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  1. ukminch
    If you look in the yellow pages you will find a list of reputable vehicle dismantlers. Ring them and they will come and collect it, then you can use trader part of the form. It was a yard round your way that picked up my LDV from my parents in stonehouse and paid 100quid for it. If you do sell it privately make sure you change the owner through the V5. In fact now I send everything to DVLA with a covering letter recorded delivery, after they tried to screw me over a SORN decleration. Rob
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    When I was offering a call out contract for a big company, I would ensure that I had someone I could call on that would be sober. Normally that would be a subby tho. I have in the past had a call at 3am and in no fit state. I sent someone out there who sorted it, then next day dropped an invoice in, I was confused........... then I realised I'd made money whilst out - Brilliant!!
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    I was just wondering, looks like one that someone that used to do some work for me owned, Mr Bond?
  4. ukminch
    Is that chipper braked?
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    I don't think they've changed it, only did mine last year, it's an off road manouvres section followed by a drive round and about the place. Pretty much the same as a HGV test. Only bugger is I can't tow anything over 750kg behind anything bigger than a 3.5t vehicle, shoud really have gone full artic but needed doing a bit before i did it...... R
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    I'm fully compliant I always make sure the vehicle is on the grass, not the tarmac.............. R
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    Oh and why should firms pay for it, most people would not expect to have there cross cutting paid for them before they started at a job. I guess it comes down to supply and demand. Rob
  8. ukminch
    You are wrong, if you've got HGV 2 now called category c you can only tow a trailer of 750kg behind you. All cat c does is mean you can drive any rigid vehicle, well any cat c vehicle before someone mentions tanks. I did my B+E test cost me £85 quid to do the test and £20 quid for a couple of hours beforehand with a normal driving instructor to look at my general driving. Used my own trailer and car and looked up all the manouvres beforehand. Think it was obvious to the examiner though, as I did things like putting my seatbelt on which apparently was not necessary for the manouvres. Before I'd done the trailer test I'd already done the HGV test which I don't think helped really. Think that cost me about £500quid to do. Rob
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    200T oil leak.

    ukminch replied to Mesterh's topic in Chainsaws

    I had big problems with my cap when I first brought it, gota new one and been fine ever since! There didn't appear to be anything wrong with the old one though, so kept it as a spare
  10. ukminch
    On that note, has anyone ever climbed a tree to aid with pricing. I did a couple of times when I was less experienced, think I've got the job on a couple of them because they could see I took my time at thequotation stage, along with a well worded written quote sent in on time. Rob
  11. ukminch
    I may well do that if I come across such a situation again, for the moment I've not really been trying to get much work in for the past couple of months as I'm away for most of August so going to have a big push in September when I'm back - If I come back......
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    By the way thats quite cheeky so I understand if you don't. R
  13. ukminch
    You wanna share the prices that you've agreed with them. I did a similar thing for a client, took absolutely ages and ended up getting two jobs out of them before the sold up to another company. So I never found out whether the pricing really worked. R
  14. ukminch
    I just guess, but it's useful to have reference points such as houses, lampost etc that you can use to gauge it. I think that I will always balls up quoting be it in my favour or the customers favour, and think that's true of most people. As long as it works out ok in the end its ok though. I also now tend to overestimate as I've burned myself to many times in the past. Also means I do less work for more money. R
  15. ukminch
    I've been using the old advertising signs that you see lit up in light boxes as tarps, fantastic things.
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    200T oil leak.

    ukminch replied to Mesterh's topic in Chainsaws

    My 260 leaks chain oil, but to be honest it's such a small amount that I can't be bothered to investigate. I notice it if I leave it in the kitchen overnight instead of locking it away properly. But it could even be the fact that it's got a constant oil pump rather than throttle activated and is just oil thats not got to the chain.
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    I dunno I think a tree firm ought to be pulling in £1000/day with 3 people in a team with the right equipment. Then again they need to be doing £1000 worht of work to get it in the first place. I know I have in the past. Having said that at the moment the work is hard to find so I'm now happy with less equipment and two of us to be pulling in £4-500ish a day but were doing half as much work. And then of course how much work have I got - Not very much maybe it's me getting it wrong.........
  18. ukminch
    Oh yer so what I was getting at is your system seems about right
  19. ukminch
    Or maybe the competitor is buying work.............. Don't think there is a right or a wrong answer, all depends on you at the end of the day
  20. ukminch
    It's quite simple in the accounting world, unfortunately not so in real life. Expenses and profit don't really come into the equation whereas cash flow does. Say you want £100 a day then if your job is £100 expenses then you need to charge £200quid to make your money. It doesn't alter on bigger jobs, but the risk does. The chances are the expenses are higher so the risk is bigger hence as your risking money you need to charge more. Say 1 in 10 of the bigger jobs you don't get paid for that means you need you need to charge an extra percentage on the other jobs to cover it. The other thing is how much is the money costing you whilst it's tied up, it can be frightening. If you've got savings then it's costing you 5 percent ish a year, if your borrowing it then it could be 40% before you've realised whats going on. Again these cost need to be applied to these jobs. Then you need to work out how much stress is worth to you and again put it on the job...... Rob
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    The other thing that I must admit I never even consider is how much is stuff actually costing you. Most of us have mortgages ,that £80 quid a month could save you stupid money over the lifespan of the mortgage (A few grand - Which is a lot of firewood, especially if you could earn money better elsewhere) It's something my accountant keeps trying to explain to me, but I guess I like a beer and I like toys to much to take that much notice!!
  22. ukminch
    About £80 month more viable or a grand a year....
  23. ukminch
    I think the problem that you have there though is that even if the trailer was braked it's not going to help as the friction still not be enough to even keep you stationary? R
  24. ukminch
    I think if your buying it in at high cost you can't do it unless your completely set up for it. I wouldn't dream of buying it in unless it was mega cheap. I only process my waste and see it as a few quid beer money (obviously taxable) Hence if somebody offers me £20 quid on site for the wood 9times out of 10 they can have it so long as it goes before I leave site. R
  25. ukminch
    Erm yer it does when you read it back, should be how they've had kit stolen, and nearly stolen.

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