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I am not knocking the HB20 it is a good grinder, but why has the cost increased so much? we paid around £6,500 plus vat in December 2011? I wish my rates had gone up by that percentage?

I also recall Mattheck saying he has a topped pine or something in his garden..

They have excepted the £5000 quote so I am booking flights..

I have told her twice that we are 4,500 miles away, she has now sent me photos.. Told her £750 for the tree £5000 for flight and accommodation.. Do you think that is reasonable...? Best make it cash as I don't have a work permit...

We don't use it much, but it is on the tractor. We have extended the drawbar on the grain trailer so you can use it with the trailer.

This person is quite insistent I quote, even after I have told them we are 4,500 miles away?? Says we have been recommended, she will send a picture and i can drive down..

Our reputation is spreading far and wide.. I had an email today, 4,500 miles away in Wyoming USA. I would have been willing to quote from street view.

We have an 070. looks similar.. But I guess they all do..

I had a laser measure stolen that came upon ebay (in the village), I found out who it was and told the police. They told me to win it, but they collected it. The police very nearly screwed it up as uniformed officers pulled up outside his house and he saw them coming.. If he had, had half a brain he would have just denied he had it, but luckily for me he was a halfwit and handed it over. If it was to happen again I would win, say I am paying cash, and then refuse to return it once I had it was in my hands. Tell the seller it was stolen and then call the police..

Anyone know where we can dump chip in Newark? Thanks

You are right Paul, but reading all the ARB digests make me nervous...

When I got the unsolicited phone call I nearly said no, which is my normal response. After the sales patter I was a bit more interested.. If what they offer was arb specific, it would be great, My guess is it would not be perfect and I would have to be delighted with it to be willing to sign up for 5 years.. and £10 grand.. It is expensive being compliant with H&S and employment law and takes up my time preventing me from doing other stuff...

We have grown to a firm with 8-10 employees, while I understand trees, being compliant with Health and Safety and Employment law is a whole different ball game.. It might be:001_smile: more effective to pass that on to someone who knows what they are doing...

Does anyone use their services. Reviews online are mostly OK, but you can't trust online reviews... We were quoted: £165 a month for H&S and HR support. Tied in for 5 years... That is a lot....

We are currently working on a site at a university clearing some trees for a new building, the ecologist as stopped us from clearing an area around what they believe to be a badger hole. I and several other country types, are pretty certain it is fox hole, but anyway how do we move forward and get on with the job..

Here are the average salaries of jobs in the UK, Not from one of my regular reads.... Average Salaries of 145 Jobs in the UK 89. Nurses - £26,252 80. Occupational therapists - £26,037 81. Police community support officers - £26,012 82. Graphic designers - £25,952 83. IT engineers - £25,934 84. Authors, writers and translators - £25,767 85. Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians - £25,145 86. Librarians - £24,927 87. Carpenters and joiners - £24,817 88. Bricklayers and masons - £24,790 89. Estate agents and auctioneers - £24,622 90. Finance officers- £24,418 91. Restaurant and catering establishment managers - £23,781 92. Housing officers- £23,521 93. Dispensing opticians - £23,458 94. Artists - £23,228 95. Farmers - £22,763 96. Ambulance staff (excluding paramedics) - £22,582 97. Plasterers - £22,370 98. Painters and decorators - £22,351 99. Archivists and curators - £22,264 100. Bus and coach drivers - £22,176 101. Hairdressing and beauty salon managers - £22,113 102. Laboratory technicians - £21,533 103. Musicians - £21,410 104. Construction operatives - £21,410 105. Fork-lift truck drivers - £21,345 106. Local government administrative occupations - £21,083 107. Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks - £20,915 108. Postal workers, mail sorters, messengers and couriers- £20,855 109. Furniture makers and other craft woodworkers - £20,561 110. Youth and community workers - £20,491 111. Personal assistants and other secretaries – £19,738 112. Bank and post office clerks - £19,557 113. Welfare and housing associate professionals- £19,079 114. Teachers - £18,604 115. Catering and bar managers - £18,535 116. Legal secretary - £18,425 117. Landscape Gardener - £18,010 118. Sales supervisors - £17,812 119. Telephone salespersons - £17,549 120. Counsellors - £17,526 121. Chefs - £17,513 122. Butchers - £17,466 123. Undertakers / crematorium assistants - £17,414 124. Street cleaners - £17,402 125. Bakers - £17,231 126. Travel agents - £17,081 127. Veterinary nurses - £16,746 128. Senior care workers - £16,609

Depends on lots are these PAYE employees with holidays, pensions etc.. (if not it sounds like they should be..) Where in the country are you.. Are they working 5 days a week? Are they working 40 hrs a week? Pay rates on here are always confused as folk rarely compare like with like.. If they are PAYE doing 40hrs a week out of London, then what you are paying seems reasonable to me. If they are "self employed" working 6 till 8 6 days a week in central London it would be low IMO.

I could not face sending our guys out in a brand new truck as within days it would look like the old ones..

I can't believe people think financing a new truck can be similar financially... There maybe other benefits, like image and reliability.. Thee88man spent around £10K in 7 years. so approx £1,500 a year *FINANCE LEASE EXAMPLE from ebay: Initial of £4,121.28 + VAT, followed by 59 monthly rentals of £343.44 + VAT, commencing month 2, with final monthly payment of £6,343.44 + VAT Works out without servicing at over £6,000 a year, servicing will be less but still £400 or £500 a year. Admittedly after 5 years you will have an asset worth £6K or £7k but that still works out at costs of over £5000 a year..

That Uber driver won the case at employment tribunal.. and I am sure they had plenty of legal people looking at it... We do sometimes provide PPE for the occasional guys(helmets anyway) they don't take it home. The sick pay is another issue am not sure of the answer.. Which is why I want contracts that are legal... But even my full time employees often work weekends for another local firm, using the PPE we provide them and yes if they hurt themselves we would be liable to pay sick leave.. The concern is that even after ticking the self employed boxes as you have done (although you tick allot more then we do)... I worry (maybe incorrectly) that a subbie could still be classed as an employee. If they were to have an injury outside of work they might well have nothing to lose and find a no win no fee lawyer to chase you for sick pay.. Using the HMRC am I self employed app the groundies come out as employees..

That is one reason why I don't want to send the remote to the US as it could be something simple.. that is not even in the remote...

Cheers Dean I will ask Steve to give you a ring

You could be an employee only working 1 day a month. EL Insurance is not a issue to me if you pay someone to work for you who is not a true subcontractor you need it. It's the hmrc or an employment tribunal deciding that your subbies were actually employees that is the potential expensive issue..

We had a PTO powered one, safety change was to get rid of it. I would never let an employee use one.

I am pretty sure that you can't do this with an employee. It is what we were doing with our freelancers/subbies, they got a better day rate then a comparable employee to cover the holiday etc. If you go to the HMRC web site there is a test to determine if you can be classified as self employed and the casual ground workers come out as employees.. This means that someone who have taken on as and payed as a self employed freelancer could retrospectively claim they were an employee, take the employer to an employment tribunal and be awarded holiday pay etc..