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One reason I may be cheaper is that I am pricing a vehicle with full discount etc from a mate that deals in 4x4 (rang him earlier for an up to date price) Not sure exactly what you have paid for the car, their may not be much in it. The thing that people forget is that the car industry is still in huge trouble (despite what dealers will tell you) so deals like BIGJ have are about because there are so many cars sat about in fields they are itching to shift steel. I do have to admit that your agreement sounds better than most contract hire agreements I have ever seen. For future reference you can put balloons on hp deals and vary the percentage to suit the customer and residual value of the assets. Balloons generally range from 5-45% and can really help a new business by keeping the repayments lower. Also with variable rate deals you can increase/decrease your monthly repayments depending on how business is going. Have a good month, pay of 2k, not such a good month keep the money in the bank a pay off the minimum amount. I hope it all goes well for you:001_smile:. Let me know next time, will try to help with some more detail before hand. Stay safe. Cheers. Jonathan

Big J I have just had the calculator out and I can save you £4'000 on that vehicle over the 5 years by doing it HP. PM me if you want to sort some paperwork out. With the montly repayments at 342, so almost identical. Can save you even more if you can pay 450 a month (no VAT on monthly payments too) Benefits are you can sell it when you like and settle, pay it off when you like to save the interest. Give it back after half the agreement with no liability if business goes a bit wrong. You also own it at the end etc etc. One of the best things about HP is its flexibility. If you wanted a defender and a mog in a year it is easy to change with no penalties to worry about. Business are always changing. Swapping the equipment to suit jobs contracts etc is a lot easier with HP. Cheers Jonathan P.S I you wanted one a year old at about £16,000 +vat the saving over the period will be about 9k over having a new one but you will factor a little in for servicing, tyres, MOT etc

Leasing and asset finance are not the same. Asset finance is generally Hire Purchase. R.E good bad etc. Stay away from leasing anything, it looks good and salesman sell it hard for a reason. It makes a LOT of money. HP is very simple and as long as you look over (or have someone else look over the agreement) there is almost nothing to go wrong and you will be able to factor in exactly what a machine will cost you, when it will cost you and how much the total you will payback is. Dont know arb kit wise but some car dealers still do guarenteed buy back so you can own a car for three years and they guarentee to buy it back for x amount provided it is as described and the car has cost you exactly you monthly HP and no more, simple. Leasing looks great until they rape you at the end with a £1500 pound bill for wheels, tyres and scratches and you dont even own the van anyway. The only companies that make leasing pay are large businesses running fleets. I imagine all those little EON fiesta vans I see about are on one big lease contract, if you are buying 50 cars, 30 tractor units or similar then leasing is great. However for small business I have never ever seen it work. PM me for more info I can help if you own a business looking to finance a business asset. Cheers. Jonathan

Nicely edited video. Was the timber staying in the back garden? If not I would have chogged the stem down by hand into liftable bits instead of pulling it over big bits at a time. That way the groundy would have had it all on the truck by the time you got down, would have saved anything hitting the lawn too. Also after breakfast it looked as if you would have been faster handing that out as the branches had dried and everything near the top was tiny anyway? Not criticising as your method looked good too, just comparing notes. Just one other thing, why do you sink cut everything? There were two branches in that video I would have put sink cuts in, the side one you cradled at 4:40 ish and the top. Other that that just slash them or maybe a step cut. None of the branches were big enough to warrant a sink (trapped saw, splitting out etc), especially as you have all the control you need with a rigging line on it and direction and weight were not the issue. Again not a criticism just wondering if I am missing something. Cheers Jonathan

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Waz, just a quick question as it sound like you have not climbed with a VT/Spiderjack style setup before. How many pulls up are you taking before you tend the slack through the hitch? You may find that you want to footlock a lot more with a spiderjack. I do it even for small movements to reduce elbow damage. Another tip is alternate the arm you are hanging off when you are tending slack to spread the load over your arms equally. Have your arm fully extended too and this helps joint and tendon damage in the elbow. As others have said the less friction your spiderjack has the better it will work, pulley in the top or a cambium saver. Also I find they are best with thinner ropes (I use Blaze). But I only weight 10.5 stone so heavier guys may prefer a thicker line. As Deer man says some people use the slings or other methods to get the hitch away from them so they can pull the slack through. I tried it a few times and never got on with it as I prefer footlocking, however that setup is great for having a groundsman help pull you up. Have fun.

Your quite right it doesn't take long. However, my choice, my life, my problem. I was not preaching that using boots or not backing up the fig8 is a good idea. Merely stating that they are both possible and if you are really stuck a way out of a problem. You've never done footlock practice in the woods before on your own and forgotten to clip the fig8 on to your harness, you must be a better man than me? Clearly never been rock climbing before either. Belay devices with no backup...........the only difference is you kill the climber not yourself.

I am having a nightmare getting muds for my Discovery. I am on 18inch and have spoken to at least 20 tyre dealers and two land rover garages. The stock answer seems to be that Discovery 3s dont need muds because they have traction control........................which is great until you put a trailer on the back or want a bit of bite to pull a tree over. Anybody help me? I have tomorrow to find something before I buy some 17s and put cooper discoverer or bfg muds on them. Cheers. P.S Anyone want a set of 5 immaculate 18inch land rover wheels?

I tie a running bowline around the top of the tree with the rigging rope, then descend on that with a figure8. Ready to pull over when you get down. This way also means you dont need to leave any stubs to put the your climbing line round. If I am hand pulling the stick over then I just use my climbing line instead of the rigging rope. Although 9 times out of 10 the rigging line is already out so it gets used. You can back up the figure8 with an 8 wrap prussic or similar knot to be extra safe but I have never bothered. EDIT: Forgot to say dont descend off a single line with a VT/prussic/lockjack etc. You have to take you weight off to get it to move and then drop about 10feet before you have chance to realise your mistake and let go of the hitch. I saw someone do it on a double footlock line and very nearly smash their head on a buttress as they flipped over in the harness when the hitch regripped. The only way to descend off a single line safely without a fig8 (or similar) is to use the footlock position and your feet as the friction device to lower yourself whilst holding the hitch open, which wears out boots really fast.

My 65 has been great. Did the chute extension (thanks Dean!) and had the bottom roller done. It is an excellent machine, cracks forks a LOT better than a Timberwolf 150. You can also push arm fulls of brash in much easier with the wider feed opening. One thing you have to remember is that it weighs almost twice as much as a 150 so they are way trickier to move by hand, especially across gravel and grass. The trade off for having to push that extra weight about is that you can enjoy your lunch sat on the hopper without fear of welds failing and it falling off!

Hi, My brother is in the nuclear power industry. I will ask him for some exact figures when I next speak to him, but for the time being....... One thing I can remeber is that the energy losses in a single nuclear power station are more kw than are produced by all of the Wind turbines in the UK when they are running at 100% effeciency, however wind turbines almost never run anywhere 100% effeciency so even that statistic is skewed. Inland wind turbines are completely pointless in every way. Nuclear power is going to be the only way we can sustain the UK energy requirements, at least for the foreseeable future. The haulage requirements for a coal power station alone produce enough CO2to make any amount of wind power insignificant. 2 million tons + of coal per power station per year does not move its self. Also the rate the chinese are/have been building Coal and nuclear power stations makes ANYTHING we do in the uk to save the environment entirely pointless. Hopefully one day we can run solely from wave energy or a similar new technology. btw i live about 5 miles from the hazzygawa and our village is the main route for all of the haulage when the windfarms are being built. The school buses struggle to get past the cars parked at the side of the road in the morning, the trucks they are going to be bringing up are going to cause a huge problem. Apparently it is going be almost two years of trucks 24/7 to put these things up.

As somebody has already said, ask to see the discs and pads after they have come off the car. It is common practice for certain garages to do a stock disc and pads on any car regardless. Usually whatever else they think they can get away with. Make sure you look at them after they are removal, that way you have some evidence if you have loads of meat on the pads and the discs are fine. Another benefit of doing this is that sometimes they cant be bothered to remove the new discs and pads so if you call their bluff you can get some freebies.

No problem Dean. I will caliper the bar when I get home this weekend and sort a couple of photos of the roller out. Grinding the "holders" that set the height of the top roller also seemed to help the situation a lot and is a fairly simple thing to do.

Dean I am suprised you are still having problems with the feed rollers jamming. Have you got the MK2 bottom roller on yours? (is their stock bar welded in the gaps) I had the bar welded on to my old style roller and the clearance between top and bottom roller lessened earlier this year, It is superb now. chipped 2 days worth of deadwooding, syc, beech and Lime in one hit last week and it stopped a handful of times on large splinters in probably 20-30 mins chipping.

It cant be that much of a slope, the mud flaps are still attached!

There wrong if they dont and wrong if they do. TBH if I see an overweight man in a brand new Range Rover (You know the ones) I already want to give him a kicking. The police had to put up with him not stopping and not being taxed or insured. Perfectly fair game and a bit of banter for the lads to talk about in the pub after work, all that sitting behind laser guns talking about the fit bird in the mini cooper that just went past must get a bit tedious.

The most telling part of this video is the reaction to Dawkins logical arguments by the female (clearly religious) newsreader in the last few seconds of the video. Hmmm, interesting response to an educated debate. I liked the guy interviewing Dawkins very much, most of his questions were very well put across and apart from the Hitler/Stalin argument perfectly reasonable questions. Not gonna get involved with personal religious views but I do firmly believe one thing. There is not point arguing with the stupid. Also can anyone tell me why it is always assumed by the interviewer that evolutionary theory is wrong in these interviews? Seeming as news reporters are supposed to be unbiased on there commentary should they not be vetted and fired because of their personal religious views................bit of a leading question really but I would like to know the answer. They should employ Dawkins to interview the pope in the name of unbiased reporting.

Welcome to Global Recycling Just over 20k (with a winch) if I remember rightly, they had one in stock just after Christmas, not sure if its still there.

Thanks That and deans look much more like the stone walling I would expect from someone good. Are the aesthetic quality's of the wall important for it to be structurally sound? Or can a crap looking wall be just as strong? Jonathan

Any chance of a pic of a really good wall to highlight the differences please? I have no idea what most of the words in the posts above mean.

Ebay are some buggers. This was never the case and then they cottoned on the fact they could charge the end of auction fee with the VAT included. So now they take 3% of the Vat as well as the sale price. In effect the person selling the item claims 17.5% from the buyer but has to pay more than they get paid (17.5% to customs and revenue and 3% of the VAT on the item to ebay) Very naughty if you ask me but obviously legal. Of course they will claim it was to ensure buyer awareness, i.e the price they type is the price they pay. However missing out on 3% of the VAT that goes through ebay every year must be a huge loss in turnover.

Not only that the total repayable is scary, but depending on the type of lease deal he may not even own the chipper at the end of the agreement. Or may have to pay a sum to purchase off the company leasing the asset.

They had the range at saltex. The saws were a bit gammy but there is a long reach hedgecutter attachment (I cant remember whether it is for sale or will be soon but they did not have one to see at the show). I had a dream that night about hedgecutting in silence and with no fumes choking me in a shrub bed. Although I may have to start going to the gym if it is a light as they say it is. Sounds a great idea to me. Also there were some leccy secateurs and long reach secateurs. If they do some that are as good and as long as the Wilkinson Sword ones I have at the moment I would be very tempted to buy the complete set. With regard to battery life, I believe they were quoting 4-6 hours continuous on the hedge cutter, though it was September last year I spoke to them. I too was sceptical about this figure. There is only one way to find out though and I will be trying to get some to try for the summer holidays when the school shrub cutting starts.

You are so nice, and have so much faith in human nature. Maybe I am just cynical but anybody near my chip or log pile will be shot by the farmer; no questions. Having said that I do deliver free firewood to people who have helped me out in the past, this ensures me help for the future too. Would it not be easier for you to charge a small fee for the chip and get someone to police it, like a lad (preferably a bouncer) on the gate two sundays a month. Make those days the only time you can pick up chip. Anything over his wage goes to charity.

Robert, not sure on the digger, can not really tell how big it is. Presuming that is a 3 ton dumper, it will weight about 2000kg empty and the trailer (I've got one and it is great) will weight best part of a 1000kg with the three axles. I would guess the trailer and dumper is legal and would be fine behind a defender, disco, land cruiser, patrol. However not sure what you can legally put behind a tranny.