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  1. Heading south on the A9 at Dunkeld, how far north had you been?!
  2. scbk

    Scam?

    The giveaway is that a government department wants to give you money.....
  3. Used to laugh watching the videos of Rufford Ford on youtube, must be ££hundreds of thousands worth of vehicles written off at that spot. The council eventually closed off the road with those prefab concrete barriers. This lad in the tractor thought screw your road closed, I can make it through that water no bother
  4. Flip it on it's head, tell them you sold the arisings (woodchip and logs). So if they want the job without paying for removal from site, price is now double
  5. Problem is though it takes a long time for the bones to rot down. Unless you've got a very large woodland, I would suggest putting the bodies through a chipper first. I find this vastly aids decomposition.
  6. Local furniture/bric a brac auction, you used to be able to get old books for like £1/box. They don't take them in anymore, not much commission on £1!
  7. Years ago a friend was telling me he worked out it if you were in a supermarket or whatever the value crisps was cheaper kwh than the logs
  8. This is an old touring caravan at a friends house, one side is clad, one side is extended onto a shed, the rest is harled with cement and stone
  9. Just to muddy the waters you can be subject to drivers hours whilst exempt from a tachograph. A commercial vehicle under 3.5t being used for a business (ie transit van) is subject to GB domestic drivers hours Drivers' hours: Goods vehicles - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK EU and GB domestic rules for drivers of goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles
  10. 4 cube of bark on a 3 cube trailer, it settles a fair bit. Bone dry, if you didn't cover it trailer would be half empty at the end of your journey! Bungee is 10mm thick
  11. I've used Lion Trading a couple of times: Skip and Container Covers 170gsm fine mesh net with eyelets LION-TRADING.CO.UK Skip and Container covers 170gsm breathable mesh with metal eyelets for fixing with bungee elasticated rope or tie down rope.
  12. If you've got a tipper/flatbed type vehicle (or trailer!) best thing for it is a good quality skip net, with a heavy duty bungee all the way round. Only takes a couple of mins to pull it over and bungee round the rope hooks. Anything that isn't tied down has to be sheeted; sand, soil, stone, woodchip, logs, tools etc
  13. Planning is fine, permitted development, and it's rural anyway........
  14. Thinking about the possibility of building a shed, maybe 9-10m long, and width of about 4m - clear span, no middle supports. Probably larch clad sides and a box profile roof. To do the frame all in timber would need some fairly hefty joists. Or trusses, either bought in or homemade? How do steel frame kits compare for price and ease of putting it together on your own? Any recommendations for manufacturers that do "off the shelf" kits in what would to them be quite a small size?
  15. Seems ironic having the ghille kettle and the sack of kindling, when there's a bonfire smoking in the back of the photo 🤐 Not used mine in a while, it's great when you're camping
  16. Each to their own I heard of a community group who bought a container for storage. Then someone decided they didn't like the look of it so they were/are going to get a joiner to do a proper job of cladding it, possibly with a nice apex roof too. Could've just built a nice cabin with the timber in the first place. Personally I think a container painted green/brown/whatever (with a roller) looks totally fine in the countryside
  17. The road I put in at mine with a friend is 40mm scalpings, which is similar to type 1, but doesn't meet the standards to be called MOT so couldn't be used on a highway. Can get it from a local quarry for notes.... I think official MOT type 1 has to be blasted rock? It's laid about 6" thick with a layer of membrane underneath. Compacted with a double drum roller. I've had 8 wheeler lorries on it (so 32t) and it didn't leave a mark. Back when I was a teenager we extended the driveway at my parents house the old fashioned way - dug it out by hand, put bigger rocks at the bottom then progressively smaller stones up to dust then a layer of chippings on top. Compacted by driving the car over it. Was fine for cars.
  18. 3.5t transit x2 = 7t of wood Bit like farmer jones selling a tractor trailer load of logs "how big is the trailer then?" "oh it's a 10ton trailer"
  19. They told me to check the tree's menstruation
  20. Wait you guys are wearing pants? Weirdos
  21. Rare sight in the Highlands of a lorry load of beech
  22. I've got a Honda ed400, little suitcase generator, not made anymore. The only outputs on it are 12v and 24v. You can hook it up to a dead battery, go off have a cup of tea and come back to a charged battery. Handy if you can't get another machine/vehicle to the dead one for a conventional jump start with leads
  23. This is now up on the Carr's website, £480 Logger Frame Pack | Carr's Billington Safety CARRS-BILLINGTON-SAFETY.COM
  24. If you had the young females you wouldn't need a heater! I keep getting told there's a rake load of horny milfs within 200yds of me. I don't know who they are, and why they're in a field at this time of night
  25. A woman was playing a round of golf when a bee stung her. Fearing an allergic reaction she ran to the clubhouse and told the pro that she had been stung. He asked where and she said between the first and second holes. He replied "your stance is too wide".

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