gensetsteve
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But there is £1200 range rovers and £80,000 range rovers. If you change your 80k RR every year you have money to burn
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Not my area but we have had hardly any rain for the last 4 weeks and everything in my garden is wilting.
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Not my area but we have had hardly any rain for the last 4 weeks and everything in my garden is wilting.
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When I was a second year apprentice we used to move double decker buses by putting a compressor on board and blowing the air brakes off. I was steering (no power steering) and my forman was in charge of the air. As we pushed the bus down the slope it became obvious someone had removed the rear half shafts so no brakes. It was a choice between killing some people, hitting 20 new lorries in a row or putting the bus in the river test. The bus ended up in the river test with me sitting 20ft in the air still in the cab. I got a written warning but it was later withdrawn as I was an apprentice and under supervision. Also saving the lives of the british telecom inspectors may have swung it.
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When I was a second year apprentice we used to move double decker buses by putting a compressor on board and blowing the air brakes off. I was steering (no power steering) and my forman was in charge of the air. As we pushed the bus down the slope it became obvious someone had removed the rear half shafts so no brakes. It was a choice between killing some people, hitting 20 new lorries in a row or putting the bus in the river test. The bus ended up in the river test with me sitting 20ft in the air still in the cab. I got a written warning but it was later withdrawn as I was an apprentice and under supervision. Also saving the lives of the british telecom inspectors may have swung it.
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I would say your choices are. improve what you are doing 5 days a week. give up and become a wage slave. or work for some one part time and carry on your business 2-3 days a week put your prices up as you dont now rely on it.
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I would say your choices are. improve what you are doing 5 days a week. give up and become a wage slave. or work for some one part time and carry on your business 2-3 days a week put your prices up as you dont now rely on it.
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Boulters tippers nr tadley
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Boulters tippers nr tadley
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Ks 50 looks a good machine 48cm capacity with 24 tonne splitter. IMO If you buy in cord you need a machine of at least 37cm cap. If you will be trying to put arb waste through I would look at the dalen. A machine with wide mouth and easy to lift guards with automatic disarm would be ideal.
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Ks 50 looks a good machine 48cm capacity with 24 tonne splitter. IMO If you buy in cord you need a machine of at least 37cm cap. If you will be trying to put arb waste through I would look at the dalen. A machine with wide mouth and easy to lift guards with automatic disarm would be ideal.
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Yes to a certain degree. But in my opinion a business is an activity that pays you a living. Dont rape it but dont moly coddle it either. Not everything is tax deductable in one year and then its only 25%-40% of the spend off your tax bill. What ever you spend you will be putting in at least 60% of the cost. The way I look at it averaged over the year I normally earn to the 40% tax brkt by thursday so friday is alot of work for not much money. The choice is often a new truck for 20k or 12k in your bank.
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Yes to a certain degree. But in my opinion a business is an activity that pays you a living. Dont rape it but dont moly coddle it either. Not everything is tax deductable in one year and then its only 25%-40% of the spend off your tax bill. What ever you spend you will be putting in at least 60% of the cost. The way I look at it averaged over the year I normally earn to the 40% tax brkt by thursday so friday is alot of work for not much money. The choice is often a new truck for 20k or 12k in your bank.
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I was told by a business panel 20 years ago, dont know if it holds true today especially in the last 3 years work out your costs double it and add vat. So if your turn over was 100k 20 k was vat so 40k should go in your pocket less tax. There is a huge amount of variables like do you like toys more than cash. Do you struggle in an old shed or do you rent a nice unit ? are you expanding your op or reducing down. when you take on people often you dont earn a lot more until you get to 5 people I think its called growing pains.
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I was told by a business panel 20 years ago, dont know if it holds true today especially in the last 3 years work out your costs double it and add vat. So if your turn over was 100k 20 k was vat so 40k should go in your pocket less tax. There is a huge amount of variables like do you like toys more than cash. Do you struggle in an old shed or do you rent a nice unit ? are you expanding your op or reducing down. when you take on people often you dont earn a lot more until you get to 5 people I think its called growing pains.
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35k is fine as long as profit is 34k . Turnover is not really a good indication of a good business whats important is profit.
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35k is fine as long as profit is 34k . Turnover is not really a good indication of a good business whats important is profit.
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empty belly makes you hungry for work
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empty belly makes you hungry for work
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To a large extent you have to blame the government who make the policy that controls the bigger picture. 10 years ago the government felt the only thing worth doing in the uk was banking. Finance and logistics are all very good but we are running out of people to buy insurance and products that we are moving about the country. Time we supported more businesses and less benefits. Looking on the bright side its only a matter of time before the chinese demand a better standard of living then prices will rise. The cost of oil is causeing the chinese some pain introduce them to our H&Sculture and that should finish them off. By this time the world will be sick of crap tools that last hours not years and it will be rule britainia again.
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3in stuff takes an hour to get 1.5 cu metres in a bag. 8in stuff on a good day 6 cu metres.
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I worked for Aggreko for 2 years in about 1988. The worlds biggest supplier of Hire generators. They do make their own stuff as its made to a spec not a price. What they assemble is a drop in the ocean compared with Wilson. Aggreko are very successful due to the quality of the sets when they arrive on site.
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It was only a week ago that a large european generator manufacturer Pramac went into liquidation now the biggest european one in Ireland FG Wilson is moving production to China and laying off 1500 people. Where will it end ? we cant all walk round with clip boards going on courses for H&S and making engineers lives unbearable because their wont be any soon. We still manufacture alot of good stuff in the uk but if let it all go it will be ten times harder to bring it back. Im alright jack is the wrong way to look at this, less factories also means less landscaping and tree work . I feel I am often the only one that has seen the decline in manufacturing over the last 20 years as a bad thing. The government stance is they cant see the point when its so cheap to manufacture in China
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We had something similar to this about 15 years ago the bloke who sold it to us also sold us some bigger cartridges. If you forgot to diarm it you could not hear till lunch time. We lost some parts from it which ment the piece of iron in the bottom that holds the blank shot out one morning and broke my mates little toe He was less than impressed and I dont think we used it again. The tube is still kicking about the workshop. It involved a weight inside a tube a split pin and some fishing line attached to the door handle and some missing washers
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Sugar
