Justme

What about one of these?

I bet you cant beat mine to getting the post hole done. Will do to 5 foot deep (12" wide) in no time at all, not had a single stoppage due to stones or tree roots yet & thats in a woodland.

Get a section of old fire hose to feed the rope through. If you do use the "dog wire" runner make sure each end can take the full load.You only get load sharing / reduction if the anchors & load are triangulated & the angle at the load is below 120 deg with a 100lb load the pull on each leg is >120 deg 100lb to each anchor (so double the actual load) 80 deg 70lb per anchor 40 deg 54lb per anchor 20 deg 50lb per anchor So to share the load between anchors keep your angle low.

If you were less than impressed with a two man borer you will not be at all chuffed with a one man one.

I think they left the exempted, lower & zero rated goods alone.

I have seen that method metioned on here a few times. I really dont get why your household costs should influence your daily work charges. They do affect if you should be self employed or not if you cant earn enough doing it but not the actual rates you set. You could have two people doing exactly the same job in the same place but one has paid his mortgage & all his borrowings off & the other has huge debts. If they worked for someone they would not get paid differently. Its the same with being self employed, you set your price by working out your fixed costs (inc new tools, maintenance ect) per year divided by the number of working days & then adding in your variable costs (inc wage costs) per job, times by a profit multiplier & that is your rate. You should then have a wage & a business profit. Your living costs might influence your choice to go self employed (IE if the business can carry the weight of your living standard) but not the rates you set.

Er no that would be fraud. (I think)

Kindlet hires his out with operator for reasonable rates.

Just keep the rest of the fins clean & ensure the air flow ports or not blocked. Watch out for pinking if it gets to hot. Tack welds wont help as the heat wont jump the air gap where its not welded. A full weld could alter the shape of the head. You could use a chemical metal to fix them on, not sure what the heat transfer properties of it is mind.

If you cant get one what about having the parts machined to take a standard bearing? Or change the axle for a standard one?

Its an Arg Little Wenlock. Not the cheapest but solidly made, built to last, will stay in over night if you want it to, glass stays clean, you can boil a kettle on it if you use the rear flue connection (but would be better with a smooth top closing plate, its on the list of things to make). We have done two winters with it, both of which were quite bad.

Going on that 0.5m3 per week our 15m3 would last 30 weeks. As the burning season is not quite 30 weeks (more like 26 weeks) we on average burn slightly more at 0.58m3 per week in a 5kW stove thats the only heat source is a 35 x 12, 3 bed static (IE it leaks heat like a sieve). It would be very hard to burn more than that as we run it 24/7.

As many as they put on lol. Whilst a funny reply it is the truth. Will they be in all day, or just use it at weekends? Is it the primary heat source for a mansion or a room heater for a small room? For us working from home & a 5kw stove as our only heat source running it solidly we use about 15m3 per year of hard woods.

For an employee I would agree (IE in your case) but for a self employed person (IE in this case) part of being self employed is taking responsibility for your actions (HMRC even insist on them being financially at risk) so they should either use their insurance or pay up.

They are already available. Its called a circumcision. :blushing:

Well yeh need better tyre / weight on the back axle then. Would still try the water (with antifreeze or you will tip over in winter) in them first cos 30% is still loads.

You dont need new tyres you need a heavy rear weight block. Or water filled tyres.

We are on the Llyn, our weather is often not what the TV weather report is saying its going to be. The weather report on that site is normally not to bad for accuracy. Its wind speed tends to underestimate quite a bit, so for wind we use the met office site.

You might be able to stretch to a full PCP set up.

You might want to change your mind. Local Weather Report

I bet they set it up on auto repeat on the grinder & forgot them. Came back & they were half gone.

The munter is no less safe than a fig 8 or proper belay device. All can be backed up with a prussik or similar.

Rock climbers would use it if they need to, after say loosing a decender / fig 8 / stitch plate.

Good ones go for strong money. Buy a tatty one & fix it up. Which I just happen to have lol. Why a 165? They are not that good really.

Wheel barrow?