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"Somebody said you sell logs, how much are they?" "Sure, what size load would you like? I do a net for £3, a sack for £5, builders bag for £40, a cubic meter £60 or a 3 cube tractor trailer for £150..... Funny, nobody ever quibbles over price! I get loads of repeat business. I put £5 deposit on a bag if they insist on keeping it, and get a fiver delivery if we're going more than 5 miles and upto 10 from base.
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My bagging device is called Eddie, and is quite slow.....
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Fair tempting, Am still procuring IBCs for a tenner at the mo, also getting indian stone crates foc too.....
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I buy the 450x60 nets from ebay, 18.5p each inc delivery. Fit snug over the 25l drum we use to fill, never counted logs inside but they are heavy enough when full of hardwood.
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Damn! That could be my yard, IBC cages and the same splitter! I've considered making a log wiper for it, a handy addition. How do you find the machine? I love mine!
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A friend witnessed a tipper truck tip its load and contact the 11kv overheads in a yard locally. He said it was the most astounding thing he's ever seen, sparks, lorry tyres on fire and bursting, cable broke and came down and set fire to all the grass and tarmac. System breaker tripped and reclosed THREE times. Driver stayed in his cab and was ok.... My mate is an electrican, and kept people back because he thought the connection might reclose.... A week later the electricity company arrived, quietly erected overhead cable signs and left, there had been none previously but the driver should've checked.
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I had an Eberspacher diesel heater fitted behind the passenger seat on my Series III 109" Awesome for a frosty morning, bob out, switch on heater, back in to scoff toast and then its all warm and defrosted when its time to go...
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My mate who is into firewood in quite a big way processes straight off stack and away to the customer. Hopes everything comes out at under 28% It does. Just.
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That Tanaka has waaaaaay too much power obviously! I used to make up chains, I didn't mind it too much, we used to have so much trouble making up the Stihl Mini Picco chains that we would buy the common 44 link and 50 links already made up from Stihl, saved a lot of fustration. One of the lads known as "Donk" was famous for joining chains together with a loop in them, cue return of a rather puzzled and fustrated customer who could not for the life of them unravel this chain! We banned him from making them eventually....
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To sum up, I bought a Stihl 08S AV Electronic (yayyy chain Brake!) a while back as a non runner for £35, beer money! New fuel hose and fresh fuel made it go but badly. New carb kit and it was a little better, still losing power when cutting. Was subsequently given an 08S in bits, stuck that carb on and it ran a lot better. Got to use it in anger last Sunday. Ripping up some beech rings that were too heavy to lift Still on .404 chain, I she's on a 20" My GOD it went well! Was easily keeping up with mates brand new Husky 359 on an 18" Then I hit a bit of metal in one of the rings. And it kept cutting! Ploughing through the masses of soil stuck to the rings that had been sat on the ground, still cutting like a new chain. Everytime I set it down it idled on and on and on. I've always coveted 08S' Now I know why quite a lot of people still use them around here. Thought this might differ from the usual tales of woe on this page!
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I've given up on full chisel, blunts off far too quick with the timber I end up with. Only buying semi now, I can't tell any difference in speed except it cuts for a lot longer. I do have an Oregon Multicut which only comes in full chisel, and it is very good chain. Still doesn't survive an interface with the roadplanings the yard is made of....
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I have an addiction for old heavy Stihls. I like to use them too... I like to buy dead ones and make them live again, got 5 saws at the mo...
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Still got it, its been unused for a lot of years now.
On my 3rd Fourtrak at the mo.
Working, logging and a Tractor gets in the way of offroading!
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I tend to mix 32-1 Running vintage stuff as well as newer saws so its a compromise 2 stroke oils are much much better now anyway.
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I've not needed much stiches but I do a good line in stemming blood loss using paper towel and electrical tape.
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Briggs and Stratton fuel stabiliser does work, I've used it in cars and bikes as well as small engines. Being left unused isn't good for a 2 stroke engine, the seals can become hard and dry. However as pointed out Start it up and run for 30 secs. Stop empty out the fuel then run until it dies I like to keep the chain oil tank full, mineral chain oil has a huge shelf life - if its "Bio" oil or veg then run it dry, then refill with mineral and run for a bit to stop the veg oil drying and gumming it all up.
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So who's bought a snow blower this year?!
Nat replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
Another point to raise is you can use red diesel when snowplowing. However a vehicle gritting MUST use white diesel. Yes, even if its snow plowing at the same time. -
No carb boot on these monsters - no AV! Intake gasket was a bit poor so made it another - from a Stihl chain box Fuel hose had a split, newie fitted and threw in the carb kit, rest of the fuel system checked out ok. Running pretty well now, idles real slow - forever. The rev limiter seems a bit overly keen (a wind vane works the choke on these) might look at a new spring for that Sprocket has mega wear, so thats more expense... Abused my £35 chain grinder with the .404 chain and off we go!
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My God! That 024 is well worn! I've got an 08s Quikstop Electronic at the moment, paid £35 for it, has a new chain fitted... Fuel tank was full of a dark brown liquid, refilled with fresh fuel, she goes but won't run for long before cutting out, stays running if you work the choke on and off so I guess sparks are ok. I have a carb kit on the way, I know nowt about the 08, I've always wanted one though, proper beast of a saw! It'll be like vintage working when I'm out with that and the 056!
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My wheelie bin is not loud enough, nor does it perform as I think it should. Does anyone know where I can buy a tuned/ported muffler?
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I HATE wasps. I was clearing a path down the side of some farm buildings with a big heavy old strimmer a couple of years back, Felt a pain in my hand, Wasp stuck into my palm, looked up, more swarming from a hillock I'd just sliced with the strimmer. I turned and ran about 25 metres then basically lept over a metal 5 barred gate, strimmer still harnessed to me - How, I don't know! Avoided any more stings! Got stung on the inside of my lip once, it had been doing backstroke inside a half drunk can of Fanta previously.....
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What you need to say to them if you have to ring them again for a similar incident is; "Theres some lads breaking to the nearby garages. I'm just going out with a pickaxe handle to break their knees so you can catch them." Any hint of you taking the law into your own hands like that, they will be straight round! About 6 cars!
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I always put a Builders bag at about .6 m3? I was maybe a bit rash saying the pickup bed was 1 m3 - Taking out the wheelarches gives nearer .85 m3 But then another guy in town, doing firewood is selling builders bags for £40. With FREE delivery as far as 40 miles away!!! I'm not quite that daft.
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We got given many tonnes of felled timber for free.. Ended up selling firewood as a sideline to my fulltime job - Why? Don't know. Not had any complaints over price - Bit cheap maybe!!! Sack £5 Builders bag £40 Double Cab pickup load Roughly 1m3 £50 etc.... Costs me a tenner in fuel to bring back a tractor trailer load from the site I already had chainsaws and a tractor, the business has already bought a splitter for itself instead of hiring. We use a yard at my partner in crimes' house and the split logs are in a building so no outlay there. I bought an old Stihl 056 on a 36" bar because we have got BIG timber, but I always wanted a big saw anyway.... Only major outlays are the replacement parts my old clunker of a leyland keeps demanding!
