Daniel Jiggins
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what a world we live in, we only grit privately owned car parks, business centres and office blocks wouldnt touch anything council as they will pass all responsibility onto you the contractor, our clients sign a disclaimer so we are not held liable should someone trip/crash etc but they are covered by there health and safety as they have taken appropriate action to minimise risk of slip and trips, bit of a grey area and you need to be carefull.
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Wickes charge £5.41 for 25kg b&q is £3.99 but are sold out best i can get it bagged is £2.80 brown rock salt or £3.15 white rock salt if order 1000+ bags at a time, i find the hanson salt is the best as soon as it hits the ice it starts popping - hope your not putting it lose in the pickup!
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how much you charging for 25kg bags ben, is it bown rock salt or white.
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reversed into a metro once and caused £600 worth of damage blimey is a metro worth so much
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typical taxi driver round here most think their a law above themselves worst professional drivers out there! at least didnt damage your motor mate hows your neck where theres blame theres a claim - so im told.
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Blimey That Looks Bad! the sliding back plate on pic 3 i removed from mine as i found it a nuisance my ram does weep a bit but never had to put anymore than a cupfull of hydraulic oil in 3yrs, i also took the 4 way splitting head off mine and i find it works much better (depends on what your splitting). Would of thought that would be replaced no questions asked.
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i dont leave customers property without cash in my hand have had before 'will put cheque in the post' which surprisingly never arrives dont even take cheques anymore unless they are regular repeat customers, delivered two loads of seasoned oak to a local pub once who never paid sent several invoices / letters then got fed up and waded in on a busy sunday lunchtime saying 'dont want to cause a scene but im here for my money' surprisingly the till opened and i got my money.
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i had the same problem done my back in after couple of hours at 6'8 the ground feels along way down after severel hours splitting, i found away round this by placing the splitter on the concrete apron to our garages then standing on the lower ground varies between 18-24" also put small rings on base to required height works the same as a table.
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its a heavy lump to pull around its ok on fairly level ground, on soft ground or slopes i pull it with the quad or pickup, i wouldnt fancy pulling it up a trailer by hand.
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its not terribly noisy i find if using it for severel hours the noise can give you a headache.
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ive got the A12v (12 tonne) road towable splitter its great not come across anything it wont split yet and its fast
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Snap, our L200 load is also £90.00 - 90% hardwood, cant keep up with demand got a folder full of orders waiting to go out in new year
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Andy; we do gritting on commercial premises mainly business parks and car parks to get in with these contracts its not what you know but who you know! we started doing a contract on a particular business park for one occupier now we do 70% of the entire business centre, there is money to be had but its not all good going out everynite between 22:00-05:00 becomes a chore. buy your rock salt in summer and have good stocks for winter (try buying salt at the moment). oh and when someone slips /crashes its you they come to sue! so have good insurance. these guys are up your neck of the woods Icewatch - Keeping your car parks and walkways ice-free
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geoff, was that you working in hatfield peverel last week (near crix) landy looked familiar.
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ben, bit to cold for the quad mate give me a truck with heater anyday!
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we have got the fuelwood log bagging device, dont go there mate doesnt work unless you have 100% uniform logs we only use ours for bagging kiln dried kindling which it works well for.
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logs are flying out in sunny (snowy) essex, busier than last year all last years customers have reordered which is good, plenty of new customers who have had some stories to tell.
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Hi Ben;
Were Still Busy Here, Firewood Is Manic Think It Will Be Now Until After Crimbo My Little Sawbench/Splitter Is A Japa 100 From Fuelwood Warwick. I Read Your Doing Bulk Bags Now How Do You Find Them Compared To Pickup Loads Profitable Wise?
Regards,
Dan.
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the old hilux and nissan d21 have bench seats in the front there only any good for nippers as the gear stick is where your feet should be
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our latest addition ford 4610 4x4 with loader
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Beginner's question on price of wood...
Daniel Jiggins replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
yeah its surprising how much goes in especially if heaped up, are you going to do bulk bags? they never seem so demorolizing to fill especially if doing it by hand, good result with the wood:thumbup1: -
Beginner's question on price of wood...
Daniel Jiggins replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
thought so mate, best of luck with the firewood / logs keep us posted how you get on:thumbup1: -
Beginner's question on price of wood...
Daniel Jiggins replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
Hi Is This The Ben Who Bought The Pickup Tonight? -
Why Not Buy Kindling In, We Got Some Nets From 'Paper Rustler' Good Stuff And Cheap Also Nice To Support Fellow ArbTalk Members, You Can Then Spend Your Time Doing More Important Things!
