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Ok Guys....been trawling google now for several hours and can't make head nor tail of the new VAT increase in connection to firewood. My understanding is that VAT is increasing by 2.5% on January 4th 2011.. The current rate for VAT supplied to domestic customers is 5% - is this increasing to 7.5% or is it staying the same?? Cheers Matt
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Contact Cameron Yeo at Trust Insurance - 01604 492644, menu option 3 no-nonsense insurance, extremely competitive and cater for tree work, forestry and landscaping ... you can tell him that Matt O'Brien recommended him.
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Seems slow going as a log splitter... be better off with an axe!!
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These aren't rules - they're common bloody sense! If you need any rules in place to make sure you don't get mugged by your customer then you need to grow a pair of balls and learn how to run your business properly!!
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Aye, but the liquid inside is poisonous - years ago people used to regularly die from an abscess!
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From my own experience - the only thing going to cure the pain is a local anaesthetic mate!! Get your backside up the hospital!
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Don't burst it, you'll make it MUCH worse.. Sounds like you have an abscess - if you cant bear the pain until the dentists open again in the new year you should go straight to your local A & E department/Hospital!
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No no no.... I wouldn't waste your precious time guys.... all the kit is buggered, no good to man or beast... honestly you wouldnt want any of it, especially the Jensen tracked machines.. :flute:
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You would!
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I live 10 mins from Grantown, and have my yard and unit etc there..... roads are fine mate!!
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Samson arbormaster all the way here, good, hard wearing and supple too.
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Wish I had some sympathy...... I just cant find any. What did he think was going to happen?? sheesh.
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New gun cleaning kit for the 12 bores and a new wallet here... happy days
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That's awesome!!!! Ideal for splitting billets. Bet it cost a fair few £££'s to make!
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Best market for 100 ton of Poplar?
Highland Forestry replied to 18 stoner's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
a lorry load -
The chain idea is not bad..... might be a bit of a pain though as often we have several stacks of timber.. Another idea I had was to run out lengths of rylock fence netting which with the snow on top would be concealed and maybe blunt the thieves saw? Paint bomb is another good one, not sure I could legally get away with it though. Paying somebody to stay guarding timber is out of the question... just not enough profit margin to allow it
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Yep - Carrbridge, Aviemore, Grantown-On-Spey and also had some go missing near Forres. Another contractor has had a fair bit go missing in Aviemore and Carrbridge also. I can understand somebody taking a boot load or even a small trialer load, but how the hell can somebody have the brass neck to nick 6 ton!! We loose timber all over the place but it's starting to really take the p**s now!
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Every time I go surveying it seems to either rain, snow or it's so cold I cant feel my hands!!
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I like the camera idea... I was thinking maybe the trail cameras you can buy for observing deer etc. I would need a camera that could produce images of reasonable quality for recognition and identification by police as well as any vehicle registration numbers. Another slant on this idea was to mount a big CCTV camera at the access gates with a sign saying 'smile, you're on CCTV' but have it mounted on the gate strainer facing right at the vehicle
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For what it's worth, I use Aluminium nails... You're right, they dont fit the hammers or cartridge systems, but a big bag in your pocket and any old hammer will get the job done just as easy!
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I have a strong suspicion about who it is but no proof.. what annoys me is that I had a guy in with the tractor and forwarding trailer today to pick it up who spent 4 hrs with the machine looking for non-existant wood I hate the fact that people help themselfs to wood that they know dosent belong to them and even worse that people are owed money for... it is literally taking food out of somebody mouth!
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We had one job on an old railway line which is now used as a walk, the boys were in thinning and 200yds up the path a guy was caught out with a bowsaw and a wheelbarrow in broad daylight, middle of the day, middle of the week.... the cheek!!! What really gets on my jublies is the fact that I have paid everyone for the cutting, paid for the extraction, and when the wood is stolen it causes me nothing but pure loss right in the pocket. On another job we had a load of 3.7m sawlogs at roadside waiting to go to the mill - some smart-arsed scumbag decided to lop a foot off the end of every log for firewood overnight, I didnt know about it and the whole load was rejected from the mill costing me £830!! Luckily I was able to get the logs cut back to 3.4m in the sawmill yard but then I was down on tonnage. .
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1.85 acres of woodland for sale Wigan, offers ??
Highland Forestry replied to Carl's topic in General chat
Sell it to a developer and have done with it -
Having lost another 6 ton of roadside produce today, it got me to thinking about how much we have lost this year and I am currently estimating around the 60t mark - mostly hardwood firewood but also some pallet wood and post wood. Does anybody else have this re-occuring problem on semi-commercial harvesting sites? If so has anyone got any tips to deter thieves and firewood wannabes? Cheers Matt
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Best market for 100 ton of Poplar?
Highland Forestry replied to 18 stoner's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Sleeper cuts are done at the mill.... you just supply the logs at 2.7m - they use them for making railway sleepers!
