s.varty
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If its chinese, and it looks as though it is you may as well get £395 in used notes and throw it on the nearest bonfire tonight, joking aside give it a couple of months and it will fall apart, and you will never get spares for it, spend a bit more & get a decent one
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Cheers mike, very helpful:thumbup:
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This is great as ive been trying to get my hilux converted to a tipper for log deliveries. Ive contacted the firm and they retail at $159.99 for the 3000lb capacity to $99.99 for the 2000lb capacity. Still waiting for the email saying if they ship to the uk . Thanks for the info mikeyg
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Decent of you to offer your advice, but i feel you can forget your chosen profession, all your time is going to be taken up answering questions on health. Every tree surgeon/worker i know over 40 is full of aches &pains/arthritus. But before you are inundated with questions , heres mine: for the last 3 months i find it painful to twist my neck & have a very sharp pain in my left bicep ,very painful when holding a branch while cutting it.
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Anyone have the number for bletchley park?:
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Maybe if i put "LOTTERY WINNER" on my avatar i would have hoards of beautiful women begging me to trim their bushes.
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Maybe the other guys a tree surgeon & gets paid to remove any cordwood and if your buying in your wood , you will never beat his price. Even so £35 a bag seems very cheap , unless he employs a couple of poles to process his logs. Stick to your price or it wont be worth the time and effort, as long as your selling quality dry logs your regular customers will stay with you.
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5 tons of beech and 7 tons of ash for free ( Glasgow )
s.varty replied to Czlowiek Drzewo's topic in Firewood forum
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I DO LIKE THAT!!
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Heres mine, approx 60 cube on pallets. I use this as back up for when its raining or snowing as i usually cut my logs as i need them.
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Just flipping through the screwfix catalogue and came across a hitachi saw. Dont look a bad little saw for £150. Back in the 60s/70s danarm was the top saw until stihl & husqvarna came along, but what if the japs are hitting the garden machinery market the same as they did with cars/motorbikes/electrical goods and nearly everything else and we as chainsaw users are missing out on real bargains because we refuse to believe that nothing can beat the germans & swedes. Anyone got one?
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I have an old broom in my shed thats not seen the light of day for at least 5 years and the moisture reading of the handle is 7.8%. The reading on the broom i use on jobs reads 16.4%. Id be more than happy with 20% moisture logs.
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Hawthorn is up there with ash,beech,oak. Always seems to split ok, even when knotty, although i cant speak for using a processer, i use a hydraulic splitter , then a saw bench.
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Just hope for your sake it dont rain
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YOur Nit ON your Owne MENDI
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Unless your meter is an expensive professional model dont take to much notice of it. I have a cheap one and broom handles & dry stored pallets still read between 16-23%. You want around 20% or lower for your firewood, but dont just take your readings from the end of the log,try cutting it in half then take your reading. This moisture business is quite stange as you can burn green ash ok, but the reading could be 30% or higher???????
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You keep the willow, its fantastic, but the ash,sycamore etc its total crap, i will do you a massive favour and take the lot away for a very small fee.
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Still find it hard to believe you can burn holly green, but you obviously know what your talking about. you live & learn
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According to the AIE holly is grade 3 and you can burn it green, the green holly in my yard (cut 2 days ago) weighs as much as hornbeam, never tried it but surely it dont burn green, only one way to find out.
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people are getting their logs early this year, last winter a lot of suppliers run out because of the long cold winter, some of my customers wanted their logs in the summer just to make sure they have enough for this winter.
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If you tie another ladder crossways roughly 3 quarters the way up you will never fall through the hedge.
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I put an advert in the local paper, made the mistake of putting "lowest rates in beds,bucks,herts". i was inundated with asian gentlemen,no matter what price i quoted they still wanted it done cheaper. I suppose the only way with these asian gentlemen is to put an extra £100 on the job and let them knock you down by £50.
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When i was on my chainsaw course in 1995, the instructor pointed out the dangers of chipped laurel and quoted a couple of instances when children had been overcome by the cyanide fumes and died. So i just had to try it for myself, and within a couple of minutes of standing in a fresh load or chippings i felt very faint. maybe it is only certain types or the fact i had 10 pints of london pride the night before. Must say i have never heard of any deaths myself.
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As farmer tom says, it contains cyanide, you should never chip laurel as it gives off a cyanide gas, try standing in a pile of it and see what happens,it has to be fresh. Dont do it alone!
