Questions for LandedaKioti

[ON84]

Hi Nathan;

I've been reading your posts, and I'm very impressed with all that you and your family do for the non profit organizations and the less fortunate families in Libson, and I've got a couple of comments and questions.

a) From your posts, it sounds like you and your family have felled, blocked, split, and delivered several cords of wood to the less fortunate families in Libson. I know from experience, that's a lot of work. It took us 3 trips in our 4 x 8 utility trailer per cord, and about a day per cord to convert trees to firewood. (we split by hand). The recipients of our firewood always helped, yet in your posts, there is no mention of any assistance from anyone who received your wood. Are they all disabled? If not, I would wonder why no one helped. This might be a good opportunity to get some of those youth at risk that you are also helping some exposure to fresh air and a feeling of accomplishment.

b) You said that the majority of hours on your tractor are from travelling, but I don't recall any mention of a trailer. Are you delivering the wood in the front end loader? If yes, you might want to buy/rent/borrow a trailer.

c) Do you season the wood at the site, or do the families that you help season the wood at their homes? I would suggest that until you get your tractor reliability problems resolved, you might want to consider seasoning the firewood on site, and deliver the wood later.

d) In referring to an ignition switch that you received from a dealer, you said "When I opened up the new one the copper had greenish tint on it." If you get a chance, please post a picture of that green switch, other members might have the same problem.

e) I'm sorry your experience with your dealer and Kioti has not been positive, but I can say from my experience, Kioti stands 100% behind their product and they were wonderful to deal with. We had a couple of wrinkles due to a young "technician" at the dealer, but once resolved, not a single problem (knock, knock).


On a different note, the pictures you posted of your wood inlays are beautiful. I'm very impressed with the table with an image of a sailboat. Is that an inlay? If so, amazing.


Please keep us posted as the construction of the Kanuwodi Art Retreat progresses, and pictures of the tractor hard at work (assuming the current problems get resolved).

 

[landedakioti]

Hi Nathan;

I've been reading your posts, and I'm very impressed with all that you and your family do for the non profit organizations and the less fortunate families in Libson, and I've got a couple of comments and questions.

a) From your posts, it sounds like you and your family have felled, blocked, split, and delivered several cords of wood to the less fortunate families in Libson. I know from experience, that's a lot of work. It took us 3 trips in our 4 x 8 utility trailer per cord, and about a day per cord to convert trees to firewood. (we split by hand). The recipients of our firewood always helped, yet in your posts, there is no mention of any assistance from anyone who received your wood. Are they all disabled? If not, I would wonder why no one helped. This might be a good opportunity to get some of those youth at risk that you are also helping some exposure to fresh air and a feeling of accomplishment.

b) You said that the majority of hours on your tractor are from travelling, but I don't recall any mention of a trailer. Are you delivering the wood in the front end loader? If yes, you might want to buy/rent/borrow a trailer.

c) Do you season the wood at the site, or do the families that you help season the wood at their homes? I would suggest that until you get your tractor reliability problems resolved, you might want to consider seasoning the firewood on site, and deliver the wood later.

d) In referring to an ignition switch that you received from a dealer, you said "When I opened up the new one the copper had greenish tint on it." If you get a chance, please post a picture of that green switch, other members might have the same problem.

e) I'm sorry your experience with your dealer and Kioti has not been positive, but I can say from my experience, Kioti stands 100% behind their product and they were wonderful to deal with. We had a couple of wrinkles due to a young "technician" at the dealer, but once resolved, not a single problem (knock, knock).

On a different note, the pictures you posted of your wood inlays are beautiful. I'm very impressed with the table with an image of a sailboat. Is that an inlay? If so, amazing.

Please keep us posted as the construction of the Kanuwodi Art Retreat progresses, and pictures of the tractor hard at work (assuming the current problems get resolved).

Hi to your ? (A) most are disabled and a couple of families that the father was lazy but we gave wood if you saw the mother and the children cold It didn't matter. Once in a while my father in-law helps cut wood the wood was cut down a couple years now stacked logs this past summer my daughter split why I cut the logs. The non profit lawyer said until we raise funds to cover insurance to cover if someone got hurt we would the retreat .

(B) I use me SUV and my wife loads her car with wood and deliver so you know how long I takes to deliver a cord. Until the camp starts getting more donations and we are struggling to get grants we payed a grant writer last year 5,000 to apply for grant the we didn't get that 5,000 came from my wife's grandmother when she passed away. Every thing we do we can take a donation my be someone the retreat can pay use back .

(C) Wood was seasoned next year we want to have logs delivered do we can cut stack and give to people.

(D) when I get a chance I will take it apart and take pic I'm hoping the dealer will be out tuesday with the new switch they just got. I think the dealer I found hear us more helpful then the place I bought it.

The table is inflated wood each piece of wood is 5/8 inlay and inlay silver for the rope. There was 6,000 hours in table all hand done I chiseled out the inlay.

 

[kiotiken]

Hi to your ? (A) most are disabled and a couple of families that the father was lazy but we gave wood if you saw the mother and the children cold It didn't matter. Once in a while my father in-law helps cut wood the wood was cut down a couple years now stacked logs this past summer my daughter split why I cut the logs. The non profit lawyer said until we raise funds to cover insurance to cover if someone got hurt we would the retreat .

(B) I use me SUV and my wife loads her car with wood and deliver so you know how long I takes to deliver a cord. Until the camp starts getting more donations and we are struggling to get grants we payed a grant writer last year 5,000 to apply for grant the we didn't get that 5,000 came from my wife's grandmother when she passed away. Every thing we do we can take a donation my be someone the retreat can pay use back .

(C) Wood was seasoned next year we want to have logs delivered do we can cut stack and give to people.

(D) when I get a chance I will take it apart and take pic I'm hoping the dealer will be out tuesday with the new switch they just got. I think the dealer I found hear us more helpful then the place I bought it.

The table is inflated wood each piece of wood is 5/8 inlay and inlay silver for the rope. There was 6,000 hours in table all hand done I chiseled out the inlay.

LAK, unfortunately, I think you're being taken advantage of. If I'm reading this correctly, you paid somebody $5000 to help you apply for a grant? How much was the grant for? Around here, consulting rates vary from about $350 to $720 per day (the per diem) in the IT field, although I'm sure there's plenty of people on either side of that and technical writers tend to be on the lower side. That would mean somebody would have worked one to two weeks, 8 hours a day, preparing a grant submission at rates I'd expect would be higher than would be reasonable for such a person. I'm either not understanding you properly or somebody is taking you for a ride.

I'm also unsure about the inlay. Was 6,000 hours a typo? Over how many years did you do this? At 12 hours a day, 7 days a week it would take you almost a year and a half.

 

[landedakioti]

LAK, unfortunately, I think you're being taken advantage of. If I'm reading this correctly, you paid somebody $5000 to help you apply for a grant? How much was the grant for? Around here, consulting rates vary from about $350 to $720 per day (the per diem) in the IT field, although I'm sure there's plenty of people on either side of that and technical writers tend to be on the lower side. That would mean somebody would have worked one to two weeks, 8 hours a day, preparing a grant submission at rates I'd expect would be higher than would be reasonable for such a person. I'm either not understanding you properly or somebody is taking you for a ride.

I'm also unsure about the inlay. Was 6,000 hours a typo? Over how many years did you do this? At 12 hours a day, 7 days a week it would take you almost a year and a half.

One of the grants was a government grant for 90,000. There was a lot of paper work and hoops. We have a time card of her work she is one of the best grant writers in Maine. She usual dosn't take on small non profits. And yes it took a year on that commission I worked on it 14 hrs a day but more there where time I wouldn't sleep for days and work on it . I didn't buy boards he had logs brought in to his home in vt and took the chain saw and rip them in to boards then hand block plane them down I only used a chainsaw a tablesaw and a sander for power tools everything else by hand a dieing art that the client wanted it hand crafted. He only approved three power tools. That why I went to art school and worked for woodworkers that only used hand tools to build furniture. That table was the less hour table I did for him. Go to deveaugallery.com you can see more of my work.

 

[kiotiken]

Go to deveaugallery.com you can see more of my work.

Very impressive, you're a very talented guy. I love seeing that type of work.

 

[kco]

See "Tim Conway on Carol Burnett Show -- Elephants". Self explanatory. "Snork"
LaK why are you on here?
You shouldn't be wasting your time posting on a small tractor niche forum, no exposure here (not unlike the artwork on that site).
We don't care if you were President, your just another tractor guy on a small forum, and it sounds as if you have all the accolades you need.
SNORK!
No disrespect intended.

That's not the impression I get from this post.

LandedKioti provided answers to some questions.

Otherwise, most of his posts are about tractors and equipment, just like all of us.

Very impressive woodwork LandedKioti.

 

[landedakioti]

See "Tim Conway on Carol Burnett Show -- Elephants". Self explanatory. "Snork"
LaK why are you on here?
You shouldn't be wasting your time posting on a small tractor niche forum, no exposure here (not unlike the artwork on that site).
We don't care if you were President, your just another tractor guy on a small forum, and it sounds as if you have all the accolades you need.
SNORK!
No disrespect intended.

I was answering ? That a tractor guy asked. I didn't post them here for exposure I post to share what else I do. Thought it would be nice to share . Just because you say no disrespect intended . I can read between the lines. Maybe you can take your snork some where else and bother someone else. Did you even read the first post? post. Or

 

[murphy1244]

I was answering ? That a tractor guy asked. I didn't post them here for exposure I post to share what else I do. Thought it would be nice to share . Just because you say no disrespect intended . I can read between the lines. Maybe you can take your snork some where else and bother someone else. Did you even read the first post? post. Or

Nate, Can you post a pic of your table?

 

[landedakioti]

That's not the impression I get from this post.

LandedKioti provided answers to some questions.

Otherwise, most of his posts are about tractors and equipment, just like all of us.

Very impressive woodwork LandedKioti.

Thanks a lot of work goes into my art. Thanks for sticking up. I have had a couple like this guy being that way. Won't stop me from posting. If they don't like it don't read or post. The only reason they so is they want to start crap. There the bully's I tell kids not to interact with. So he just another one I won't responded to anymore.

 

[kco]

Nate, Can you post a pic of your table?

Murphy, go to the Furniture section in www.deveaugallery.com and scroll through the photos. There are some amazing tables.