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  1. Woodworks
    Not clear how you are planning to dry your logs. Presume the container is for machinery storage as it sure as hell wont be any good for drying them. For a simple firewood set up just buy in roundwood and get a contract processor in to cut it up for you. I do this for a couple of logs sellers and works well for them and keeps the overheads down.
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    Haha yes safe to say it's on the wet side here
  3. Woodworks
    I have given up on building extra barns and just build stacks of IBCs with a tarp over the top. Putting one together today so taken a few pictures. The edging is so the the tarp does not get damaged on the edges of the IBCs and some tyres on the top to let the air circulate under the tarp. Didn't get the tarp on today as it needs a few repairs with tape and it been hosing it down all day.
  4. Woodworks
    You have some fantastic "scraps"
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    If you can stop them from sinking into the ground it helps. I have used old corrugated sheets under some and it buys you some extra life.
  6. Woodworks
    Do you not find the base pallets rot out quickly? My IBC's that have a wooden pallet base only get through a season or two before needing replacing.
  7. Woodworks
    No have it out. I realise we live in a predominately atheist country these days but some of us like to celebrate Christmas from a Christian view point
  8. Woodworks
    Ahhh lovely, what could more festive than twitching witch? On a serious note nice to see the remarks from the PM "Britons should "take pride" in their country's Christian heritage at Christmas, Theresa May has said."
  9. Woodworks
    Saw them at an open day recently. Looked pretty solidly built but did not use it. Think it's the same as the Woodland Mills one
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    I presumed the above was true but could not resist trying the Lidl one for just £20. Honestly for the money I cant fault it. Yes if your heavy handed you can balls up sharpening with it as the stops are not rock solid. If used with a light touch and a bit of care it's more than capable of quality consistent sharpening. I use it for the loose processor chains but still prefer hand sharpening a chain on a saw but for quality of cut there is not a lot in it IME
  11. Woodworks
    That looks like the sort of machine I had in mind.
  12. Woodworks
    You say that but it might be spot on. Just had a go with a forklift but it's torn up our hardcore yard so next to useless unless I invested a fortune in concrete. It looks very wide and the wheels protrude in front of the mast so how do you build a stack of crates with a Moffit?
  13. Woodworks
    No but an IBC of wet logs is around 500 kg and rotator must be around another 500kg. By compact loader do you mean Mulitione type of machine? If so it's a non starter. I did briefly look at them but it would not do the jobs the tractor does ie no 3 point linkage or PTO so would have to be as well as the tractor making it very expensive. JUst be nice to have one machine to do it all. Tele handler same problem sadly.
  14. Woodworks
    Looking at better ways of handling IBC crates of logs. Our little compact tractor can handle a crate of wet logs but I would like to fit a rotator and it could never handle the extra weight. So looking for the smallest tractor that could take a tonne on the loader. Dont want to have a large tractor as all our barns, gateways and turning spaces are small. Thanks
  15. Woodworks
    How much do you need to invest to be worth having a managed fund? Presuming it's nonsense with just a few k in it
  16. Woodworks
    We did try that for a period when between homes. We had the full allowance at the time of 30k in there and had way bellow average luck over 2 years. Since then they have lowered the odds so did not fancy taking that rout again but maybe look into it again as it was some time ago.
  17. Woodworks
    No mortgage for the time being but we already live cheaply and are relatively self sufficient. I dont earn much but spend even less.
  18. Woodworks
    The MCA Kingston 1m3 bags hold more than a cube when new and stretch with time
  19. Woodworks
    Thanks all. Lots to look over here and far more enlightening than my conversation with a financial advisor.
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    We did get a free consultation and it was ISAS ISAS ISAS. Then he talked about the returns on ISAS and I am sure he said 1% . Sure it's tax free but it wouldn't even get close to keeping up with inflation. Got a bit in Funding Circle and that makes 6.5% but dont want to have all our eggs in one basket.
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    I did wonder if this was the right place to ask this sort of question
  22. Woodworks
    I am and always have been self employed and for the first time in my life the bank account is going up faster than it's going down. I have no debts and almost no savings and just made voluntary contributions to my National Insurance but doubt thats not going to keep me in my old age. Not started a private pension and am nearly 50 so time to get saving but how? ISAS, pensions, property, shares or something else? Not planning to retire but the body may have other plans. And please dont say Bitcoins
  23. Woodworks
    I wonder if that's what has happened to this set of BFG ATs. The set on the Dmax I had from new and only did slow work around the lanes. The set on the Hilux were SH so no idea on what use they had had before but they seem to have way less grip on slippery roads than the ones on the Dmax.
  24. Woodworks
    So motorway miles makes them hard and not grip so well?
  25. Woodworks
    Must admit to not being impressed mine on wet slippy roads. Back steps out at the drop of hat on my Hilux. Odd though as had the same tyres on my Dmax and that behaved much better. Wonder if they do different compounds of the same basic tyre? Only other thought is they get harder with age and subsequently less supple. Got winter tyres on our Volvo and they are superb in the wet and ice. We leave them on all the year round as the lanes are normally wet from run off or rain.

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