Billy

Let me make this clear. This court case is being held in a court two hours away from my place, 450 miles in my vehicle plus three days lost work. Do you think I should suck that up?

 

 

 

The case itself involves over a £100,000 claim that COULD hinge on my evidence as I'm the only person that was on the job in question from start to finish.

 

 

 

Heaven forbid that a main contractor could need a subbie more than a subbie could need a main contractor.

 

 

 

You are deluded Billy.

Unless your completely broke and living from hand to mouth, which from your other posts I assume is not the case. The decision to take the three days off and a bit of travel (only a few hundred quid) on the chin in the short term to maintain a good relationship with a contractor and the long term revenue from them seems a simple one. If I were deluded and it was all so simple you wouldn't be on here asking advice, would you ?

Unless the contractor is very large I doubt they'll be calling you again if you invoice them for a few days in court...depends how the relationship is and what you stand to lose in future if it won't sustain this sort of thing.

Got one booked starting from Venice and going to a few places in the summer, will be my first one, food looks excellent and it's good value for visiting so many countries.

For a low budget you want a large chipper. The little ones are not built to last. They were designed concentrating on making them legal to tow.

I've a Vermeer 935i I'll be looking to sell soon, 9" 50hp working brakes recent cutter wheel bearings and other parts and will be fully resprayed in 2 pack.

'96 crew cab transit tipper bought for £750. Not great but couldn't knock it for the price

Scalping a/plan wings seem pretty good pack down very tight. Recycled type 1 is also quite effective and cheap at £7/ton

I use your oil and have had no problems. Also worth considering that bar the first cuts of the day the oil in the saw gets heated and stays at quite a high temperature through the day when the saw is being used.

I thought it was a highly rated firewood....which it is in my experience. However all dry wood seems pretty good to me

The type 1 is all covered in soup, still perfectly grippy though and nothing sinks etc definitely needs topping up in the spring though

Global sell quite a lot of used machinery and great refurbished stuff.

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This was one of our latest deliveries on Friday, a little different. This one is being used to process mostly pallets & other waste wood but can be used on stumps, logs, railway sleepers, green waste as well as aluminium, cars etc.

Ta the sword machine its feeding into in the last picture do?

Ebay has plenty

Re spray in 2pack it'll last years.

Strange, I think mine is 7500 or there abouts

Don't know about 7.5 but my 18t does around 10mpg from my rough calculations, fill it about once a month which saves a lot of time. Body size is 4x2.3x2 so overall width is about 2.5 with mirrors. It will fit most places with chipper in tow. We have 10 week checks usually around £100.

MOTs are fairly painless as long as your checks and maintenance have honestly been done through the year. Tax for mine is £650.00, considerably more than a 7.5t.

Running costs are very reasonable, not expensive, tyres last a very long time as long as they don't get cut etc.

Herts traffic

I guess you are still in O license territory when you go over 3.5t gvw.

No, only if for hire and reward, not shifting your own wood, plant etc

Are the pictures each side or two seperate ends ? If it's the former I'd say it's more like a mornings work. Chip may be getting on towards 15-20M3 as all the stems fill the truck pretty quickly

I didn't get a reply when I asked anybody about the age limit on the tests, it tends to be academic but my C1+E is valid for a little while yet till I'm 70, I think the +E as a result of a C+E test will be limited by medical??

Think mine expires in 2032 and do them last year and year before I'll be about 44 by then, I thought the medical was needed again at 50 though

HGV1 is now C + E so two tests isn't it?

 

 

 

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Yes, category C to drive a rigid lorry, C+E to add a trailer entitlement this will give you a +E on any other license you hold or get in the future too if you don't have it already I.e B+E, D+E etc

£750-£1000 depending how much you want it ? Steady day for 3 guys if you can get the chip in 1 load/ find a nearer site. If you've not got a lorry a grab lorry to pick it up off boards and drop it at your tip site on an hourly rate (2 hours I guess) would probably be cheapest way.

Hello,

 

I've recently put my pre-1997 licence in to be exchanged for a French version.

 

It will be 2 months before I recieve my new licence.

 

I 'had' the 7.5t+trailer gross train weight 12t

 

However, I now read that the U.K licence has been downgraded to 7.5t plus 750kg trailer GTW of 850kg

 

Not good news seeing as I have a 7.5t arriving in a few weeks plus a 1250kg chipper on order PLUS I tow a 3.5t trailer too so 11t GTW.

 

When did this change in the licence occur?

 

I last renewed my U.K licence in 2010.

 

So do I now require a test for a larger trailer OR my HGV tickets...?

 

That's 1200euros here plus a week out of work.

 

Ty

It has been the case here for quite a while that then old licenses have a restricted train weight. need to take the test to get up to full weight so C1+E or C+E and gain all 4 categories.

Hi~ Now registered as Company is now paying by CIS only. Luckily now getting work from other firms :001_smile

 

Thanks for help:thumbup1: Just got to get them to pay promptly now:thumbdown:

What's the problem, as long as you get the tax voucher off them your just paying the tax a bit sooner, not a major issue really?

Just looked up the exemption, sadly it is only up to 7500kg. However do we fit into number 17 on this list ?

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210068/hgv-tachograph-exemption-declaration-form.pdf

Im viewing potential vehicles next week looking towards 18t with timber grab hiab as for chipper it will be a vermeer bc2100xl if figures are viable the operators licence is sorted as is an operating base with bulk storage for chip Id like to get this off the ground but the investment is stacking up

If your buying it all just to do it, I would think extremely carefully about it. Unless you're also going to use the gear for your own jobs or have lots of timber haulage work lined up between helping arbs its a bit dodgy....and an 18t won't be very competitive hauling timber.