Joy Yeomans

dont think the speed the log splitter goes is going to increase wear through grit on grease, as its not going as fast as say a piston which would start to wear - tbh used grease all my life, dad used grease on things all his life and things still last - so will stick with grease - on the tin of spray you use dean is it used on landing gear - heard of some planes that the spray has been blamed for the landing gear not dropping down:lol:

oh argh, made out of a nice bit of sack cloth me duck:lol:

sitting here talking to you now with some baler twine round my PJ;s:lol:

just grease ours up with a bit of old stick slapped with a good wedge of grease, using some nice red grease at the mo, which makes the first few logs look like their bleeding

didnt think lada still existed

were based near uttoxeter deano, see your in swansea, nice part of the world - mumbles etc spent many a happy holiday down there on the gower, we used to have a static caravan opposite the airport on the gower, great area, but a bummer of a trip down there from the midlands back in the days when dad had only got a bedford van and could only do about 50 all the way - we thought wed gone up in the world when he got a ldv but one of us had to lie in the back on the airbed all the way down - happy days!

yes had no end of probs, had two discs sent neither worked, in the end, email to helpdesk - join the queue, so held on and held on the phoneand got through to someone on the helpdesk who talked me through manual install etc and restore of my backup as lost all the database - NIGHTMARE! Hopefully fixed now, although she did tell me that a great batch of discs released were dodgy - so ask for a new one, but even the new disc wouldnt work with me, kept saying it was already running try ringing the helpdesk no. when youve got a spare day! as it takes ages to get through but they are helpful when you get through i hope mine is fixed now, but still to do the end of year wages run for last week and run the end of year progs. - will do it on tuesday, hope it goes OK

Kindling Sticks for sale in 40x50cm nets, filled very well by machine, an 8" stick of Larch. Any amount on pallets we can supply - pallet banded, shrink wrapped and pallet covered if required. 2 pallets can fit on trailer or pickup quite easily, we can supply more or less or deliver at cost. Price for 200 at £1.25 each net, £250 plus vat 17.5% VAT if wholesale or if your burning them yourself as the end user 5% for fuel. Ring Rohan on 07970 040755 or 01889 564519 for more info.

about 6 pallets of last years stock left, with 50 nets on each pallet - 300 nets at £1.75 wholesale price - barn stored (some more available in box vans) kept over winter in the barn, m/c about 20-25% ready to burn - larch logs with a bit of scots pine in. Collect from our Yard, nr Uttoxeter. Can load you. Pallet banded and can be shrink wrapped with pallet covers if required . 45x60cm nets, same as garage forecourt nets, average 10-12 logs in each net, filled very full by machine 8" long log. Please ring Rohan on 07970 040755 or 01889 564519 for more info., pics attached. plus vat at 17.5% for wholesalers or if for your own use 5% to end user as fuel.

went to our local dealer as Mr. needs an upgrade they are pushing a red and black new samsung, supposed to be as good as the jcb?

could be in for a nice long hot summer, weather is following the pattern it did for '76, when we had snow right in to May i think it was followed by a red hot summer right the way through the summer holidays - ofcourse I only JUST remember that!

well said andy - lovely lot of plants your sons got there - well done and hope he gets where he wants to soon:thumbup:

in this economic climate it would be lovely to work 9-5 but being self employed and farmers and foresters and selling logs i dont think you can? and yes you probably think theyve got too much on their plate - but thats what you have to do to keep the money rolling in and keep the lads paid - roll on the good times again when we can finish earlier and take on some more help to maintain the tractors, move the equipment and deliver the logs but until that happens, we do it all as a family helping and supporting one another, - were lucky to have good workers, good mates and a great family. dont get my first answer wrong - were not always working! heaven forbid - but what we do is a life choice - i dont want to work in an office doing 9-5 and i dont want my children bought up indoors watching nintendo - so they get their overalls on and get muddy! with Dad:lol: yeseterday the boys found some dead baby rabbits in the woodchip

i think the generation of today, have all been molly coddled, me (Mrs) had to go to work weekends, evenings and holidays with Dad who was a self employed plumber - I was the only girl who knew what a set of stilsons were at 16! - and how to use them! (Mr) walked 4 miles to work at the local farm everyday before and after school at age 12 , first he walked then got enough of a wage off said farmer to buy a bike, I think the problem is now adays, the children see the parents only work 9-5, or lucky to see their parents work at all and so dont get to see the work ethic - if the parents work, i think too much is made of weekends off and sit and watch telly or play video games, weekends to me and hubby were work - but we enjoyed it, it was a way of seeing Dad or for Mr. seeing his friends at the farm and getting into an industry that he loves. When i got my first paid job at 14 as a saturday girl at boots (Mrs - not Mr logbaron I add!) we were watched over by the gestapo of the shop floor - and if we werent polite, helpful - open doors for pushchairs etc - we were in fear of our job - now you go into a shop or a service industry the employees cant even be bothered to serve you, they have a surly attitude in my opinion that wasnt seen only 30 years ago. It is unfortunate but I think the only people who will ever work hard are those that have a drive to be as good as or better than their parents and who want to strive to show thier children the right work ethic - unfortunately those people will always be self employed and very few will be available for employment it is a testament to your parents to show how you have been bought up I think, as you are on show as a reflection of them - and many a comment i have had over the years of being Mr. plumbers daughter - "oh he was the best plumber in the area - if your as hard working as him youll go far etc etc" - and the same for mr. logbaron - his family are self employed builders, but alot of his farming friends know him as being a surrogate son of the local farmer he was his shadow from age 12 and they all know what a worker he is . my children work on the farm with us and have their jobs with the animals etc, they work the levers on the log splitters etc under supervision and we have picnics together, we work and enjoy being together the boys have lessons in the tractors and we I think are bringing them up to show that working hard has its rewards - to us as a family working evenings and weekends together is sometimes the only time the boys see dad - but we work hard and this enables us to go away on nice holidays in the caravan

where abouts are you chrisd, what sort of diameter is the larch, would be interested if local to midlands?

box virus? or red spidermite on conifer damage?

yes sorry thats the place i think

charlie - i personally swept the concrete just for you this afternoon - so you can pop round for a cuppa with me tomorrow as am doing the brakes on the transit, tonys off not very well as for the stove man - i rang up a chap about promoting local firewood - i.e. us! - he was a stoveman from milford i think and yes he only sells stuff in little boxes!

check the spring on the overrun brake tension

miker, ours is a botex with steerable drawbar

good advert for my sticks i sold you the other week charlie:thumbup: had one lady ring up saying the logs wouldnt burn, turned up walked into front room (took my boots off!) showed here how to put the paper and sticks and light it etc, she said if its going to be this much trouble - i only wanted one because all the mothers at kindergarten were having them installed! spoke to a stove installer the other week, he wil only promote kiln dried timber to customers and has told them all to stay away from softwood - better tell all those people in finland/norway to swop from pine to imported hardwood

could it be the overrun brake and when your paying out it expands and when you pay in again it cuts through the rope and crimps it, had that problem before - it does make a mess if its that

steerable drawbars really come into their own when doing thinnings and you have to weave your tractor and trailer in between standing timber, slew the ram and it will help the trailer round the tree without hitting it, stumps shouldnt be a prob. as you will have cut them as low as possible - i would never be without a steerable drawbar on my botex with a steerable drawbar, its amazing just where you get with the trailer, it also helps if loading stacks from either side it helps with visibility, as if you shove your trailer over a bit with the ram you can see what your doing - get it fixed it will be the best trailer and youll wonder how you would have got on without one

i had to have planning permission for ours on our small holding, it is for 5 years only, (thats the life they give the cover and after that its a just if anybody has objected you may need to reapply - but the officer said this was very rare)