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Don't forget if you are VAT registered it's 20% on whatever you do charge for delivery.
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wanted tree surgeons waste in north east
rovers90 replied to Charleton Chips's topic in Firewood forum
I know North Tyneside and Newcastle council process their arisings and sell them to members of the public so you might not get much joy there. And Gateshead council won't look after Lemington as it is in Newcastle! -
And I had a customer, a "friend", tell me the oak that had been seasoned for more than three years had water pouring out of it when he stacked it!!!
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Welcome home Silky. I'm sure it won't take you long to settle in.:thumbup:
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I think these guys are the UK distributers: Welmac UK Ltd: Urban TR70 Branch Logger
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Do not like horizontal splitters as my friend lost the ends of 7 fingers using one! That machine was replaced by a vertical electric splitter from RIKO. I think it is the 12 ton version and in 4 years it has not failed to split anything we have put on it. Very heavy duty bit of kit (and very heavy!!) I would recommend. http://www.alpinetractors.com/products.asp?prodsect=72
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Good one Darren! Mrs Log was in the mall with my aunty spending money!!
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Cheers Silky. We had a fantastic time. Mrs Rover was in the mall when I was out trucking but she likes the pics and is now a float plane fan as well. Got plenyt bear photos if anyone wants to see them???
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Yes, seen it. Last months had the history of Pacific with emphasis on the logging trucks. So by popular request here are some more shots. One of them with the square tank on the rear is a fire truck and the other with the hopper spreads sand when it is icy.
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Apparently it all depends on the wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, altitude, weight of the plane, etc but a Beaver should be able to take off within 8oo feet. My uncle was fishing on a lake one day and watched as four guys came down the jetty loaded with gear for a hunting trip, loaded it in to the Beaver, then two large cool boxes of beer went on, then a fifth guy akin to John Candy is size and weight appeared and squeezed in to the plane. The Beaver started to taxi, and taxi, and taxied out a bit further before turning round and heading back to the dock where John Candy and the two cool boxes were ejected! The plane was then able to take off.
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Final holiday pics, I promise! This is a Pacific truck, these were built from 1947 in British Columbia and were designed especially for the logging industry. Pacific stopped building new trucks in the late 1980s but are still operating as they rebuild existing trucks and can provide the original build data for any truck they manufactured from 1947 and can supply parts for any of those trucks. They could operate at GVWs in excess of 100 tons up and down mountain tracks but with up to 900bhp available this was not a problem. I remember seeing quite a few when I first visited Vancouver Island in 1979, they were off highway trucks and were parked up waiting to cross over the highway at night. Most Pacifics are not front line trucks any more as the size and weight of the timber felled and extracted has decreased. They are mighty impressive machines none the less.
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A few different types for you Stubby. The single engined plane is a De Havilland DHC3 Turbine single Otter and the other is a twin Otter. Harbour Air operates out of Vancouver and Victoria and is the worlds largest all-seaplane company with over 50 aircraft. We did a site seeing flight and the plane is amazingly smooth on the water. Great fun!
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My cousin is a driver for a logging firm and he took me out for the day. He drives a Kenworth 550 (horsepower) and when empty they piggy back the trailer. We drove 4000 foot up a mountain on graded gravel tracks and then waited to get loaded. The loader lifts the trailer off, the driver hooks it up and then part of it slides out. It took a while to load as due to the size of the logs, about 10m, he could only pick two up at a time. total weight of the load was about 35 ton. We then travelled back down the mountain and about 30km to a yard where this humungous machine unloaded the lot in one go!!!
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Thank you Silky. I certainly was, they were taking off and landing every five minutes in Vancouver and one night there were 13 tied up at the terminal. I'll probably never see that many again in my life.
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Ha ha, good one Andy!! No, I meant the De Havilland Beaver has been around since the late 1940s and is still going strong with two thirds of those built still flying. It is the workhorse of the float plane world being extremely strong and reliable.
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Ah yes! Good spot. It was difficult trawling through 1037 pictures!
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I love float planes and was in my element on Vancouver Island and in Vancouver itself. The Beaver is like the Land Rover of the float plane world.
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I know what some of you are saying, Robin does have to watch where he parks it even in their car parks which have wider bays than ours but as a tool for pulling his RV their is nothing better and it is like a luxury house inside. And as for economy he reckoned it would deliver about 20mpg so no bad at all. As I said earlier - awesome!!! (Especially compared to what we are used to here!)
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Sorry Steve, it ain't a jeep, even with a small j - its a Land Rover!
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Wow, what a coincidence!!! We were in Tofino 25 to 28 June and loved it. I could move to Vancouver Island in a flash!!
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I have recently returned from a holiday on Vancouver Island and we stayed at Tofino on the west coast for a few days. Just a short distance away lies Meares Island - about 84 sq km covered in temperate rain forest. There is a walk along a boardwalk, no more than a foot wide and a foot off the forest floor, that takes you through some magical places and past huge cedars, hemlocks and spruce. Some of the trees are 1500 to 2000 years old and nearly 20 foot across. It really is an awe inspiring place. well worth a visit.
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That's not restoring ... that's modifying!
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This is my uncle's cousins pick up - a GMC Sierra Denali, top of the range. It has a Duramax 6.6 litre V8 diesel engine pushing out 397hp and 765lb ft torque mated to an Allision six speed automatic transmission. It has an exhaust brake, seats 6 in very plush, luxurious accommodation and a maximum towing capacity of 23,000lb (about 10.5 metric tonnes!). It was, as the Canadians say, "Awesome". My wife at only 5ft 1.75inches was dwarfed by it. But the owners wife at only 4ft 11 drives it no problem. It has a fifth wheel in the bed for towing their RV.
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New sawmill coming next month - need to sort out towing issues
rovers90 replied to Big J's topic in Milling Forum
Only read the first few posts on this thread as been away on holiday, would an American pick up not be suitable? This is my uncle's cousins in Vancouver Island, a GMC Donali 6.6 litre diesel with exhaust brake and fifth wheel in the bed for towing 35 foot, 9 ton RV trailer.
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Enjoyed the show, even my wife did! Sat behind the food vans having some lunch and there were three blokes sitting a few feet away from us. I thought I recognised the voice of one of them but he had a big beard. After a while plucked up the courage and asked if he was Andy Porter - thankfully it was! We used to be in the North East Rover Owners club but I have not seen him in 12 years!! Small world!!!!
