Starting out, keeping it legal, advice please.

[richyB]

Hello all,

I took early retirement/redundancy about two years ago, after 20 years in the steel industry. Before this I was always working outside, helping out on a farm, fencing, bit of turfing. When I retired my time was filled looking after my disabled mother. She passed away just before Christmas, so the last few months I've been thinking about what I want to do with my time. A lot of people locally have asked me if I could keep their gardens tidy, mowing, trimming hedges and the like. Now the last thing I want is to run into a load of trouble with tax, insurance or whatever. So can someone tell me the sort of things I need to do to keep me on the straight and narrow please.

I've never been my own boss before!

Many thanks

Rich

[tractorboy1]

If its just garden work all you need is a public liability insurance about £100 a year. Also contact the tax man and id say get an accountant.

 

If you want to use a chainsaw you will need a CS30 and Cs31 will cost about £800 from a local ag college.

[richyB]

Cheers Tractorboy 1

I will get that sorted,

Aha! No chainsaw, that is how I found Arbtalk, There were a couple of old stumps in the hedge, I was going to try and carve them into some figures.They were too rotten, so it was a bit of a fail.