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  1. Martin du Preez
    Jesus , under selling yourself a bit there lad??
  2. Martin du Preez
    Fuel solenoid, mine does it occasionally, if you're feeling brave and strong just drop started it with finger on throttle
  3. Martin du Preez
    yea thats the one, you get the agricultural ones for sheep and pigs but i assume they are built with shade in mind, maybe a frame and some thick heavy sheeting
  4. Martin du Preez
    Well I'll happily take your hand me downs when you get one [emoji23] out of interest how much would a 5 tonne trailer like yours cost second hand? I've got a tractor that would drag it no problem
  5. Martin du Preez
    At the moment hand ball it into the back off a muck trailer, the things I'd do for a 5 tonne timber trailer!
  6. Martin du Preez
    Sounds good that! Well thought through, you can get massive Ones 45ft by 65ft for about 4 grand or less. Wish my staff were as motivated and intuitive as you !
  7. Martin du Preez
    i had the same with my 661, but was cutting disks off an ash stump with a 36 inch, dont know what happened but eh saw snatched so hard i caught my trigger finger on what may have been the on off switch and opened it right up, pissing blood everywhere at the time i had a heart attack thought id made contact with the chain aha
  8. Martin du Preez
    i'd certainly say its fast enough for commercial use with a good operator, to put it like this i wasn't prepared for this winter at all taking on two new wood burner company's who recommended me and i managed to churn out 300 ish cube, after work, at night
  9. Martin du Preez
    yes i would!! great value, perfect height, vertical and horizontal, road legal, easy to bypass the double handed safety bolloucks. downside is that the 4 way splitter that comes with it is made of chocolate but repaired it and strengthened it. also customer service is an absolute joke. it came with a wheel well on the piss, they told me we basically didn't know what we were talking about and the mud guard was out and if we wanted it fixed we'd have to organise and pay for shipping back to them and if they decided it was their fault they'd refund the shipping. Having said that i'd buy one again !!!
  10. Martin du Preez
    yea but we split ours crazy small. its what people love and its what the stove fitters told us to do for their customers also drys alot quicker just takes a bit more time. i did some larger 15 inch longs the other day and it was soul destroying how much quicker it was. tbh it just sounds like you need to get a big processor, tajifun 480?
  11. Martin du Preez
    hmmm fair enough ive got a rock machinery splitter, it auto returns cant say that helps much though, can fill a ibc cage every 30 with two people. have you thought about splitting into billets then through a saw bench?
  12. Martin du Preez
    shouldnt you be after a processor?
  13. Martin du Preez
    what are you processing? arb waste?
  14. Martin du Preez
    Don't worry bud, every tree surgeon in my area went hell quiet for a few weeks, but its picking up now ! i reckon it was all the shit weather put people off going out into their gardens to assess what needs doing !!! just try and find a side business for the slow times, i find fencing is ideal just effing boring
  15. Martin du Preez
    yea where abouts ?
  16. Martin du Preez
    Thank you!!!!! I've got two stove fitters that recommend me to their customers and they both them selves recommend a mix of hard and soft as long as it's seasoned! Green ash will soon eff your chimney up !
  17. Martin du Preez
    It's all about the mix, to get it going pop, alder, birch, pine. Cedars amazing ! Then the slow burners for heat I'd go for black thorn, haw thorn, in fact anything with thorns including false acacia. Oak but 3 year seasoned ! And elm which in my opinion is one of the best but needs to be properly seasoned! Another one that shit poem slagged off. Don't forget hornbeam which calorific wise is the highest
  18. Martin du Preez
    Ive got one, cracking saw, but used loads of other peoples that are absolute nightmare
  19. Martin du Preez
    is it just from lack of greasing or are they just made of chocolate ?
  20. Martin du Preez
    261 and yea, some sort of solenoid. if you leave it on the ground with out the chain break on it wont cut out for some reason
  21. Martin du Preez
    Get a farmer to drag a subsoiler in then plough or top down some mulch in?
  22. Martin du Preez
    Cheers buddy pretty much everything I wanted to know ! I'm pretty good with hand tools so I'm gunna give it a shot just gotta go fell this dead monster then crack on!
  23. Martin du Preez
    Yea but if you're not kiln drying it'll take alot longer to season!!
  24. Martin du Preez
    Busy breaking this ocean of willow into manageable chunks for farms biomass burner, gunna keep us busy !!
  25. Martin du Preez
    Cheers for the info guys, not worried about cracking these oaks are dead standing since I was kid, utterly petrified. Just wanted to know the process, sanding down, oiling varnishing? What's best to bring the colours out ?

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