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  1. Squaredy
    I will be selling my Lucas mill soon. I do have the slabber attachment with it. It is old but still working well. I am a little way from you mind - South Wales.
  2. Squaredy
    Probably Axminster Power Tools. Normally you can go to one of their eight shops but right now online only. Very small amounts just buy a pack of Araldite.
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    Jokes???

    Squaredy replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

  4. Squaredy
    Fair play; I wonder what the record is for the fastest filing. 5 hours past the end of the year must be pretty close.
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    That is where you are going wrong, I find fifteen minutes is ample....
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    Don't hurley stick makers need the bottom four feet of a trunk only and including any buttresses? I thought they usually ended up pushing the trees over. Market for top quality Ash sawlogs will be big sawmills like Pontrilas I would say. I do buy top quality Ash but I am overloaded with them right now!
  7. Squaredy
    Thanks Mark, I will send a PM.
  8. Squaredy
    Here is a pic - not a great one sorry. Lovely timber for things like craft work, mirror frames etc. Not everyone's cup of tea, but if I were nearer to you Saul (and had any cash) I would offer to buy the whole tree off you (milled).
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    Well that looks more burry to me. Either way I think you are in for a treat when you mill it. I have milled small cankered ash - lovely stuff, let me see if I have a pic....
  10. Squaredy
    Now that would run one hell of a sawmill, 3000HP! I bet it is great engineering. I want one.
  11. Squaredy
    If so I could offer a site to put caravan in a good forestry setting with use of toilet etc.
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    Minimum wage is now over £1200 per month full time. Not to be sniffed at as a stop gap. But yes I am sure there are plenty of jobs paying more.
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    There were adverts in my area for Amazon delivery drivers and yes self employed and using own van. The pay was £143 per day plus 17p per mile for fuel. If you already have a van that seems not bad at all. I guess a lot depends on how well the route is planned cause if all your drops are pretty close should be easy enough.
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    Just wondering if anyone here has a story to share about how they have taken temporary work to tide them over whilst their normal line of work is on hold? I hear that there are going to be 80,000 workers needed in agriculture starting around April fruit picking etc. We all know that us Brits are not too good at this usually, but if needs must may be worth considering. And there is huge demand for drivers and other roles for Tesco, Amazon etc. Much easier than fruit picking I imagine. I did look at driving jobs but I think I will manage without but I will do it if I have to. Worse ways to stay afloat I think than driving for Amazon for a few months.
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    Ah I think I read your post wrong. I thought you were telling me never to buy from you. You were saying I have never bought from you I think? I have never bought from most local mills - if you had surplus stock to shift at wholesale prices I might well buy from you Les!
  16. Squaredy
    It certainly would be a crime for such logs to be chopped for firewood.
  17. Squaredy
    OK. But why not....?
  18. Squaredy
    Whatever thicknesses you go for someone will want a thickness you don't have. Best sellers will be 25 to 50mm probably, but maybe some large slabs should be thicker. I do sometimes buy from other mills if you are not too far away.
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    Of course the most money is to be made by selling direct. But you need to take into account the time it will take to deal with customers. A small sale could take an hour or more. You will spend many hours answering enquiries many of which will result in no sales. How will customers view timber? If in a stack they may want the boards near the bottom! So the quickest and most efficient way is to sell wholesale to someone who retails timber. But of course this will yield half the price or less. Or find bulk purchase customers, but that may take years. So yes there is money to be made, but just like a farmer growing carrots, it is usually simplest to sell them wholesale rather than find hundreds of customers.
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    One drawback of social media advertising is that people message you any time of day or night, and you feel pressured to respond quickly to keep a good rating for response times. My wife is trying to watch Frozen 2 and keeps getting interrupted by my customers.....! Serves her right for watching such stuff.....
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    Yeah social media certainly works for my business. It is a long term business though and needs regular work. Need to come up with interesting little things to post about a few times a week. I know several people who have failed to make it work because they leave it too long or fail to make the posts interesting.
  22. Squaredy
    I think the only way you can cover yourself is to pay an Arboricultural consultant to look at it. There will be many on Arbtalk who could do this. What is clear from the photos of the base is it is going to over the coming years damage the little retaining wall and the fence as it is only going to get bigger. But I guess we are talking decades not just years.
  23. Squaredy
    Never mind Les, someone has to live there! And yes your Duke is my Landlord. Funny I don't think he will be waiving my rent for some reason....!
  24. Squaredy
    Ooooohhhh yes I know, I remember delivering Yellow Pages for ten pence a piece in Beaufort in the 1990s in mid-winter. Brrrr......
  25. Squaredy
    If it is the same tree, then they are Ash. Drizzle? It has been gorgeous here in Wales for days, well years actually. It's grim up North!

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