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  1. farmer_ben
    I've just moved ten mile away from my previous yard and am having to more or less start all over again as I never delivered out this far. No shops round here at all to advertise in, so I have made sure I've presence in all parish magazines, I have made the 2 pubs aware of my firewood business. Website is done and next is sign writting the truck. I also have a few nets of kindling for sale on the drive. Good luck
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    First 3 are from bbq last friday, every one loved the candles, bugger to get going though as there was no breeze at all. 2nd pics are night after, re lit one and had a quiet beer
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    WFWALEs that looks perfect mate
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    oh yeah, i also spoke to phil this morning and he'll sell you that pto engine, didnt say price though
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    Egg, my massy is for hire, with or without operator
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    Why????
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    With the 10p of and vat back, I managed to get a 80litres of diesel last week at under £1.00 a litre and will be doing the same tonight woo hoo
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    the last pic looks like my drilling is right on the piss but that hill was so steep, the auto steer had to correct itself so much to keep on line
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    Andy I am presuming most of them pics are around Sudburys Water Meadows??? Beautiful beatiful area of a town, slowly going to pot (in my opinion). I've worked all round the UK, flats of essex, north york moors, rolling west country and savage mid wales and yet i came back home to suffolk and its beauty never ceases to amaze me. I work around (and live) stansfield / hawkedon and I challenge anyone to come here and say suffolk is flat and boring. turely amazing area, so hilly there is as much grass and beef cattle in this area as you'd find west country etc. the rural roads are dead quiet, apart from us 5 leading grain today If anyone wants a truely home cooked eat up one night in a PROPER village pub, try the Compasses in Stansfield. Right next to our farm and couldnt be more perfect. Im gonna dig out some photos now and take some more tomoro
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    I'm happy with my return from firewood, as i know what I need to sell at to make money and I know how to say "forget it mate" when someone calls saying there'll only pay what the retired down fella down the road is selling at. But generally speaking, I'd say there is 10 chaps doing firewood within 10 mile radius of me. And i'd say only 2 (including me), maybe 3 see firewood as a business, as a business they declare, a business they pay taxes on etc.....my point being, its them 7 / 8 who are "we only take cash luv" that have no idea of their costs of production, hence their low as hell prices. These chaps aren't saving half the money from every load to pay for next years cord wood etc etc. Rant over
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    Certainly is, he has guided me through a really **** relationship break up, he was there when another girl came on to the sceen and they get on great, he was there when I decided to jack in a very good job to go self employed. Never once did he say "dont do it dad!!!"
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    Really enjoyed reading through this thread, hope time is making things easy for you tony. Choked me right up a few times reading through, got both my dogs laying around my feet asleep in the sun. My spaniel is my best mate, he'd never ever judge me and I love him to bits. He comes to the farm with me each day, he'll sit in the tractor cab for 14hrs and wont moan at all. Loves being inthe woods what ever the season. The other dog is the girlfriends old Lab, he is really getting on now. 12yrs I believe. And im dreading the day he leaves us, will break her heart.
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    certainly do mate, place im at now is first proper place with my misses and we have ben so lucky. perfectly quiet at night, very rural part of suffolk. love just sitting in the garden after dark with the dogs and a cider all the best
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    sounds about right to me
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    BIg beer festival opposite my house this weekend, got kindling, logs nets, swedish logs and chimney logs all for sale on drive. few extra quid here and there adds up after a while
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    just to have to pennys worth. my land is split in 2 by a railway line. there are no footpaths along the banks, but the villages chose to ignore this and walk up and down, regardless of me cropping right up to the egde of the fence to try stopping this. couple of locals have now started to take dead elm that has fallen from the banks on to my fields. one did ask if it was ok to send her son up with a saw, after expplaining it wasnt even a footpath and they shouldnt be there, she left looking very confused as to why i had a problem with her son chainsawing on private land!!
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    Nice one chaps GOt bit chilly bout 10.30 but the candles were still glowing away With harvest about to kick off big time, and the busy lives we all live im glad we can grad a few hours if only once or twice a week to switch off and chill night all
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    Just sitting out in my garden, girlfriends a sleep inside, got the bbq next to me toasting some rolls, couple of swedish candles on the go, the dogs by my feet and music quietly humming away in the background.....life is good Hope everyone else is having a nice evening
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    Just sitting out in my garden, girlfriends a sleep inside, got the bbq next to me toasting some rolls, couple of swedish candles on the go, the dogs by my feet and music quietly humming away in the background.....life is good Hope everyone else is having a nice evening
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    ~Has anyone else noticed drinks bottles hanging in hedges? We knocked a few out of hedges yesterday, are they a marker for something? Cant see why anyone would innocently place them there
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    I made a couple up last night as we were hosting a bbq and everywhere was well impressed. I'm not a tree surgeon, so was nice getting one over my mate who is - he'd never heard of Swedish Candles before I bet he is in his yard early this morning knocking a few up!! Will post some pics later
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    TBH £100 hilux isnt far out i dont think, sounds like a nice little sideline mate.
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    Its a strange one isnt it. I can, and do, knock out dumpies (0.6cube say) easily for £65- £75 each depending on location. Now I am struggling to get £100 for a pick up load that is 1.2 cube. Its a strange one, I am seriously thinking of just selling dumpie bags at £65 each or 2 for £125. All very well seasoned hardwood, u dont get better firewood around here FACT!!!!
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    oh he will, i doubt we'll ever use it again, seeing that it hasnt seen any action in a long time!!
  25. farmer_ben
    I would have to ask the farmer who owns it. we took it off the aplicator couple of weeks ago and sent rest of it for scrap, but saved the engine as seemed to good to scrap. he is away till monday but will ask him then

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