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gdh

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  1. The ratchet shop have next day delivery but I think that's Tuesday now.
  2. Hopefully it's not over yet, January and February are usually our busiest time. We had nothing over Christmas but we've done 200-250 cube since new year which is brilliant although as always with good sales we're struggling to dry again.
  3. Usually on my phones browser, very rarely on my pc because I tend to look at my phone first these days.
  4. Does it matter if the trailer has brakes? I was under the impression that you need a licence if you have brakes on the trailer regardless of weight (although realistically you probably wouldn't have brakes on a small trailer).
  5. Top picture is mostly chip stuff. There's nothing wrong with it, we just find it easier to chip the small bent logs for use in our boiler than spend ages putting it through the processor where small stuff produces a lot of kindling and rubbish. Edit; those pictures aren't the best example because most the trailers we bought in didn't have any small logs. Normally we cut anything over about 6 inch.
  6. Spent the last couple of days getting logs in and sorting them into stuff for firewood and smaller logs for chipping.
  7. gdh

    Trade show

    I expect ryetec will be at lamma, they normally have a good selection of splitters.
  8. Sorry I was a bit out in that post, I must have changed it from 2 operators to listing the loader separately and forgot to change the number. It would be 45 with 1 operator or 55 with 2. I thought it was expensive at first but even with 2 people it's only £8 a cube. For most tractor jobs it would be the same around here (£30 Inc diesel), I was just giving an example for comparison. It would probably only pay for people doing large amounts but it's another option to consider.
  9. We use a local company called pach. It's £20 for 2 years domain and £80 a year hosting for our site. They built it with WordPress and I've kept it updated since. http://www.hormannsfirewood.co.uk
  10. To be honest until I joined this forum I didn't consider it cheap, it's the average price around here and when we put the price up by more than £5 we loose a lot of sales for the next month. I think because we're in a rural area most of our customers always have the option of cutting their own for free and there's plenty of competition around. In the end we price what we need to cover costs not as much as we can get away with which I know I'd want as a customer.
  11. That's what we pay, maybe £5 more. Average delivered in this year has been £57 and we sell out delivered at £67 per cube for 1.8cube or about 120 per ton which is tight but fine for us.
  12. I would consider myself pretty good at maths and even knowing the answer I can't see how you can logically get to it...
  13. For us it said your annual subscription is now due but it only charges for a quarter. I think they just phrased it that way because the fee had only just been introduced.
  14. I'll be there now in a minute. Wales
  15. I think it depends on a huge amount of variables - type of file/chain, length of chain, strokes per tooth (I do 5) etc
  16. I aim to get 2-3 chains sharpened with each oregon file on 84 link chains, even on shorter chains I tend to change after 3. Obviously if I have to file a damaged chain it takes more time and file but that's rare and usually comes from friends and neighbours asking me to do theirs that they've hit metal with. :-)
  17. I can't see not sharpening being worth the cost. The cheapest, decent, 84 link chain I can get is an £11 rotatech. I can sharpen one to pretty much good as new in the workshop in 10 minutes and get 3 chains from 1 file so that's £1.50 of time and 33 pence of file which is nowhere near a new chains cost.
  18. It's one of the last consistently funny shows I think but it's all subjective. Father Ted is very good to though.
  19. 1. In or out Here's some random things I've kept bottled up 2. Kiln dried vs air dried Husqvarna vs stihl 3. I've made a small spelling mistake 10 pages of puns 4. How much should I earn? Run you fool 5. Which chainsaw should I buy? Anything but those useless Husqvarnas, Stihl, Echos... 6. Here's a fun thread Anyone else bored on a day off?
  20. Saw this a couple of weeks back, took me a while to see how the second part worked.
  21. I was watching some horses at one of the Princes estates a couple of years ago, it's good to see them working. I bet the poor man stacking by hand there would have appreciated a crane. Out of curiosity does it have brakes you can apply on hills or are the horses able to hold it from running away?
  22. Yes it's a very clever way of them basically changing the RHI scheme by regulating the fuel. To be honest we sell enough to spread the cost of membership but the paper work in addition is getting ridiculous now.
  23. It's extremely irritating that they can change the terms without you being able to do much about it. Unfortunately we have no choice but to stay on since we supply ourselves and 2 of our bigger customers but instead of selling everything as BSL we'll just do the bare minimum and carry on as before.

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