welsh wood

Thanks guys, just been to a site visit and as always nothing easy, can't get any plant down to where its going but I can get an excavator to the side of the lake and now the customer now wants it a lot longer with a hammer head at the end. Now you ask yourself how is he going to drive the piles with no mechanical help, so as the project is basically a 6ft wide walkway onto the lake what are your opinions of building floating pontoons built around blocks of polystyrene and bolting to one another. Will decide on the timber when i decide how to build it, by the way the water in the lake is very still and covered ib lilly pads.

Gethin.

Hi, I don't fancy the Alder and not much Elm in this area that I know of, the other option that I nave and imo better is Larch.

Hi, I have a 30 ft jetty to build into a shallow lake, the customer wants localy milled and grown timber. Do you think Douglas fir is up to the job? Or open to ideas.

Thanks.

Pic above reminds me of the old Fordson advert where they had a Dexta and a Major parked up with the drivers shaking hands how sweet

I have a few designes on my web page, link below. The shelters can be built

with heavier timber but as with life and Ryanair this will incur a surcharge

Liking the chicken in the background:thumbup1:

Thats the model:lol:

SCAM they must think we're a bunch of morons.

Good on yer bud . Glad to hear your wife is doing well . Hope she carries on getting better .

DITTO.

That run's tall enough for a chandelier or troupe of acrobatic gerbils.

belive me ,it may only be just high enough for the gerbils. it looks MASIVE

but they are only about at the most 4ft tall.

I had to assemble this for a client, came flat packed in 3 large boxes!

shiped in all the way from china,sold by the container load,book a day in about 18 months you'll be there again putting it in the skip . When these turned up on ebay few years ago I thought that I may aswell hang up my belt:lol: but actully things have improved,customers get addicted to hens and when theyer chinese coop fall apart within th year they then go for british

built,you wouldn't belive the amount of times I have replaced Chinese cra..p.

now that youv'e gone to the expence of treted timber remember to

treat any sawn edges,I know treated timber is guaranteed for 15 years

but as soon as it's cut all guarantees fly out the window.

She never lost an election.

but got evicted by her own back benchers when they put Major in :lol:

I'm with the EX miners and every hard working man that she drove

her tank over.:thumbup:

you would first use a chain harrow on grassland to tare out moss and level off any mole hills,

this would also drag stones out of the ground, you would then flat roll them back into the

ground. This is to avoid damage to forage machinery,if you have ever used a two drum mower to mow hay and a it fires a stone into the cab you'll know what I'm talking about,

it comes in like a scud missile.

Normally i use ply, top and bottom and tongue and groove for sides and back, t & g door to sleep compartment and a frame and mesh door on run side. Just wondered if any body used any thing else. And i'm crap at pricing jobs like these. Them in pet shops look like they last a month at most and cost a fortune, yet when i mention a half decent price, people tend to run to pet shop.

I whole heartedly agree and I have been there, but customers think you

will be cheaper than pet shops ... you can't compete with them on the price

you have to push that they are made of better quality material,it can be done

it has taken me years to build up my buisness in animal housing and I know you won't make enough to cover you'r time on a one off but the more you make

the faster you get. Good luck.

Marine ply is for any external or internal use where water may be an issuse. Does not soley have to be "salt water"

WPB ply is waterproof and boil proof ply, Marine ply glue will withstand

the effect of saltwater,the same wood is used in both just the glue is different,

you are welcomed to use Marine ply but at twice the cost,as long as you don't

use shuttering ply or OSB.

With 30 odd years as a carpenter/plant operator and any spare timein the last few years as an NVQ assessor on plant operators and carpenters.

I'd make a frame for hutches out of 2x2 feather edge back and sides marine ply the top and felt it and the front make two doors out of 1x1 and chicken wire one door and marine ply the other with a run I won't use 1x1 to make frame and chicken wire the lot. As for price materials plus an hourly rate..

 

Never some it before others may have other ideas I'm sure.

 

There not that much new so prob wouldn't entertain it as its not an earner!

why marine ply? theres no difference bettwen wpb ply and marine ply other than

marine ply glue as the name states will withstand salt water,so unless it's near or in the sea don't bother. Price? as much as you can get

Nice job Shane and keep up the good work,but and I know I'm going to get slaged for this if any other trades other than the arb boys buys a chainsaw and charges a customer, say to lop down a tree they are up in arms wanting to ban sales of chainsaws to other trades,there's a thread on here somewhere.

Now I will keep my head down,honest Shane this is no personal reflection on you.

I would hazard a "steal" at £500.00, but £1000.00(ish) would be a fair price.

It is probably actually worth considerably more to the collector market if it is completely genuine, esp if low owners/low hours as opposed to some of the tractors that have been bodged/modified/incorrectly restored.

I do get a trifle distressed at the "you could make money offen it bridgade, iffen you buy it for little enough" i.e lets rip the unknowing owner off.

Possibly the owner would be happier to see it usefully working locally for someone, for little money, rather than being traded on for a profit.

I just took a quick look again, it seems to be remarkably complete and sound vis-a-vis tinwork, lamps mudguards etc etc, these are generally the first parts to go/suffer/be trashed/rusted away.

The mechanical stuff is actually more straightforward to source and repair.

imhuo

Regards

Marcus

well said Marcus

We have an early Dexta, brilliant little tractors, knocked the Massey 35 into a cocked hat.

NEVER:001_tt2: Massey's never had problems with the gear selectors,the amount of times I had the early Dexta's and had to keep a spaner on me because they used to stick in gear,you knew when you had a bad one the bolts holding the gear sticks on were well worn

going by the shape of the front counter weight and the colour of the wings

she's an early super major,£1000 plus depending on how much you want to rip thi old dear off . starting this should be quite easy as they are bomb proof,when you try remember to press the exess fuel button on the injector pump.I don't think you can change the reg. from a tractor to a car.Only probs

with these if they have been standing a long time is an o ring at the bottom

of the sleve this can perish and as it is a wet sleve it can allow water to seap into the oil. Go for it you will never buy a david brown ever again

I won these fair n square £21 no reserve and the cheeky sod,s relisted them and then asked me for £100 for a pair of scrap forks that i wanted to reduce for my log splitter i,am making grrrrrrrrrrr makes my blood boil i,ve told the guy to stick,em even if they where free now etc as i dont like how he works ebay please read his add no reserve etc and then he puts a reserve on at the end of auction so i,ve reported it to deff ebay as usual i wont get a responce from them

forklift forks, Scrap Metal !!! | eBay

didn't you read his feedback theres a clue in there.

Keep looking.

You will be wanting one of these, £2 from a car booty. I think that Clifton design in Bristol have tooth setters in stock

arent this size setters for hand saws? I can't see how they would work on a large band because they clamp the blade and have should enough room to push

the tooth and not just used as a pair of pliers.

Make them easy to erect with the minimum diy skills req.the down side of this is other guys will copy,its the same as my preseli chicken coop that I have made for about 10 years there are now numerus sellers on ebay with a simillar design.But saying that if yours is a good product you will survive like I did and the competition will come and go.

stack them high sell them cheap,when you get to about 35 pallets a week courier

salesmen will be calling with you because they are desparate to fill theyer

lorrys,not only do I get a very good price off one company they even extended

the footprint of a standard pallet size to 5x4 at 6ft high. Good Luck as it is a mad mad world out there and as far as fiting instructions just give them the number to your give a damn department

No . Its a working cocker ( retired ) 14 years old and spayed . Since she has been spayed her fir grows like made . Have to clip her every 10 weeks or so . She runs about a goodun when we are out and just sleeps in between !

wife or dog? :lol: