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Sounds like a nightmare. I hope you're not paying anything for it. I'd be really tempted to buy a track barrow at the right money- it won't loose value. Then take your tools to the timber to create the items that you have orders for, and bring firewood out when you have an order. To be blunt, it doesn't sound like you'll make enough money from firewood sales to cover pulling the timber out. It would most likely be cheaper to buy it in on a lorry.

Just had an email back from the police asking why I suspected them to be stolen, as he had been selling them for 6 months and had good feedback! Here is my reply: " He may well have been selling stolen tools for six months. Ask yourself- why are his previous items private? Also, bad feedback is no indication whatsoever of an item being previously stolen! Of course he'll get positive feedback- buyers are chuffed to bits with their cheap new saw. Those are new tools- they still have the original toolkits with them and in many cases the box. The current list on there reads exactly like the typical stock list of a small dealer- right down to the gloves and boots. They are also on short 3 day listings, and all at once. He wants them gone quick, with no public trace (private feedback) once sold. There is no way he is a legitimate dealer either- Stihl have a strict no mail order policy on their equipment. As regards blunt chains showing a previous saw to be secondhand- that may well be the case. However, you would be sorely mistaken if you think only new items would be stolen in a dealer robbery- anything looking complete and ready for the customer to pick up will be taken as they are much easier to shift on and still command high prices. "

I thought chestnut stakes and posts were in hight demand down your way?

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/61971-kind-rock-7-ton-electric-log-splitter.html HTH

Fixed it for ya! Appreciate what you guys are saying re open forum and all that, if a mod wants to edit this thread or the title to say 'potentially stolen' then please do.

If they were dealers the photos wouldn't be taken inside a house...

Thinking about it, it looks like the entire stock of a small dealer. They even took the gloves and boots FFS! And a mantis tiller. Why are all his selling feedbacks listed as 'Private'? Because he doesn't want to leave a trace. From reading them you can tell they are chainsaw related. It's not rocket science....

Despite his assertions that they are 'low use' these items are all clearly brand new and no doubt the proceeds from a robbery on a dealership. I've reported it to the police but won't hold my breath... **charlee123** | eBay

He will be best remembered for his attempt to bring irony to an American audience...

No lead acid battery should be completely discharged. Approx 80% for a car battery and 50% for a deep cycle (lesiure) battery. Carpenter- that's one hell of a shed! More of a barn! I'd buy a couple of strips to test the water- at £7 it's not gonna break the bank. If they're not man enough, buy more. Or buy something else and use the strips over the workbench for extra light. Either way you can't loose. If I get round to it I'll take a photo of mine in the van.

If you itemised every single thing you might carry on a transit, the insurance would be in the tens of thousands. Plenty of people would be 'uninsured' on that day they help their mate move house for a few quid. The insurers look for every angle to bleed you. Has anyone experience of where they've wiggled out paying a claim for this sort of thing? Like the one day in 365 you run a years worth of collected scrap into the yard?

These are very efficient. Once 5m strip turns the inside of a Transit van into day, scale that size up to your shed size? Major benefit is no shadow as the lights are all around. 12v LED STRIP LIGHT 3528 SMD 300 LEDS 5M UK | eBay I used to use a compact fluorescent with a built in inverter that was very good but pricey. I think the LED strips have the edge, no shadow and for the same money as one of those bulbs you would buy 4 strips, that's a lot of light. If you're going to go down the inverter route, I would get a decent battery set up and a small genny to run that would provide more power when required (angle grinding etc) and top up your battery. Running an inverter solely for lighting is wasteful and inefficient when there is plenty of decent 12v lighting on the market. If it's solely light you want, a car battery would power them for a good while, then charge as you drove home. Two strips is 50w, at 12v that's 4.1 amps. A 60AH car battery could run those for 3 hours (using 12-13 AH) and it would be discharged to 80% capacity. That's a safe discharge level for a non lesiure lead acid battery. That would top up no worries as you drove home, or with a few minutes of engine idling. Install a digital volt meter into the system and it's foolproof. How long will you need to run the lights for?

No they weren't. That was the whole point of the graph I posted... Alex has posted a more detailed one since, which puts the whole situation in stark relief.

And all credit to him. However, the crux of the issue is that that is now the exception rather than the norm. 15 years ago Mr and Mrs Average bought their first house together in their twenties. Now this is much rarer. If your nephew is doing well, nobody is slating him. But think how much better he would have done in the housing stakes had he been born 15 years earlier.

No, I mean average wage. http://anmblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c565553ef0133ed0d1a76970b-500wi Slightly out with my figure of 8x but it's still double. Is your nephew: A. A pie key B. A banker or C. Have rich parents/contacts in the planning department? Don't get me wrong, us young uns don't want to live in a mansion right off. We just want to same chances to buy a starter house on an average wage that you lot got. Hell, you can even keep the free uni education.... And the pensions...

I believe I'm correct in saying that the UK almost ran out of trees during the middle ages, such was the amount of timber that was used for charcoal to work metal?

Being born when the ratio of average property price to average wage as 3x, not 8x... With you all the way on this one Alex. Sweet van BTW.

I'm pretty sure anyone in the UK can claim to be selling timber from 'sustainable woodland' as the FC regulates it and ensures replanting. That same cannot be said for some banana republic where the king meets and greets whoever audits these things, plants a few trees for the camera, and next week after he's flown home clearfells another hundred acres of virgin rainforest....

I've run a 24" solid nose bar with normal chain on an 034 which surprised me. It wasn't happy though, and the oiler wasn't keeping up, but it took a surprising amount to bog it. Not something I do except for the occasional single cut or to top a hedge. The 036 is a cracking all rounder. With a 13" bar on a 9-tooth .325 sprocket she flies ringing up small timber, but you have to be agile and willing to bend down a bit 15" is my preferred bar in 3/8, but 16" is much more widely available. She will pull either with an 8 tooth sprocket no problem, and I'd recommend it. I don't understand why people run such bars on things like MS261s, it just seems silly to me. I find 18" a bit sluggish, that's what a 440 is for! Remember you can cut from both sides of the odd bit of timber that is greater than 15 or 16". Big powerhead, small bar, that's the way to do it!

Then join them. Simples

These look good and tick all your boxes: http://www.bullnetsystems.com/en/burglar-alarms/gsm-alarms.html Here is a transcript of an email I sent the guys, might answer some questions you have. "Thank you for your e-mail. 1) I will contact the manufacturer about the external aerial, I am not currently stocking them. 2) The speed and ease of programming the alarms will depend on which system you order. We have both menu based and code based systems, generally the menu based systems are more user friendly. 3) Yes you can pair all of the sensors prior to installation. 4) The panic button will trigger the alarm, so it will scare any intruder and the alarm will also call the numbers. 5) I can confirm that you can put timers on the zones. If you have any further questions please get back to me. Kind regards Peter Greenwood" He seems helpful and the price is right. I will be able to say further in about a week, once it turns up and I have a play with it. I'm replacing a current wired GSM system in order to go wireless- you're doing the right thing getting an alarm. Prevention is better than a possible CCTV conviction leading to a holiday for the scum.

My neighbour has a load handler, and his wife uses it for all the firewood deliveries and really rates it.

At £80 delivered in, one cube of firewood will have a cost the producer £50 in wood. Someone will still be selling it for £60-70/m3 though!

If you email them, they'll probably change the order and send you a PayPal invoice for the difference. Whatever you get, don't hold the safety mechanism back and do your best 'John Wayne sixgun' impression. Flourescent tubes aren't cheap to replace...

Even if they're doing that there's nothing in it. I can still just about buy in timber from local sources at approx £40/ton delivered. Selling at £100 a cube there's no money in it. Bollocks to paying £40 standing!!