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The hot air is coming out of the vents on the floor at 86 degrees and it is fairly being blown out, hence i dont think or i would not like to work on that floor when its running. i have spent a bit of time on it and it is only a bit, your feet are piss wet with sweat in no time and you can feel the heat being blown up your trouser legs, Last back end they was combining in the rain and tipping wheat on to the floor and spreading it out at about 12" deep and drying it from 28% down to 10% in 12 hrs, they dry a lot of sawdust for other farms in the area and when that comes off the floor that is down to approx 3-5% after 48 hrs and thats sawdust direct from a sawmill so will start at 40% ish, What these floors are designed for they do very well but they are not for designed for drying logs, but they will do it, it just takes a lot longer than other products,

Hi are you having to pay for this service or is it for free ? we have access to same sort of floor, a price is sorted out but we havent used it yet as its not as good as i thought it would be, for drying logs, some one else has used it and i have been and robbed a few logs out of a crate and i was very dissapointed at the result, we tested several logs out of several crates and from different positions in the crate, ok not covered up just the heat n draft going through, The results after 10 days on the floor where, logs from the outside of the crate where down to 8% on the outside but when split 32% on the inside, logs from the centre of the crate 18% on the outside and still at 42% when split, but this guy who the logs belong to is addvertising and selling them as super dry kiln dried logs, i think he might just get 1 or 2 complaints, so if you cover yours the results might be slightly better but i know i need to come up with a different plan for getting my logs dried, i have an idea and i think it will work and i think i could get logs dried down to 15% from fresh cut in 5 days but time will tell,,,,

Gabe Rygard died in a car crash while on his way to filming, Craig Rygard retired, Jimmy Smith passed away, They did film a new short serises but it was not the same with several of the main characters missing and Shelby was not in this one, and then towards the end of filming Dwayn Deffless passed away, i think that could be the end of Axe men but we nether know as there will all ways be some one else ,

You have been watching to many episodes of the old Axe men series, shelby allways gibered on about board feet,,,,Les will know,😂😂

Hi you might just have to do this the old fashion way, and work this out for your self, the £10 a cube seems very cheap to me, but that depends on how much work you have to do plus your running costs ? are the logs loose or crated ? how big is the kiln ? Do you have to load the kiln ? what will you load it with ? kiln running costs ? supplier should know this it all adds up and before long you find out your doing it for nowt, been there and done that a few times over the years and now i sit down and work it all out before commiting to any thing,

Take it thats a Hi lift one ? if so your 2k was a good investment, I bought a Lifton loadstar 750 high lift about 4 years ago for breaking, then thought it was far to good to break and kept it, its been used day in day out on some jobs and it makes my life so much easier, it will go to a new home one day but i dont when, paid 1.5k for it running and all working and today i would think 3k +

Just hire one, the guy your mate gets the tracked dumpers off will have several and if he aint got one no one has, a mate of mine has one and i think its made out of a ripper of something like a D6 and its something he has had for many years it was used on a 6 tonne kubota, i can enquire about that for you if you want ? or the other guy is Mick Wilkinson or commonly known as Wurzell both good guys to deal with,

Does that block with just the bolt stuck out of it not lift up ? i have a saw with that set up on it and the block flips up and is a cold start, push the trottle forward and lift it up...

You looking for one ? i have one coming up for sale,

Been taking notes for years now Khriss 😂😂

Why do you think its insane for a CS30/31 5 day course + another day for the accesment by a sepperate indipendant accessor ? this course is your key, which could open many doors for the future for you or who ever does it, The cost of the CS30/31 course has not gone up in cost that much in the last 10yrs, i put some lads through it in 2012 and it was £680 a head back then, I have read your reply and the others above, there are some good points made and lets face it we all have to start some where and 99 times out of a 100 its at the bottom, i have had lads come with us straight out of collage after doing a 3 yr full time course on Arb, and when you ask them whats that tree and it takes em 5 goes to get it right, all i think is WTF have they been taught ? bit its more like the determination and will to learn of that person, i have been in this game a long time now and i have seen so many changes over the years in peoples attitude to work and boy have they changed, but then again alot of things have changed, i have had lads come and go over the years and the first morning on site they are told if you want to talk to your boy friend on the phone you can do it at 10am 12,30 or 3pm but not in the time i am paying you, this is the biggest down fall of some lads and some good lads as they just cant keep off phone and i dont know why as the msg just does not go in, some of your comments in your posts would steer me away from you as you just seem to be worried about the money, But let me say one thing and that is you need to be looking forward and be thinking of where you want to be in 2.3.4.5 or ten years and set your plan out and work towards that goal, I have seen so many very good lads not make any thing of there lives, but they could of done and 2 lads spring to mind straight away, one i am sure he would of had is own company by now and employing other lads, he had good work ethic, well manard and very well organised, the other lad worked his arse off and again well organised and well manared but unfortunatly he fell off the road due to a women f - - - - - g his head up, Another thing to compare is when i first started work in 1980 i was on £32 a wk and a pint of shitty Youngers tarten bitter in our local was 40p a pint, so i got 80 pints of beer for my weeks wage, your money is very simular and yes i know beer varies a lot more these days from pub to pub for the same pint, I think you need to sit down and have a chat with your self and sort out where you want to be, what you want to earn and most of all what would make you the happiest as its no good being in a job if your not happy and enjoying it, i still enjoy my job as much today as i did 40 yrs ago, So i think you need to sort yourself out first and be thinking of what you actually want from life, so i will wish you the best of luck and stay safe,

dont know about that got bored with it before and fell asleep,

I have never read any thing about 15 mile being a limit but1.5 km yes i have read and is a limit but as others have said it will affect us all at some point as when it comes in the powers that be will be red hot on this subject, if you have a tractor with a shit spreader behind you wont get pulled but if you have a tractor and tipping trailer loaded with stone you probably will get pulled and checked over,

Is it really ! Horticulture and Arbourculture, two totally different words with two very different meanings, Ok there may be a slight cross over in some cases but far from it in many cases of arb work,

A lot of people are thinking Arb work is Horticulture ? i understand it that it is not under the same unbrella as Horticulture ? Horticulture is growing plants,trees.shrubs for food use i,e fruit n veg, i have read a lot on the use of red diesel in the last 12 month as i have just spent a chunk of my hard earned cash on a project that is to be used for both extracting timber and transporting timber back to base from with in forestry work, for the said project to be taxed and insured as agricultural and run on red diesel is fine for what we are going to be doing with it, but if i was to go to a arb job and remove the timber or Arb waste as it is classed with the said project it is a total different ball game then and i would be a long way from being leagal, The lads who run a tractor or unimog for Arb use and have it taxed n insured as agricultural and run on red diesel and think this is fine, just have a proper look at what is permitted ?, from what i understand is the only time a tractor or unimog working in Arb and can be taxed n insured as agricultural and be run on red diesel is when it is working on roadside trees with in the highway boundry, for general arb work they should be taxed n insured under general haulage and run on white !! I did post on this site a few month back about i guy i know with a Unimog and some one ran in to it when it was parked up at a job and he is up shit creek now with DVLA (taxation class) VOSA (roadworthiness of the Mog) Customs and excise (fuel duty) HMRC (frauding the government) and Greater Manchester constabulary so far its cost him about 30k and it aint finished yet, so is red fine in arb work,

Quite aware of that thanks,

Was this a block on the west side of Keilder here you refare to as i know of some Sitka that sold for around that amount but it was a couple of years ago tho, and i believe they where some very very decent sized trees with a average DBH of 800mm and went off site in 40ft poles,

I know Yamaha called that system, Auto Lube, first bike i so that on was a FS1E 50 DX some time around 76/77, but there was a mate of my dads that was in to the Scott,s and he educated me one evening about the Scott being 2 stroke, water cooled and having 2 tanks 1 for petrol and 1 for the 2 stroke oil, and at the time i thought the Suzuki GT750 water cooled, Kettle, was a first but i was only about half a century out,

Thats the one, they where raced at the TT but never did anything and thats probably where Kawasaki got the idea from ?,

Another Great British invention stolen by the Japanese !!!!

Had a do on a KH250 many years ago and back then it was quite quick, the same lad later got and still has it and only rides it when the sun shines and thats a Honda NSR 400 and that is a missisle on wheels, it goes very very well and handles just as good i think its a late 80s bike but will live with todays 600 750s on the B roads, i will stick with my 1954 Triton these days thanks,

There will be all sorts of companies and operations that will still be allowed to use red diesel, i think some people are making a mountain out of a mole hill with this subject and its just like any other forum is you believe what every one says your head will be up your arse, I cant see the QE2 being run on white diesel ,

Have you ordered a jigsaw ? Festool with a big blade works best and makes me about a £1000 a day just picked a 3 million pound job up today and with a old lady at her bungalow and i am now fully booked till June 2155 and might have to get a new van yet,, 😂😂

We dont really cube it up as when it goes down the road on a wagon its in tonnes and over a weigh bridge then invoiced in tonnes, Fresh felled larch is 1.11 cube per tonne and to give you a better idea a 3.7mtr log with a mid diameter of 300mm is 0.26 cube so roughly you would get just over 4 logs per tonne,

£35 a tonne, have you been out over the week end with that window cleaner/tree sugeon/fencing contractor 😂😂😂 If you can get it a that price dont hesitate just buy it as you would make good money on it if it was just for firewood,