Big 'Ammer
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Ditto the second point, Iain. In any industry, one-man freelance workers don't want to be saddled with vat. It will just be a barrier to people employing them. Others, who want to run a larger enterprise, employing other people freelance or on the books, should be registered for vat. Where the threshold should be is a job for the govts. bean counters. I think that the threshold should be lower than it is at present, to level the playing field. People are used to paying vat on just about everything anyway, its just included within the price. Get a plumber, electrician, builder, aerial fitter, whatever, who are in business for themselves and they will be charging vat and the public are used to paying it.
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I think the threshold should be reduced to £50 k. £30 k is too low and would cost too much to administrate. That would level the job up a bit. IMO.
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Rigidoporous ulmarius.
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Polyporous squamosus.
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Meripilus giganticus.
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Inonotus hispidus.
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Bit of one-handed sawing and chucking! Thats the spirit, proper tree work! I like it, but it might not be the the P.C. image that Steve needs to portray, though.
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Granny logs? Bit of a niche market, I would have thought.
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That looks a useful do it all truck. Is it still going to be registered as an ag machine?
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What are you thinking of? Jensen, Greenmech or Vermeer maybe?
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My landy bumper was looking a bit tatty, so I swapped it for one of those tube type bumpers. Couple of extra attachment points for pulleys for a M/A system and a nice big radius for running a lowering rope over.
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Looked a well planned, fun job. Hot day for that big saw though!
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Perreniporia fraxinea, de-mystified?
Big 'Ammer replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
Tony, the bracket in my picture is on an ash tree. Is that unusual? -
Perreniporia fraxinea, de-mystified?
Big 'Ammer replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
Rigidi, right?
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Perreniporia fraxinea, de-mystified?
Big 'Ammer replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
Tony, if you slice through one and its a reddish colour, then its rigidoporous? -
If you are at Bishop Burton, then you might try some of the Hull firms. The trailer test centre is in Beverley anyway.
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Is that not made out of one of those adjustable oregon bars? Perhaps he needs / wants one of those and its cheaper to weld an ordinary bar onto the adjustable bit? Or he's just tight! I saw a picture in a magazine of a huge bar about 7' long made out of two long ones welded together. Think it was some timber merchants crosscutting some huge oak or cedar or something that had blown down in '87.
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If you have £500, B + E and a chipper ticket. A one day first aid if you can run to that as well. Firms want people who are able and willing to drag and chip brash and are then able to take it away. There will be plenty of people on the site to fell all the small trees. You can already cross cut them at the chipper mouth with your cs 30. If you are any good and keep on top of there work, they will find the time to let you have a go at something else.
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Carlton 8018 trx. stumpgrinder Try Beaver Plant Hire. 01759 372552
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Be cheekier still if the house you had removed it from had bought it off some 'contractors'.
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Monterey cypress.
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Some may work a shorter day, some may get less done in a day, some may cut corners where they can get away with it. Who knows, Jon? Is the bloke charging £600 still in business? The other guy's got to do 2.5 times the work to make the same money if they are a like for like outfit. A legitamate, insured firm doing it by the book, with 2 trained tree surgeons, appropriate gear, and providing a chipper, on their own job that they have won (i.e. not on a sub-contract day rate) need to be charging a lot more than £350 a day. IMO.
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Maybe, in the last century.
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Never tried it on my brother, or my employees!
