simonm

What Wood have you got in there?

 

I'm keeping the sycamore separately for my own use

In 1 it is full of beech which doesn't look so bad but the other does have a lot of syccy in which looks a bit grim.

Nice one. I was going to stack neatly but lifes too short! So will just be chucking them in loose. How about some pallets placed vertically in the middle of each 'bay' OK you lose a bit of space but it'll increase airflow in the middle.

That's what I wish we had done, I recon the center will be a bit mouldy.

Wish you were closer! Cheapest I can source is £35 also but I have to buy the inners with it :-( can't find any cages only locally

 

So I've decided on some heras fencing, each Bay should hold 20 odd cubes

Make sure you triple clip the sides & also tension at least 3 bits of rope around them, we have tried it first time this year and its pushing the side way out! if it wasnt for the rope they would of gone pop

Hi all,

Just spotted this thread, obviously not paying attention over Christmas.

We do marquee hire work in the summer months and are in the process of scaling down that side of the business. We use some of the marquees for log storage/ processing and other coppice related work. The attached pics are of of a 6m wide x 6m long Hocker P6 (blue roof) and a P3.66, 3.66m (12') wide x 9m long (white in pic this ones been up for at least 6 years) and they are of course temporary structures.

Any way we've got some for sale in P3.66 (up to 90m total) and P9 (9m span, 4 of at 9m x 15m, or similar up to 60m total), they'll all be white pvc covers and be fully enclosable as per the3.66 in the pic. If you want to check out the spec. for these UK Marquee manufacturer, clearspan marquees & temporary stores for sale, commercial quality, Up to 25m wide - Hoecker Structures (UK) Ltd is the manufacturers website, look under party tents. So if anybody's interested drop me an email: [email protected] . we can deliver and erect as part of the deal.

Apologies mods if this shouldn't be on this bit of the forum.

Ernie.

Oh Very posh

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I can get ibc cages £8 a piece but with inner in £35 so its a bit of an expensive option.

Council price list...

http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/Documents/roads-parking/highway-maintenance/recycled-aggregate-products-prices.pdf

Probably gonna end up buying a load in from council as i need to get base down asap.

With stacking ibc's 2 high obv the tops will be flat so there won't be no where for water to go. Could do with divising a way of sloping the top before the sheet goes on. Think I will buy a sheet, seems cheap enough.

https://www.flexiblelining.co.uk/toptex-wood-storage-cover

 

This is the stuff you want!

It let's air through, so the wood can dry and there's no condensation.

As air flows through, it's much less of an issue to keep it in place, it doesn't flap about either.

It sheds water.

It's a non woven fabric (bit like fleece/felt) which makes it quite resistant to tearing, and if it does get damaged, tears don't "run"

It's a fairly neutral colour.

It lasts for years.

It's not too expensive.

I get commission.

 

Unfortunately the last one isn't true...

 

 

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Have you used this? looks good but how would it cope with rain pooling on the top? i guess it would have to be sloped to allow the water to run off.

Yep tried both of the above! it can get really windy where they are stored, i have tried to find old curtains of a wagon body as i think when they are tied down they wont flap around as much, cant find any for love nor money!

I have got 4 large open sided sheds that we have built from telegraph poles and steel roof sheets to keep logs dry which work fine, i desperately need more undercover storage but as i am looking to buy my own piece of land am reluctant to make more permanent buildings. We split into ibc's stack them 2 high and line them up, ive tried covering them with various tarpaulin sheets from cheap ones to dear ones, roof sheets strapped down, concrete blocks on top! you name it we have tried it! every time the wind blows bits of it off does anyone have a better way of covering them

I am offering a free tip for anyone wanting to dispose of hardcore, brick rubble flags etc. No huge lumps of concrete!

Location is Rothwell Leeds.

Give Simon a call on 07977114605

Moving muck along side the Kramer in preparation for hardcore going down.

Edit, Sorry is was not a council depot, but West Yorkshire trading standards, or West Yorkshire Joint Services Nepshaw Ln S, Gildersome, Morley LS27 7JQ

Being there buddy, because axles on trailer are too close it wont give an accurate weight. Machine is going on wagon now so no chance of overloading

Our little Vermeer has being fantastic so far, not only moving timber but as we do a fair bit of fencing we have used it for leveling ground off before we fence over it. managed to get skidsteer & Bandit 2250 on the trailer at the same time, i couldn't do that with anything bigger, you buy the machine what you want depending on your needs.

Bearing looks a big knackered, I assume the metal ring sits inside and stops the shaft sliding down?

So this is the shaft that joins onto the lower shaft that connects to power unit. It has 1 circlip on. If I rotate is a quarter of a turn it doesn't slide back down, obviously as it starts spinning it slides back.

Jeepers! Talk about over complicating things. Well done Stihl!

The shaft that is on the cutter head end has 1 circlip attached and like a ring roughly 1" across and about as wide. Does the white plastic cap on the outer poles slide out to allow access to the whole assembly inside?

the shaft that goes into the cutting head keeps sliding out and down the pole, i have stripped it down but cannot see what is in place to stop this from happening.

I looked into 1 before I got grafter but there was lots of negative feed back with piss poor dealer support and issues of rot & rust.

Hey folks I have a thread on the forum about a tricky job and how to remove the material from a steep garden. Got me thinking about using an Alpine tractor, unfortunately out of my budget, but I live in a very rural area where every other person has a vintage tractor. I know where I can get a David Brown 990 for £700, needs a ton of work but is still driving. Realistically is there a place for such old machines, Massey35's, Davy Browns, Fordsons etc. in the arb game? Certainly handy if your in the wood processing game, which I hope to get into, but for now most of my work is residential landscaping and tree work.

I bought a 990 implematic off a friend with the intention of using it to split wood, even with new hydraulic pump it was under powered and slow, id never take it to site as its too numb to be effective top speed in only 15mph max so useless. In reality it sits in the shed and powers a pto saw bench a few times a year and occasionally drags a small tipper around the yard.

get some one that knows what there doing .

Never learn by getting someone else to do it

So after finally running over a weigh bridge i can determine that i am 20kgs under the legal maximum weight the trailer can carry! i now need to find a weigh bridge that can weigh each axle as i suspect 1 is probably over weight.

After numerous calls to dvsa & my local vosa test centre about 8 local weigh bridges i managed to find a free weigh bridge not too far away. only problem is the wheels on the trailer are not spaced far enough apart to register each axle weights anyone know of a weigh bridge in the Wakefield Leeds area?

Look at the S marking on the tow bar, tow ball, trailer hitch & car specs.

 

You must always use the lowest one as the maximum.

 

Roughly you want to be looking at 5-7% of trailers max weight aprox.

What exactly does the s stand for? i assume the weight displayed is for the tow ball and the pin or would they have different weights?

So much to take into account, trailer weights, axle weights, load distribution, nose weight