Nick Watkins

Have you used any of the other splitters mentioned above as you would be able to compare i am not saying there poorly built they just does not match that of other machines.

No, not me.

I don't doubt there is better, i'm not saying that because i see any short comings in the Wallenstein but because it's not the most expensive machine out there.

If you send me 30m3 of knarly hardwood for free I will gladly send you a video of me splitting it with the Wallenstein so I can convince you how good it is

I have a Wallenstein, not had an issue with it and am very happy. Get's through all the knarly knot's on Beech, Oak etc.

I've towed mine to and from Surrey to central France a few times and it tow's nicely, can't really say much more than it does what it says on the tin.

I am sure hedge trimmers were invented for brambles and then someone stumbled across the fact they cut hedges well. Bar an digger bucket they are the next best things for removing brambles.

Interesting thread for me.

So a few years back I opened a small company bought some machinery and reclaimed the VAT on the equipment. I did very little with the company (and equipment) due to time pressures and now want to fold the company but keep the equipment.

Q: Will I have to pay the VAT back on the original value of the equipment at the original VAT rate (17.5%) i.e what I originally claimed back or at the equipments current resale value? And at 17.5% or at 20%?

Q: If it's a today's current resale value for the equipment who decides what that value is?

Thanks.

One day the copper might get his chance to make his own video in return, it will be of the cyclist crushed under a lorry having just jumped another red light.

Sure it might never happen to him but it often does and that copper has to go round and break the good news to the loved ones left at home.

I hate rules, but I am big enough to hold up my hands when I am caught bang to rights. I also know that in twenty years of working I have learnt loads and forgotten much of the finer detail, but I am still qualified to do my job even if I can't repeat verbatim all of these finer points.

IMO the cyclist is a bell end, end of. I would personally be ashamed to have put this video of me up on the Internet for all to see.

Hi,

What do you think you will sell this for?

I am advertising my TT105 to downsize to a TT85 and actively looking for something that is the right cost and condition.

PM if you would prefer.

Thanks

Nick

Subject to payment this is sold

haha that said £170 before:sneaky2:

 

if i hadn't already spent £££ on a new lens for my dslr i would've snatched it off you:thumbup:

I forgot to put the postage on

Or you can collect from Nr Guildford in Surrey.

I have a boxed and switched on once Drift HD170 camera for sale.

I bought it for a hobby but am sticking with the Go Pro, it comes as you would expect to buy it from a shop except that the box has been opened and the camera charged and switched on.

Sent to you via RM special delivery for £175

PM if you are interested.

I am downsizing trailer so am looking to sell my Ifor Williams tipping trailer.

Without checking the receipt I bought this in January of 2010 (or maybe December of 2009?) to replace an identical trailer that grew legs and went walking! since it's purchase I have used it 3 times to carry some soil and it has since been sitting in a barn.

It comes with the steel ramps, full Ifor mesh sides, a ladder rack, an unused spare tyre and is in A1 condition. It's currently sitting in France but I will have it back in this country by the 28th of March.

So if your looking for a new Ifor Williams Tipper and want to save on the new price you can buy mine for £3,300.

Drop me a PM if your interested.

PS, I have all the documentation from Ifor and the original receipt.

A short wheelbase, a heavy tow and the snakes mean disaster! Go for a longer wheelbase and they tend to be easier to control.

I often hear people say 90's are not good at towing, having never owned a 110 I can't comment on the difference but I have never experienced any issues with mine either with a JCB 8025 and 4 buckets on or a loaded TT105.

Isn't it all about loading, I appreciate a long wheel base is a help but if you take time to do things properly in the first place you won't experiences issues

I'm after a Splitting Axe for doing a few logs , i don't want to spend the earth , maybe £30 tops ? Obviously a Fiskars jobbie would be nice but i really can't justify it.

I have a Fiskars which I am looking for a new home for, if your near Surrey you can collect it for that cost.

Why dont you season your logs in it.

Only because I season them elsewhere in bulk.

I have finally got My log shed finished, I can't take any of the credit as a guy up the lane built it for me based on some drawings.

Most of the wood is recycled, like the frame which is made from Larch formerly from post and rail fencing, the cedar shingles were new. The shelf that you can probably see is for kindling, fully loaded the space inside is 3 cubic meters.

This is for storing season logs so I don't need any opening at the rear to allow draft. I need a quick touch up with creosote as the tin ran out just before it got fully sealed.

Typically I have just run out of seasoned wood so it will sit looking pretty for a while with no wood in it.

irresposible, or living in a world that will see 60% die before adolescence?

 

have two, lose all, have nine 1-2 will stand

I have not thought of it like that, kind of like gambling but with human lives being the loss not chips in a casino.

My practical nature would say, have one, afford medicine and one will stand. With the added benefit that the other 7 you would have had will not drain limited natural resources.

I have had lengthy conversations about this with my cousin who is a born again happy clapper, turned vicar and is now brain washing people in Africa. By all accounts and from my visits there it's a pretty screwed up situation all round, luckily for me I live here and can debate about it on an Internet forum.

Do your children make you happy and fill your life with joy? think about it.

 

Of course but 3 would cause me concern about costs and 9 would send me to an early grave with worry, or rather them as I couldn't afford to keep them. At least in this country we have the cushion of social services, in Africa it means death.

That's just irresponsible in my books, but maybe for another thread as it's way off topic.

did you watch comic relief by any chance ? you had to admire that father ! very very sad to give up all hope but still manages to smile so his kids dont hate him

I struggled a bit with this programme.

Of course I am very lucky where I have been born and do appreciate all the chances that have afforded me, but really...

You live in a shanty town, in a hut, with no room to swing a cat around, your flat broke, can't afford food or medicine. What on earth goes through your mind to bring 9 children into the world and think it's a good idea and won't bring suffering and heart ache as you watch your children die.

I would like more than the two children I have but can't afford more so quite logically have decided to stop. Common sense is free in life.

Regardless I will give to CR but until people use some sense and the corruption stops in these countries then you money in the grand scheme of things is being wasted. A harsh but IMO true statement.

I thought GKN were out of business anyway so the only option you have is to go down the TB route or of course hunt around for spares or contact Devon 4X4.

I am not in arb as a profession as such (although I split an unhealthy amount of logs) so this is not a qualified question or me saying this is what I do, but how many of you offer to put up Bat boxes whilst up the trees as a way of the customer putting something back in for very little effort and with minimal cost?

I would be very impressed if there was a surgeon who offered to do this for me, whilst I know there are some people who just don't care but I bet loads would take you up on the offer if you did it for a reasonable cost.

Where do all these Ifors go?

I know Ifor dealers are all over stolen ones and will call the Police if they get one in for a service but the sheer volume of them that goes walking and never get recovered is staggering.

Its almost a shame they are built so well and are so simplistic that they don't need an annual visit to a dealer.

If you suffer from it at all, it's not a good sign. Ask any ear specialist it is the first sign of deafness.

It is not the first sign or deafness or the first sign of madness or the first sign of anything else other than the fact you have Tinnitus. The first sign of deafness is unsurpisingly a lack of hearing.

I have been to the best specialist money can buy and not one of them has ever said anything about deafness in fact in all the test I have had my hearing is 100%. This is same for most sufferers unless of course it is those who have it through hearing damage (gunners etc) or those who are partial to disco biscuits and have blown their hearing from raving too much and loving the speakers.

There are a lot of inaccuracies printed about Tinnitus, going mutton Jeff is another one for the list.

I have it, I got it over 12 years ago and I now control it rather than it me. I believe I got it when I was racing bikes and never wore ear plugs and after a virus woke up with a buzzing that has never gone.

It nearly broke me at one point I don't mind admitting and I had a really bad couple of years. If you have it and it's causing you real concern then go and see a specialist. stress doesn't help and neither does tiredness.

I now always wear ear plugs when needed and during the day the only annoying high pitched whine I hear is when the wife starts

Something to consider here would be the fact that even for a nominal fireplace opening of 500x550 you'd need permanent ventillation through exterior wall of about 200cm2 (pretty draughty)and the open fire, depending on the set up may only be 5-10% efficient at best ?

There is a way to make an open fire much more efficient and that is with a fan, not sure of the name of the device but it is pretty basic. I have only ever seen these in France but it's a ceramic tube that sits in the fire and air is pushed from the fan through the tube and expelled out after being super heated by the fire.

They are quite discreet, quiet and belt the heat out, in fact they belt it out to such an extent that prolonged sitting near the vent in a drunken state will burn your leg, quite badly

If the job warrants it then another way to fix this problem is to weld a section of heavy chain to the bottom of the bucket, it must have some slack in it. When the bucket fills and clags upon inverting the bucket the weight and movement of the chain pulls the clay and a quick shake and it's out.