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  1. gensetsteve
    Thats alright we are getting used to idiots.
  2. gensetsteve
    I dont think ifor make a trailer that grosses at more than 3500kg. And if they did there is no way I would want to go above 35 mph with it behind a Landrover. Landcruiser possibly 60mph tops
  3. gensetsteve
    Luckily their are still some of us idiots prepared to turn out if a tree falls on a house or a hospital generator fails. You never know when a member of your family will need us.
  4. gensetsteve
    Triple time christmas last for two weeks this year unless you are religious its a state of mind. If I did not have wife and children I would be cleaning out the workshop. My step daughter is a nurse working xmas day £60 an hour.
  5. gensetsteve
    I have worked with fit energetic 45 year olds and 20 year olds. Also worked with some zombies. As you get older you dont need to cram as much into a day as you dont have big mortgages and as many small mouths to feed. I think a career change at middle age is fine better than giving up good luck to you.
  6. gensetsteve
    Had Amazons for years when we run 300 tdi vans the Amazon was essential. When we went to td5 usefull. Now we have TDV6 not much in it but the disco 4 is expensive and badly made. The auto Amazon is mutts nuts. I would rather tow 5 tonne behind a Landcruiser than 2 tonne behind a Defender. The manual lc is possibly better for long term ultimate towing but crap to use horrible linkage effort. The 100 series nicer to drive and live with, the 80 series is supposed to be better made but I did not think so.
  7. gensetsteve
    J hunt in chilbolton is changing all his demonstrators now. Straight people to deal with may be worth a look on their website they are John deere and Isuzu dealers. Not connected to them in any way but was looking for a new one last month.
  8. gensetsteve
    Sounds identical to ours with mitsubishi watercooled engine 25hp. Green mech do a chipper with a shredder chute called a euro combi or something ideal for small stuff and will tolerate the odd stone unlike the normal chippers.
  9. gensetsteve
    Snap sound like ours. think ours is 325 or similar with recycle deck. Good machine to sit on for hours if needed.
  10. gensetsteve
    What your mind forgets to tell you is it probably makes little difference over 15ft how high you go its only the last 1/2 inch that hurts. But I am not good with hights and hated our 30ft cherry picker when it started swaying in the wind.
  11. gensetsteve
    No problem if it comes in from jobs. But we were buying in cord and round our way if its started seasoning they wont sell by weight. So you pay cubic metre space and its full of sticks. We could process 8" cord into a truck in 15 mins but drop to 2" and it would take an hour. So u got less material for your money and it took 4 times as long part of the reason we packed logs in.
  12. gensetsteve
    I am burning dry beech round wood about mainly branch wood about 2-3" and I think it burns about twice the speed of the main trunk which backs up what someone said on here a few months ago. There are more BTU's in the trunk than in the branch.
  13. gensetsteve
    We clamped one of those big chinese garden brollys to the tractor one year. I wouls imagine you could buy stuff from camping shop to keep them water proof. You could buy one of those structures they use when picking crops.
  14. gensetsteve
    Or to put it another way when can you pass a wagon load of match sticks off as cord
  15. gensetsteve
    After spending 3 months trudging round in mud I want some.
  16. gensetsteve
    Boot is big, thrown away the seats just room for the sandwich box and bog roll
  17. gensetsteve
    If it was me, what would I want to make if the same job was offered again. Charge that. If you are too expensive you dont want the work again anyway. Once you send them a rate will be difficult to put it up if you cant make it pay.
  18. gensetsteve
    If anyone has dry logs round Andover, Hamshire let me know because we have packed up although I am surprised how few calls we have had. I will pass your phone numbers on.
  19. gensetsteve
    Could not wait though pulled the rapping off and put 2000 miles on it.
  20. gensetsteve
    Stobarts will have their margin worked out and they wont be worried about yours. As long as you load it they will offer £3 a tonne. I think some of the grants have disappeared thats why the power stations are shutting. Our local business recycling centre is charging £110 a tonne to take it so getting £3 a tonne is better even if you have to load it.
  21. gensetsteve
    Trouble is 3rd of the country is on the rob you cant lock them all up
  22. gensetsteve
    I know nothing really about trees but have developers on my boundry and know plenty about them. Does the tree look nice in the summer or is it long past its best. If its knacked I would get the developer to pay for its removal. If you have a housing estate going up next door I would be thinking of a line of fast growing conifers or laurels at the very least a beech hedge.
  23. gensetsteve
    Ebay is a disaster for everything, vehicles and chainsaws especially. For cross cutting up big arb waste I would be inclined to get a 660 with 20" blade. You wont feel the weight of the saw for cross cutting and the extra power speeds the job right up. If you can get the vat and tax back buy new or go and see a dealer for a trade in.
  24. gensetsteve
    I think most people know when they enter the public highway if they are pushing their luck. If you dont feel the load and vehicle is safe its not. If you have an accident it wont take long for those in the know to find where you cut corners.
  25. gensetsteve
    An experience we had years ago may put you off these ideas. We had a piece of tube and 6mm plate you put a blank cartridge into a piece of fishing wire a split pin and weight. You open the door the weight drops and result a big noise. We set it up and forgot about it. Went in the shed the thing went could not hear till lunch time but even worse the bit of 6mm plate shot out and broke Bill's little toe now this was very serious as he was in pain for weeks compensation was metioned but I explained he should not have been in the workshop without his toe tectors on. His defence was it would have bounced off and hit him in the goolies. Now in hind site we worked out that the plate shot out because we had lost some of the bits. I realised this accident could have been much worse it could have been me. We have not used our device since and it still sits on the shelf.

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