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  1. farmer_ben
    i sort of agree with you but i dont try selling whole loads of pop to anyone. I dont think my local burning pop is a bad thing at all, the landlord also gets prime hardwood from me so his roaring firewood every evening looks great. I just do him a deal on the loads of pop and he has educated a few people who have been very surprised how lovely pop burns when dry.
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    Sound great, me and my girlfriend are looking for a cozy retreat for next weekend on the Suffolk coast somewhere. Walberswick is well worth a visit also if you are near. Lovely little old harbour village. All the best
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    I know there is a few Arbtalkers from Suffolk and they, and everyone else hopefully, may be interested in Country Tracks @ 11am today on BBC 1. I've never watched the program but looking forward to it as Rede is covered I believe and thats the next village over from me. Hope they portray this area well, as it really is a beautiful part of Suffolk that is well hidden away Hawkedon, where I live, is a real Gem of Suffolk and be nice to see it on tele hopefully
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    couldnt of put it better myself
  5. farmer_ben
    I had more complaints that there is too much oak in a load before! But never pop!
  6. farmer_ben
    Oh right, mix up then. What i ment was im delivering loads into melford, and that is where the chap doing tranny loads for £100 lives. So consumers arent always led by price! TIcking over, no where near as busy as end of sept, mid oct tbh
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    chris, how do you tip your bags into your pick up? attach to loader and tip them over or hand bal out?
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    its all my old man is burning this winter, he's got a lovely dry stash of it
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    dont entirely agree with that. pop needs to be treated with a lot of care to make GOOD firewood but it is possible. Split as soon as you can and season perferably under plastic but with good air flow during summer. then once really dry store where there isnt too much moisture in the air. sold 2 loads to my local last spring, he did as above and is now burning bone dry lovely pop logs
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    Eggs, thats around Bulmer isnt it? Julian Swift farms there i believe. Lovely place. Wouldnt worry about the price. I've run 2 loads into melford today (£100 a tranny load area!!) and both customers were over the moon with my 1.1 cube for £100. I honestly wouldnt do it any cheaper, for me buying in wood etc i wouldnt start the saw bench up for less. Hows your logs going?
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    BTW, tunstall forest has some amazing trails, take your push bike if you have one!!
  12. farmer_ben
    i would be happy to help bro but you couldnt get any more east suffolk from me, i reckon tunstall is a good 40 miles from my wood yard! presuming your coming up the a12?
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    3 of them working round me at the moment, we had one last year but using different contractor this year and gone much better
  14. farmer_ben
    I'll always try and accomadate half loads and smaller loads etc, like some said, not everyone has the money to spend on full load. but i wont run out especially just for half loads.
  15. farmer_ben
    This winter i am looking at building something similar to a billet bundler but i dont want to tie them up, i want to put say 25 billets into a chamber and cut through them say 3 times creating 100 logs in only 3 cuts of a saw. would cut the handling so so much
  16. farmer_ben
    Where in Suffolk are you buddy?
  17. farmer_ben
    Ernest does are doing a branded (good one just cant remember) make of chain oil for £10 for 10litres. And A&G Garden Machinery, Long Melford, are also doing 10litres for a tenner
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    My spaniel comes to work most days, if im tractoring he is in there with me. If im doing yard jobs i'll tie him up in eye sight of me. he is happy just sitting there watching. If we're in the woods with machines running, he is never ever loose whilst people are working.
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    cheers Rob, i must admit i have never really used gumtree, couple of good finds there
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    Small world! Trust me i have been searching all through autotrader last 2 weeks, every night! Girlfirend isnt happy!!! The brava has a been brilliant truck it really has. Got a load of logs on now ready to deliver first thing in the morning
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    rob, cheers for that
  22. farmer_ben
    thanks for that, that truck looks awesome, i'll keep an eye on it. the john kemp page has been looked at A LOT recently but thanks for link!
  23. farmer_ben
    anything within reason egg, the truck i was gonna buy was 8k but if there is a truck around that'll do a job for a few weeks/months 2-3k is more sensible. i'd snap it up. was a v reg l200 single cab at trucks r us for 2k but it sold with 20mins of going on trucktrader
  24. farmer_ben
    thanks but i really need single cab or king cab as i dont have my trailer licence yet so need capacity to take out a full load of logs. Thanks for reply though
  25. farmer_ben
    Anyone got a pick up for sale? Single or king cab, need it for my firewood business. Anything considered. Was suppose to be buying a nice shiney new tipper last week but the deal broke down last minute and now im stuck with my old brava with mot that is radily running out!!

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