Dean Lofthouse

Thats not true, you can still make a good profit and pay no tax. Such as paying your wife to do the books, there's lots you can claim that comes back to you, I just need to know what

I didn't know you could back claim Nepia, thanks for that I'm hopefully going to see my accountant within a week to strangle him and tie him to the ceiling by his toes

That was pathetic Stevie I expect more from you

I dont know, thats what I'm asking

Due to a useless expensive accountant I have just received a tax bill for £4K with another £2K to pay in Jan. I think my accountant is just crunching the numbers I give him instead of looking for more allowable expenses to claim I only made a profit of £21K this year. I'm talking of unusual things you wouldn't normally think of claiming that you are legally entitled to, say for example: electricity for the office in the house Work T shirts a wage for the wife doing the books sandwiches for lunch etc etc Just for those of us that are self employed it would be good to know what exactly we can and cant claim for. I dont think we should be paying tax on such small profits when we are knackering our bodies to earn it, it's not as if we sit there with nothing but a calculator and charge £600 for a couple of hours work. I dont intend paying any tax next year and aim to claim for anything and everything I possibly can.

...and wait till a very windy day blowing in the right direction

I need to take a photo, when I passed at the weekend two of the stems were laid over uphill on the 45 degree slope, to stop them sliding down the slope they were tied off with 10mm blue polyprop rope with the butts protuding over the footpath

My risk assessment said it was too warm for helmets Bob

Not even luke could carry it The technical bit The holding line needs to be as high as possible and anchored to a tree ideally in direct line with the gob, then the line hinges down with the gob and the tree falls exactly inline of the hinge. If you want the tree to swing in towards the holding line, you raise the anchor point of the holding line higher which shortens the line and pulls it in on an arc. Same effect can be acheived by moving the anchor to a tree slightly behind the hinge face. If you want the tree to fall slightly away towards lean or away fromthe holding line, you simply do a high gob, so you can have a holding line anchor that can be positioned below the gob line or move the holding line anchor point to a tree slightly forward of the hinge face. Or you could simply leave a bit of slack in the line I use mini traxion on a 2:1 pull for the holding line You dont always have anchor trees available but this technique is a godsend on woodland edge trees.

Thats the idea Mark, to get people thinking outside the box, but you are "special" mate, you think too far outside the box sometimes

The books "To Fell a Tree" by Jeff Jepson, good book but quite basic for the first half. The idea isn't from this book BTW The ideas been around for a long time I just can't find reference to it on the net ??

Good man Tommy your on the right track Nice to see people thinking Here's a basic drawing from a book which gives a basic idea but there are ways to adjust the amount of deflection either side of line of fall I'll explain when people have had chance to study the drawing What you are basically doing is taking the weight of the lean off the hinge, but whatever happens the tree cant go the way of the lean

I used a standard hinge

I apologise for the appauling quality of this vid, luke who was helping me took it and he's useless. It shows what I need it to show. Silver Birch with a heavy lean over a panelled fence and gardens within fall distance of some expensive conservatories etc, we had about 10 to come out with leans They were around 50ft and if felled in the normal fashion the hinge would have gone and they'd have just crashed sideways into the gardens. There was no actual room to fell, to clear the canopy of the adjacent trees I would have to put the gob in aiming directly at the fence, which you can see down the right side, this I did and aimed straight for the fence. If you watch the fell you will see the tree start toward the fence then via of and pull hard left. We also had to contend with a gusty wind blowing towards the lean. The pull line did nothing except start the fall The technique is not new but one I use often, what was the technique and how do we get the tree to pull in the last half of it's arc of fell ? [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtC7MMsen0A]YouTube - 90 degree to lean fell[/ame]

It's the pointy plastic top off a fireworks rocket Katie, I found it in my yard and decided to try and be a little naughty with the fungy guys I was more interested in finding out what made the hole in my oak log

One little tip that will pull in your groups If you are grouping off a bipod push forward lightly on the bipod

Spot on

It has an association with Gunpowder

I'll spill the beans tomorrow Katie

Always time to play David Looking at the top photo at 4 oclock from the hole, tha grub perhaps ??

Took this picture a while ago from the logpile in the yard, think it was a piece of decayed oak. Also had a bit of trouble id'ing the bracket in the second pic on oak

I'll still be topping connies at 95, cant afford to give up

No worries Jon, will do

I'm going to start a thicko's club, want to join ? Stevies Chairman, I'm treasurer I must remember, I before E except after C

I am not talking about the acheivment, I am talking about the effort someone puts in. A thicko that acheives an hard qualification(to him ) GCSE A highly intelligent chap that acheives a hard qualification (to him)BSc Hon Is either one of them less deserving of recognition for their acheivement ?