richy_B
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Not a lot of money for a decent arc welder and some accessories and its certainly be a good project to learn to weld. Conversely you could also spend money on a holiday! It does look a bit small. Maybe 50-60 kg of charcoal a burn. Maybe a lot less. Good luck either way.
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Perhaps it might be best to let nature reclaim then. If the main chamber is a bit iffy then it could well ignite during a burn and you find you have a bit of trouble keeping the whole thing from rocketing up temperature wise. I have a retort and unattended it could easy reach temperatures of 700c, where things start to go wrong.
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Could be an interesting project if you have the time. If its for free then some steel and rods is a reasonable spend. Worst case you could run it in for the steel and recoup a bit. If it's a 'purchase' I'd be very apprehensive.
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Start at the trade price then. If people knew the minimum price the seller will accept then they can make a more informed decision before placing a bid. Why accept bids of £100 if you will not take less that £500. The current prices 'have not met the reserve' so are meaningless.
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Yeah, probably high reserves and result in hardly any sales. Just like on ebay, if you want an auction then have a proper one. Start low and highest bidder takes it. If you had a price in mind then just do a straight sale. Saving wasting lots of people's time.
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If it works for you then great but can see how it would be worthwhile for £100 a go. The hook loader skip set up drying costs a couple of grand. If it's just a standard skip that you are tipping out and putting it cages then this is a bit of time and diesel being used. The cost of a bit of phone/admin/invoicing. Insurance, tax, etc. Can't be much left in it even if you had 5 or 6 of these on the go a week. Why not just vent this excess heat into a poly tunnel and grow something?
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My answer is never try and help out members of the public. People ask for a log for an 'art project' , you end spending 15 minutes with them choosing then have to lug it into the car for them. Offered a free tip site, find out there is no access and has to be wheel barrowed, etc, etc, etc! Its never easy. In the OPs case - 'I didnt have any laurel on my chip pile and certainly didn't allow anyone to take any'. 'If you have the persons name that would be great as we deal with all thefts via the police.'
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Ha! Having 'recovered' several cars, motorbikes and a golf cart from rivers in London I can only imagine everything will be covered in sludge and would need a huge amount of cleaning before you could even see the damage. A guy once asked me if i knew the definition of a boat. He said it was a hole in the water into which you throw money!
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Interesting to know how it could be done. With it being submerged in muddy water 4 months would it be salvageable? No experience myself but imagine it would be pretty buggered.
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Green Plant UK appointed as authorised MultiOne dealer
richy_B replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Agreed. I've bought and hired from them many times. Be great if they put a multione in their hire fleet. -
Got to love the opening photo!
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Unfortunately it probably isn't. Claim on the insurance and try and beef up security for future. Best you can (legally) do.
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The worst I got was a week of towing a tracked Timberwolf shredder on a plant trailer (so about 2300kg) and I got 127 miles to a full tank. 9 and a bit MPG!
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You get good ones and bad ones. For £1500 well worth a punt. Fuel consumption is bad in my opinion. I have mud terrains on which doesn't help but around town, driven sensibly is 22-25 ish. Towing around town 12-15mpg. Ok on a A road run but above 55mph it gets noisey, bumpy and the mpg really starts to drop. Spares and repairs are straight forward - I use Milners for most items. I've replaced both CV joints, battery and alternator, coolant and all oils and nothing difficult to do. Edit - might be year dependent. I am talking about the K74 upto 2005 model.
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How smooth does a floor need to be for a pallet truck?
richy_B replied to Woodworks's topic in General chat
Pumps trucks are awesome on the flat. I can shift 2ton on flat concrete without too much stress. Even small pea sized stone or woodhouse will stop them though. There are 'off road pallet trucks'. In my experience an IBC of loosely filled logs is about 350-425kg wet/green. -
I'd suggest planting the tree then doing the resin the following September. Best to make sure the tree is happy and healthy before spending the extra. We do 1000+ containerised trees into pavements and pits and despite your best efforts, sometimes a tree just doesn't survive. With tree pits i treat the bottom of the kerb stones as ground level. The tree needs to be slightly deeper than you'd plant in open ground or else it'll buckled the pavement in no time. You lay the resin on top of the ground level soil. Treat the resin as a mulch.
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Epicormic shoot removal in a Conservation Area
richy_B replied to BrendanTreeFeller's topic in Trees and the Law
Would be complicated if you had to. We do about 7500 a year (50% limes). -
I've worked on this for firewood, charcoal and kindling. Had a VAT audit and it was confirmed then also. Interestingly I was told the delivery rate (if applicable) follows the product rate. So if you charge £10 for delivery of firewood to an end user then only 50p is due in VAT.
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Good question - a decent firm could be well established, trading for 10 years+, local authority contracts, multiple CHAS/NPTC/CSCS/etc upto the eye balls... Or it could be a small outfit that just very good at making a profit! I'm reality all businesses are different, have different overheads and aims. I know several one man set ups in London who turn over £80k and have very good take home. I also know several 2 and an occasional thirds man set ups that struggle to turnover £80 and the owner/lead is lucky to take home £30k.
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You need to look outside of arb if you want to develop skills relating to running a business in my opinion. A HND or degree in business management would give a base understanding, MBA would be a good option. Big undertaking obviously but very transferable skills. Even just going to workshops or seminars (HMRC do quite a few). The federation of small business is a good resource too.
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I see now - gvwr 7257kg. It's a cool truck but having pickup over 3500kg would be problematic.
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Would something like that fall into the 3500kg-7000kg weight class? Be amazed it its kerb weight was less that 3499kg.
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Yes. My 835 forestry spec is artic steer and I reckon you'd be putting loads of strain on it with a heavy load on the rear linkage (can lift 660kg in the manual). I have 35m winch and a zanon flail which are 250-300kg amd seem pretty perfect weight wise. No noticeable changes to ride or manoeuvrability.
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You must need some serious front weights on for that lift. 1200kg must be the total weight for the tractor.
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I am amazed at the amount of people who work without something in writing. Not even a contract, just an email thread would be enough - 'we can do this for £X' , 'Great, please go ahead'. You leave yourself wide open if not.
