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Identification again please
doobin replied to stewie1046's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Looks to me like a Hunter Herald. If so then value maybe £100 to the right person, they're not great stoves and pretty dated. -
Love it!
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They're not stupd replies. Tongue in cheek, maybe, but with serious undertones. All the time that menial physical work pays a few hundred a month more than being on the dole, you won't find them. Blame the state. I sympathise with you, cause I've been where you are and I really can't see how dealing with low paid staff is worth the hassle for the profit it brings you. The machinery route is what I've gone down. Todays job at 9AM was move a few pallets of bricks and some bulk bags of sand with the multione. Two hours including travelling, £350 plus vat. Cient is happy because it was still cheaper than struggling to find labour and paying them to shift them by hand. Doesn't take many days wages to pay the monthly finance for some pretty handy kit.
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Where can I get a hydraulic winch pump for a Land Rover?
doobin replied to William Clifford's topic in Arb-Trucks
Got to be easier to just chuck the current winch on Marketplace and fit a decent electric one? You're only using it sporadically. -
I've seen a middle sized big cat, brown, in the snow in a chestnut coppice miles from any houses. I've also found giant paw prints, no claws, in the snow around my digger on the South Downs. Nearby were some Great Dane sized turds, full of hair. I took them in a bag to a customer who headed up the local Big Cat research group- he sent them off for analysis but the results were inconclusive-though most likely feline. Our local black panther was seen by a great deal of people. Often up trees, once with a pigeon in it's mouth three hundred yards and a week beofre from where I found the prints around my digger. It must have died some ten years ago as the sightings peaked and then nothing since, which is a shame.
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It's a Sunday. No? OK- then it's five o'clock somewhere!
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Possibly you are thinking of Elm? Had t heard that about yew.
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If I only have to throw it on the fire already seasoned and split, I’d go with yew. If I have to process it as well, then larch thinnings or slabwood.
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This is a bit extravagent, but handy to have about the place. Soapy water substitute in a handy aerosol. Action Can LD-90 Gas Leak Detector 500ml | Toolstation WWW.TOOLSTATION.COM Gas leak detector spray for safety checks on all types of gas systems, including oxygen. Highlights leaks even on...
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Muratori are good, pretty sure they make a lot of the flail mowers that Major sell. The loader looks nice but I'd say it needs to be cheaper than the main two brands to sell many. They look to be about equivalent to a Multione 6 series.
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Really interesting. Never heard of them but look good. What sort of money and who is the dealer?
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Hakki Pilke Expert 37 PTO Firewood processor
doobin commented on Matt k's advert in Firewood Machinery
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You need a Shepa mancrate and a mini chipper! I love easy hedge reductions like that laurel.
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Ideal job to sub out to a tractor/hedgecutter combo then!!
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Ideal job for a little brush/rake on the Sherpa and then the bucket grab. often you can get most of it just with the bucket grab even.
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Good quality chestnut coppice is worth maybe £600 per acre standing. Probably considerably less than you were hoping. That goes right down if access etc is shite. I'm presuming you are either Sussex or Kent, if Sussex then I can give you some starter contacts.
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Price them per job. Remember, the customer in their head has "This is gonna take me ages with my b and q electric trimmer!! And where will all the rubbish go?? I'd better get someone in."
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Oregon. Comfy and cheap enough for trousers and boots. Helmet probably ok.
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Yup, on the plant side of things secondhand prices are back to pre covid and lots of nearly new diggers up for sale. I think it’s gonna be rough. I’m holding off going for a new alpine tractor, I’ll just spend a bit of time building a forestry cage on this one and I’ve just spent £2k on new tyres and an air seat for it. Trouble is a new one is 40k by the time you’ve ticked a few options.
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Fantastic for utility work and maintenance. However I’m not a fan of the current trend towards using flailbots on conservation sites just to tick a safety box. Mulching everything and enriching the site is the antithesis of conservation sites!!
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If payments were still only in gold and other precious metals the country wouldn’t be in half the mess it is currently.
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Whatever you can get for it. £50 straight off the job is better than £100 after handling it twice and having it laying around the yard.
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I suspect folk up your way are more practical when it comes to the utility value of firewood as opposed to aesthetics!
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You can do the same with a Ranger. They will still go in front wheel drive in 4H. I'm not familiar with a defender, but I think you would have had to put it in 'diff lock' to keep going, as they are permanent 4D
