spuddog0507

No wounder you got a bad back with that ? is it your set up for a bit of high reach pruning ?????

well going off another post on another thread about expensive logs, some said he had lost his but plug ! so ring shake will be a bit slack,,,

Just after Christmas i had to go and get some white diesel for a pickup that had been in a building for a couple of months and just been driven in and out, only drums i have have all had red in them,put £25s worth of white in on top of about a pint of red in the bottom of drum and with a sight test i would of said it was 99% right with no trace of the red,

Thats what i will do, along with many others,,

I will second that, we cleared a building out about 12 mth ago and in the building there was a Iveco pick up that had not run or moved for over a year put jump leads to it and it fired up almost instantly OK a lot of smoke but that was to be expected with it standing so long, over the 2 wk we was there we moved it several times and hardly any smoke after but the thing what amazed me was the mileage it had done 387k and it sounded as it it had done next to nothing, i would consider one with out a hesitation,,,

you will upset him ! dont be suprised if you see a dummy fly past the window when your washing up later,!!!!!!

they was on about the grand national today on local radio and the out come was let see how well we can contain it as at the time of the national is due to run it should not be that bad, they are expecting it to peak some time in may june july but they cant be sure, mayor of liverpool said we will just have to wait and make a dessicion nearer the time. there was 2 new outbreaks 12 mile south of us today 20 mile from Aintree and there is one on the Wirrell, other shows talked about was crufts FA cup final and sporting events with no spectators allowed in, i think we wont manage this virus and a lot of events will be cancelled,

it wont affect agriculture horticultur, forestry commercial fishing they will be able to claim the duty back, and i think some buissnes,s will be able to apply for some sort of exemption licence like quarrys and civil engineering firms, the abuse has gone on for decades and as i said about the guy who breaks the cars its not long since he told me he had a writen off BMW X5 in on a 69 plate that was full of red, this is why its coming to what it is because of things like this,

that will go through as you say then them who are entitled to the lower rate i.e farmers, commercial fishing, forestry etc will be allowed to claim the duty back, this will stop joe public running cars on red and one guy i know who breaks cars up used to run his recovery truck of the diesel he removed from the cars but not nowadays as he reckons over 50% are on red, a one colour fuel would be better but fuel theft will rise from farms for sure,

It did go for that but it was top notch timber that had been managed very well and it was not small either i heard a rummer from someone who knew the guys who felled it and i heard that the average DBH was around the 850mm

There has been a big change in the last 10 years with in the supply of timber, 10-12 years ago i was buying windblown larch and spruce for £600 and that included haulage out of north Wales, for a capped wagon and drag about 18 tonne so it was cut split and sell day after, around the same i was picking up wagon loads of hardwood Ash ,Beech,Cherry,Oak ,sycamore etc from the local estates and some of this had been roadside for 12 months or more and that was £800 a load, Today your lucky if you can find a load and if you do it will be top dollar, i was looking at a job in oct last year that was to start mar/april this year and all 2100 tonne of timber was sold all ready for biomass, but it was not cheap either he had been offered £57.50p per tonne roadside and most of that was dead ash and small hardwood thinings. One guy who i am in touch with regularly is a harvesting manager for one of the big players in uk forestry and there aim along with one or two other of the bigger set ups is to shorten the crop rotation down to 25-30 years and chip whole trees on site, this practice will hurt a lot of people in the firewood sector and leave them with 2 options 1) carry on as you are and not move forward ,or 2) import firewood thus putting more pressure on the resources of timber in eastern europe, personally i think we will get to a stage where timber or should i say firewood will be a high class luxury as it will be so expensive. unless we have a massive turnaround in the way we create our electric, And as to put in another example of Government organisation fuck up, the power station at Locherbie was designed to take and run of all chip from the brash coming out of commercial forestry in southwest scotland and the boarders, but again they are running in with wagon after wagon load of good 3.7mtr saw logs, so who ever was in charge of the mathes on that project needs to get back to school, one thing that jumps to mind on this is Clint Eastwood in the film, A few dollars more, where right at the end he says to Lee vanclife, thought i was having trouble with my adding there old man,

If you use it for next 5 years on domestic stuff and look after it correctly it will still be worth good money then may be still £400 and you have 5 years out of it, i run 2 461s and when the 462 was launched i thought trade both 461s for a 462 but thought better of it as the 461 i can fix myself as no electric computer control on them,

General grabber AT was on pick up when i bought it, what they had done before i bought truck i dont know ? but i have done 32k on them and looking at them last week looks like i will get another 10-15k out of them,

Its 12 months since purchase so no warranty Manufacture date will be in 2018 so that makes it nearly 2 yrs old, last one i bought was in May 2018 12 month warranty 25" bar £812 inc VAT the 461 model is now discontinued when dealers wanted shut of them when the 462 came out they where discounting them to about £750 with warranty For the £800 you want for it its a bit steep, and today i would add another £150 and go and buy the 462 lighter, more power and 12 month warranty A fair price would be £500 - £600 tops but put it on FB market place and you might get lucky as there is always 1 or 2 out there, good luck and i hope you get what you want,

yes send it back, thats wrong as it only has half its life left, not unless it was half price ? its the same with helmets, they are all dated and when i get one i order from a supplier that does not carry stock and i always ask him to ask if it was manufactured with in the last 3 months if not when are the new batch due in !, the questions aren,t mad as its your lifeline when your climbing, check all the other kit out and if in the case that they have sent you other gear that is dated a couple of years ago just take it all back as i would call that kit second grade and it should be cost reflective, and a bit of addvise allways buy kit like that from a supplier that turns alot of gear over as this should not happen if stock is changing weekly/monthly,

the RHI payment has this not come from the European directive ? if so i thought it was for any country with in the European union ! to me its just one big box ticking exercise and how things like this can be cost effective is beyond me, Guy i rent my building off has a boiler that is massive and its linked up to a drying floor that he drys the fibers out of cow shit once it has gone through a press and almost all the liquid squeezed out, takes about 48 hrs to dry 2 silage trailer full, this is then used for cattle bedding, this boiler burns 2+ arctic load of chip a week, now the cost of the chip would buy a awfull lot of cattle bedding but that would not make any money under the RHI payment scheme, as i under stood what he was telling me at Christmas was that the boiler would be paid off in 30 mths and after that it was a win win situation with government payments, !

you would get a lot better rinse thou,,,,

Rotatech and super sexy chain oil are the same oil just different stickers on the drum, both come from northern arb supplies and why would you want to change something that your happy with ?, I have used several different chain oils over the years Stihl,oregan,rockoil etc and the super sexy / rotatech oil is by far the best value for money by a country mile, and to give you some idea on the amount we use (2 of us ) a 25 ltr drum lasts about 8-10 days cutting for us depending on saw size, one guy who works with us now and then buys 20ltr drums of veg oil but he has to by a bar for his saw every 12-15 months and that to me is false economy, so for me its as the saying goes. if its not broken don,t fix it,

What spiecies of timber are you looking for simon ?

Bright sunny but still blowing 20-30 mph , yesterday i had the privalidge of going to blackpool to watch all 12 episodes of Peter Kays Pheonix nights on the big screen at the winter gardens, parked up about 12.30 and came out about 7.30, blowing a fair bit when i walked down towards winter gardens but when we came out it was lashing it down and blowing its arse off, took about 15 mins to walk from car park to venue but it only took me about 5 mins to get back to car park, rain was going past me nearly horizontal and wind pushing me along, and not a nice drive home either branches bins and debris blowing about in the wind,

You taken up fishing now !!

Rain n wind , rain n wind and then a real supprise on Wednesday, was up in the lakes surrounded by snow on the higher ground and it stayed dry most of the day and today rained nearly all day with a yellow warning for heavy rain over night, just hope i can get to Blackpool tomorrow going to watch all the episodes of Peter Kays Phoenix nights at the winter gardens on the big screen and really looking forward to it,

Have a google and find out if it will take treatment on ? its not a spieces i have delt with before and some dont take treatment well, it may do it may not, if it will take treatment all well and good but if it dont its either chip of firewood,

that one of the big spud boxes about 1.8-2 cube if so that was dirt cheap,

If it was forestry firewood grade hardwood it would be costing you in the region of £65 tonne plus the haulage and you would have buy a arctic load at that so if you paid £30 and it was in rings ready to split its cheap, if it was all small 3-5" round wood its dear but it will still burn but just a bit more time needed cutting it up,