Big J
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I should add that I can offer lorry loads of elm sawn as well. It is a bit more economical to transport once sawn.
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My brother in law lives for some of the year in Sweden, in a town called Lidkoping on Lake Vanern. This is the 10 day forecast for Lidkoping - I'd be giddy with joy for a forecast like this: Long term forecast for Lidköping, Västra Götaland (Sweden) ? yr.no And then this is ours: Long term forecast for Philpstoun, Scotland (United Kingdom) ? yr.no Those lucky bloody Swedes!
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If this is the weather that climate change is bringing, I'm sodding emigrating. It's been such a crap year - summer was so cold that I didn't get a single wild swim in Scotland under my belt at all. I forced myself to go in Loch Morlich in September, and that was it. No consistent warm weather to warm the water up all all. October was nice, but that's been it. Since the second week of November (appreciating that we've not had it half as bad as some), we've had just shy of 500mm of rain. That's 8 weeks. It's suppose to take nearly 8 months to accrue that volume here. Hardly any frosts, endless storms with the associated wind and resultant damage. You lose the will to get up in morning. What I'd give for a proper winter.
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Best passenger car 6-cylinder diesel engine?
Big J replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
Shame you didn't go for it Steve - it was stunning, but as you say, way over priced. I take it they wouldn't budge too far on price? -
I'm the other end of the country, but my yard is just under an acre, all in, is all hardstanding and has 400 square metres of concrete floored barn and another 300 square metres of semi open air drying barns and I'm £850 a month plus VAT.
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LDV Convoy tipper. God that was an awful truck! Louder than a Metallica concert at 50mph. Now have a 14 plate Citroen Relay, which I love. Also a Discovery 4 for off road and heavy towing, though new to me so as yet largely untested.
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I just had just over 200m of 5 strand plus 2 strands barb done for £1000, so just under £5 a metre.
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I got it twice this Christmas! Not yet read though.
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How is your yard surface bearing up with continuous wet?
Big J replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Very lucky here. Managed to get 120 tonnes of road planings down just before the rains came, so mostly fine. -
It is indeed, though thankfully for me, it's been nearly faultless for the last two years, since coming out of warranty. Hell of a lot of issues initially though. The LR is going back in after Christmas for the niggles.
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I don't mean to criticise Steve. I just don't see the volume of items being put up for sale that there were a couple of years back. Plus the last couple of things I sold that were advertised there, I missed messages as it doesn't notify me by email or notify me from the main Arbtalk page.
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More to the point, does anyone want my bloody Navara?! 80k, excellent condition, £7500 plus VAT. It's on Arbtrader, but I don't think many people look at it anymore.
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Thanks for that Jon. Merry Christmas to you too. It's not going to get worked hard, so fingers crossed.
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Only picked it up yesterday and it's going back in tomorrow for a couple of teething issues (central locking not working on passenger side rear door, engine management light comes on intermittently and a very minor knocking from the front suspension bushes over broken surfaces). It's 6 years old with 85k on the clock, so I was expecting something. It is wonderful to drive and extremely quiet and fast. Not hitched a trailer up to it yet, or taken it off road yet.
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Bumpity bump. Can be literally anything - there must be someone out there needing to dump a couple of loads of horse chestnut or leylandii?!
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Yep. I'd say so. Things that will devalue it were the aforementioned flaws as well as occluded bark.
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Fresh sawn, air dried or kiln dried? How burred? Any shake, defects or discolouration? Need some pictures Clinton! In all seriousness, when you get to burr, there is no real price guide. It's what you can get for it and what your customer thinks it is worth.
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I have a Nissan 2.5 tonne lifting counterbalance. You see a lot of them on eBay, and they are good trucks. I've had mine a little over 3 years, cost just over £2000, I've spent just over £2000 on it in repairs/services and it works hard over terrain it was never intended to cover. Also lifts 3.8 tonnes, not the plated 2.5. Recommended.
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There will be, but it's way too far north for you. It's all around Aberlour, Speyside. Clive - you wanting to pop up to have a look at some?
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We're doing a lot of elm felling at the moment. About 150 tonnes about to come to roadside at the moment, with another 200-250 in March and possibly another 200 or so in February. Most of it is likely to go south, but if there is anyone who needs some, let me know. All grades and sizes. I can saw it en-route if required (not expensive and means more efficient haulage from Edinburgh south). Jonathan
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I have a DCS 9010 (the Makita strain) and I'm not entirely convinced by it. It is still on the solid nose, I'll admit, but it's had a few repairs required (oiler screw on warranty and more recently the bar studs stripped and required replacing). I think to give it a fair chance, I need to get a sprocket nose on it.
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Another recommendation for Cornish Chough. That man does love his Chestnut!
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Could you be persuaded with good quality douglas fir? I have stock in the yard, would come in 8/10ft lengths and would be in the region of £750 plus VAT including delivery by pallet.
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In Aviemore this week for work and 5 inches of level snow here this morning. It has all fallen overnight.
