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  1. gensetsteve
    He seems happy with what he is doing he harvest thousands of tonnes all summer and processes all winter.
  2. gensetsteve
    Its very old technology now a good independant will sort that for a 5th of the price and will know what they are doing. main dealer = £110 ph and a spotty teenager working on your car.
  3. gensetsteve
    Or bite the bullet and get a Hilux. They have twin battery set up and no poor quality starter motor or immobilizer.
  4. gensetsteve
    We have a mercant just down the road at least 1000 tonnes of beech in stock 3 cu metres delivered for £190. Its not always the driest especially as you get into the winter but at that price people make the effort to get it a year in advance.
  5. gensetsteve
    I found in our area in a hard winter you could get £100 a metre or more. But at the start of any winter the cheap boys set the price at £60. If they run out its difficult to get the price up. If its a mild winter and they dont run out you are stuck with a huge pile of logs. These were the only reasons we stopped.
  6. gensetsteve
    Often when I answer a with held no the line goes dead. If they can hang up on me without saying a word I can do the same half way through their spiel.
  7. gensetsteve
    I think its time for a chill out pill all round. I think we need to worry more about passenger planes falling on our houses and millions of refugees making a run for our shores. There is enough bitching and fighting going on in the west with out people fighting over a cat. Judging by the amount of dead cats I find in my garden secondary poisoning seems to be evening up the score.
  8. gensetsteve
    Just what I was thinking. £300 for a used all terain pump truck, £1000 for the hydraulics, £1000 for the engine still leaves £5000 for the things I forgotten.
  9. gensetsteve
    There is a little black box near the sunroofs with an aerial on it. This will immobilise the vehicle but normally it starts playing up and you struggle to open the doors. I am not sure if the td5 has the spider fitted under the dash like the old 300 tdi
  10. gensetsteve
    Are u sure its not the immobiliser playing up
  11. gensetsteve
    I agree with all the above but if the battery is def good and the terminals are clean I am still putting my money on Starter Motor
  12. gensetsteve
    Probably the contacts in the starter motor common fault go about every 80-100k you can buy the set for less than £10. Starter motor is a pig to remove so I rebuilt the start solinoid on the car. If it cranks over well but does not start I seem to remember the only sensor that stops it starting is the crank shaft sensor.
  13. gensetsteve
    Health and safety is supposed to focus you on common sense methods to improve your working enviroment. Often its not actually H&S that is the problem its the way its interpreted and implemented by management with some organisations. Often its used to create problems and well paid positions that are not actually needed.
  14. gensetsteve
    Woke at 1 am this morning remembering someone asked me if I wanted 6 service agreements. The email was 3 weeks ago before I went on holiday and never got on the list. The reply was done at 1 am and asleep by 1.10
  15. gensetsteve
    MPG seems less important than reliability but maybe that is because diesels now have a habit of going bang and costing 5k to put back together.
  16. gensetsteve
    who is liable if they look for something to trip over. Also I found people collecting normally were looking for a large discount and had plenty of time available to wear you down. If you are going to retail I think you need to do it properly or leave it alone and just do deliveries.
  17. gensetsteve
    I had the police one over 10 years ago they even offered an improved service if you went for it Another to look out for is do you have any unrecovered bad debts. They ask you for one they can look into to prove how good they are. They then ring back and say yes they can recover the debt thats £200 for looking into it.
  18. gensetsteve
    I think alot of the 3.5 tonne iveco stuff is same running gear as the bigger stuff. Just down rated without being too heavy you get a more robust truck and still a reasonable payload.
  19. gensetsteve
    Spud would be the best man to give an answer. Sounds to me like the carb was set up before the saw was run in and needed retuning as the saw loosened up especially as it was cutting so well sounds like it was running lean.
  20. gensetsteve
    The only time I get stressed is if I have too much work on and have underpriced one of them. I used to struggle to get to sleep trying to remember the thing I had forgotten. I now use a free to download package called chaos. You list out all your todo's in priority and empty your mind at different times you remember things and add them . You can do same thing with bit of paper but i find it easier to update on the screen and print. Anything I cant remember now is unimportant so dont need to worry.
  21. gensetsteve
    I have just taken a new iphone 4s for 2 years with 1 g data a month unlimited calls and texts. £25 I could of gone simm only but for the extra money I get a new phone although dated.
  22. gensetsteve
    If you can find a factory in ireland making boards they often have a metre off cut after making new boards.
  23. gensetsteve
    Last time I checked ( 2 years ago ) any timber treated with chemical preservative cannot then be burnt on a domestic fire. Tanalith is the most common. Some treatments are now a light yellow colour and hard to spot most are a green colour. This timber can be used in furnaces that are certified to get above 600 deg c
  24. gensetsteve
    Arb arisings are when you go to site and take away the whole beech tree in handleable bits and give the tree surgeon a good drink. Arb waste is when you buy a pile of wood on ebay from a yard after someone has done all the doable bits and left the hedge hogs that broke their 13 tonne splitter
  25. gensetsteve
    Been there done that got the t shirt. Just need to find the figures I wrote down. Problem with boards that dont make the grade is they are often full of knots so not easy to make neat kindling. And they make a £1 a foot and it takes at least 3 ft to make a bag.

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