Big 'Ammer
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Now, if he was an employee , Ed, I would advise sun cream, plenty of water, and rest breaks, and aspen petrol etc. If its your little brother, then then kick his arse, and tell him not to be so gay, and get on with it.
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'laddo' is your employee?
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Belgiums dead flat, so I suppose rearing the birds underground makes them fly high?
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Working in a large office.
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Alan still has an Easylift 150 tracked mewp available for hire.
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If you have a mewp job on tree work, I'm only down the road. I am sure we could work out something mutually beneficial.
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I wouldn't hire mine out without an operator. Hire equipment just gets abused. Alan Oldfield would be the best person to talk to locally about the costs of running and insuring a machine for others to hire. Brett, if you have some work locally that needs doing with a tracked mewp with a tree surgeon operator, give me a ring mate.
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Is it for lifting rootballed trees at a nursery? Or trimming the roots in situ?
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The same person can fall under either category whilst in the pay of another, depending on the circumstances. I have had a self employed person work with me under my direction as part of a crew. In that case they are a freelancer. I have also given that person an address and job specification and they have made their own arrangements, turned up with there own gear and carried out the work. In that case they are a bona-fide sub contractor. When calculating my year-end insurance declaration, I apportioned part of the money paid to them during the year in one category, and part in a another, which was how I was told to do it by the Insurance company when I rang them about it.
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Somebody's gotta be chief and somebodys gotta be the indians. There will only be one bill going to the customer won't there? However, IMO there's no reason why, on a larger site, that one crew couldn't be bona-fide subs to the other.
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You are right in that if you are a 'subbie' and you go to do the job with the bosses groundies, you are not a bona-fide sub contractor. In that case you are a freelance employee, therefore under the umbrella of the bosses employers liability insurance. If however, you are sent to do a job, by yourself, or with your staff / work colleagues who are under your direction, and you have the responsibility of how the work is planned and to be carried out, then you are, in that role, a bona-fide sub contractor. You should carry public liability insurance and if someone is helping you, under your direction, who is not from the 'bosses' company, then you would need employers liability insurance as well, to cover them.
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Just because your mate didn't have the correct insurance, doesn't make it the fault of the insurance company. You were working for him, under his direction. He should have had EL cover. If he had sent you to do the work without him supervising, you would be a bona-fide sub contractor. As a bona-fide sub contractor, the decision whether to go on the roof or not would have been yours, and therefore the liability for the action would have been yours, not his. In your case, he didn't have the correct, legally required cover, and the cover you held was not relevant to the incident. Good job he is your mate and you didn't take it further. How would you have felt if you had broke your back and could'nt work ever again?
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I only want to stand about in a wood drinking tea.
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What's it cost?
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Its been mentioned before, I'm sure, but I can't find it. Does anyone have an idea of how much less space a loose tipped quantity of average firewood logs takes up, when stacked? Does a loose cubic metre stack into, say, a space 0.75 cubic metres? Cheers.
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Tesco night shifts on £11p/h OR Climbing for £7-£9p/h
Big 'Ammer replied to Brodie's topic in Employment
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About the laziest and quickest way is a can of Campbells condensed mushroom soup warmed up undiluted, with some more mushrooms and nutmeg grated in. Chuck the garlic in under the pigeon breasts and cookin the juices.
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Catch it, wring its neck, take the breasts off, plenty of seasoning, rasher of bacon on top, hot grill 12 -15 mins while you make a creamy mushroom and garlic sauce. Large glass of red. Don't worry about the wing, you arn't missing much, there's not much meat on a wing anyway. Joking aside, just kill it and put it out of its misery.
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Have you registered with the telephone preference service, Dean?
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Whats an easy 2 man day to an old hand like you Andy, may seem a "Big Job" to some start up outfit thats decided to go it alone straight out of the college.
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Try George Lodge in Hull. 01482 329553
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Green bin general waste, Blue bin paper and plastics, Brown bin grass clippings and leaves, Black bin old saws..... Good to see you're doing you're bit.
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Or downplate the truck to 6.5, 6 or 5.5 tonnes whatever works best for your needs.
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Ditto that on the wet soil.
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Depends what you have used previosly to compare it to. Carlton 7015 with Sandvic wheel is twice as fast. Smaller Rayco or vermeer is half as fast.
