Daniël Bos

Your plan will not stop a fox if she's hungry, I reckon nothing short of a full enclosure (top, bottom and sides) will stop a determined fox My neighbours chicken pen is heras fencing, on concrete bases, a strand of barb wire 4" over the top, a strand of electric fencing 6" higher than that and another electric fence wire at the same height 6" out so it overhangs to the outside. It looks right horrible imo. Fox still gets in and out, taking no prisoners... For us a better investment has been an automatic door. It opens on a timer and closes in reaction to light levels. It means the door opens about 7, so though it has been light for a while already the fox has gone to bed and closes when it gets dark.

Thread already running about that: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/75673-train-vs-tracked-chipper.html

Looks like Robinia from here?

Whenever I've considered any equipment for hiring out I calculate it thus: Machine value (say £25k) Normal time this machine would last reliably (5 years) Maintenance and insurance cost/year (2k) When renting things out they break much faster so I'd be looking to replace the machine in 2.5 years so I'd need to earn £30k/2.5 = 12k/year (£25k + 2.5yx2k ) £12k/ 25 (weeks of use) = £480/week. Ant residual value of the machine is nice, but for my calcs I assume it's totally shagged after the 2.5 years. Renting a machine out full time is in reality quite hard to achieve... So, if the machine can be hired out and earn £480+consumables, operator, transport etc per week I'd consider it. If not it stays at home. Whereabouts in Norfolk are you?

If somebody set up a firewood business on the empty smallholding beside me I'd complain... I think as has been said it comes down to whether or not the terms of use allow industrial commercial activities. What it states in your lease documents is not relevant to anyone else but you and the landlord. If they do you're ok to go on and any measures you take to curb the noise could earn you some goodwill. If you're carrying out these commercial activities on land not designated for the purpose then you can either argue with them for a bit or do the decent and sensible thing and move on. Whether or not the landlord knew what your intentions were and whether they were/are within the planning constraints is not that relevant either as it is not up to them to ensure you act within the law.

Did you actually read what it says:sneaky2: You do not need any form of permit to burn green waste if less than 10t/24hr, providing it is waste you have produced yourself.

This was last week after the "Apex" show in Amsterdam, "The world's top Access equipment event"..... They were taking down the "welcome to the show" sign.

As well as that there should be an agreement between those signed up to this to not go into each others' patch. A small percentage of profits would have to be used to police the agreements, do the admin etc. This system would be ideal and could keep prices very profitable:thumbup: Until the gov' find out you're running a price-fixing cartel and you all get fined out of business and hopefully imprisoned for a while... Time and time again this exact thread appears "how much should I charge for..." and the answers are always the same "you're undercharging", "them others are ruining the business by underpricing" etc etc winge moan and complain. If people do not charge enough, they will go bust. Problem solved. I charge as much as I feel on the day, yesterday I went out with no more than £1000 worth of kit and went home with £375 profit. Total running cost for the day a little under £45. Two days ago I was happy to charge £120 for the whole day with a full complement of kit, only just covered costs but a good day was had. Any other company would have had to put at least £750 on that job, does that mean I underpriced it and ruined other businesses ??

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You'll have to specify in what way efficient. Effort: Matches/lighter Money: Some Poles/Bulgarians/other-stereotypical-cheap-hard-grafters with saw and axe. Time: Whole tree chipper+big 360

Just cut the whole thing freehand, I presume you'll need to do a fair bit of finishing anyway to shape it? It's not that hard to cut straight over long lengths if you use a big bar and not that hard to cut curves either. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/milling-forum/69350-freehand-milling.html

I'd tell him to do one. You charge the main contractor, they charge whatever they like. If he wants "a good fee" he can add it in the price to the client as I'm sure he would anyway. If you're keen on the work, explain that your rate to him is already lower than if you'd work directly for the client and he could/should consider that difference his good fee.

Man-Minge... Or Muffler Mod...

(Pentatomidae) Picromerus bidens

My app was on the phone when I got it (I use an outdoor specialised phone) and is called "call for help" (no idea why they decided to name it that?) so it may be built in?

I have an app on my phone that you can pre-instruct to call for help by texting or phoning and playing a recorded (by you) message. You can set who it phones etc, it's activated by pressing the camera button for 3 seconds. I always carry a knife and it is always sharp. I normally carry a small forest axe as well. I find out the exact coordinates of where I'm working the day before and put them in a text as having to explain "after 300 yards through the brambles there is a stone, turn into the nettle patch there and keep going till you get to the snapped Ash that looks like a dragon, then carry on along that line until you see that one oak that's bent a bit to the left then I'll be just 200 yards to the right" does not work so well. I make sure my family know those coordinates and when I expect to be back and try to let them know if my timing changes much. I am 6'4, 16st, ginger-bearded Viking.

So are jellyfish, poison them all!

I appreciate the effort going in to the number crunching but if the issue is cost than the answer is simply: aspen is much more expensive, and no amount of calculating seconds/day spent more or less etc will change that. It isn't just about cost though and that is why (for me) cost is acceptable. I run all my saws on Aspen, from ms180 to ms880. Just as a fun fact to ponder: in the Netherlands an employer that requires an employee to use 2-stroke machinery must run it on aspen/motomix/other alkylate fuel, as exposing your employees to the amount of toxins found in pump petrol whilst there are (much) less harmful alternatives contravenes h&s laws. Its more like ppe, about protecting yourself and your employees from harm where it is possible to do so. Do you use a saw in shorts because they are cheaper then stretch airs?

Do you not have loads of pop and a mill Steve? Pop makes OK cladding. Here's one I'm working on, all oak and no metal fixings in it anywhere.

Why?

Make hay, bale it, sell it to Cressida to feed her horses...

In the UK, if you employ a tradesman without the appropriate qualifications, insurance or training you are similarly liable in case an accident should occur. It is up to the person paying for the work to ensure the person they hire is suitably qualified/registered/trained etc, and has been thus for a fair while.

I'd say a little time spent finding a bit of Ash would be time better spent than trying to re-invent the wheel (or the handle) and potentially wasting time crafting a handle that will not be up to the task.

I fitted a Hyway Big Bore to mine, and it was good quality. Casting was better finished than the oem one that came off (Kolbenschmidt), and it was an easy fit. I did a little mild porting for higher speed as the big bore kit is just that ie it doesn't make a standard 660 much faster but it does give it more grunt. With a little porting work and exhaust modding it benefits a lot more. I broke mine, through my own stupidity. I'd fitted a thinner base gasket for optimum compression but the fourth or fifth time I reassembled it after fiddling-testing-fiddling I occidentally omitted the base gasket... It ran really well, for a short while... The ebay seller Tesgol is a thoroughly decent chap to deal with, (one year warranty advertised and I'd thought there was fault with the P+C). As were the manufacturers themselves who were really keen to examine the remains of my saw to determine how it went wrong, and reimbursed me the value of my scrap saw after deciding it was not a manufacturing fault. Even though I ported it a bit, and smoothed the exhaust to a mirror finish, fluted the inlet etc these were not seen as an issue as they did not cause the failure. I can honestly say that was one of the best consumer experiences I've ever had (second only to that one night in Amsterdam that my wife doesn't know about).

Nice job, they look in place there somehow, the pictures of the silhouette of T-rex (?) look really cool. Seems a bit overkill on the transport though, would normal flatbed trucks not have been easier? Do they have any sort of footing/anchorage or are they just on their footplates on top of the grass?