gensetsteve
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They do the at now not as aggressive, but nice looking tyre with good road manners. May even be better on clay. I have never used a GG at but have felt the bfg at are a little out of date for road use and wondered if the GG have better road manners.
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I have since found out if you are a vat registered business you can open an account with the scrap yard and not show id ea time. This whole exercise is about collecting more tax of hard pressed tax payers rather than stopping theft.
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In most other arenas you have more control ie face to face contact. Also Ebay was reliant on trust therefore it attracted all the crooks. If you are happy buying out of date stock in battered boxes for 20% more than you can buy it new from Amazon, ebay is ok. There are alot of good people on ebay but feels at times there are more idiots.
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Things that killed ebay for us 1. Dishonest people 2. fees went through the roof 3. Postage virtually doubled over night 4. Dishonest buyers have too much power, honest ones not enough. If they get it right we will go back.
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are you driving a d3 or d4 I think part of the problem is heat from low profile tyres also the 3.5 tonnes of weight of vehicle and 255 hp = new tyres every year at £800
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Why not burn seasoned soft wood in log burners
gensetsteve replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Is that the Best Place to reliable information , especially after a few pints!!! The best brainstorming comes after a few beers most of my eureka moments have followed 10 pints of Stella. -
Thinking of putting gg at on our new disco van 60 plate with 19" low profile wheels £180 ea and no tyre lasts much more than 20,000 miles especially towing. Last tyres were made july 2012. The d2 we have does 80-100 k on bfg at
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You could do what some people do when they buy a generator. Get the local generator company out free of charge to measure up and specify mark out the ground for the concrete pad. Provide the drawings and training and advice. Then buy it online for £7000 and save £50. This I think is part of the reason behind the stihl policy. The dealers with shops and over heads cant compete with the warehouses box shifting. First time the customer has a problem with a warehouse saw, first port of call local dealer. The internet is a great and powerfull tool but it has created a few problems. I am sure your meter will be fine
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For firewood cheap meter is fine. For milling get something better.
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I bought 4 new bf goodrich at for our truck within weeks a flint went through the side, none in the country. Found a brand new one from a 4x4 dealer on ebay I saved no more than £15 but it was available when it showed up the date was 9 years old. Nearly everything on ebay has a problem and getting vat receipts is a pita. Moral of the story is avoid ebay at all costs.
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try it against another meter continuity is more important than accuracy its only firewood.
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Yes but not too hard or it will damage the meter especially on oak. Always split the log fresh and measure the inside face. I also measure round the out side then get some idea of the difference can measure the outside of other logs in the same stack if needed. If you stick it in the end grain and it says 30% you dont need to split it you know its going to be gopping in the middle. Very useful for testing part seasoned cord to see how far on it is.
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Why not burn seasoned soft wood in log burners
gensetsteve replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
The public will only buy what they think they need or have been told by the stove sellers. Let them have hardwood plenty of other uses for the softwood. If you want to make your loads pay mix in Poplar its still hardwood so is Willow. -
Your metre sounds ok mark. It wont read properly in a bucket of water because its calibrated to work with the wood fibres. My skirting boards are 11- 14% My mate has a stihl one and we compare now and then both are roughly the same and never let us down.
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5 years ago we were mad for ebay payed a large part of the mortgage off. Now leave it well alone bad news. Items now get sent to charity, car boot or left on shelf. Vehicles go in auto trader. Otherwise you are paying postage so they can rob you. If they ever get it sorted out there will be loads of stuff that has been stashed for years. I see they just had 4 days free listing just before christmas must be desperate.
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I found even the cheapest meter better than guessing. I have had wood that I swore was bone dry burn badly on my stove then confirmed by meter its 30%. I found even different trees of the same species take different times to season could be time of year or next to river etc. Oak and Ash are the worst. Beech 3 weeks in the sun and its 20%
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More often not the poor readings indicated are confirmed by poor burning. Make sure the batteries are good or the readings go way off. I found the stihl meter says wood is dryer than it is. Oak is a pig and can take years to dry I am sure you have found that in the past. I think the stihl meter is ok.
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Why not burn seasoned soft wood in log burners
gensetsteve replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Front room hottest so far this winter. Burning kindling blocks we rejected due to large knots. Kiln dried and 16 % moisture -
New d max tows 3.5 tonne old rodeo does not. Drive both and see what you think normally the new model is a step forward. The old model will drop its price quickly. I looked at both a week ago the d max did not look weak the dealers were changing all their staff cars for the new one.
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Why not burn seasoned soft wood in log burners
gensetsteve replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
I find dry softwood better burns hot. Yes you have to get up more often to put it on so what. On still days I find hardwood can be a bit lazy to burn you open the vents and all the heat goes up the chimney. -
Sounds more like your problem is wife dogs and horses. No Animals here sleep like a log.
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We live on site which is good for security. No easy answer depends on how you feel about looking out the kitchen window at all the work in front of you. Also we have kept the costs away from the business as when you sell you could be in for capital gains tax on your property. I think the ideal would be yard and workshops next door out of view. so work is work and home is home. You could still install cameras for security but looking at a screen occasionally does not seem so bad.
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A visor offers very little protection but it does offer some so well worth wearing even when cross cutting. A longer bar is likely to hit the actual helmet rather than the visor this will slow a chain down and could reduce an injury to painfull rather than fatal.
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You mean you would not spoil the nice pine with bits of oak
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You have to give him credit for actually admitting it. If the chain break handle was broken off I would imagine this will affect the reaction time of the break. The inertia of a kick back must to some degree transmit through the handle to the break. If you were a cat you would only have 8 left. I would buy a lottery ticket this weekend.
