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Bit nearer the don and I'd get some of it
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Hello. Have you looked on the arbtrader listings? There was a mazda or ford ranger day cab with high sides for 2.5k! It had high sides and I remember it had 4 wheel dive, but I may be mistaken. Keep your eye on arbtrader, and autotrader. My ranger daycab has done me well. 28-31mpg empty, and generally less when full of grass and machines. Some advice would be to avoid genuine fordranger tippers, as they don't hold much weight, and seem to go back for repairs a lot. A pro tipper in time might be better. Also get a portable winch with power in and out. They can be very helpful!
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I put split and round stick wood in nets, store them flat under a shelter with roofing felt, no problem with sunlight and they season well enough. This years lot will be a better test, as there will be more of it.
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There is a chatroom. What scraggs is making a point of is that a irc room on an irc server would take a lot of load off the website, rather than carry on using the resource hungry webchat - which can be unreliable at times. I love irc, was a mirc and xchat user for years. It is so very simple to use but also very adaptable. Not quite as good as KDX, but its not popular anymore so meh
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Some firms also do work at a loss for a time. All local council run schools in my area ( give or take a few) have gone out to private contract. The fields are cut with a petrol fired gang mower towed by a landy, and the rest is done by usual pedestrian mowers etc, all minimum wage. One reason some do it at a loss is to kill off competition, and once sure that the contract is theirs to keep, prices rise every so often.
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Hi it is snowing outside in yorkshire. I wish it wouldn't. One of my wood piles is minus its tarpaulin, and its not done me any favours. Oh well, once its split its got many months to dry.
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Look out for building works where they're re-tiling the roof, or someone having stone paving put down. The crates they use are top banana, and if you go to your cheapest garden place and get some tree stakes you can secure them into the corners upright with screws. A roof and some slatted sides to keep the rain off but let the wind through, and you're done Just don't hit a hidden damn nail with your saw when cutting a side off for access like I did
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Who has lowest gas bill of the year ours £250 nice
zeroluke replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
The saw is sleeping, mendip. Everyone has bragged ( or not so much) about their gas bill. How much did it cost you all in logs then? If you were a paying customer I wonder what the difference in price would be. -
Who has lowest gas bill of the year ours £250 nice
zeroluke replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
4 bed detached house. Modern badly built new estate type house. A new boiler was fitted a few years since, efficent new boiler at that. Gas and electric are combined in price, and its 1650 a year for both. so meh I don't know, 1000 for gas? Me and my mum dont own the house, just live in it. -
Also, if you've lots of wet wood from a supplier, sort your fire out, burn some you know is dry and while doing so, stack your wet wood ontop of your stove for a week. It will soon dry
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I have seen a few people where I live chop it up into 6 ft lengths and call it seasoned. They were right p'd off when I argued the toss with one over them calling it that. Anyway. I cut one of the lengths in half , cut 1 7 inch log from there and 1 from the end and split them both. My moisture meter read 30% off the end log split surface, and OL [off level, too high] off the one from the middle. He was amazed, and was going to sell them this winter, but I think he caught on its no good. He is a log seller for a living, and had called me an idiot with a chainsaw earlier in the day. Probably to put me off trying to make it in the same trade he does.
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Go for a drive around your town or village, pick a few pallets and some wooden boards, take them home and it shouldn't take long to make one. It won't cost much either!
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and i was making a point. The small entry level saws are wimpy, and a false economy at times. buy a more heavy duty saw thats in good working order quite cheap.
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I have a 4 year old ms250. Its not bad, though it has never got any easier to start and vibrates a lot. Due to its small 16 inch chain and bar, it overheats chains quick if used on wood approaching the same length since the chain has no air to cool it. It does not compare to the old 048 AV that mr mendip^ sold to me. The old 048 is a beast. Its light for its size - and due to said size and magnesium alloy casings, its weight is spread out, huge 25(?) inch chain and bar will fit most wood you'd want to cut, its very smooth, good power and a good starter Also, it does not leak petrol and oil all over,all day, so I can keep it in the house too once the petrol vapor has evaporated. They can be found for a few hundred quid. Best bought off people on this forum, really. Keep an eye on whats on arbtrader
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Almost the same as my ford! Except colour and mine 4x4! Where did them high sides come from? I could do with some. I cleared leaves last month, and I ended up using my ladder rack and some cheap b and q netting!
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TV is getting desperate nearly every day of the year! I hardly watch it to be honest, its rubbish. I spend more time watching stuff on the net, and if its not wet and cold, I'm outside.
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I might get some aspen from rotherham! It'll sit in the tank for a month or two on petrol fired stuff I don't use often, and be fine. I agree with the view most people share. There needs to be better marketing and awareness of the fuel to make it more wide spread. Shops like boutique garden centres or homebase, or even b and q (who charge 7 quid for a rotting, mildew covered bag of logs, and people buy it) should be able to sell enough of it to those who earn a good wage to lose a few quid off the price. As for recycling, why not take them back to the shop and have them refilled? Or mix them in with milk bottles and take them to a household waste center? Most people there are happy for it to go in if its got the appropriate recycling sign on it, and they do.
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I see travellers riding cars to the scrap yard like that regularly if I'm in a certain former pit village near doncaster. They winch them up, strap them down, and if the plod don't catch them, over the weigh bridge they go. 200 [or so] quid, mr.
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Look on youtube as daft as it sounds. People post videos of how theirs works, how to make them and they can offer good advice etc. If you could get one to run on wood chip or wood chunks and offer free tip in premises big enough, you'd be sorted.
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Do you think there is a market for this kindling ?
zeroluke replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
I saw some on ebay not long since, weren't you was it? -
I'd look to get it from a saw mill rather than a joiners shop. It would be untreated, and mostly un worked so it'll be slightly rougher. It would dry better and also catch better when lit.
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Selling it as firewood looks like a loosing game ( the same game people play where I am from, except with log nets like the ones in petrol stations, sell them for like, 3 quid a bag), but kindle it up and what the difference between it and stuff fresh off the tree? I would say joiners stuff may be better as it'll already be dryish anyway - less storage time. I have been thinking about this myself
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Did you buy it off dalesman tractors? That bloke often has them in.
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My 2 seater 4x4 pickup qualifies as dual purpose, the reason being 4x4 allows it good capability off road use, as well as normal road use. Now if it was 2wd only, then it wouldn't. The reason they mention double cab is whilst it may be highway use design only, if it has a 2nd row of seats it qualifies on grounds of carrying passengers. 4x4 single / double cab, and 2x4 double cab qualify as dual purpose. 2x4 single cab does not.
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I bloody don't It makes it hard working stuff out when digits/number disapear. Bit like dyslexia with number. I forget the term, it sounds similar
