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An amount yes, i.e. a percentage but not the whole lot, and not for us guys either. You would have to be self employed in somethign a bit more important. Anyone working an office as an employee would not be able to get expenses/or tax deductions for suits, they are just clothes after all. PPE is equipment, not clothing.

Same goes with clothing except ppe, as we all need clothing, but I bend that one us much as possible, dependign on where I buy the stuff. In town no way (dont know where town shops are anyway) but if its from cotswold, or midland farmers of from any of the arb suppliers then it must be for work, but technically a stein/stihl/sherril waterproof is not tax deductable, unless you buy it for employees. If you are self employed or employed and required to work in the wet its up to you to buy clothes suitable. I doubt many of us stick to that one!

After waht I said, you could of course just put down 50% of you rfood bills against tax if you wanted and just wait for an inquest. If you never get one then its fine and if you do you will have to justify everything and probably fail at justifying much more than the food. If you have an accountant that will put down £5 a day (or any amount) then thats fine and he would have to do the justifying for you, if he wins you pay his time for winning, if he loses he would have to pay your extra tax, so they are only going to do it they feel confident.

No chance, its not a business expense, you would still need food if you were employed or un-employed for that matter so its not specific to you being self employed. The only way it work would be if you stayed away from home, then you could claim evening meals only I believe (and there would be a limit) thats why its called subsistence, its subsidising your already present need for food, which you cant maintain because you are away from home.

Of course a contractor works under your employers Liability. Not exactly The contractor works under your public liability insurance. Any damage to the public or property is covered by your Public liability insurance, and damage to the climber while your employing him for the day is covered by you employers liability.

How much are you buying it for?

YES, what would you need insurance for anyway? Kids hurt themselves playing football all the time, we have a national health service, this is not the USA where you need your own health insurance to get an ambulance to pick you up and a doctor to look at you. The insurance would only be there to cover being sued! And even if you had it there would have to be discmaimers, so the insurance would cover you getting sued by someone who had signed a disclaimer saying they wont sue, and that they take responsibility for themselves.

You dont count as you talk sense in the first place.... It's not worth getting your wallet out for I'd put and advert on eBay " free to collector " Its the ones turning up from e bay that I would worry about.

Surely you can do better than that!

They are all lovely people..... If they were buying a car they would be called tyre kickers, not sure what the woodturners equivelant of that is.

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Keep us up to date with what you get for it. I wouldn't give it away for nowt, if it got into my yard then it would go out again mixed into loads of firewood at the same rate as everything else. However I would give it away if it saved me the trouble of moving it in the first place because that is saving me money in the short term even if it means I have less firewood to sell. Once moved it owes me, and if woodturners turn up and um and ar over it for half an hour while telling me crap stories about the bowl they made in 1974 then only take one peice wood away for £3.00 then suddenly it owes me even more!

I have only used it once, I prefer wheeled ones if possible, but it was good for this job, i.e. one set up for the whole job.

I think this is the 23m one, was a good bit of kit.

Thats not really self tending, thats forced advancing if you see what I mean? Self tending is when the weight of rope below the climber advances the hitch. What you have is a plenty good method but its not the same, its good for starters though.

Thats £50 if seasoned, split, delivered and stacked in the shed round the back. You will be lucky to get a twenty for it now delivered, or £10 for collection.

The plan here was to charge £20 per head to try and reduce numbers and pay for insurance etc. but they got so much abuse that the official organisers "officially" backed out, but it looks to me as though this was far more than just a facebook group of locals having a go.

Common sense to me is don't go any where near chasing the cheese, I have beoken my ankles before (not chasing cheese) and have no intention of repeating it, but I'm glad these traditions are up held.

Really please to see that common sense prevailed and the annual cheese rolling went ahead even though it was officially cancelled due to no insurance, no ambulance cover (usually covered by st johns) and due to police concerns overt traffic chaos. This even is just down the road from me and I have been many times, but the internet has casued people to come from all over the world which TBH has ruined it. Last time it was officially held in 2009 15,000 people turned up. This time just a few hundred locals, perfect! Daredevils defy health and safety to stage unofficial Double Gloucester race | Mail Online

Who's "the law" no such thing! Are you sure you are not thinking of safety factors? Either that or scott is messing with you!

Agreed. The silky pruner is good but the fancy mechanism doesn't last very long. The wolf one is simple and last forever. Silky pole saw and wolf garten lopper.

Ok, well the home/business is the only true exclusive difference. YOu could say that with domestic work you are XX% more likely to get paid at the end of the day, but its not a definition of domestic. How about domestics you can call them in the evenings to arrange things, but commercial jobs are usually organised within office working hours? Domestic you are way more likely to get a cup of tea than commercial. Again these are not difining differences but they are differences. With domestics you are more likely to be asked to do other things "while you here"

Do you know what "domestic" means?? domestic - 4 dictionary results –adjective 1. of or pertaining to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures. 2. devoted to home life or household affairs. 3. tame; domesticated. It means, home. Therefore domestic tree work is at somebodies home and commercial tree work is at (or for) a business or other organisation. Thats the only difference, it has nothing to do with when you get paid. Some business I work for pay straight away but its rare, and many domestic jobs dont pay at the end of the day which is annoying but often the case. Other differences would depend on what the commercial body requires. So usually a higher level of qualifications/insurance/proffessionalism is required for commercial work but again this is not defining. It means though that domestic work is often cheaper (or can be got cheaper) than commercial work, again this is not defining. Domestic is at home for a private homeowner who is effectivley paying for it out of the household income. Commercial is paid for out of a business account, thats the only real defintion of the two terms.

A vt will. it needs to be tied as loose as you dare! And like you say you need enough weight of rope, the less rope the slacker it would have to be. Distel will do it and the Knut will although I have only just started to use that one myself so not totally got it right yet.