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Crossing VAT threshold/ future quoted work
dig-dug-dan replied to deezyboy's topic in Business Management
You really dont need quickbooks, that's another waste of money. Just use an excel spreadsheet for your income and expenses, attach you paperwork to each month that corresponds to it. Done. -
Crossing VAT threshold/ future quoted work
dig-dug-dan replied to deezyboy's topic in Business Management
You dont have an accountant? Oh dear. You know that the threshold limit is worked out over a rolling twelve months? It is possible with some adjustment that you could be under it? If not, dont panic, you can claim back four years of vat from capital expenditure, so they could end up owing you! -
Can you not use an impact wrench to force the bolt in. That sometimes cuts a new thread
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Plastiscier does not help them key. Its ads microscopic bubbles to,the mix to enable it to be more workable.,that's it. But you have redeemed yourself in saying you use sbr. And pva does nothing for paving other than waste your money
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Yes, I have one. I brought it without the conveyor and instantly regretted it. I then fitted an old eliet conveyor to it. I would say you need at least a 5 series machine to run it. It's good, although I have bent the knife once or twice on some knotty stuff that ends up going to one side of it and pushing it over. But overall, it's a great bit of kit. Made by Japa My one uses hydraulic fluid as chain lube, the new ones have a dedicated chain oil tank
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Local wood near me started clear felling. I looked for a licence. None. Got,in contact with FC, not interested. What's the point of getting a licence if it looks like they dont care?
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Very unusual as to why the pump has gone! Have you tried Ian at Rapidpumps? He repairs them, if not, he can build you a new one. He does all my crusher pumps now, cheaper than the original casssappa ones. Might be worth a go? Seems a shame to write the machine off.
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Wont be accurate if you are chipping oak, then next day conifer!
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Is yours a tipper. I believe you can get something to go on the hydraulics that tells you how heavy the load is you are lifting
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Must be the same gang that nicked the last one in aylesbury. Where are these machines going?
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Were you working for the site direct, or self employed. If self employed, they had no right to make you do anything
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Years ago, I was doing a huge conifer reduction at a school with a cherry picker. We had a week to complete during half term. Cherry picker was late, then it got stuck, so I was already behind, so in my haste, I didn't put on my chainsaw trousers. As I was cutting outside the cage, I suddenly, noticed part of my trousers going round the chain, and I discovered I had sliced a lump of bone out of my shin. The premises manager arrived just as the ambulance carted me off. The hospital didn't ask questions, neither did my insurance company or the school.
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He would have simply gone to hospital , been treated, and recovered. If you have employees, and one of them gets injured, they can claim off you, and you have to legally inform health and safety. They investigate and will always find fault with the employer. If you are working for yourself, you have no one to blame but yourself, you cannot claim of anyone, wont get sick or Injury pay, so why would health and safety be interested?
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If you are a one man band and employ nobody, then no.
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I have had this when a tracked cherry picker blew a hose and left a spool of oil across a tarmac drive. Most hydraulic oil is biodegradable now, and after a couple of weeks of weather, it all but disappeared
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From bad to worse! Any advice
dig-dug-dan replied to RichardinOrford's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
When you applied the glue, and stuck the room in, did you close the door to squash it all together? I made the mistake of not doing this, and then I couldnt shut the door and had to start again! -
Maybe I am missing something, but surely you can legally cut anything to the boundary line? So get a mewp, cut it, and make sure you give them the cuttings back as legally they belong to the council.
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That's positive news. Its still in the country!
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Not really when you weigh up the tax advantage.
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The lease purchase thing is somewhat of a loophole. At the end of the lease, I pay the balloon payment, then I have to sell,it to a third party( I usually sell it to my leasing company that I use, they are not the finance company)! Then buy it back, but I have to pay 2% of the proceeds to the finance company. Then its legally mine. As for paying tax on the sale, technically no as its then used as a deposit towards the new vehicle.
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Have to disagree. I have leased vehicles for nearly 25 years now. Each payment is 100% tax deductable. An hp payment is not, you can claim 20 % of the vehicles value, then 20% of what's left the next year and so on. The interest you pay on hp is 100% tax deductable however. I always lease for three years, then buy it outright with a balloon payment, which I set at the beginning. They never inspect and knock any money off, but I think that's the type of lease I have. They tend to do that on a lease hire. I keep it a year longer, then sell it privately and start a new lease. I get the warranty, and peace of mind that the truck will,not let me down. I know people who insist on buying outright, no finance. They never really get their money back
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Sadly, police see plant theft as a low priority crime. They will not investigate as half the time, it involves raiding a travellers site, and more often than not, the plant is off abroad in a shipping container. I am surprised your mates 6 tonne digger got as far as the motorway on an ifor William's before the suspension snapped!
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It's really not that difficult to set up, or adhere to without that much cost. If a machine is on hire, then surely it's the owner of the machine that rings up for spares? I know I have to when when of my crushers goes wrong ! If we want to clamp down on this type of theft, then we really all need to work together.
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The solution when ordering parts, is that the serial number needs to be given, and it needs to match the owner on the database, and the delivery address of whom the machine is registered to. That way, giving a serial number from another machine wont work. Come on greenmech, time to up your game on that!
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How on earth can they even sell such a unique machine on? Strip it for parts I suppose! Out of interest, do you and your dealers ask for a serial Number when people ring up for spare parts? I always think, no serial number, no parts. That way, you can almost trace these things somewhere down the line
