difflock
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Are you carrying student Debt? Do you run a credit card, and roll the debt forward? Is your car on finance? Have you itimized each working week and non working weekend, EXACTLY where the money goes. What are you prepared to do WITHOUT to move forward? As a single man you have the luxury of living in digs/a single room/caravan/sleeping beneath the stars, and working all the hours under the Sun, plus chasing high earning work where ever it be located. Us happily married men do not have these freedoms. regards, Marcus
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Steve, Thanks, as they do say, a pitcure is worth a 1000 words. Your 2 neatly summed it up for me. And yes I was reckoning a new set is stonking good value, when compared to a "fresh" second hand genset, with an uncertain provenance. And yes realistically about 5k +VAT(2nd hand) PS Ebay actually more useful for the links it provides back to reputable outfits, imho. I was offered a 6cyl Iveco openset with 4800 hours on the clock, by Macgen. Described to me as having 4000hrs and unfortunately ( I think) resprayed. For £4000.00 + VAT. I declined, but actually (and very strangly for me) established a certain rapport with the salesman, simply because I had by big black dote of a rescue Rottaador with me. We talked dogs after I looked at and declined their overpriced? offering. So fingers crossed be able to do business yet. At least they are only 15 mile away. cheers m
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Gulp! So am I Jonothan, after the day spent yesterday clearing rubbish, I was wishing I hadda bought a 600/700 series Avant with a 4in1 bucket or log grab instead:lol: cheers m
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Parts available for Gardiners too, per a couple of links I saw and clicked on somewhere(might even have been via Wikipedia?) Was that the gardiner powered genset on ebay, plumbed off a large static diesel tank if I recall the advert. tempting, due to the revered Gardiner engine, but I wisnay brave enough. Anyway, due to my absolute zero 3ph exp/knowledge. I need a set with a reasonably modern and fully functioning control panel. I imagine. PS Awaiting del of mill, Mon or Tue. Almost got the site cleared of 5 years accumulation of scrap timber and other rubbish. After a day spent fettling my dog-rough tractor forklift. PPS Steve, where do all those sensible priced gensets go/dissappear to, all I seem to be able to find is high hours or wildly optimistically priced stuff. OR!! The Paxman(who were bought over by MAN) engined Ex BT set running at 1000rpm, oh dribble an drool, the SIZE of the alternator on that lump.
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The Pathologist would have had fun with those remains!
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Ask on the US Forestry Forum, where the Norwood HD36 seems to be a respected machine, no idea how it would stand up to commercial use though. Would prob have been better suited to my application than the Baker 3630E which I recently purchased, which converesly would be better suited to your app. regards Marcus ps see link http://www.forestryforum.com/
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Feel for you Broonie, not much more to say. marcus ps having briefly googled the breed, not dissimilar to our bastard mastiff Max, in looks and temperment. He got the one way ticket about 6 weeks ago. m
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********************** And the Consulting Engineers on that job, were, no, go on! lemme guess? Messers Heath & Robinson:lol: m
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Replacing gorse with something else
difflock replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
The gorse "stumps" and heavier branches also have an apparently wonderful "zig-zag" or wriggly grain structure/pattern. From my NI observations. But the small size is the limitation m -
btw cizzer=cider m
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A lifetime joiner I new a wheen o years ago developed a bad allergy to Iroko (I think it was) in his latter years. He said "I've been working with Iroko all my life and never been allergic" I merely said "exactly" i.e. meaning the lifetime exposure sensitised him to the dust. Was it Iroko? I still remember the pungent peppery smell anyway. m
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My difficulty is defining a "decent" wage, and what %age of the workforce should be eligable to earn it. If by what I understand you to mean a decent wage, is one that allows for an affluent lifestyle. Not everyone can earn it. because then the essentially non-skilled /low paid jobs would become too well paid. So services would cost more as a result Which results in nett inflation. Simple economics at work. The underlying problem in all Societies is mostly everyone attempting to live beyond their means. Which became much easier with easy credit/credit cards, and the pernicious influence of television. regards, Marcus
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Post 29, yes I did read it and effectively replied with my post No31 Post No 33, I take it you meant Post No32. Depends by what you mean by "mates" and what methods they will use to achieve their essentially selfish ends, dos'nt i:001_huh:t Eggs? cheers M
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Sorry I under stood you meant stop the "wood" I want to get off!
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Right Eggs, I have read over this thread again, however briefly. Per your suggestion. What 2 questions did I not answer? regards, Marcus
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ditto a new architect designed summer only tourist facility on the River Bann. An oil fired plant room that ud do the Enterprise proud=check Solar panels for peak summer domestic hot water(showers)=nope, nary the one FFS!
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Me more a libertine conservative actually. So? What questions have I not answered Eggs? Fire away. I will do my best to honestly answer.
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I was aware I has misspelled schrewd. However my, perhaps misunderstood, point was more about those who state "its easy for them, they always had money" Stated Whilst quaffing beer, sipping their Latte coffee's, planning their holidays(where is the World Cup this year?) and paying credit card interest. That is what essentially seperates the self-styled 99% from the rest, short term satisfaction put ahead of long term goals. Sorry, but absolutly true. Marcus PS Also very easy to lose money, if one has it to lose! "A fool and his money are soon parted" applies equally at all levels of wealth.
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(i)The stupid feckless rich will get poorer. (ii)The schrewd rich will get richer. (iii)The equally schrewd poor(er) will also get rich. (iv)The feckless stupid poor will stay poor. There is a very simple reason for all the above statements That is those with money, are generally those who understand money, and how to both make money and not waste money. Either with hard graft or brains. Then they are those who simply say " Its easy for them, they always had money" Simply not true.
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A strong slow straight winch pull will not/should not damage a loader frame as much as slamming into a pile of hardcore and finding sommat very hard and solid with one corner of the bucket, or the twist imparted by trying to lift sommat very heavy with one corner of the bucket. imho
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The bit that caught my eye was the clause; "The legislation also makes it an offence if a person is worried or afraid (the term is ‘reasonable apprehension’) that a dog may bite them." Which with some of the silly ninnies out there is really wide open to abuse. m
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Sociology=pub studies, or in 1980's Ulster Polytechnic jargon a "Micky Mouse" degree. From an Engineering student's perspective. Or, indeed per the BT adverts "oh! e's gone an got an 'ology"
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Sommat wrong with the pup with the grossly swollen belly:001_huh:
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That is so lovely!:thumbup:
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PS I recollect the need to rapidly quench the tyre iron after it is fitted!
