farmer_ben
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How long is a piece of string?! If its any help, depending on log size i'll fill between between 45 and 50 nets from a really nicely heaped pick up load. The same size pick up load would just about fill (slightly heaped) 2 builders bags, so not miles away from 2mcube. I stand to be shot down no doubt....
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Christ this was a cold Saturday during that first phase of snow, thank god we had the 2 stoves that day going
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Tuesdays lunch was bacon burgers
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Got 4 Waitrose burgers for lunch tomorrow!! Me and my bro eat better out in the field then me and my girl at home
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...especially when there are 4 lovely bangers sizzling away
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straight stemmed beech for sale - 25mile derby
farmer_ben replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in Firewood forum
There she is, and all Starfire'd up
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straight stemmed beech for sale - 25mile derby
farmer_ben replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in Firewood forum
I got a 7530 on the farm, only tracotr i use and bloody love it. same size as 6920 but so much more grunt. Does everything on the farm, plough, top dressing, cultivating, spraying ewtc etc etc -
There are some knobs about, had the same phone call on Friday and bloke was horrified he had to wait 48hrs till Sunday. I told him he was lucky he weren't ordering heating oil as there would be no way they would deliver on a Sunday. If it weren't for the fact its my first yr of firewood and i'm trying to establish a customer base, I wouldn't of been so polite!!
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Interesting reply buddy, whats the digger for??? I've sold just of £2500 of logs in Dec and Jan and only bought an axe
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Same as above really. I started selling logs as the farm is quieter Dec/Jan and the processing of Firewood complements this quite nicely. I'm earning about £13-£18 per hr when doing the firewood if thats of any interest. Some days are lot better then others mind you.
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Ha Ha I would need more than £80 a load to go all way down to you Dan!! I've took one load to Boxted, thats the only time I have ventured into Essex I believe. Yeah all is good, busy busy. You? HOws the foot?
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Thats waht i was getting at really, honesty. I tell the customer exactly what their getting when they order it, no come backs then.
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Stuck a flyer in a village shop last weekend, just happened to be a village I dont often pass through so took oppotunity to drop in. No other Firewood flyers on the board, happy days!! Had 5 orders from that one flyer this week and 4 of them orders have come from people not happy with there previous log guy. Trying to pass off green crappy stuff as seasoned doesnt get you many repeat customers apparently
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Hows everyone doing with the firewood at the minute? My trade is still as consistant as mid November but the other chap who does firewood on the farm said today that his business has slowed right up over last 2 weeks?! Gonna try do 5 pick up loads tomorrow so i can have first sunday off in Jan!! Anyone run out of wood?! Who is buying extra for next winter?!
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LAMMA is a cracking show, needed more then just the day last year to look around at everything. The small business tend to have stand at this show and i find everyone very helpful etc there.
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If you re read what i wrote i was implying the college were mad, not the students. I worked in FE (further education) for 2 yrs teaching agriculture and believe me the only way my students learnt anything was by having a go themselves, i.e tractor driving, lambing, coppicing, plumbing etc etc but not in a million years would i have been allowed to use a bench like that in a practical with 20 very keen lads and lasses. YOur right, h&s has gone mad and thats a big reason why i left the teaching role as I was becoming more and more classroom based and further away from reala farming.
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Have you thought of the new plastic potato boxes that have just come on to the market, in this weeks farmers weekly. they look very good but pricey
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They let you and other students use a saw like that??? MAdness!!
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They are easy to make yourself Dave, pallet + bit of livestock fencing stapled to bottom and cable tied together = cage!
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Oh yeah thats right up my street. I always get my little homemade stove going at lunch time, home made soup, steaks, toasty sandwiches oh yeah!! I try have my bro with me if i can or g/f helps as well. Get so much more done with another pair of hands.
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73 loads by hand, thats some going my friend. I've done 42 loads with axe and saw this winter and my arms/shoulders twice as big as before and stomach half the size 3 pick up loads tomoro will shift the shite food i've stuffed in my face today!!
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I can just about pull a builder bag full of logs off my pick up on my own so i doubt very much it wieghs 1.5. i reckon my bags must be between 300-400kgs each when full. I have a wiegh bridge on one farm so will try use it when i go that way with a load and report back
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Areally big heaped load in my single cab brava will fill 2 builder bags and a couple of nets. So i reckon a big heaped double cab navara load wouldn't be far of a cube and if that is the case £50 is a bargin!!
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Mate thats way too cheap, surely better to keep hold of them then sell that cheap. Like Rob said, what sort of advertising you doing??? Its my first year doing logs on the side and with some nice flyers i've had made up I'll have done 40 loads by end of this week
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Enduros don't use green lanes or any public high way, the only expection to this are very short sections of british enduro rounds. There would never be enough people do enduros if each one went on a public highway etc. Getting back on topic, keep the woodland for you and a few mates to mess about it. It becomes a legal minefield as soon as you open it up to any tom dick or clive
