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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!!

Woah, did you get the nailer/stapler or just the nailer? Only a few pounds between them. Staples are more effective at holding closeboard on. If you haven't got the combined model, then I suggest you change the order for the sake of a couple of quid.

This is the cheapest Silverline framing nailer on eBay but doesn't have Silverline in the title so you won't be able to search for it: AIR FRAMING NAILER 90MM 10 - 12 GAUGE - 282400 | eBay HTH

Get all your mates round and get high

Men in sheds keep the world turning! Starters are pretty simple things. I've saved people hundreds over the years by repairing them.

I've just bought a Silverline 50mm brad nailer/stapler for £30. That paid for itself in time saved on the first job (only a few larchlap panels). So I've treated myself to a Silverline 90mm framing nailer for £90. It's a beast! I had a 6l / 1.5HP Wolf compressor knocking around so I dusted it off. Very portable, and gives 15 shots before refill with the brad nailer, and four with the framing nailer, both set to full power. For big jobs, I will take the 50l compressor out of the workshop and leave it on site. I have plenty of air hose, so all in all very pleased I bought them. I'm waiting to see what the 65mm nails run like through the big one, I'm hoping to get away without having to buy the middle size gun!

I'll bet you that the CPS definition of 'reasonable force' differs somewhat from the membership on here when theft of hard earned work tools is concerned. That aside, any amount of force is useless when the scum or their mates will take revenge by burning your yard or your house and family to the ground. We all know who I'm talking about. Hitler would have sorted this problem out by now. The people doing this are of no use to society, and have no morals whatsoever. You think it's bad now, wait till the Roma start arriving. These people have a 100% alien mindset. They believe stealing is an honest days work. 'Prince of Thieves' is a title they aspire to. If the UN turned a blind eye, the Romanian people would wipe this scum out, and for good reason.

Residual value on Stihl is very good if you sell on eBay. As soon as I start to have problems, I try to fix and flog. Smaller kit like the combis unit and MS181, plus blowers are changed every year, or two years at a push if that particular unit has done much less than another. Much easier that way. That 66 sounds like you would be best rid, but the boss almost certainly won't see it that way...Tell him newer saws will have much less vibration and be more economical? However, if it's only used once every few months it's going to be hard to make a case for renewing it. Every time my Polish guy says to me 'mower is ****, is broke', I say to him 'New mower one thousand, you buy?'

No worries, thought it looked familiar. Whats your excuse for being up this early?

It's not difficult at all. Buy vented bulk bags.

Even if it sounds more than the book price, there's no point loosing money, and worse, setting a low precedent for any further works, as previously mentioned. I'd do a day for free to get your eye in before putting a price on the job. Remember that as the subsequent days tick by you will be getting progressively more fed up with the job, and slower, so factor that in!

So you want them to clear up your mess. And then pay you handsomely. And according to the title of your post, they should be happy, presumably with a smile at all times? :lol You might get lucky, but I'd be more inclined to treat it as saving you money by removing it, rather than try to charge more than a few beer tokens. If you have a yard, then pile it up and put it on eBay in trailer sized loads. Or process and sell it yourself... Either way, if you can't offer lorry loads at a time, your market and your price achievable will be very limited, particularly if you are needing it shifted straight away. I wouldn't ask too much, you're saving yourself money in the end anyhow.

James, those photos aren't from around Fernhurst near the stream are they?

Hanging is too good for them. If they were caught they would only get community service. It's a bloody joke:thumbdown:. So glad you got your dog back OK.

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Are you saying the total cost of a box of wood to your business is £100 and you sell for £110? That's nuts, surely you can get your blokes to make improvements to your farm over the winter- that will at least pay dividends to your business. Why have them doing something that makes no money? Or have I read you wrong? It was a little convoluted, I was struggling to follow your thoughts as you wrote them down! An 0.7m vented bag costs me £30 to fill including timber, labour, electric and wear/tear on machines. I sell for £60 collected or £70 delivered. If delivered, I use a spreadsheet to work out the max distance I can go with X number of bags, and still keep the profit per bag to £30. That's with timber costing me approx £40/t delivered to the yard (we're in a timber rich area) The furthest I can deliver 1 bag and still make £30 profit is 4.5 miles. For two bags, I can go up to 12 miles. For three bags as far as 20 miles is OK, but I don't often go this far. If anyone else wants to do it for less (and there are plenty of them out there!) then good luck to them. If it doesn't sell before Christmas, it probably will after. If not then, it can wait till next winter!

You'd get a lot more than that splitting it into lots and selling on eBay, particularly at this time of year.

Tree surgery is saturated because colleges pump out tree surgeons and tell them it's a viable career- this may change, with other opportunities opening up all the time. If we have another housing bubble demand will increase as people spend money that they think they've made on maintaining the trees on their property. On the other hand, the log trade is saturated because anyone with a chainsaw and axe can have a crack. I'd be lying if I said that wasn't me five years ago, and I bet it's the same for many of you who now moan about the Saturday merchants! Entry barriers to the log trade are low, and to the labourer who earns £70 a day, another £70 for a load of logs cut from 'that tree the boss wanted clearing up' is a very attractive proposition. This won't change. Big boys will stop doing it when it becomes uneconomical as they run it for profit, not beer money. Small guys will profit from the increase in demand, and become big boys. They will then come on here and moan about the little guys undercutting them!

The vertical one will run off a genny better than the horizontal type because the motor is constantly running. Startup load is what the generator won't be keen on, and this is less of an issue if it's constantly running. Whether a genny is cost effective compared to a normal hydraulic splitter and a powerpack instead of a genny is debatable.

That's £1080 over three years, sounds like a winner if you use and need that sort of quality of tool every single day. Can't see Stihl doing similar though!

As per the posts above. Fiskars for blades, Wolf-Garten for a multitool system and different handles. FR Jones are cheapest. You will still need to spend about £300 for a decent set though!