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  1. muttley9050
    Looks a nice saw and a bargain at that price. I saw one similar being used once and wasn't difficult to reset for next cut. Had some sort of a ratchet system. Not sure about this one though. Will be easy to manually push if bed is set up well and in good condition
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    If I had to sell mine for that I think it would be cheaper to chuck the logs straight in the boiler.
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    Yeah. Seen that. Lots of nice stuff. Looking at selling not buying though. Most of what they have listed as sleepers are 2"thick too. I call that a plank.
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    8ft?
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    Hi all. What's are people current selling oak sleepers for. 8x4 and a reasonably good grade? Cheers James
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    I charge my mate £50 an hour every body else £60. Minimum 6 hours.
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    Couple of scaffold poles for rolling heavy slabs with and to help moving logs about
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    Poplar

    muttley9050 replied to chico's topic in General chat

    Might have something to do with the over zealous reduction recently carried out.
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    Never use push fit myself except in vans. Never trusted them. End feed solder all the way.
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    I always keep a couple of imperial olives and a couple of end feed 22/34 solder fittings in the bag. Real ball ache trying to do it the other way. I wouldn't think about trying to use metric push fit on an imperial pipe. Sweat a changeover to metric on and push fit away. It is possible to sweat a 22mm end feed onto a 3/4 but if you get it to hot it will fail.
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    Yeah it's a high lift. If I ever sell it I expect I will make a profit. Parts aren't really available any more so everything has to be made but I like to tinker.
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    They're great. Unfortunately they are just not very good at tipping.
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    Just hold it up with your spare hand until you have to knock compression back on?
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    Bit more than I sold mine for but everything is high at the moment and it will go on and on. Assuming you can't start it. [emoji6]Awesome machine for gravel. Not so much for sticky clay.
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    No I'm not. Was just interested in the price they are making these days. I spent 2k about 8 years ago on a 1 tonne thwaites skip loading dumper and haven't looked back. Far more complicated than the one the op has and will probably never last as long, but a joy to use and paid for itself many times over.
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    Do you mind if I ask what it cost you?
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    Used to have one the same. was a knack to starting it. Something like this Decompression up. pump slide up. Crank up to speed. drop compression. keep cranking till it goes. I could always do it. others couldn't. You may know but when you hold the crank handle make sure your thumb is in the same direction as your fingers, not grabbing it like your making a fist. have heard of some serious thumb damage from holding incorrectly.
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    Looking good
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    Not particularly susceptible to warping. Make the beams big. Chunky joints. And you will be fine. Draw bore 2mm instead of 3mm. If you wanted an easy, less skilled build then it would be simpler to get it kilned and use more timber fixings with square cut joints and housings
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    Where are you based? Yeah it can be done but pine is a bit weaker than the usual green framing timbers. Tenons can split out when draw bored if they are not big enough. If I had pine and needed a shed I would use it for sure. But I would oversize everything as much as I could. It would also be a good idea to build our and get a roof on and not be in to much of a rush to clad anything in. Let the timber surface dry well then treat it all then clad it. All the timber needs to be treated and this would be best done when it's drier unless you have access to a pressure treatment plant. Kilning isn't really that beneficial if you use the correct building methods. Joints could be more mechanical and cut quicker in seasoned timber though.
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    Not offended. Takes a lot. Some builders are shit. Same as some doctors etc. Just disagree with tarring from the same brush.
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    Got one of these for our 100kw biomass boiler and it's a awesome. Went through a couple of generic cheap ash vacuums and bust up a couple of old Henry's before biting the bullet. It's a great tool. Still can't be used for hot ashes though. [emoji621]️ HZ350 Hazardous Soot Dust Chimney Sweep Utility Vacuum Cleaner | Avern WWW.AVERNCLEANINGSUPPLIES.COM Numatic HZ350 hazardous soot dust chimney sweeps vacuum cleaner is designed with excellent suction level to clear hazardous soot dust.
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    If you get a piece of wood, do a test with her on how easy application is. Osmo a baby could make it look good and repair a scratch etc. Polyurethane needs much more care and cant be satisfactorily repaired easily.
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    One of the last jobs I did i let the customer order some of the materials as he was very fussy on colour It reminded me why i don't let it happen usually. It was a landscaping job. Priced up for bricks and sandstone. When I got to the job. The bricks were all engineering bricks which take a lot longer to lay. They Had been unwrapped and moved by hand round the back and covered with a holey tarp. They were soaked. The slabs were granite which also take a lot longer to lay/cut and need slurrying. Fortunately this customer was very fair and accepted my reasonable extras to cover the changes. Laying dripping wet engineering bricks in December was no fun though.
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    It's called business, its not a trick. I don't charge customers for materials unless it's an extra. I give them a price for a job. In order to work this out I get a price for the required materials multiply by 1.15 and use this figure to work it out. If the customer got a price for the materials I doubt the total would be much different. The 15% is to cover me working out, ordering, collecting, unloading etc the said materials. If you pay a groundie £100 a day do you charge the customer £100 or more. I've heard of tricky tree surgeons making money by charging more for staff than they pay them. Also I very rarely leave customers dissatisfied. Probably because I charge enough to do a good job. But some people can't be satisfied.

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