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I wouldn't mind a few more part days haha. It's amazing how that last little pile of wood that the customer digs out at 15.00 just keeps on giving. So most days are pretty full but an interesting way to adjust pricing and would cover much of the prep time nicely. gdh. Most customers are domestic but the few trade ones are a fair chunk of my work. One chap has no kit at all! He buys in the wood and borrows a tractor for processing days and handballs from a pile to his truck. Not sure he even has a working saw these days. I dont want to scare these customers off. I could just do a discount rate for these guys as I can see much over £30 an hour is going to hurt.
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I run a Farmi WP36 and like to think I am pretty efficient with it having been running one for 7 years. Currently rates are £30 hour plus 45p per mile plus VAT but toying with going up to £35 per hour. Now I know this is not exorbitant for some areas but I am not beating customers away at present and most work is a bit cheaper down here. Just find there are many hours of prep and maintenance before and after every job. It's easy to put prices up but embarrassing to have to lower them again if I get no work so what do you reckon is the going rate? Thanks
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Yep the aluminium would expand at a different rate to the steel outer if it was getting too hot so making delamination more likely but it shouldn't be getting hot in the first place. Get good at sharpening and learn how to maintain the bar (lots of threads on here). This will make your life way easier with fast and easy cutting. No need for heavy handed use ?
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Do tell Steve. I think she is breath of fresh air who tells it how it is for a change -
I have this bar on my processor. Probably done 500 tonnes of logs with it so far without problems so they dont all delaminate.
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Which bar is it? I have a couple of types of Oregon bars and both have been excellent.
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Hope someone might have some bright ideas. My oiler on my processor has stoped working and I have found the fault but fixing it looks so easy in a diagram but the reality is access is a nightmare. In the picture attached the M8 nut needs tightening but the bolt is in a slot to allow adjustment of how much presure the roller exerts on the pipe and in turn to adjust how much oil gets pushed through the pipe. Now this would be OK if access was easy but it's all I can do just to get 2 spanners in there at the same time let alone the subtleties of adjusting it's position while tightening. Hoping someone has found a good way to do this as I am at my wits end this evening. I have pinged an email to Riko but need to get this sorted ASAP. Thanks
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Yes they do look very low. I do kitchen fitting on sites and I am sure the pay others are on is better than posted by Bob but not sure they are on quite as much as £200 (I know I am not). I would take the working conditions of tree work over site work any day though. You end up with trades people often in conflict with each other over space to work, it can be horrid and way more stressful than I have experienced with tree work in open fresh air.
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We do use some of the waste on the garden. Cant say it makes much difference to the growing but I guess it locks up a few kg of carbon. Looking at my footprint we would need to make one helava lot of charcoal. This year instead of burning the waste brash from our hedgerow work we are going to chip and leave it to rot which should delay carbon release for a bit.
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Hi Craig. Bare in mind the crate of an IBC holds just over a cube you should be looking at around 350kg -360kg plus the weight of the crate (25kg?) Wet you are looking at close to half a tonne Edit found my original test
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A few of my friends have gone along to a local strike. I think they fully understand where we are and have already looked in the mirror. I would support higher taxes on fossil fuels in fact tax them to the hilt and ring fence the money for wind turbines, PV, storage etc. It's mad world when the most decadent form of travel ie flying carries no fuel duty at all. Just make sure there is a safety net for those literally unable to pay and stay warm. We will have to live a more frugal life but it could be a better one.
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Quite a lot of interesting articles on the BBC news page at the moment arounds the subject Energy - BBC News WWW.BBC.CO.UK BBC News - Energy
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But where do you draw the line as to how overloaded is "safe" 10% 20% 100% over?
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I would love to think there was another way but I think you are right. Only need to look at this thread to see most would rather bury their heads in the sand or cling on to well peddled lies than make any major changes. We will make changes but it looks like we will be waiting until they are forced onto us by circumstance and that is going to be ugly.
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We have 90 pages of people displaying overloaded trucks and trailers in a thread called Overloaded so how come only Jwoodgardenmainte gets lambasted for it?
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Doesn't matter if they are already dry. One of my customers stockpiles loads in her garage but they keep perfectly in there.
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Stack with space for air to circulate all around. Pallets on the floor, slats at the sides and stacked off the wall as you have mentioned. Overhanging roof to keep the rain off.
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Come on Rob nail your colours to the mast as other have. Are you going to hide behind " not saying he is right, not saying he is wrong" and then share this vid?
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Not that I think we will chose to do it but do think there is a way to get from our current insane system to a sustainable one?
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Much more comfortable to have an opinion that requires no change than to look at the science and see that we need to turn our lives upside down to stop what is happening.
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Did you look at the graph in the video I posted further back about previous warming? If so do you think the spike at the end is natural? Got any links to the MetOffice saying we were heading into a mini ice age in 2009/10 and 2010/11? Sounds like bunkum from a tabloid. There was talk of a mini ice age in the 70s and I think that was due to the suns cycle. I have found this The 'imminent mini ice age' myth is back, and it's still wrong | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Dana Nuccitelli: We can’t accurately predict solar activity, and a quiet solar cycle would have a small impact on Earth’s climate... And a bit of info about waste heat. It does warm us a bit but only a fraction by comparison with the greenhouse effect https://skepticalscience.com/Waste-heat-vs-greenhouse-warming.html
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A mate has one and loves it.
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Yes it has here is a graph
