Goaty

Whats the modern solution then???

Composted leafmould from any broadleaf trees I would imagine. Composted to stop it blowing away. Maybe mixed with grass cuttings.

6 men 6 weeks thereabouts

Its the greater arb minds. A safer place to stop and a good angle to get it.

My photo taken on 27/08/2005

Try Thorpe trees for a price nr York. Ive not found any more competitive tubex stockist. They are on the web.

We have only a short flue, I fitted a fluecube probably two years ago. It improved our situation quite abit. Never get any precipitation down the flue and it draws better. Still get the down draught now and then but seldom compared to before. As mentioned another metre of flue could sort it. There is threads on here about fluecube, a few cynical comments in them but everyone is entitled to an opinion. It works for me. Quite expensive though.

Day or half day rate. Off hand I think £300 a day for a competent miller. Its been a while since I read any threads about it.

Buy new jon, warranty, no attention required. It won't likely be stolen ad taken off you and returned to rightful owner. Better on the books for a firewood tycoon like yourself. Hardly any price advantage often on secondhand as Mortimer has pointed out. Plus a shiny new toy to get excited about using.

Looking at the thread title surely Brain James is the Brains behind a trailer manufacturer outfit.

The kind that obliterates and exterminates the cuddly ewoks in the process??

Having spent a Sunday morning a couple of years ago with taupotreeman and seeing the short term stupidity he has to deal with the mentality of a portion if the local community that seem to be very selfish and short sighted, tree blocking my view poison it types. Also the local authority are 60 years behind in their attitude to tree welfare. Taupo has a Herculean task really. On the one hand life's to short to be miserable at work, it's a big chunk of life. Yet on the other some of these hiearachy people may disappear soon. Definitely worth meeting a top dog at their office, or maybe catching them personally off the record to test the water. If Taupo doesn't appreciate you somewhere else will.

I have never forked out for office software, Ive had openoffice and now on libreoffice on an older mac, it does what I need, it opens microsoft office made stuff I get off the web or emailed. Though free it relies on user donations to fund it. You will not be able to upgrade without contributing. But I still run an old version fine without the updates.

How did this work out in the longer run? Ive used the search engine on this forum but I cannot find what Im looking for. Which 2nd hand ranger is best to buy? I seem to remember the 2008 new model was best on economy but highly geared. Anyone able to point me in the right direction? MK 3 or MK 4?

Relax those eyes and get to bed in the dark, have shades handy tomorrow. Ive been there needles and eye picking in hospital. Face wet with streaming tears. I got a rust stain on pupil and had to go back for another go. Take care of them, I know that you cannot always see with ppe on what you are doing in shaded light situations etc. Hope they gave you them brilliant eyedrops that sting like acid but dilate the pupil. They are very good.

The obvious I can think of is they are hollow soft in the center. Frost and water retention. Maybe cut them near the node to prevent this. Never encountered a big specimen in this country.

Answer to original question posed. Time shortage and lots of recycled threads. The forum now has an extensive reference base, so either you can use the search engine(people should use this more) or google it with arbtalk in the search and you find alot of things without posting.

33 maybe young to many of us. To a professional athlete it's retiring if not retired age. Myself I'm not full time arb and if you do it after an absence of not doing it you know about it physically. Not all us have the indestructible robust bodies that we'd like either. I have changed my attitude to work in the last couple of years, I'm still addicted to it but don't try and do everything the hard way. Self preservation has moved up the agenda.

Spud did a 346xp for me a couple of years ago. I have a ported and unported one. If I go to a small job I will take the unported then its gutless now Im used to the ported. I only take the unported to try and preserve the ported. As Stubby says Its money well spent,a huge time saver. If two identical twins went out with identical saws to identical jobs. The ported user would go home much earlier. FACT! The 346 was a fab saw to start win. Cost depending on whats involved, done properly probably the price of a crummy saw or less including courier I would guess. Don't quote me on that. If it saves you 20 hours work Its a no brainer and it will. If I was full time arb all mine would be ported. It brings them beyond many newer models in equivalent power/size.

Ditto! For my needs powder coating is rubbish, they sell all the reasons why its better. If they didnt prep right to start with it doesn't last. It chips, It fades in lighter colours in my experience, That is not scientific experience. I have used rustseal from kbs, Flag rust preventer and kurust. They all work to a degree as primers for rust sealing but dont last forever especially in salted road environments. My previous tractor mudguards rotted to almost disintegration in 19 years without any maintainence. In less than 3000hrs work! We have just upgraded to a 10 year old John Deere and I have commenced refurbishing rusty parts. The washer bottle bracket disappeared when i put the angle grinder wire brush to it. I refabricated another one and have used Kbs rust seal. Also did the small black wings near the steps. This will be my first acid real world test for rust seal. Prevention is better than cure as is nipping it in the bud. But its the ongoing enemy....Time. Like Matt says seal it with a lubricant old oil etc. Underneath it will preserve, look how engine blocks with oil and diesel scud on them powerwash up fantastic after decades. Some concrete mixer drivers paint oil on the drum to stop concrete adhering which then needs acid or hammer to remove. Which corrodes and dents the paint off.

Murray McLean gets good words. Parks farm nurseries is another. Both in the dormant season though.

I used to deliver gravel. The membrane is an expensive modern idea, I wouldn't use it. Just a 2 inch layer of gravel on firm hardcore. It will need topping up from time to time. Harrow or take it on occasion before heavy rain it will wash up nice and clean. I used to tie tailgate with rope and trail it out for customers. I got so good at it.it seldom needed a raking to level it on a straight long run. Also if you have a grass strip up the middle make gravel go further and wedge a block of wood in middle of tailgate.

The list is constant for qualified skilled people. The list does change what skills they need but it works like this. Nz has a very small population for its size and is limited in what it offers particularly to young people. Those who do pursue degrees and fields of particular expertise tend to often take them elsewhere for life experience. Australia or this dirty overcrowded continent we live on. Which leaves home grown labour in short supply. I recommend you go for it. It's more likely a member of the opposite sex will hinder plans than nz. Plus there are other ways of getting into nz. But do it before you are 30.

Back to the OP. I got grief fueling up at a tesco away from my area a few years ago. The dragon arrived to chastise me after I had filled 3 5 ltr cans. Thankfully the flames she breathed didn't cause us to go up in a fireball. Then I googled and all I found was fire brigade recommending 17ltr max. To help them control potential fires easier. A local supermarket to us seems to employ wannabe dictators in the fuel station. I'm glad they are there and not making our lives harder in other areas. Police, etc. I have done the cans in the back trick with success. Trouble is you need to start that way. Not after a confrontation.

Is Manchester way a stickler for roadside diesel VED checks and all that palava? I do think it will be better for your long term health mixing physical and sedentary work. That's what I do.