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Ouch:001_rolleyes: You called:lol: As mentioned before being a "Prefectionist" is not always for the best. Marcus PS I am still looking for the perfect car, the performance of a Porsche, the space of a Transit, the running costs of a Fabia, and invisible to Gatso's:thumbup: Any suggestions.

A "down the Pub" Or see link below, apply to your local DVLA/driving school/driving instructor https://www.gov.uk/driving-licence-categories Take yer pick A "C1" licence would do and 750kg tlr/chipper Ok without the added "E" Marcus

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cross out "suspect" and insert "know" A good job I were sitting down.

You low So-an-so!. Now I have to start all over again Though I suspect the prices will rule most of the Euro made mills out. cheers Marcus

Should be able to work it out from the Specific fuel consumption figs published by the manufacturers. In g/hr or possibly l/hr. Then simple sums allowing a %age for real world operating

Is it actually legal for a non farming/forestry/horticultural operation to run a tractor at all? There would appear to be a glaring discrepancy in the permitted weights. This apparent discrepancy may well however be accounted for by the mandatory lower speed limit for traditional tractors (40 kmh is it?) On the subject of running on clear diesel. Look at sensible HP <100 2 wheel drive models with basic/simple non energy sapping transmissions, to maximize fuel economy. About 4 tonne in weight = half the weight of a large modern tractor. Hey a Zetor, set up with a compressor ex factory for air brakes. Perhaps also consider different tyres/tyre patterns, ones optimised for road work, as I strongly suspect hi-tech high grip Agric tyres are fuel hungry on the road. NB My father ALWAYS maintained running any tractor at full/maximium engine revs, i.e on road work for max travel speed. Guzzled fuel well in excess of staying within the recommened hi-torque PTO power band. just a thought Marcus

Since there is virtually no extra charge for the Propane engined option I may as well take advantage. Probably pick up a 2nd hand LPG car tank/cyl somewhere then get a mate to refill me from his bulk chicken house LPG tank. Where he fills his dualfuel Vauxhall and the LPG converted V6 Honda. And he gets the VAT back

Bloody Hell! thanks Paul? (is'nt it Agrimog?) Anyway at £74.90 for 34Kg at 493kg/m3 the orange Cyl works out at near enough £1.09/litre Car gas = only 77p/l how very very strange

Since I am in danger of importing a Propane powered Kohler engine on a Sawmill. That is a Kohler factory designed and supplied engine set up for Propane. I am assuming it will be shipped sans cylinder. I will then need to provide a suitable UK spec Propane cylinder. I am thinking an Orange domestic one, though for some reason vehicle/forklift propane cylinders always lie on their side. An there a different colour. Do IC engines draw off the propane in liquid form, or what is the difference. I presume the actual propane gas is the same. regards, Marcus

Commguard/Vanmand Pah!, whats in a name. (and I may have misremembered:001_tt2:) but Hey a Rose by any other name shall smell as sweet. PS I did qualify "I was assured", it being new news to me. On the bandsawmill market B&S appear to dominate in Canada, and Kohler in Nth America. Regards, Marcus

Someone very recently assured me that B&S as sold on the Canadian market, was identical same as the equivalent Kohler sold on the US market, one firm owning the other, or visa-versa. I hold Kohler engines in high regard based on memories of a 25/30 year old one in a turner flail mower, which never faltered. There is also some significent difference across the B&S engine range, culminating in the "Command" series with much better innards. Ditto I understand with Kohler. m

mog not badly bogged, ground relatively dry and drying forby . & Yes self extraction perfectably achievable. m

Kinda early by other years, but the pond up the Moss was quite busy yesterday. Only young-uns, judging by the small size and lack of croaking. generally about mid March other years. PS Also saw an Otter in the Bann in Coleraine last weekend. About 4-5m out, quite unconcerned, until I winked at it:lol:. Marcus

To my knowledge. If you are VAT registered and supply the appropriate details. There is no VAT to pay. The item is effectively "zero rated" Otherwise one merely pays the VAT on top of the import duty (as below) There may be a small %age import duty on CIF (cost, insurance and freight) value . On a bandsawmill this is 2.7%, figures generally in the low single fig %ages.

I saw this post early days and did not comment. My father, myself and our Son were/are dyslexic.(to some degree) But excellent communicators. As far as I am aware there is no link between dyslexia and dyspraxia. (best mate has a dyspraxic daughter btw) However quite a few people now prefer to hide behind labels as an excuse for their lazyness, or their childrens lazyness. Or lack of intellect or lack of physical finesse. We are all different. (and in hindsight I may well be somewhere on the Autistic spectrum) Live with it. PS I simply cannot understand why a dyspracic child should be studying farriery/horseshoeing. This simply does not make any kinda sense. Who one here would let me fly them, or perhaps slice the top off their skull for a go at brain surgery. Just because I want to/feel I am capable of doing so. regards marcus

Erm, actually I was dead serious:001_tt2:. Yours *(ok your parents) is MUCH:blushing: MUCH tidier:blushing: than mine, all 60 by 30 feet with a bay sized 1/2 loft at each end. cheers marcus

Big T, Could I ask you nicely to come an tidy up my shed:lol: marcus

Sniff! Yanmar T80:thumbup: The wee Fiat 605C could get powerful jealous though:lol: m

I cannot then, fathom how most of the firms producing bandsawmill, insist on using "rubber bands", other than the marginal additional machining costs involving in crowning the band-wheels. But regardless of this cost saving, surely the buyers cannot all be oblivious to the benefits of vibration free sawing, since there are at least a few Cookssaw and LogMaster mills out there working. WoodMizer got a lot to answer for, apparently! marcus

"Take us to Tripoli" . . . . . . . . . . . . I'm hi-jacking this thread tee hee

Ah!! Belated Enlightenment doth finally dawn. Now I am really really pissed I done the gentlemanly thing and avoided contacting Ed at Logmaster direct about yon hi-spec traded in LM15 with the 30" band wheels/24' bed etc. Dammn an blast!!

I say old boy hijack away All grist to the Mill boom-boom!

Actually Jonothan I would consider an LT35HD. With 2 of my mothers brothers extended families living in Canada I could probably simply get them to buy the mill for me and ship it. Though I suppose they would be liable for local sales taxes, that I would not be. I did not particularly wish to ask an American WM dealer to ship me a mill. Anyway I believe the super-duper $19,000.00 offer was only for mills collected from the factory, and may no longer be valid anyway. regards Marcus PS Is there much merit in Cookssaw vehment assertations that crowned steel balanced wheels are better than inherently unbalanceable belted bandwheels?

I am no-where near as "au-fait" as Jonothan in respect of band-sawmill manufacturers. Nor indeed bandsawmilling. Anyway I restricted myself to, what I leastwise had cause to deduce, were reasonably large established manufacturers. From Google searches cross-referenced with, for example, advertising on the Forestry Forum. Might now even wait until the APF show since I would not wish to mill timber cut in the Spring or Summer, though I could get some practise in on sap-laden stuff. At least that would give me some purpose for my planned excursion to the APF. Regards, Marcus