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Lots of work on, been off for 3 weeks cant get back into it. Thanks for your vote. Must kick my own butt otherwise I will put on 6 stone wear tracksuit bottoms lots of gold chains and sit outside costa coffee in a scooter.

Thanks I am happy to change any policy over night to gain a vote.

A business is a way of making money to pay your mortgage support your family and feed your children. If enough people treat business as a hobby everyone will need to have new equipment work 100 hrs a week and live on the bread line. I understand when starting business if you are young you can fast track it to better success by taking less out for 3 years. But I see a few people owning businesses now in their forties still working 70 hrs a week and they are skint. Why ?

I cant back any of the current parties so thought I would start my own. In my first week of office I thought I would sanction £25k for all arborists to spend on what ever arb toys they want. Driving licences for disabled scooters assessing the need. Being just too fat would be a fail. Immigrants are welcome as long as they have £250,000 in their back pocket. Special parking at tescos for the unfit and lazy. That would be the spaces at the back of the overflow car park. Anyone who works for a bank and earns more than 50k 99% tax rate. All speed cameras to be removed accept the one outside my house. Capital gains tax to be abolished. Stamp duty abolished Starbucks sell coffee for £3 there is tax to pay on the £2.80 profit. H&S will be optional people working in the admin can become traffic wardens. All traffic wardens to be exported. I am open to ideas but think we may need to find some dosh somewhere.

I have read most of the thread not all so apologies if I repeat something. My understanding is as long as you subbies do less than 60% of their work for you and have their own expenses run their own vehicles and look for their own work the IR will be ok with it. The down side is if you pay a subby without deducting tax and they do a bunk or go bust you will be responsable for the unpaid tax. I would have thought the authorities should be grateful for the fact that people can find work and be prepared to do it. They need to focus their resources on the third generation lazy ******* that have no intension of ever working a day in their lives.

They like rear pads especially towing as there is no brake proportioning valve. They rely on abs to release the wheel if it locks.

I see a lot of genuine log sellers stressing over whether their logs are 18 or 20% from experiencing logs from other people, I would say 80% of the logs delivered to homes at the moment are off the meter on moisture. If you cut green beech into cord wood and leave it for a year when you split it in the middle it will be at least 30% moisture. Some of the 4" stuff will be ok but bigger than this forget it.

I found if you are towing with a disco a gearbox is a 80,000 mile service item.

I would go Amazon all the way only problem is expensive to buy, expensive to repair, and heavy on fuel, ok for posing not for working. I want 30mpg from a work truck not 20mpg

About 10 years ago I was towing about 3 tonne of trailer with our disco 300 tdi late at night and did not realise I was so low on fuel luckily I was not in this country. The fuel light had just come on so about 10 litres left I found a 10 litre can of new engine oil in the boot. I thought I may get to the ferry with a bit of smoke so in it went. I was surprised to find more power better mpg and absolutely no smoke. Towing we used to get about 20mpg so 10 litres about 50 miles. I filled up after 60 miles and still no light. I would say engine oil has similar benefits and its designed to be in the engine ( although not in that area in quantity) Just watch the mix ratio especially this time of year.

I had a 1997 disco and replaced it with a new d22 in 2002. Luckily I kept the disco because the Navarra spent a lot of time in the garage. After 2 years i give up and got rid. The disco was still with us in 2008 until replaced with a d2. The D2 has been very good but mostly I think because it was a face lift model and they had sorted alot of the td5 problems. I avoid all the pickups due to the cart springs and difficult to work from the rear with the tailgate in the way and the height. The d2 we can drop the suspension if we are working on site for the day and reach in to the racking. I would like Nick channers van but I dont think I will be able to cope with the reliability. I have an Amazon bought in 2005 and all we have done to it is exhaust brake discs and 2 head light bulbs. When our d2 van dies I think it will be a toyota lc4 or similar.

Are we talking 3.5 tonne loaded or empty trailers here. I only ask as I have considered a quad just to get large empty ifor trailers out the field but discounted it as a tonne of trailer was asking to much of a quad in 12 inches of mud. Looks like I may be wrong by a large margin.

The bloke two doors down wanted to complain but did not have the balls so blamed the complaint on the neighbour. Had a similar thing with neigbour opposite who said another neighbour who we dont speak to had complained same thing.

Is the chimney blocked of with just the flue going up a hole or is the chimney liner loose in the stack. We have a 10 year old 5kw hunter in the lounge which I thought was good as we pump the warm air around and it heats the whole bungalow in this weather. But I accidentally bought a Hamlet made by arda last year and fitted it in my office what an amazing stove when the flames look like they are in slow motion the heat it gives off is incredible. Having bought an up to date stove I would agree with putting all cheap old stoves in the skip. The amount of logs you will waste in 6 months will pay for a new stove.

goggle maps are normally out of date not sure if they have historic maps. worth buying an aerial shot every few years.

Thats the difference between kiln dried for a few hrs and solar kiln dried for weeks. There is no advantage to kiln drying it just uses fossil fuels to achieve what nature does in 12 months for free even outside in the rain. Once you get your immediate problem sorted get 2 years in front of the job

if you have been operating for more than 6-7 years they may not be able to stop you if you apply for a legal certificate. If they do charge business rates just designate a 10ft sq area where you park the kit and pay for that yard space. If your turn over is low you will be excempt from business rates.

I would say Dean is spot on. I sell mine for £6 retail and £4 wholesale. I get alot of moans about the wholesale price but its not worth me doing for less if the weather stays mild I wont sell much at £3 if it goes cold I will sell out at £6 so I might aswell sit tight they will leep till next year. CPL are not cheap suppliers to the garages because of the delivery costs. I would not be brow beaten into a cheap price.

We can supply softwood kindling but no longer do logs. Log baron on here is big into nets of logs and is a bit closer to you.

There are lots of people running around buying cheap wet crap logs as cheap as possible. There are alot of people running around selling logs that cant add up.These two sets of people find each other on the net until hard weather jits then it all runs out. I am not reffering to anyone on hear £60 for a .7cu bulk bag is about right round our way. But to the public a big white bag is a big white bag. We have people tipping 3 cu metres for £140 . It costs me £120 for the wood.

I have been very busy the last 3 years treading water. I will get rid of a third of my work in the new year as its just not worth doing. Easier times and more time to look for more profitable worth doing work. The recession has effected alot of industries in this country you need to find the ones still flying high. Everything goes dead for 6 weeks around christmas which does not help.

Thanks for your replies. I was thinking alternator diodes so new alt about £120 external regulator if I get it wrong is about £75 for a genuine one. I only use it for a yard cart but its ideal getting through the 2 ft of mud at the moment thinking of selling soon if anyone wants a single cab with new alternator

I must mention there was no fighting he tripped over a tree root but does not make as good a story does it.

Thanks mate I will give it a try tommorrow again spent an hr tonight trying to get back on even tried joining as a new member no luck