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Depends on budget really, everyone knows the value of tackle these days!! I was looking for a yard tractor myself this week and i found a old major with a trip loader on it and it was growing into the hedge lol still wanted £1500!! I'm actually a nash,brown,case fan. I have a nash 785xl 4wd that im starting to tart up and might put a turbo on it making it the same as a 956xl. It will be ideal for yard and local stuff but your stuck with 23mph on the road!! If you want a 40k tractor or faster things start getting more expensive. Unless you get an old nuffeild/leyland/marshal as some of them would happily do 30-40mph!!! But they take some stopping too

I'm liking the look of the tr6!!

Quite right ash!! I don't like paying for my mistakes i'm bloody sure i wont pay for others

Tell me about it!! The Ford 7840 cost me £150 plus vat for some corroded wires. The Manitue needs a new ram and now the 785xl nash needs an injector pump!! I have an 028 and a ms390 in bits and im using a ms211 toy saw and a 048av dinosaur that weighs a bloody ton to pay the bills!! It's all bloody money at the moment:sneaky2:

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My pricing structure is as follows .25 barrow bag £28 .5-.6 dumpy £45 1m3 £75 Wholesale £45 per 1m3 in either 7m3,20m3 or 45m3 loads. I would say the wholesale wood is part seasoned only because it's pot luck some could be 4yr seasoned some could be green and everything else inbetween. Also there could be the odd bit of softwood lurking amongst it but nothing major. It's a good way of bulking out or supplimenting your own supply.

No such thing!! More bark will break off when they drop off the end of the convayer into to the bag or truck and again when you tip it off. I admit not as much but it's still there. The tumblers are good for getting the splinters and shards of wood out of the load. My parents had one but to be fair it ended up not being used as it was just one more thing to move around the yard.

£75 same as this year dependant on area i suppose.

Yeah i spotted that myself about the 300. Best off asking them to take your number and bell you if one comes up. I know they like to offer good trade in prices on none posch machines when people are trading up to a new posch. They really are the bomb duffer spencer

Watched a Hakki Pilke 1x 37 make 6k at auction other week on had 20m3 through it from new!! We paid 5k for our posch 280 about 3 yrs ago and to be fair it's streets ahead of the japa 700 and the 1x37. Ring Jasp wilson up he always has trade ins at the right money. He had two 280's at the 3k+vat mark for a while and you can be sure they have been through their workshop before being sold on too!!

Me too same as Jon but in the NW

Hit the nail on the head there bud!! I'm buying alot of arb waste and i'm always looking if anyone is in the NW but it's a mixed a bag!! There will always be willow conifer and pop in it aswell as decent stuff and a processor is usless because it's normaly 2ft+ diameter or awkward unions but it's a way of getting large quantities relativley cheaply. It just takes a bit of picking through and suplements the cordwood nicley. Anything too nasty goes for biomass. The problem as i see it is logs have become a consumer product that people want to buy and use straight away. 10 yrs ago logs where logs and mostly sold by the measure of pickup load or trailer load, the customer would season them theirself. Since i was a child i've seen people startup selling logs and not many last more than a few yrs and thats because they don't realise how much graft, time and diesel goes into it. If i where to pay myself a hourly rate and added up all the time i spend running around with pickup or tractor and trailer collecting wood then time spent processing and bagging and finaly delivering it i proberly wouldn't have much left to cover the fuel costs. I do it because the chances of finding subby work 20 days a month 12 months of the year arn't realistic and i don't want to work for someone else cards in. For me being a firewood merchant is a lifestyle choice but one that pays the bills:001_smile:

So what happens when you deliver to someone who's just had pattern imprinted concrete drive layed?? Don't think they'd be too chuffed if you just fired the tipper up!! So what do you do then tip it on the road?? I deliver plenty of firewood and i'm not gonna start willy measuring but more than most. I've had tippers,flatbeds,panel vans 4x4's only thing i havn't bothered with is a hiab. I currently run a l200 with some high sides on and a choice of ifor tipper and a flatbed. But everytime i deliver i have a barrow brush and shovel stashed somewhere on the motor and i don't mind wheeling a cube of wood into someone wood store and i don't leave bark or splinters on the drive/street either and thats why people buy wood from me apart from the fact its seasoned and cheaper :001_smile:

70K!!!!!!!!!!!! and still nowhere to put your elbow lol

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Whats the pickup and whats it plated for if you don't mind me asking. I'm thinking of getting a ford f150 4x4. From everything i've read the yank trucks are in a different relm when it comes to carrying and towing.

Like i said you must have had a bad one! mine pulls hardest from 1500-2500rpm and i don't need to take it over 3000rpm ever. I used to have a disco 1 tdi300 auto and have to admit that was an ultimate towing machine BUT the reason i'm a LR hater is because both the disco and the defender 90 i had spent more time being spannered than working!! I'm thinking of going YANK anyway lol F150 1500 4x4 single cab with manual box. If you get them sva'd you can have them plated for 3.5t and 7t train weight and if it's on lpg should work out around 30mpg at current fuel prices. Bet that won't have any trouble towing We should arrange a top gear inspired arb truck drag race, chipbox ladders and chipper hooked up hahaha

You didn't buy it did you Brett?? I've seen toilet cubicles with more room than a defenders cab!!

To be fair you could pickup a c250 camon for cs100 money!! I'm sure it would be more productive than a cs100 too.

I third that for the Jensen!! Completley different league to the TW

What will they lift Dean?? I was on a job last week and we ringed up a pop butt that was easy 5ft diameter and the lads said they would get their avant in to load it all onto vehicles. I asked if it would handle the rings and they reckoned so! They must be strong little machines!!!

L200's arn't guttless!! Mine is an early one on a p reg with mechanical injector pump which has been turned up along with a few other tweeks. It has no problems towing good loads at all!! My parents have a for life+ with factory power upgrade it's 170 odd hp and again has no problems towing. You must have had a bad experience with one? Before L200's we used to run Isuzu's from old square 2.5 trooper right upto the last gen trooper with the 3.0 direct injection which gave that much trouble the whole family swapped to Mitsubishi's!!

Dan i think your just doomed to bad mpg :001_tt2:

I wouldn't pay more than £500 for it. Is it live drive?