billpierce
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if anything i find the 170's to under oil slightly/ oilers to break
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yep i would like to see it after a week indoors. nice idea and looks good. amazed at the amount of morons commenting about the "waste of good wood" on the youtube page.....really what must they be thinking?
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thanks! appreciate the effort!
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no more details, was taken at night, no tyre tracks, nothing. no evidence of it being winched up onto anything so they must have picked it clean up or done something really clever/been 20 of them. sadly security was rural countryside and a shut gate, and the fact it was a huge object that was hard to move.......
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yeah i'll try and get the serial numbers and post them....sorry to hear of having 22k of kit go. that must have hurt alot. what do insurers usually insist on? saws locked up, gates on yard locked? meanwhile of anyone hears of a sawmill going cheap (not necessarilly a lumbermate.) my pal might be interested as i think he really needs one....
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also how the flip do you cruise around in the middle of the night with a huge lorry and probably a hiab without getting clocked?
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who knows?shipping container off to somewhere too far away? you so so few for sale you'd think it would get picked up eh?
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yeah i think he assumed that no wheels would mean it would be too hard to take. which is what i would have thought too.....get yours good and safe eh? where abouts are you in kielder? i assume you didn't get your lumbermate real cheap this morning per chance !?
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yeah real savage......has anyone had any stolen kit returned ever? i'd like to believe its possible but seems pretty unlikely. we live pretty out in the sticks here, alot of folk don't lock their doors etc so its a real shocker...
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have posted on stolen thread but just thought i'd post here too. pal of mine had a Norwood Lumbermate 2000 20ft bed lifted from his yard last night just near Allendale. generator welder went from just down the road too. i'm sure no one will but just incase they do, give me a pm if you hear of ought. didn't have the wheels on or anything just lifted it clean up! he reckons 8k of kit! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh he was just about to start milling to build his house too.
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pal of mine had a Norwood Lumbermate 2000 20ft bed lifted from his yard last night just near Allendale. generator welder went from just down the road too. i'm sure no one will but just incase they do, give me a pm if you hear of ought. didn't have the wheels on anything just lifted it clean up! he reckons 8k of kit! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh he was just about to start milling to build his house too.
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multipurpose car/van type vehicle suggestions
billpierce replied to forestgough's topic in General chat
citroen dispatch 1.9 hdi with some rear seats -
Hilux are a great vehicle but do you need it road worthy? you can get a bottom end one for £1500-£2000 mk2/3. which is prob the most durable model. even better get a horse! ms181 good and study but needs to be razor sharp. i would get a 211 or more if your set on stihls. personally i would use with 12'' bar as this means more power and you can still cut just under 2ft diameter with this. as above with coppice advice. i prefer to move timber in as larger pieces as i can easily move until it is v close to where it will be seasoned as this reduces handling i.e.loading and unloading a pickup of logs takes longer than doing the same with 7ft x 8'' poles. have fun
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he must have been putting a good bit in to colour a tank of diesel? how much you recon should be used?
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i think 500 is cheap! though it depends on who he wants to buy them....i sometimes try and do things cheap for some folk, as i want them to end up with something i've made and i like that they have asked me. but i can't do that everyday. i think if you compare to alot of hand made furniture makers you wouldn't get much for 500.
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yes i would definately consider a makita or a dolmar! if i had to buy a 50cc saw. from using a couple of dolmars they seem to punch well above their 50cc weight and seem v robust. and you can get em for about 400ish inc vat.
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i reckon it totally depends how many time syou've wished you had 4x4 tipper whilst driving your transit? for me i long for the day that my hilux can tip, or even have drop sides! so i would keep ot if i had it! i suppose the other thing is do you totally trust it to do the job when you need it to? i am a fan of older simpler 4x4's so i would keep it.
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did you make that ally tub then? or where'd you get it?
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a mate of mine kept siezing bars. he reckoned it was because he was keeping his saws in a a boiler room and the bearings weren't loving it. i guess just another varient to consider!
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i'd like to see the next photo in the series
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is there anything tedious in insurance docs about refreshing?
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Anyone uprated a 4x4 pick up to 3.5 tonner?
billpierce replied to Andrew Barrett's topic in Arb-Trucks
whats the payload on a transit tipper? i thought (and am probably wrong) that nealry everything in the 3.5t catagory its payload is about 1t with the main difference being tow capacity. the bed on my pickup is 7.5x4.5 ft which space wise is easy to get 1 t of logs/chips in. downrating vehicles as mentioned usually means the empty vehicle weighs 3.5 t before you load it! i have thought about it many ways and there doesn't seem to be a really good allround solution! -
just a quick thanks to say got the gloves! dead generous of you. much appreciated, thanks again, bill
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just why? why would you do that? other than to be funny?
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I got a brick in the middle of a 30'' sycamore a while back. thats was pretty good.
