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  1. gensetsteve
    All good ideas if you have a lot of spare time on your hands. If not we can supply neat ready to collect nets for. £1.60 a bag. Ready to sell for £3.95
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    If your equipment tank is clean and your fuel supply clean, your filters will be clean. Same fuel filter on my disco for 4 years no reason your tractor cant be the same.
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    I used to insure my tractor a 1981 john deere with a company in hampshire that specialises in classic tractor insurance. They included limited business use and any private use for £70 a year. Your not going to be able to use it for serious forestry work but small business ok and tractor needs to be over 25 years old. If you time it right you get 13 months as well. If interested I will dig out the details. I stopped using them because we occasionally hire in a big new john deere to pull our big trailer. Now that side of the business is dead I will sell trailer and go back to them.
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    No Jon sober as a judge. I need some of that cider keeps me compliant. I make sure I am off the sauce when I post or you cant believe what you wrote in the morning judging by some of the posts a lot of others find the same.
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    I sell a 1.5 cubic metre tipped load which I now describe as approx 3 bulk builders bags. If my competition is selling .7 or 1cu metre bags tough luck I already have the business
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    Clean your tanks out. If you draw water into the fuel pump dont leave there in cold weather as it will freeze and crack the pump open. Get in there with a pump and get the crap off the bottom not just run out of fuel as the fuel line does not drain the vehicle tank to the bottom.
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    John and mike do you fancy job sharing the chancellor position a kind of coalition. I am not too bothered about the whole tax thing as I will be earning 250k a year pretty much like all the previous mps.
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    Yep anything for votes
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    I tried to buy a house years ago and asked a good friend to look over it before I committed to getting a surveyor. It was offers around 85k I carried on making offers to 95k which was enough. But to flush out who bought it I bid it up to 105k. Guess who bought it my mate. moral of story play your cards close to your chest. You could get out what you can. then offer a lot more for the rest blow it apart then walk away.
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    For the first bit I need to be careful as my usp for being a politician is I fit into this description. For anarchy you need to move to Andover I think its currently Friday and saturday night.
  11. gensetsteve
    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.
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    Thanks I am happy to change any policy over night to gain a vote.
  13. gensetsteve
    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 ?
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    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.
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    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.
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    They like rear pads especially towing as there is no brake proportioning valve. They rely on abs to release the wheel if it locks.
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    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.
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    I found if you are towing with a disco a gearbox is a 80,000 mile service item.
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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
  23. gensetsteve
    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.
  24. gensetsteve
    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.
  25. gensetsteve
    goggle maps are normally out of date not sure if they have historic maps. worth buying an aerial shot every few years.

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