Danny Boy
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i've just started looking after a huge garden with mature trees along one whole side of it. i just bought a back pack blower too to do the job. They have green waste collection bins which i put grass clippings etc in too. to be honest i never considered a vacuum, normally i'd just use a mower if i had too.
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I have a trailer mounted log splitter & will be offering an on site splitting service. If I was a punter I wouldn't pay £150-250 for someone to do 3 hours splitting. But maybe I'm just tight... Got to look at as extra income where there wouldn't have been any in the 1st place. £30 an hour for a decent machine brought to your door to do a good job is pretty decent I think & should get you some repeat business too especially in them winter months when we could be twidling numb thumbs!
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I wish him a quick recovery & as bad as the injury is, glad he wasn't hurt any worse than that. -
read an ad for seasoned wood - but hang on it isnt??
Danny Boy replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in Firewood forum
Properly seasoned firewood obviously makes us the most money per load. I always offer self season wood too for less which has the main advantage of freeing up room for me as has been mentioned. It goes without saying that you need to let the customer know exactly what they are getting otherwise it just comes back & bites you in the arse & gives you a bad reputation... -
YMotorcycle lift? Engine block hoist? Rope & a tree? Rope & a tree & a truck? I seem to remember a general rule of tilting equip, as long as the spark plug remains vertical (spark side down) you'd ok. Don't quote me on this...
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YMotorcycle lift? Engine block hoist? Rope & a tree? Rope & a tree & a truck? I seem to remember a general rule of tilting equip, as long as the spark plug remains vertical (spark side down) you'd ok. Don't quote me on this...
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Cheers mate, £80 a cubic metre seasoned hardwood & £50 a cubic metre green hardwood. £12.50 a 75 litre box seasoned & £7.5 a 75 litre box green. I only started selling the logs last year & haven't strted selling much. I had 1 guy referred to me who wanted a few logs for his custom made pizza oven in the back garden (which looked wicked!) & that's when i started with the smaller box loads. There's always people around who sell for less & it PISSES ME OFF NO END seeing the ads for 1 cube or a ton in a builders bag etc....
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Pallasade comes in 2.4m sections so thats around £40 a metre? Seems cheap (i'm not familiar with the prices at all). The yard in the photo above is mine & when i got it there was chain link fencing falling apart. The landlord put the pallasade in but i rang a few companies out of curiosity to see what it cost & that's where i got the £100 a metre from. Maybe they could tell i didn't know squat...
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i've only ever done timber so far. the log splitter i bought a while ago has a hydraulic power pack on it with two pumps & it's towable. one drives the ram & the other is free for something like a jack hammer. i thought it might be handy if i ever ventured into pallasade or anything on hard ground... I spoke to one company a while ago & £100 a metre seemed to be the going rate to supply & erect 8ft pallasade. is that about right? [/img][/img]
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Hardwood Split. I think that particular load was cherry. I sell it as Seasoned or Self Season, by the cubic metre or a "blue box" which are those 75 litre (roughly) crates used for retail delivery etc. Yeah, the high side set up was a moment of inspiration
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My "general rule of thumb" also seems to be roughly the same amount for labour as materials (EVERYTHING including an extra 10% or so). I like the thinking of the concrete route Rob, but how does it work practically? What do you do when the truck arrives & you got to take concrete to 20 holes to fill & level the posts, does it not go off before you've filled all the holes?
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i use a one man post hole borer & it's alright. sure they're not much good when hitting a stone but then i just use my spike & break the stone out then carry on. anything that saves my back is good in my books... also the borers are brilliant if you ever need to plant a hedge!
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i just bought a 36" scag second hand for £250 !!! and it's in good nick too! :thumbup: well happy:thumbup1:
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and unfortunately not a tipper...............
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My trusty workhorse... a full load as seen is 2 cubic metres,
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that's the one! if you roll it just right you should be able to fit the little bugger in. good point though...
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Hoe about rolling up one of the heras mesh sides (a knackered one will do) & sticking it vertically in the middle then stacking the logs around it? that way you'll have a central post to help with a cover and you'll also have a roughly 2 foot diameter cylinder shaped gap in the middle to help with ventilation and quicker drying time.
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exactly! and you have the space to let it dry... if you feel too strongly about it, you could always spend some extra money on gas & electricity...
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nice truck mate, i've got a mk4 hilux & curse every time i fork chippings off the back...
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the ash looks fresh to me & He's probably going on the the basis that you can burn it green. still a good price though. shame he's 300 miles from me.......
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Hi Mikey, I moved up from Somerset to Scotland last year & only found out before i left that Somerset County Council (not local councils) give you £10 per Willow you Pollard as some kind of incentive... But the i suppose you knew that & aren't going to tell him...
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firewood kiln - How do you build one? does anyone know
Danny Boy replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in Firewood forum
I agree with all the comments about letting time & the sun drying out logs for free. But i find myself in the same boat as Joy & Rohan. Unlike them i'm just starting out on the firewood side of things & have loads of green logs. I have 3 20ft containers in a tarmaced yard & at the moment also use the space between 2 containers but can spare one of them to fashion something... I was thinking those tall cage trolleys which delivery trucks use to move stock in & out of shops would be great to store logs. Anyone got about 30 for free? Don't you just love todays culture of i want it & i want it now? -
smaller diameter tyres give quicker acceleration & a lower top speed. bigger diameter tyres give slower acceleration & a higher top speed. assuming you get the same type tyres (say road tyres) as the ones you have now, you may end up pushing the engine harder to get the same rate of acceleration you're used to which will reduce your mpg. also if your new tyres are wider it means you'll have a larger surface area in contact with the road which means better grip but also more fiction, hence less mpg.
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well, this is the 1st log splitter i've used & i'd definitely recomend having that "table" space around it to have slogs ready to split & move the split ones to the side.
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if you're going self employed, stay on top of your taxes from day one......
