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Depends what your budget is. If new, look at the latest "4x4" magazine as they have a pick up review - the new Ranger comes out top yet again. After 20 years of Land Rover ownership I bought an 07 Ford Ranger Super cab - its great because you can open the rear doors giving full access to area behind seats - only Ranger and Navarra extra cabs do this (brand new Isuzu does as well). I have been impressed with it - great turning circle, good heater and ventilation, good economy, super cab style suits me perfectly, good off road; only downside is I don't rate the seats at all - got a cushion on mine so I can sit higher up (and I'm 6ft 1"!) and see properly, would have my old Freelander seats in tomorrow if I could. Horses for courses - ask friends if they have trucks if you can have a drive, what dealers are local,etc. Good luck.

I'm sure max payload is just over 4 ton so by the time a decent crane is added, this would be down to around 3 which doesn't give you much capacity. Initially I thought the price was high as you can pick up a good ex mod truck for around three grand but obviously the crane and winch and the fact it is all ready road registered add value. We looked at similar for moving timber around the yard and extracting from woodlands and decided forwarding trailer and crane was more sensible - larger capacity and no problems registering.

First time out with our new Vreten forestry trailer my mate turned it over - forgot to put the stabiliser legs down!! I wasn't there and he knew if he took a picture it would be all over t'internet! Luckily he was all right.

Steve, one of my local competitors who prides himself on selling kiln dried logs, sells 10 litre nets of "natural kindling" for £7.50!! He built a tumbler to go on the end of the conveyor of his processor which takes all the loose bark and stuff off and as far as I am aware this is the "natural kindling". I sell nets of kindling that I have made from old pallets, 9KG net for £3.50. Personally I don't see anything wrong with your new stuff but joe public has other ideas. I think finding the market could be a problem - a bit like the product of the TR70 log chopper:great machine but would public buy the product??? Probably not!! Good luck with whatever you decide anyway.

Older members may remember a picture from an off road event about 20 years ago when a NATO hitch came detached from the stuck vehicle, went through the back window of the Range Rover towing it, went along the roof line inside, took the passenger head rest out and exited throught the front screen!! Had there been a passenger in the front seat they would have been dead. I am sure a kinectic energy rope was being used at the time - I took two lessons from this : always check the security of the towing points; and why use a recovery system designed to recover armoured vehicles, on "soft skins"????

Cheers Darren, get those birds blow dried so they can fly rather than paddle!!!

This is only my third season doing firewood and I have done 16 deliveries this week, bringing the total from 1 Sept to 106 compared to 21 for the same period last year so I am well chuffed. Still got a long way to go to catch my mate Darren (DM Taylor Firewood) but I am pleased with the growth in customers and the good comments I am receiving. Going to enjoy some time off before firing up the processor again on Thursday...or maybe Friday!

Saw much smaller ones for £22.50 outside a florists on Monday.

Hush,hush;we don't use the w word, there are just less dry!!!!

Not my dogs but those of friends,just thought you dog lovers would like to see. The collies are father and son. The son,Tip, on the left would be the most beautiful collie if he wasn't a working farm dog,ie always dirty, coat in tats!!

My mate and I looked at these last year. Very expensive - on top of the "from £22500" price tag you have to make it road legal - we were quoted another £10k for this. Plus,your buying a truck that could be nearly 30 years old and apparently parts are fairly difficult to come by.

Never seen them for £140 per tonne John,average is £240-280. Been advised to go for Balcas pellets and I think best I have been offered is £1.99 per 10kg bag from the Plumb Centre - there is one on my doorstep so I could pick and deliver when required. Would save shelling out £5500 per a truck full. Tomatin - I agree, would be struggling to make a profit on it once you take in to account delivery costs and time for handling/delivering.

Been on it for 18 months and not had an enquiry from it. There is also Stoves Online but get yourself on Gumtree - I'm getting a couple of new customers weekly from here.

Three bed semi, £88 per month for gas and electric.

Just bought my first batch.

Starting to receive some enquiries from customers having pellet boilers installed. Made a few phone calls but even buying by the truck load does not bring the price down too much compared to what joe public can get delivered to his front door via the internet. Does anybody supply pellets and if so who do you buy from. I think at best I would be lucky to make £30 a ton and thats before I have delivered them:confused1:

Thank you very all the suggestions. We ended up with black as the earth, red for LH indicator,blue for RH indicator,yellow for tail lights and grey for stop lights. Must make a note of that for future reference!!!

Don't ask why but we had to take the trailer socket off our new forwarding trailer and the person who took it off did not make a note of what wires went where!!! It's a standard 7 pin plug but with only 5 wires - red, yellow, blue, grey and black. The positions on the plug are marked - 1/L, 2/54g, 3/31, 4/R, 5/58R, 6/54 and then the centre one (forgot what that was!!). Spent three hours this morning trying to use a 7 pin wiring diagram detailing 7 wires but obviously we only have 5 and one of them is grey which does not appear on any diagram!! Any knowledgable advice would be greatly appreciated.

It won't last long - it's getting chipped next week for biomass boilers.

I did not see them finished as they had blocked my pick up in the shed so I had to walk to the bait van!! They both left at same time though so cannot have been much in it.

These two arrived within minutes of each other at my friends yard today and went head to head to unload. Both very quick operators!!

Apparently, if you look on the Transit Owners forum there is a thread about somebody putting a Transit pick up on to a Discovery chassis. Might be worth a look.

I am just going in to my third season but business is up 200% on last year. I am getting a lot of business from my Gumtree ad and my Yell listing, both of which are free. I always treat customers how I like to be dealt with, pleasant on the phone, my answer phone message says I will call them back within three working hours and I do (amazing number of customers who say other people have not returned their calls), my emails go straight to my Blackberry and any enquiries are answered immediately. Upon delivery I always introduce myself, ask where they would like the logs unloaded (loose pick up load) and if its not far I will help them stack. If you're on an estate is there any local church or school fairs you can get involved with and display your goods at - I do this as a form of advertising and PR; sales on the day tend to be small but I got sales totalling a couple of grand within four months of a parish Christmas fair I did last year. Little things add up and help gain repeat business and referrals. Good luck with your venture.

I'll not miss that if I see it driving around Newcastle!!