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Remember them everyday, got thisblast year after the passing of my Nan, she was the last of that generation in my immediate family, two minute silence observed at 11am, pity the customers dogs couldnt shut up though 😏 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Have run an old sanderson 622 for a while the other year brilliant machines only trouble being, they stopped building then sometime in the 90's,can still get most parts though, very capable and manouverable machines, cant remember the reach,but I have a feeling the 622 stands for 2.2ton lift to 6 metres but dont qoute me on that. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

I was thinking about this earlier, there seems to be a serious deteriation in customers tea making skill last few years 😁 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

I think the thing is from personal observation is not that education makes you stupid, but that those who have been fixated on book learning are very intelligent and educated in thier field, but that fixation on learning has limited thier real world experiences and so they do not posess the same level of common sense and life experience as those who have had a more practical hands on form of education. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

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Thats ok if you can sell at that level, where I am, I'm 7 miles from a town in any direction, when I started, the nearest competion was about 7 miles away and happy to sell me any excess timber as we didnt interfere with each other, now theres two more who do firewood within a mile of my yard and probably 10-15 people within that 7 mile radius, so I couldnt make the figures stack up on bought in timber and a processor against those odds. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Nail on the head there for me too, watched a thibg few years back where the enviroment agency were proudly saying how they were producing charcoal from the alders removed when doing river works and how enviromentally friendly it was making the charcoal in mobile gas fired kilns 🙄 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Someone came on here the other year and proudly announced had invested 40k of his own money in firewood equipment, when I worked it out that meant selling 1200 cube just to cover the machinery, not allowing for buyibg the timber, fuel, labour etc, take a long time for a return without grant money Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Yep used to work for Radleys, Morrisons, Millers etc, not once got asked for tickets. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

You just tick yes on the induction form, most the time they dont ask for proof, one exception we had was when working for Tomlinsons, I once had to fill out puwer form, breaking ground ticket and god knows what else before I could grind one stump, about 2hrs induction and paperwork and half hour grinding. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

I've somehow been volunteered to go and do the fireworks display at the care home where the other half works, got given a full two hours notice too! Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Bought two the other week for my ms251, as getting to bottom of some log piles and dirtier wood, definitely not faster out the box than the stihl chain I took off, but zero kick back compared to the stihl chains I've been running on it, no bogging in the cut and despite clipping nails twice kept going with no problem, the stihl chains would have needed sharpening straight after, and best of all two chains for the less than the cost of one stihl one and some change left 👍 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Pretty sure I got the last one for mine from l and s engineers in coventry they still stock alot of parts for older stihls 👍 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

If you work and do your best you'll get the sack like all the rest, If you laze and bugger about you'll live to see the job right out, The hours are long the pay is small, so take your time and sod 'em all Or on your tombstone neatly laquered, these three words "just bleeding knackered" Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

I was thinking about this the other day reading one of the kiln drying threads, makes sense that there will be a base level moisture that timber will resort too. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Yep thats the one passed it on the low loader just down the road from the yard 👍 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Beat me, I only had to do 136 miles to get this home but nearly four hour train journey down to Bristol first to collect it. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Is that the one the Ecclesbourne railway have just acquired? Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Thats the one, mines got a custom silencer the other yts lads dad made me 👍 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

This would of pinged well if I'd hit it 😁 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Haha yep I was a yts keeper, 2 of us living in a static on the yard at the keepers house in montgomeryshire, like you say £25 a week and despite being in the pub or the spar shop nearly everynight still somehow had money left at the end of the month 👍 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Think it was about £10 a day when I started, saved all my beating money and bought a brand new baikal .410 single barrel, still got it awesome ratting gun 😁 Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

I didnt used to get that a day when I was keepering a grouse moor 😁 pheasant beating used to be £12-15 a day round here, plus possibly soup or beer at dinner time and a brace at end of day and one or two beaters days at end of season. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Well actually thats a good example with large scale buyers ie supermarkets forcing down prices from suppliers and can still supply the consumer at the cheap price they want to buy at, milk being a prime example as it is used as a loss leader hence smaller dairy farms are going out of business at the rate of 3 a week on average and in the next breath the consumer starts whinging about factory farming and the pillaging of the countryside, its simple you cant have it both ways. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app

Carefully and even then not always 😁 run a simple grass based system, buy stock at the right price, try and control inputs like medicines which are one of the biggest costs by rotational grazing and clean and well ventilated sheds, winter costs are kept down by using woodchip for bedding as I can get it free. Doesnt always work, up to 3 years ago I had one of the top herds of gloucestershire old spot pigs in the country, had all the blood lines and we were well known for quality stock, but when we started feed was £5 a bag and weaners fetched £45 at 8 weeks when weaned, when we finally packed in feed was nearer £10 a bag and we were struggling to £25 a weaner, now traditional pork is popular again and I keep getting calls from people desperate to buy old spots as so many people gave up the same time as us that they have gone rarer again so would be worth having them again, but at the time we finally gave up I was having to find £600 a month from elsewhere to pay the feed bill. Sent from my E5823 using Arbtalk mobile app