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eggsarascal, do you ever watch Jordan Petersen on youtube? I have great hopes this horrible moment were in will end with good sensed people speaking out. He's awesome

I think there would be no brexit under labour. There whole party are just only interested in spouting ultra left progressive rubbish about diversity and LGBT and seem to care nothing anything even moderatly nationalist. I'm aware the tories destroy everything by selling it off or austerity-ing the sh%^ out of it, but i wont vote JC not because of him but his MP's. As far this brexit, I thought boris's resignation letter spelled it out well(even though a lot was wrong), too much self loathing. Its dreadful, i can't imagine what it would be like in tough times like world war etc Where have all the leaders in the country gone?I'm hopeful Farage comes back or Mogg takes over the tories. I probably will abstain next time. Hope fully the footy going well will make them be a bit more 'we can do it'

Fair enough bennedmonds, gas is piped to your house in most cases and is hard to beat price wise compared to ease of life of course. I think for the money even buying wood in bulk as one bag at a time is very exspensive your getting much more heat for you money. I have mates who set the thermostat at 16 or 17 and pay a lot for gas. When my stoves been on, the house stays above 21 until mid afternoon the next day and when i light it again after work at 5 its normally above 18-19. Those folks would have to keep the heating on all day for that. Commuting Loughborough to london every day, chopping firewood must be a dream.

The tariff i got 14.9p per kw and savings which are moderate, bill less than £40p/m, pays for my solar in roughly ten years with the next 10yrs grant being profit. You get payed for the lecky weather you use it or not hence the IBOOST. So that advive doesn't figure. If you have a south east to south west facing roof you cannot loose. My installer a great chap who was really into it persuaded me to go for just 2.6kw system as my panels are off south. (2kw if your south facing)He said you'll never use the lecky from 4kw system unless you'd charge an electric car. Remember companies would fit solar to your roof for free so it must have been a good deal! Thats like saying why have a car because you could sell it and have the money. Every one bangs on about wood being too cheap on ere! Sell the logs and give it to the gas company---- no way;-)

I use a stove for our only heating(back boiler hunter herald 14kw) its great in the winter, all my wood is arb waste dried myself. So cost is only my own time and moving it about etc. One brilliant upgrade you can make is solar panels. These run my immersion through the summer and pretty much may to september hot water is plentiful. We only have a lecky shower from a none renewable point of view. It uses a Solar Iboost control unit so immersion only comes on when its sunny. You can also switch on manual boost mode with timer etc but i find there is no real need. Solar cost 5,300 for 2.6kw system including i boost. You dont need 4kw like they'll try and sell you. and it more than pays for itself through the grant. With the saving and free hotwater its a return on investment far greater than what you'd recieve from the bank. So far in 7 years ive only ever bought one pallet of hotties briquettes. I trie dcoal but its nowhere near as good than a decent flame.

could anyone keep up with the subtitles on that news clip? At work hence no volume

Misses barber shop brings me a nice supply, id never pay to read that sh#%

8-10 sheets screwed up newspaper, handful of small sticks, 3-4 smaller pieces as thick as your wrist, once established normal logs on. I leave plumbers torch to hand for misses if sticks aint ideal but to be fair she's better at it than me.

Yeah defo 3500kgs. Last night went to pick up timber from a job a few weekends ago. Annoyingly just couldn't fit it all in one load! Reinforced the need to size up. Even if i had mesh sides throwing it over wouldn'y have been ideal and may not have got it all in then so going to take the plunge on LM106 i think. Were i get rid of chip i cant tip anyhow but think i'd only have to shovel 3 cube cos i'll split down the middle to carry gear in other side.

Hi there, was wondering if the Ifor williams LM range particulary the LM106 which is 6'5" wide might be a bit awkward general manouvering? The 10ft tipper is only 5'5" wide but not got the cash for a tipper yet and amount of work i'm doing doesnt require it yet. Work is mostly weekwends and normally wouldnt have enough chip to need to empty trailer mid job. Also probably 250kg lighter than tipper so easier to manouver by hand and a grand cheaper. Just need more volume than my 8.5'x5' 2000kg trailer. The 10 x6.5 trailer seems cavernous and I think they hold value well as they aren't that common on the bay compared to the 10x5 and 8x5 Towing with a discovery and I also have a 146 flatbed w/o sides for bigstuff like cars etc Any help/pointers/ideas welcome thanks

I'm thinking of changing up from a 2000kg ifor eurolight 8.5ft x5ft trailer to the LM106. Only worry is will it be to wide at 6'6"? My ideal is getting my mini chipper and a good load of chip away in one trip. 8x5 is just a touch to small.

I'd be interested to see what you've come up with? cheers

Ive been watching his vids for a while. That log arch is built like a battle ship. They pay buttons for steel overthere its shocking, no wonder everything is massive. Worth noting is that he started welding when he built that trailer, learnt on the job.

Its this country I think. I bought some 3M bluetooth ear defenders from Amazon .COM for £45 including shipping and customs duty all in. Same model from Amazon .CO.UK was £100 +£8 shipping! Here in less than a week. There great by the way. Also Chicargo pneumatic needle gun(descaler to some) around 100 quid same in UK amazon £250. Thats why I hate it when people say when we leave the EU things will go up. Come on we already get ripped off being IN and I can't imagine it being worse off out. (sorry for politics) Its getting daft when you can buy sustantially cheaper in the USA even despite a pretty poor exchange rate.

Found this thread useful as well cheers

Hey up boys, finally joined the wee chipper club! Second hand CS100. As I work mostly alone and will trail the beast to the site on my eurolight trailer, I'm interested in any job too make life easier moving about going up ramps etc. I hear they are good with a jockey wheel, any other little mods i should do?

I'm getting cs100 this weekend so I'm hoping to make my own sides high enough to get a decent load of chip in with greenmech in the back as well. Trailer is 2.5m x1.5m so will look at 1.25m extentions and try some form of length way divider so shouldn't effect nose with only chipper. Towed by disco 3 on 2000gros trailer, will probably have 1250kg payload for chip as trailer (ifor eurolight) is about 500kg. Cant afford larger trailer just yet.

So Nepia, if your larger option is 3m cube what sort of work does that equate to? Any pics would be great. I haven't done any chipping as yet so got no idea. Id be keeping anything above 3 inch for fire wood.

As i replace windows now, i get triple glazed as only around 10% higher price from local trade glaze place. They supply jacksons but it works out dirt cheap in comparison to the rip off mercahants. I also fit em myself because the companies just throw them in. Never see any expanding foam getting used. Foams also great for sound deadening as well as drafts. Also if you replace the whole house at once they invariably all start to fail around the same time. I do two per year.

What about Corletti’s M500 trailer mounted tipping trailer from the wee chipper post a while back? im in the exact same position, one man as hobby has grown and now im stuck brashing up my trailer and chainsawing it down. I only take out the odd few branches off or maybe a few small takedowns. Without a tipper its bloody hard to get it off at end of day its that tight to fit an afternoons work on. I need a chipper so atleast i can get the stuff off easily at local allotment(much closer & free). Cant afford to run a tipper truck for a tow behind i’ve already got. Any tipping trucks, tax insurance and MOT equals an ifor tipper paid for from new in about 6-7 years and cost me nothing if sat for a year. Just cant doing it yet. Had welder out knocking up an arb trolley and thinking of more labour saving ways. A guy on the mig welding forum made an 8x5 tipper which you would mistake for an ifor, its that good for £1500 all in galvanised. Take a look. http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/tipper-trailer.40310/ what a cool project.

Any more on this? Interested and cant afford tipper for a couple years.

Oh right I see 5.2 tons would be the way to go. Think I'll be better with cs100 on my ifor eurolight 2000kg flatbed. I'll just make up some sides. Cheers

Hi there, Does anybody use the skip type roll on/roll off loaders on a transit base? Thinking about using my mates with a my tow behind braked chipper rather than getting a cs100 for my trailer. Just doing small takedowns or pruning limbs and keeping timber above 3 inch for my own firewood. Any thoughts appreciated

Yep as always, basic maintenance first then if it raises any doubts go a stage deeper.

its probably just milky where its met the water. Drain resevoir down and clean out. It'll flush through when you add fresh. Change filter also. Other than that you'd have to disconnect at the actuators, let it out and then just carefully bleed it afterwards. Unless its milky through out i just do the reservoir bit.