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I’m not even remotely comparing work. I simply asked if you’d work for less than what Mark suggested. I’ve grown up with family in this industry and wages have always been bad but in light of inflation and the rise of costs it amazes me how little folk in Arb are willing to work for. When I’m home I’m milling and now processing and sell firewood and timber. The money is a nice income that covers all my costs and provides me free timber and firewood but mainly I do it because love the work.

Fair enough. But why sell yourself short? If you’re good at what you do and respected then command the wage you deserve? I’m quite sure you where being facetious when you said you work 11 hours for £80 though.

So that’s a yes then. 🤣

Would you work for less?

Cracking kiln but I envisioned it being so much bigger. I might take the easy option and buy the Logosol Tent offering.

With three threads started on the same subject paying someone £500 a day for communications would be worth their weight in gold. 🤣

Sorry, not really. When Im over next I'll take some pics and get some better info.

I really cant remember, it was in 2020 when I was there, I was more interested in the Chevys and what kinda carb they where running. They where not called Chevy V8's, but thats what the cores where then re-branded. As far as I can remember they each had their own generator bolted into the Crank. Output was monitored in a small control room. I thought I had some pics but all I have is the big old Ash Slabs I got for near on firewood prices as they where clearing everything out to expand the electricity generation expansion. They had huge piles of hardwood logs that the Millers had refused to mill for whatever reason, going back decades, all found a use in the chipper.

A local sawmill to me cleared out their hardwood drying shed to install woodgas generators. They run 3 Chevy V8 based engines at a time and have one in reserve. Very little maintenance from what they told me when I toured the set-up. They chip and fill huge hoppers and power the whole mill whilst making a tidy profit off of it as well,

I was a bit excited about it. Not paying that though.

He seems like a right bellend. Im glad Im shot of him. No time for folk like him just now as Im out the door with Timber orders and Processing work this coming time off.

It crossed my mind to lift it and replace with clogged up Beech. Id be doing him a favour really.

Nothing remotely like that. After a year of dealing with him regarding this tree and a nice 900mm Ash he wanted Milled up and assisting him along the way his attitude and his threats to turn it into firewood as he claims Im charging to much for milling time I told him to burn the fecking lot then. Dave can testify to how my customers regard me. Ive passed his number to Dave as a matter of fact. We're playing good Cop/bad Cop. Dave will now sound like his savior and get a good price outta him.

This Walnut looks like it could be a cracker. 700mm diameter and 4.5m long. He’s gonna cut it up for firewood now though because he’s taken the huff. 🤣

Thats why I let the lads get on with it and I supervised with a coffee in my hands.

Yes and yes. The weather is very odd just now. 3" solid ice on the deck and blowing a blizzard and the next its all melted. -5 one day then +6 then next. Its -20 with the wind chill though. Never had so much layers on at work before. Making Electrical terminations in a sideways blizzard at those temps with bare fingers is a challenge I can tell you.

Im at work! Drinking coffee and bossing people around in the Barents Sea counts as work, right?

Just had my first enquiry for milled products from the Saw Mill Directory. Hopefully something will come of it. Burr Oak wanted planed up.

I get the use of the Red Dragon RP-200 and put 4" x 12" through it no bother, its designed for up to 6". Its a scary beast but gets the job done. The last time I used it I was getting rid of milling waste and filled about 14-15 full 1m3 bags in 2.5 hours on my own.

Finally some good news. That positioned dwarf finally got what was coming to him.

What Stove do you have installed? Is it new or old? Sounds like you have a sealing issue and should address that first. Also consider mixing in some hardwood with your soft so you have a better burn.

Well I found this comment intentionally antagonistic. ''People who don't vote for independence because they don't like the SNP or Sturgeon are short-sighted beyond belief." Dont like an antagonistic comment then dont dish them out then get you panties in a bunch when you get one back. Its a fairly simple concept.

That old chestnut, eh? It’s been done to death so I’ll not waste much time in it. But for me it’s much akin to voting for Putin or Kim Jung-Un to deliver a result we wanted to only find out after that there is simply not another party to vote for. It would be generations before another party could rival the SNP and by then I believe Scotland would be ran into the ground with their ineptitude and anyone with a half decent salary would be taxed into either leaving that job or leaving the country. The SNP can’t run the country now whilst being propped up by Westminster I shudder to think of their abject failure yet still finding a way to blame the English. No thank you. I’d only vote for independence if the SNP disbanded in its entirety afterwards and handed stewardship over to an unaffiliated group/party. The roadmap the SNP have planned holds no water and is a Pipe Dream for Braveheart Chest Beaters like yourself.

We as a nation voted in a democratic referendum to remain in the Union in full light of the fact if we stayed our voice/vote would have no sway in future elections or indeed Brexit. The SNPs version of project fear made this abundantly clear and used it as a way to scare us into voting to leave the Union. Sturgeon has repeatedly stated she is only doing what the people of Scotland want. But the reality is she’s desperate to get through her own agenda. If she truly respected what the people of Scotland wanted then she’d accept the referendum result. But to go one further it’s been claimed that more people living in Scotland voted for Brexit than have ever voted for the SNP. The SNP being a party that needed the Greens to prop them up. Hardly a mandate for Indi2 and a clear indication at the lack of enthusiasm for Another referendum. Nicola Sturgeon news: More Scots voted for Brexit than have EVER voted SNP says Tory MP | Politics | News | Express.co.uk WWW.EXPRESS.CO.UK NICOLA STURGEON and her SNP were humiliated in the House of Commons on Wednesday after a Tory MP claimed... Now I’m all for a genuinely independent Scotland but not with that mad cow at the helm of a bunch of Commie Pinko nobodies who have demonstrated repeatedly that there is no bottom to their ineptitude.

I absolutely did not tell you that Leslie. Every single thing I own was bought and paid for with money I earned. Every since piece of equipment I own was paid cash. Since we’ve never communicated other than over this forum I expect you can back up that claim?