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RIght on my door step Dan, if i'm of any help let me know. 07834859022
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RIght on my door step Dan, if i'm of any help let me know.
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what sort of price range Tony? Any seasoned?
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Now then Nick, I should be ok this year mate thanks but have you number in case I need a load or two. Still harvesting hey? You must of had a nightmare harvest?!
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Log sales what % goes to the black economy
farmer_ben replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Really good reply that mate. The labour bit hit home with me, I'm trying to make logs more profitable all the time and I think cutting casual labour I get in and making thins more automated so I can do more with less help is the way forward imo. -
Log sales what % goes to the black economy
farmer_ben replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Really good reply that mate. The labour bit hit home with me, I'm trying to make logs more profitable all the time and I think cutting casual labour I get in and making thins more automated so I can do more with less help is the way forward imo. -
Log sales what % goes to the black economy
farmer_ben replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Really good reply that mate. The labour bit hit home with me, I'm trying to make logs more profitable all the time and I think cutting casual labour I get in and making thins more automated so I can do more with less help is the way forward imo. -
5m metre hedge trimmer? Think thats the biggest one ever made!
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5m metre hedge trimmer? Think thats the biggest one ever made!
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5m metre hedge trimmer? Think thats the biggest one ever made!
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she dont seem to mind to much when i have £150 cash in my hand when i get back in the truck seriously though, we have both trying to cut costs where ever we can in our respective businesses and fuel is the biggest cost for us both
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thats exactly what i do, could be on the way to football or a meal out with the miss's etc!
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80 acres is hard enough on my own with no combine and reliant on contractors doing it all for me. Firewood is a nice simple reliable income compared to farming
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I cut the logs to suit each customer but i normally ask, do you want brick size or a4 paper size. Works well and people can visually work out with them 2 common size items instead of asking in inches or cm's
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4 orders yesterday and one call today...must be the weather changing but i still got 80 acres of wheat to go yet so hope dont get to cold to quick!
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i try to keep everyone happen, if i have someone phone up well out of my normal delivery area I will take their number and then if I ever go that way for another job or other reasons i give them a bell and see if they want any wood. i dont normally make a special trip for firewood over 8 miles. and if i do i either only offer my biggest load to make it worth my while or fit the delivery in with another close by. I can take 3 cube out at a time which helps.
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What Dean said really, I am priced at the top end of the scale and am busy enough. Would be busier if I was £70 for a 1.2cm load instead of £100 but then I would rather sell 7 £100 loads instead of 10 £70 loads. 95% of my logs are quality seasoned Ash, Beech and Sycamore and I refuse to sell at the same price as the boys shifting poorer quality logs but doing more loads. Approx 9 out of 10 new customers go onto order again, and in 4yrs my customer base grows around 25% a year so I am happy with how I price things even if i do get ribbed a fair bit in the pub about how much dearer I am! I do discounted (10% off) loads from June till Sept, helps cash flow and helps get in the door with a few more new customers.
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Any of you boys/girls on here into motocross?
farmer_ben replied to Lorry thompson's topic in The Lounge
Moto X is for boys, real men ride Enduros! Ha Ha. We do a few moto x practice tracks but most race Enduro -
I'm in exactly same boat, bags have gone up in price and are nearly unviable now IMO.
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Most tractors are made abroad but we have some fantastic machinery manufactures in this country. Houseman Bateman Sands and GMR sprayers, Cousins Watkins and Tim Howard cultivators, Bailey trailers and JCB machinery, Dale and Claydon drills. It wont be long until you could kit your half farm with UK made kit.
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We had 18mm friday. The ground is very wet but the barley is ready, the wind yesterday and today has dryed the ears out well
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good point that!
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but then the flip side of that is the latest Jimmy's series, people were up in arms about diary bull calves being shot at 2 days old and now rose veal sales go up. IMO, people do care but just need to be educated. This whole milk debate isnt a subsidy one, its the processors cutting prices to unsustainable level. If it carries on we will be mostly importing milk from a lot worse welfare countries then ours, just like the pork and lamb a lot eat.
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I think the foreward thinking, dare I say it younger farmers, would welcome a farming future without subsidies. I plan my farming business to make a profit without help and I'm not alone thinking like that. Its the farmers who rely on the SFP to make profit are the ones holding the rest of us back. Something else to remember is there are many many farmers out there who dont get the SFP, they farm to great standards without funding. Don't just presume every farmer gets subsidies. 2 young farm contractors near me are making good money without support, and both have a Disco on the drive
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You have wheat thats ready? Surely not!
