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  1. gensetsteve
    Trouble is they may find some scrote that has squirreled the wood away from work and needs cash for christmas. But there is not much you can do about that. If you have a list of sizes I can supply the wood half price and with a vat ticket.
  2. gensetsteve
    My last one was in sale at halfords £15 . I dont pay much for them as they get smashed or water gets in. Make sure its a mirror image. I bought a fantastic sony camera once and then found people over taking me on the nearside which is strange on an A road let alone the motorway.
  3. gensetsteve
    I can see all sides to this but while hardwood is £70 a tonne delivered in the odd nice straight ash tree in a farmers field suddenly looks ok for a mornings work. Unfortunately some of the easy jobs tree surgeons used to get will be done free leaving the difficult take downs.
  4. gensetsteve
    Ifor williams proper abusable leaf springs. Indespension tiny little wheel bearings cheap rubber suspension. Ifor williams here.
  5. gensetsteve
    A few more accidents and it wont be long before a focus group gets hold of it. If the industry self regulates and sorts itself out now will be better than being pushed into it. Keep under the radar they will leave you alone shout on a forum about what you are up to they wont. The authorities catch more people on face book now than you could imagine. Do a search on google with the words fastrak and speed you will probably find your post on here and so will they.
  6. gensetsteve
    I have a 5kw log burner in the lounge I fan the warm air from the ceiling around the rest of the house a 3 bed bungalow. We also have oil fired central heating. Since June I have used £200 in oil and about 2 cu metres of logs. I know its been mild but my house is not great on the insulation front but is still warm as toast through out. I understand about the grants etc but when they run out you will be paying through the nose for hard wood and still loading the boiler manually. If I dont burn logs I get through at least 2000 litres of oil. on a hard winter we burn about 6 cu metres of logs and 1000 litres of oil. My point is I see alot of people spending a lot of money on solving a problem that may not actually excist . You produce the btu's you just got to get it round the house.
  7. gensetsteve
    Does he seriously think knocking on peoples doors on a Sunday evening is going to be well received.
  8. gensetsteve
    Makes you wonder if the outcome would have been different if you were a little old lady.
  9. gensetsteve
    Yes sdmo JD engine great little sets stand up to the weather give no grief. Life cycle depends on how long the customer owns the store and who takes over. Anything we take out normally gets auctioned. We are too busy to sort out boomerangs.
  10. gensetsteve
    It will be emergency back up for the smoke extraction system. Most of my shopping centre work is either smoke or sprinkler pump back up. Seem to be all over the country doing shopping centres at the moment.
  11. gensetsteve
    A little roof top generator install in the shopping centre "The One" near the Albert dock in Liverpool. The second pic you can see the Liverbirds in the back ground.
  12. gensetsteve
    We have finally after 8 months got in front of the orders and have about 700 bags spare and rising. 40x50 see through Monofilament nets weighing about 4kg at 14% moisture. Neat well filled nets which do not go out of shape. You can get about 125 bags in a 2cu metre space and takes about 10 mins to hand ball them on. Cash and carry only I am afraid we dont have the time to Pallet and load. If anyone needs some let me know.
  13. gensetsteve
    Thats a pain I have no id. Can be a real pain getting a drink ( I think not )
  14. gensetsteve
    No completely wrong. Thats a rule made up by sad caravanners. The defenders tow 3500kg legally with overrun brakes. Vosa guys do have a sense of humur you see them rolling around on the floor when ever they see a transit double cab coming down the road.
  15. gensetsteve
    A secure lock up for the chipper and a farmers field to drop of the chip they dont need to be together.
  16. gensetsteve
    Pictures Please are you thinking of pulling with 4x4. I picked a 9ft deep 7.5 ft wide one up on an ifor williams it was a bit of a lump and the foot of snow on the steep hill a 1/4 mile from home did not help at all.
  17. gensetsteve
    Each to their own but I cant really tell the difference. I find stihl chain soft to file and quick to blunt. Apart from oregon not tried much else. Perhaps I am not as rich as some folk
  18. gensetsteve
    The new scrap laws have been a total success and achieved exactly what the government set out to do. People with an address and paid tax are now paying even more. Before some would have put the money in their pocket and bought the lads a drink at christmas. Now it goes into your business acct so the vat man gets 20% and the tax man gets 40% of whats left. Legislation through the back door they never set out to reduce metal theft that is still going on exactly as before an they still get the money in their pocket. And yes it feels like a conspiracy to take the money of the working man since 75% of your pay goes to the tax man.
  19. gensetsteve
    I have never understood the file, grinder chain debate. I used to buy carlton chain loops in 16" for about £3 + vat. My bench grinder discs last forever and sharpen a chain properly in a few minutes. Files are £1 ea and I get a couple of sharpens out of ea file. Cheap chains and bench grinder or expensive files.
  20. gensetsteve
    A £1000 should be enough to get the ball rolling. Employees are self funding they earn you money.
  21. gensetsteve
    The tt85 stands fairly high off the ground which is a bit top heavy and steep to load plant. Its big brother the 105 has smaller wheels and takes 2.5 tonne payload and sits lower to the ground. the tt105 weighs around a tonne but well made
  22. gensetsteve
    I cant see why you need to split the vat out. If someone gives me an invoice and they have a vat no. If the total is inc vat I can just work it back. It used to be that purchases under £100 did not need a full vat receipt. A till slip with vat no was fine but times change. I can see giving domestic customers a quote or invoice showing vat could alert them to a saving if they used a small out fit. But then they would need to charge more to cover the vat they cant reclaim on fuel and kit etc. Swings and roundabouts.
  23. gensetsteve
    I hired a honda water pump out and it got left in a cellar which flooded. We cleaned the carb. drained the sump and refilled. left it for a couple of days ran it a couple of oil changes and 10 years later still runs like a watch. Dont listen to the next bit but we use any engine oil in stock normally a 15/40 semi synthetic diesel oil. but our log splitter has had everything and not often enough. Starts on the button and run s like a watch and its had 7 years hard work. Never a puff of smoke
  24. gensetsteve
    The thing that saved our backs the most was a homemade log deck which we could make into a big table. We used to ring 5-10 tonnes of timber then scoop them up with the bobcat bucket. The table had gaps to let the bark and dirt fall through. We then parked the vertical splitter next to it and dragged the rings on with a hookeroon. I would spend 4k on loading shovel and some forks for it. I would pay someone to help you as steve says the job is easier with two especially big rings. If your worried about chainsaw side get them on the splitter while you ring up and load.
  25. gensetsteve
    I use the lids on our vented bags as well and we have dozens of bags of 6in blanks waiting to be put through the kindlet.

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