. But if its long lengths this comes down to 15 minutes. I would say we make £15-£20 an hour for ea hour worked which for making kindling is not bad but I think a few people buy a machine thinking they are going to knock out 70 bags an hour single handed and forget about cutting the timber down to size. Our machine was never great with cord wood.
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How much does a head mistress earn ? ask them to justify it . The Headmaster of our local secondary school was keen to turn into an academy as his salary would be 100k a year not bad for a failing school and in special measures.
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The way its going there must be nearly as many kindling machines as there are wood burners. Do people buy them just to make their kindling for log sales or wholesale as well. Margins are tight and making your own on a small scale to save a few coppers it must take forever to earn your money back.
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Yours sounds a good truck ours were old. I am 6ft 3 which does not help the experience. The chassis is defo tougher on the defender and the parts are cheaper. I just found 200,000 mile hilux,s to still be be ultra reliable.
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Exactly what I was thinking but did not want to upset the landy lovers. Unless you need to carry more than 800kg on a reglar basis for me the Hilux wins over the defender. Reliable, comfortable, heated and has doors.
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I like basic 10k cheaper to buy and cheaper when it breaks. Fancy interior will be trashed in a week built in sat navs never as good as the latest Tom Tom. I like air con and remote central locking though.
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I think due to lack of vehicles on the market they have all lost the plot. Defender or Landcruiser neither have spent much on development in the last 25 years. Defender should be £17,000 or free to the sane. That old design Landcruiser £26,000 . The new 200 series Amazon is £70,000 and well over priced. You can get a double cab hilux new for £17,000 but I agree you cant find one to test drive. I think most of us show up at dealership and drive the pimped up hair dresser version for £28,000 and go away and buy something else. They do a work version with 2.5 litre engine which is almost as good as the 3 litre and comes with cheap bumpers and mirrors which is ideal with my driving.
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How many bags a year do you need to make ?
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I took the Bridgestones of my navarra and fitted the mans tyre ( BF AT ) but found the tyre heavy for the light suspension on the Navarra. The tyre was great off road but the handling went right down the pan on the road. The bridge stone seems to be a much lighter tyre ( unsprung weight )
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Zinc pills, strong tea, paracetamals, lucazade any thing your body fancies, thick duvet and sweat it out for 12 hours. To avoid getting it in future a zinc pill twice a week and fresh fruit veg. Alcohol prevents the absorbtion of vitamins into the body so a few dry nights helps.
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I cant fault the way mine drives. After a test drive its a love job nothing comes close. But they just fall to bits and they are not cheap to put right.
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I think they worked out hand building 20k trucks for farmers that break them and repair them under warranty was a bad idea. Better to sell 80k trucks to wags that will do 20k miles in the first 3 years. Rich people change their vehicles every 3 years so you dont upset the buying customer. Build in a tonne of flaws that show up in 3-5 years and charge £170 an hour to put right. I am jealous, need to build this into my generators
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The little jimny will be easier to control on ice. I had a 2003 Range Rover for 3 days before it ended up in a ditch on its roof after sliding on sheet ice lots of colourful lights to look at as I rolled over. Bit worried about the LR input but at least they dont throw them together.
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I not actually had problems with engine apart from turbo actuator and ticking hyd valve. I like the idea of 4 cyl twin turbo engine producing 248 hp easier access for repair, lighter, cheaper to replace if it lets go. Hopefully upward of 35 mpg. The sdv6 engine is £8000.00 + vat plus fitting at the moment. The oil used in the sdv6 is very clean burning for the dpfs but because of this it has very little in the way of protective additives for the valve train.
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I thought it was a Jag engine. No but it may be fitted in a different guise Plenty of none millionaire enjoying their Disco 3/4's round here So far I am not sure who makes the engine but know its in the citroen people carrier suffers from turbo problems, egr, piston, valve guides and front crank seals.
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Land rover have developed their own engine which will appear in a year or two 2 litre diesel producing over 200hp 4 cylinder. Which means we can see the back of the v6 fuel guzzling citroen rubbish they are fitting currently.
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With perfect size knot free wood we have done 70 bags an hour with two people on the machine. 40 bags is more realistic especially with the odd jam. If you get the mother of all woods you get down to 25 an hour may as well stay in bed.
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That looks alot better than the current defender thing. As long as it has some height on the roof and towed 3500kg I would consider it. You need to be a millionaire to pay for repairs on disco 4 after its out of warranty.
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A few years ago they were all a pain in the neck. The Tom Tom I had before needed them on the phone for 2 hours. I cant imagine being with out one now was in Newcastle and east kilbride last week 2000 miles next week liverpool Manchester and Telford.
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Without live updates any sat nav is only 10% of the machine. I pay £47 a year for the service and its paid for itself in a day. I reckon it saves me sitting in about 7 hours of traffic a week. Been years since I sat in a jam of more than 10 minutes.
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150k sounds ok to me easier to match too
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I went for a grant for a new processor £24,000 and was told dont bother it would be quicker to earn the money than fill out the forms. Unless you want 250k not worth the bother. The harvester was bought 5 years ago so rules were different probably allowed to finance half in those days. Most of these big grants were grabbed by large companies who dabbled in logs until it got tight on profit and three years had passed they were able to sell the kit and keep the money. Grants kill more businesses and cause more unemployment than help. We struggled to get offcuts for our kindling business while the government paid the power stations to take it. This year we are flooded and have had to turn it away.
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I am on a diet apparently. But here is my view ' Why has the quality of Stihl saws gone right down the toilet in the last five years' clutches on the 261 and the withdrawn 661 to name two. Even I have been looking at saws made by hoover makers.
