nick channer

i can process into an artic bulker and deliver loose dependin where you are... i have to pay £50 a ton for the cord before i start to process..

no just transit... suprisingly i never had a problem.. as long as once i'd tipped the first load i released the next gate and tipped body to get 2nd load on arse end it was ok... had trouble gettin up some driveways but just tipped em where i could.. if it gets bads this year i'll run a few local ones out in forklift.. i can get 2 loads in big grain bucket..

no mate, just me with 2 mobile phones that dont stop ringing... we still got 300 acres wheat to cut and 40 acres spring rape... got over 600 acres straw left to bale yet though and was hopin for nice weeks weather sometime towards end sept to do 90 acres 2nd cut hay... if not it'l be haylage or worst way silage...

that was good thing with takin 3 loads at time out... if i had 2 going to furthest point of my advertisin area which coulda been 20 or more miles away and 1 which was quite local.. then i recieved another order for that further area while i was travellig over there i'd do it straight away.. then back to yard, load up with forklift then off again.... very often i'd only have 5 or 6 loads booked in but end up doing up to 15 loads... they do love it when i say i can be there in next hour or so...

had few regular customers but over 350 loads last season were all from adverts in several local papers.. i'm gonna advertise further a field this year... thing i like about firewood is a £40 a week small ad brings in a lot of calls and from my experience unlike tree work as long as you answer phone straight away you normaly get the order.. lot people round here sell 1 cubic metre for £70.. hence reason i sell 1.3 for £80... might be bit too cheap but i bet out of 10 calls i'll get 8 orders min...especially as it gets further into winter..

i delivered everyone of those myself last yr.. was doing over 1000 miles a week once we got going... gonna have 2 transits delivering this season cos i wanna do more and because i should have everything split and ready for delivery by end of sept... got 80 ton beech my lads are gonna start sawin and splitin on monday..

the ones i've just moved have been cut and split and in shed for 2 yrs... the ones i sold last season were bought in in cord through last spring and summer and split straight away and delivered from end september onwards...

probably would be...new transits got 5 leaf springs.. even when busted to top of caged sides with hard wood cord it sits dead level and tows trailer and stump grinder without draggin jockey wheel on ground like old one does.... very hard ride when empty mind...

its been seasoned for 2 yrs and is very dry.. took 400 loads out on old transit last season which was all beech and ash and lot heavier than this mixed hard wood thats more seasoned and they were bigger 1.5 metre loads... wouldnt have clue what weight was..

thats problem with only takin 1 load at time.. last season i had my transit body made to take 3 loads.. this year my other newer transit is gonna take four 1.3 cubic metre loads... going further afield isnt such an issue then... i could never go back to takin 1 load at time.. i'd never keep up with the demand for start.. 10-15 loads most days is walk in park takin 3 or 4 loads at time.. we also do large amount of double or triple loads to same customer with a small discount.. spent all morning movin my split logs out of our grain shed to my new store.. had 2x40 yd bins.. 1x30yd bin.. 2x65 yd bulker trailers and 15 yd grain trailer.. total of which if my calculations are right is around 215 cubic metres.. or 165 1.3 cubic metre loads at £80 load.. and the wood owes me not a penny except for labour to saw and split. diesel etc... only a 3rd of what i need mind you so gotta start buyin some cord in.. bought 80 ton so far at £50 ton delivered which was same as last yr which i was quite suprised by what with price diesel compared to last yr..

blimey.. we go 30 or more miles sometimes from yard.. always charge same.. although i did take 3 loads at time... and this season it'l be min of 4..

theres what seems likea real tidy TW15 on ebay.. not sure of the hours though.. it mighta been round the clock once...

we've just bought an artic lorry with a grain bulker and step frame trailer... i'll be lookin to get a 40-45ft timber trailer with crane once harvest is over so i'll be in market to buy cord and sell it....

at the end of the day a high sided truck like a transit and basic tools is all you need... my 2 guys have bneen working for weeks while i've been harvestin with just that.. chippers etc are a nice luxury but not a nessesity... a cheap truck.. whatever tools you can afford, insurance and enough for a months advertisin in few local papers will get you started.. thats how i started anyhow..

its the stop start that does my head in..just get everything going smoothly, combine grain carters, small baler, lorrys organised to collect bales out field, big baler going with bales being carted or stacked then overnite everything comes to grindin halt!! my cousins got a 600 lexion on hire with a 40ft header so balin behind that is a pleasure.. although it does smash the straw to bits.. could do with a week of good weather and we'l be done.... gonna take big baler off tomorrow and put the sumo do some min tilling ready for drillin..

luckily we've done 15000 small barley bales and none got wet.. only in the swath... got just over 1500 mini hesstons out in field though.. all stacked up so hopefully bit sunshine tomorrow and it'l dry the top ones off... loaded a lorry this morning just before it started belting down and he was off to north wales... god no's what they were like when they arrived

speak to neil or charlie at stobarts on 01768593140

be careful when putting gearbox back on.. all i can tell you is my cousin recently had one changed in his 04plateand the garage didnt line it up properly and knackered the new clutch..

used around 300 ton of cord last season that i bought in

hi.. we cover slough.. be interested in lookin at jobs.. obviously puttin some commission your way...

speak to charlie or neil on 01768 593140

theres been couple ford tractors on there lately that were def scams... half price they should been and advertised not far from london but when i asked to view they were apparantly workin in scotland and i had to send payment and they would deliver.... when i said how come you can arrange for someone to be there to load tractor but not for me to view they never answered... ireported listin to ebay...

that mog and trailer was on ebay last week wasnt it...

if theres a good days work there for a big tracked stump grinder [or poss 2] then i'm willin to come give you a price...

we have something very similar in our yard that was made for bagging topsoil but would do for logs too.. its a 3 yard skip up on legs with hole cut out of it and sorta funneld.. the bag sits on the ground and each corner hooks over a little handle thats been welded on each corner.. i'll take a photo tomorrow and you'l see much clearer...