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stereum rameale?
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Any ideas? About 5m up a healthy looking lime tree, on a stem showing no signs of dysfunction. My initial thought was Bjerkandera adusta, but now in office not so sure? fungi on lime.bmp
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We currently have 2 guys in the process: 7 days total: cost £1,775 (including VAT) including the medicals etc.. But. the wait to get licences back has meant we have been waiting a couple of months now with very little actually happening... So if you are planning a truck start the training in good time..
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We came to the conclusion the 6-7.5 tonners were very good value when compared to the 3.5 ton trucks.. And much more suitable for tree work. Our 6.5 ton Iveco has been a really good truck and is difficult to overload... The plan was to get another of those, but saw a low mileage 7.5 tonner built, local and ready to go so thought we would try that. The biggest issue is driver licencing as the guys need to have C1+E. Which assuming they pass first time is costing us about £1700 a driver..
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There is a sticker on the side that says 4200kgs, I am assuming that is the empty weight so we should have about 3000kgs for chip which is 10 times as much as a transit crewcab..
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Have you weighed it full? We are getting ours in the next week or two and after seeing yours are considering adding some height to the chip box..
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I never said it was the right way to do it...
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If you turn up on site with big kit, folk rarely question the time spent. You just point at the kit on the drive and say that cost £x.... Most want you gone as soon as possible, a small chipper running all day is way more annoying then a big chipper only running for a few hours IMO.
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I take a different view... that may or may not be true. The firm the OP is working for might think he is sailing close to the wind and not paying his taxes. The employer could (should) realise that he should be classed as an employee and therefore if HMRC inspected them, the HMRC would chase the employer for any unpaid tax..
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They morph in year 7 to be come horrible by year 8...
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That job may have been completed in one trip, it still would have been quicker with a towable chipper and tipper.. The micro chipper has a place but not when you can get decent chipper to it..
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It's been around and mainstream a bit longer then that.. 1976 - Plastics in its great variety of forms becomes the most used type of material in the world A History of Plastics
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Do I become more employable by having my own climbing gear?
benedmonds replied to Kyle_haynes's topic in General chat
If you have kit, you can use you can demonstrate to an employer your skill level and commitment and many firms take you on on a trial basis so might not want to shell out straight away. It would not be a deal breaker but having your own basic climbing kit (as long as it is kept in good condition) would be an advantage, if you came with kit I would replace it when necessary and if you left you would take the stuff I had replaced with you. If I supply everything from new I would expect you to pay for it if you wanted to take it with you when you left. You are likely to be more comfortable in your own gear and likely to want your own IMO.. -
Many years ago I spent the summer working as a street sweeper, some of the lads used to drop litter out the work trucks...? The other thing I don't understand is guys chucking their rubbish in the wood chip... But back to the initial thread, whatever you try in my experience the teams will treat the vans like a dump, energy drinks spilled all over the place foot-wells filled with trash.. We have a wheelie bin at the yard and they get emptied and cleaned out with the blower..
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I think its around 3 tons..
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Does anyone recognise it? Council owned then sat doing very little in a tree surgeons yard without the drivers apparently (it might do the same in mine if my guys don't pass their C1+E tests..).. Only 23,000 miles.. Looks to have been well specified.. On board weight, reversing camera, hand wash facilities, separate tool box for fuel can etc... Currently being sprayed yellow...
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Contract hire, pcp, finance, which is best
benedmonds replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Business Management
As richy_b said, if your doing the 45p a mile thing, that has to be paid from your personnel funds and is designed to cover the costs of running the vehicle so if you do 10,000 miles £4,500 a year.. This is designed to take into account depreciation and running costs and this is tax free.. As has recently been discussed in another thread it might not be enough if your running a 4x4 with trailer... but should be OK for just your pick up.. I think you would be OK still putting the hardtop through the business. If you can justify that it is for business use.. HMRC may disagree ... -
Contract hire, pcp, finance, which is best
benedmonds replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Business Management
I am no accountant.... But as I see it... the 45p per mile is a business expense, so will lower the amount of corporation tax you pay and will therefore lower your overall tax liabilities.. You might find you go to a load of effort for a few quid a year... Accountants make things way to complicated for me, I think they do it to justify their fees... Whenever I go to see mine I glaze over after about 3 mins looking at his spreadsheets. These don't even seem to correlate to the sales and expenses that we provide him... -
Cyclists have a rule that could be applied to saws for some of you lot.... Velominati › On Rule #12: The Bike #1 Paradox On Rule #12: The Bike #1 Paradox. ... While the minimum number of bikes one should own is three, the correct number is n+1 , where n is the number of bikes currently owned. This equation may also be re-written as s-1 , where s is the number of bikes owned that would result in separation from your partner.
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Contract hire, pcp, finance, which is best
benedmonds replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Business Management
Another option would be to keep the truck that you know the history of, have already lost 20% on.. and charge the ltd co 45p a mile, when you are using it for business. If your VAT registered the company can still claim the VAT from the fuel portion I believe.. It might not be the most tax efficient way forward.. I don't know how the different schemes work, but I am pretty sure the companies running them make money from someone.. -
Contract hire, pcp, finance, which is best
benedmonds replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Business Management
I can't get past the depreciation, let alone other costs in not buying outright.. According to the AA, The average new car will have a residual value of around 40% of its new price after three years or in other words will have lost around 60% of its value at an average of 20% per year. I guess for you Steve it is a personal truck and you might look after it, but my employees and wife and kids to be honest, would make a new car look old in a matter of days... A mechanically looked after motor should last at least 5-10 years before it starts falling apart and becomes a reliability problem.. I guess there is the argument that fleet purchasers get a good deal, but it makes more sense to me to buy at 3 or 5 years old when the majority of the depreciation is over... and as there are contract hire vehicles people are keeping for 3 years there should be a decent selection of vehicles.. -
I have filled out the PQQ twice over the years but never actually done any work. A firm local to us seems to be well in bed with them and has 2 or 3 teams but I think it is mostly doing road and rail.
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It might not be an enforcement issue.. The council might come out, work out the overall action hedge height and tell the complainer to stop moaning... Someone has to pay for this service...
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The best use of your cash would be to offer to pay to get the works done. Calculate the action Hedge Height.. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hedge-height-and-light-loss If this height is acceptable to you show it to your neighbour, explain that you would rather use £500 on doing the works then waste it on the council, who could serve an enforcement notice on the hedge, making them do the works at their cost. If this doesn't work try some other mediation and as a last resort go to the council...
