Big J
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A lot of stuff broke. It was a tidy 3000hr machine from the WM dealer in the north west. Even the drive shaft snapped!
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I charge about £75-90 a tonne for milling, but rarely mill for other people now. Second hand Woodmizers are probably best avoided. They are complicated machines and easy to damage. I wouldn't preclude the possibility of me owning a new one in the future but I'd want a new one, not one that has been used by someone else. My second hand LT40 ownership experience cost me £8 per machine hour in repairs.
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Sorry, missed the thread! I have the semi automatic static electric version. I haven't used it that much to be honest with you (the primary justification was that the three of use that work at the yard all have stoves, burn 70 cube a year between us and hate chainsaws, splitters and axes!). It's heavily built, very cheap and quite quick. The semi automatic seems to be quicker than the auto as you control the chainsaw cut speed. The splitter is fairly easy to change and I've not taken the chain off yet as I just sharpen in situ. It's cut about 60 cube so far but that's all we've done. I've been too busy with other things, though it might get a run at 40 cube of larch next week.
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I have the Kyocera KC-S 701. Tough smart phone with good battery life and not too expensive. I think mine was about £270 plus VAT. My first smart phone and I am converted. Kyocera Torque KC-S701 (Black) (Origin:EU) - Expansys.com UK
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Walnut is very toxic, so is a no no for any animals. As someone who produces quite a lot of sawdust (about 3 artic loads so far this year), trust me when I say it's not that easy to get rid of. After much buggering about, I've not got to the stage where the new operators of the local farm are taking it all for purposes that they haven't fully decided on. But given that they've just installed a huge biomass dryer and have cattle, it will get used. Regarding the OPs question, with kiln dried chip and sawdust, it might well be best to invest in a small briquette press. They are slow and not that cheap to buy, but 4 cube is about 500kg or so? At £200 a tonne for briquettes, it will quietly and automatically work away to produce £5k a year of briquettes a year. I'm not sure where else you'd get rid of it as all of my outlets have been for animal bedding and the walnut is really nasty, I'm told.
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I'm not interested in the stem, but don't whatever you do cut that main stem in half. Fell is as low to the ground as possible, leave clean cuts just above the fork above the main length. Then contact AJ Scotts, Chantlers, James at Whetstone Oak and Andy at Prime Timber and see who offers the most. Value will be dependent on rot, shake, darkness of heartwood, size of sapwood band and access. If all of the above are good, then price is upwards of £25/hoppus foot, so circa £3700 (that's on a mid measure of 37" quartergirth/48" diameter and 15ft length). Good luck
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Hehe!
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It was very cheap. £2500 with the extractor second hand. Saved £6200. I figured for £2.5k I could live with the niggles.
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I have a PH260 and I don't like it. I didn't like it before I bought it and I still don't like it. Flimsy construction, fiddly to set up and easy to break, particularly in the hands of employees. That said, there isn't much else on the market that does the same job and I'll keep mine for the time being. I don't use it that often (I hate any kind of surfacing work) but when I do, it's worth it.
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If they are of good size speak to Steve at Helmdon sawmills as he uses a fair bit. He is near Silverstone in Northamptonshire. Otherwise, it's not worth much.
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I unfortunately don't do much in the way of mantlepieces.
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I don't like to disappoint!
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It'll break, it'll break, it'll break!
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I've done 30k in my 14 plate Citroen and it's been faultless, hence the upgrade. Almost all modern cars have at least some (and often a great many more) of the options I've opted for. Commercial vehicles are just slow to catch up.
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Fair enough. I just think vans are more versatile. I found owning a pickup to be generally unsatisfactory. Crap for towing (overhand too long at back, too bouncy, as well as crap for maneuvering as 1st gear and reverse way too high), cramped in the cabin (whether a passenger or driver) and small load bed. Bad on fuel, expensive to buy and not as robust as they ought to be. I am in no doubt that for many a pick up makes more sense, but for many others a van is a good option. The LWB Relay at mid spec is £16k plus VAT, so a lot cheaper than a pickup. With 30,000 mile service intervals and 35mpg, the running costs are lower too. Just food for thought.
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With all the discussion about pickups, how many of you actually need the 4 wheel drive? I've got a new Citroen Relay coming next week with all options (150bhp, off road kit, long range fuel tank, doors both sides, heavy duty rear doors, type pressure monitoring, sat nav, cruise, reversing camera, air con, auto lights, auto wipers, electric folding mirrors, heat reflecting windscreen, led side lights, front and rear parking sensors, extra reversing lights and all road tyres). It was £18,800 plus vat. They also tow a lot better than pickups and I can get a tracked chipper in the back of it. Just a thought. I do think pickups are overrated.
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Think you might be unsure as to where Stirling is Jonno. Mansfield is a good 270 miles south of Stirling!
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Nice patch burr there. Looks like it's been dead a while.
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That may well be the case, but I do know three different farmers locally who all got rid of their Navaras due to endless issues. They are fine for gentle work, and some people get away with working them hard. Not many though.
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Haha! I'm up there tomorrow Steve, don't you worry.
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Oh good God. This thread makes for worrying reading. OK, Clinton is not a great candidate. I would rather have Bernie Sanders and would certainly rather have Obama. However, Clinton is at least a professional politician who can be tempered by her advisory team. Trump is a lunatic. Trump is a moron. Trump is a crap businessman, having declared bankruptcy 6 times, having made less money since 1982 than a conservative investment in the stock market. He bases his presidential bid on his business prowess, of which he has none. He is a total liability and I cannot think of anyone worse than Trump. Even Dubya was a better bet. I honestly cannot believe that anyone in their right mind would vote for that cretin.
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Just think of the worst case scenario. If the vehicle is a dudd, it is much harder to get out of it with a lease. You don't own the vehicle. If you lease it through a third party like Vanarama, they are only a third party. The actual lease company is someone different. Tri party agreement (you, lease company, vehicle manufacturer). My Navara was a total pile of shite and I was not able to get rid of it within the lease period despite it visiting the dealership 29 times for repair in the first 3 years. So two points: 1) Don't buy a Navara. They are useless. 2) Finance, don't lease. You retain control.
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I wouldn't lease again. I leased with Vanarama and they were crap. They washed their hands of the car (Navara) when everything started going wrong on it. Best to just finance. That way the vehicle is yours and yours to make decisions about if it doesn't suit you. I would strongly advise against leasing.
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About £130 or so.
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32" cedar ideal for caving essex £400
Big J replied to B&M Tree Care's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
You disconnect what you think they owe you and what they are worth. If you feel that they owe you that much money then the only way you stand a chance of recouping that is to carve it yourself. As they are, they are nearly worthless. A local estate I used to live on had hundreds of tonnes of crappy firewood like that that they sold for £20 a tonne. That was on the basis of artic loads, which are efficient to transport. Single logs are not efficient, and on that basis, your cedar logs are nearly (but not quite) worthless. £200 for a 1.2t lump is high quality oak money. You must try to have a more realistic idea of timber value if you are going to try to sell stems.
