Billy

I bought "Internet" landrover battery from some place on n Wales coast

 

It was incredibly well packed, with all sorts of seals on the acid - delivery driver had it upside down but only couple of drops of acid had leaked - it was half price of everybody else

 

Would definately use them again

 

Ordered pto drive shaft from malpas tractors last week - ordered online but they are close enough for me to collect

 

I think website says 2 days order time, went in to collect NOT THERE

when I asked "why no telephone number " they said and I kid you not " people kept ringing us up ".

 

NO **** SHERLOCK that's how it works

Now over a week and no drive shaft - how popular they must be at harvest time ......

 

UPSUM. You can't judge a dealer from their website

Lack of phone numbers seems to be becoming more common, I was after some bits for my ifor trailer last week and visited three dealers webs pages that didn't display a phone number! Madness, needless to say they didn't sell me anything that day.

2 questions for the members of this parish:

 

 

 

What is the defination of a decent tree firm?

 

 

 

Who on here earns a salary of 50K?

 

 

 

Ty

In my opinion a firm run efficiently that knows what they can do and does it very well. So, typically well equipped for their chosen niche with the right mix of staff to make use of said equipment and get things done right. Few will earn a salary of £50k as dividends on top of a very modest salary are far more tax efficient, as are various benefits in kind.

We pay 50% on top of our wage in social charges.

30% on dividends although there is a lower rate of 15%

If we keep the profit in the company we pay 10%

THEN!

Personal income tax as every one here is self assesed.

The amount varies on the number of your family, whether you employ home helps and a thousand little things you can claim like travel to work over a certain distance and home improvements.

It works out at around 62.5% over all tax rate for me.

Which is why I work 2 Saturdays/Moneydays per month.

There is an expression here used by small traders,

"4 days for France, 1 day for myself"

Ty

That's seems quite oppressive, how much does a days work for 3 guys cost the customer ?

A few jobs today dismantled the anchor sycamore pollard with the crane....no decent pictures unfortunately.

Then removed another sycamore and a conifer from the back garden of some flats the mini loader saved loads of time dragging out of the car park as the access was shocking and you couldn't get the lorry in easily.

Where did I suggest dividends were tax free???:confused1:

You didn't directly, but the post I questioned appeared to promote not paying tax, so thought t was worth detailing the changes as previously for lower rate tax payers you could basically pay no tax using the system you suggested.

I think he mean you take under your tax code as salary and the rest of your income as a dividend, this what I do, as I run a limited Co.

Me too, but dividends are taxed at 7.5% after first £5k up to the higher rate tax threshold and 32.5% or so after that. So if you want the money tax has to be paid.

As Steve pointed out they can't make it all go, if you're earning good money you will be paying a fair bit of tax, but it's no bother really imo.

I think he means a salary that is higher (more) than your tax code tax free allowance.

Ah right, that's mad, in the South East the tax free allowance would barely cover a mortgage. If you think like this an employed position is probably best for everyone!

as a small business owner why the hell do you want a salary more than your tax code. You just end up giving it up in tax. Let your accountant earn their fee and sort it.

More than your tax code?

You lose them if you earn over 7.5k and have to pay them back even if only slightly over.

No, they pay them right up to 30 something household income. And they pay very well!

How can they live on £8k

....tax credits

I thought it was somewhere in the mid twenties, but I'd still confidently say plenty of 'business owners' in this game earn less and, sadly, think they're doing alright.

I do this when I have time and aim to either get the job one way or another or find out the three points Tom D mentioned, which is always valuable and interesting information allowing you to profile your competition or find out who they really are.

Mark I have a big piece of half inch steel if you want to come and get a piece of it we can cut a bit off to the size you need.

Fits nicely sideways behind a load of chip as well.

hope i'm not hijacking the thread but I'm about to take down a tree for a customer and she asked if I could put the remnants of an old shed through the chipper, would the old nails and screws wreck the machine?

Unless it's a shredder, yes

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Will it dig out ok, or is it best to stump grind it?

Pull it out with truck or winch, they pop out easy roots are dead shallow.

Getting back to original post, I've chilled a few palms with my bandit but the chip quality is not great unless chipping the 'logs' with foliage on which isn't gonna be possible with a Timberwolf. If you're gonna try r make sure the knives are super sharp and anvil is on point!

Haha, never mind ! It's definitely no ditch witch or Vermeer when it comes to pure grunt on fair seized logs (however I do not have any extra ballast fitted yet) the load in those pictures made it a little tippy. I'm sure it would handle them better on forks as they'd be closer in and lower but they won't be ready for a week or two. But it is a formidable tool for dragging large piles of brush and the wheels are very friendly to turf, the garden we worked in today had a pretty nice lawn and it's still looking good after a day dragging brush over it without too much care, the tracked machines I demo'd would have take far more care or plywood on the areas where material is to be collected and turning would be required. I'll get some proper pics of some dragging tomorrow, it's definitely a game changer but at a fraction of the price of the more popular machines.

Which one Billy?

Skidster

Just got one of these with grapple, first job tomorrow with it will post some pictures.

I had no experience so learning from nothing.

The full term, Sept to June, so 10 months

But on average, when the assignment requests an 800 document I hit over 3k, oops.

Are they ok with that? When I was at uni they would penalise you if you went over by more than about 10%

DPD do well as they don't pay their drivers for undelivered parcels. Whoever fr jones use are very good also 1 hour window given in the morning and they've not missed it yet.

A very valid point as long as the products are of same quality.

How can the batteries differ if they look identical ( which presumably makes them the same brand) and the voltage cca etc are the same ? I doubt eggs would have missed these details. What is your argument if we presume the products are both the same as stated in the original post ?

I have this problem with local saw dealers they are selling saws for over £100 more than FR Jones, but are only about 40 miles from them, it's crazy I don't know how they sell any, and in this case both are proper retailers with shops so theirs no excuses involving lower overheads etc.

Buy a tipper as well, preferably over 3.5t