Tom D
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We've only had 8" here as we're by the sea, but a few miles inland at Duns where my office is there's 18" level in the car park, where its drifted its much deeper still, the council are using excavators and JCB's to pile it up in big heaps all over the place. Its seriously cold too, yesterday i was picking carrots with a pick axe!
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Thats the other advantage of being a LTD co, if your partner takes a wage for secretarial work and has no other job you can get over 4k each tax free.
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I was told by an NPTC assesor, I didn't query it as I have no intention of stopping using it anyway.
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Thats the biggest spear cut Ive seen. Nice one.
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I got one for my birthday las week, I tried it out down in the yard with some birch bark, It was very impressive how quickly it boiled compared to a camping stove for example. But I don't suppose I'll use it often, just on woodland jobs where there's no client to hassle for a cuppa. Handy tool to have in the car though, especially in weather like this.
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I use a comet one Its the red one and has a much finer wire strand making it much softer and more pliable yet still stiff enough to poke through gaps and flip, i use it wth an ISC micrograb and I do have a soft link in it. I have tried soft lanyards and tbh I prefer the wire as a second line. I have been told that its not Acceptable from an H+S point of view to use a WCFL as a second anchor for general climbing, however its all I use really, except on really big open trees where I use a ratty old 8m bit of HV with a howard hitch and a little pulley.
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I went LTD last year, still not reached end of first years trading. I think you can end up paying MORE tax as a LTD Co if you dont make enough profit as you can only take dividends out of a real profit, if you only make 10K profit the max dividend you can take is 10k less corporation tax...I think. Ask your accountant to explain this to you. I went limited partly for tax reasons but also for the respectability it gives when going for bigger contracts. I will probably pay a similar amount of tax as before. Of course as the business grows It will pay off more and more.
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Nice work Josh.
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I have little sympathy TBH. Volume is the only way to sell.
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Does such a thing exist? Having a lot of bother trying to find one, if anyone is a technophile (i'm not) please point me in the right direction. many thanks
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What did you do? Kick a copper?
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I got a Kelly kettle for my birthday: birch bark peeled into layers and torn into strips makes excellent fuel for it.
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Thes are a few I took with the phone while down with the inlaws in W Yorks. Each balde of grass had frozwn sleet/rain on it, really beautiful, pics dont do it justice.
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I have the same problem with the landy it will go virtualy anywhere, but stopping it on the other hand.... Our drive is on a hill, every time I get home I have to go past the house to the bottom of the hill turn round in the yard and come back up to the house. I just cant stop on the way down! All I did today was deliver logs and TBH I wont be doing any more until it melts, trying to stop with a trailer on on packed snow in trafic is not fun. log splitting for us unless the parts for the chipper turn up in which case we'll be in the workshop.
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I Have a Helle Harding which I have had for about 6 years, Its gone up in price a bit since then but TBH Helle are really well made and come really sharp. Mine would dry shave the hairs off my arm streight out of the box. I use a japanese water stone to sharpen it. About the Helle Company
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Look no further than these: LOWA Boots USA / Show Hunter GTX® Extreme Boot I bought a pair a few months ago, they are awesome; extremely comfartable from day one, very supportive and high, which I like, being used to chainsaw boots. Quite pricey at £160 but they should last for years. I wore them a couple of days ago while on an 8kilometre walk on Ilkley moor, I was walking through deep wet snow for 2 hours, no leaks and very warm. I can't recommend them highly enough.
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Something we tried earlier, an inch or so of home made sloe gin in the bottom of a flute of champagne / cava. Very nice, went down well with the inlaws. Just found the armagnac...very nice.
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He's looking well Stevie, this time next year I expect you'll have him outside with a shovel clearing snow while Zander tackles his first dismantle
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I have a gift voucher for ratho, would you recommend the assault course or a beginners lesson on the wall?
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Thats your "tree legs" mate, I get that when its windy.
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Went out to clear up from last weeks dismantling, 2 beeches 1 big fir and 1 scotty. The journey in was no fun, I hate towing a heavy trailer on snow, but we got there and used the tractor to clear up all the timber and tidy up behind the grinder, the fir stump was about 5' across but it was 12-14' by the time it was ground out. I had already moved loads of stuff when I took the pic. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479YDOmT6ew]YouTube - Stumpgrinder[/ame]
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Now that we live by the sea we're always a few degrees warmer than inland, but in 1996 when I was living in the hills near here I measured -26 outside my back door, It actually hurts to breathe when its that cold. It was -6 in the house LOL.
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We've only had a sprinkle, but its drifted a little. Went for a walk today...
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I love doing the biguns, but I reckon its the fact that they don't come up all the time that makes them special. I,d get bored of them too I'm sure. This week we've taken down 2 decent sized beches and a big fir but today we reduced a birch and took out some dwarf conifers and another small job. Today I made £700 and it was a piece of ****, the weather was great and I had one of those Ahh I love my job days. I do get itchy if no biguns come up for a while though, you need the fix.
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I bet you only use it once.
