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how much can I pay my son to work for me
gensetsteve replied to daveindales's topic in Business Management
Check out the amount you start paying national insurance aswell I think t is slightly lower than tax. -
If you can hang on till xmas the rest will run out and you can set your own price pick off a a few new customers for next year.
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how much can I pay my son to work for me
gensetsteve replied to daveindales's topic in Business Management
I cant see a problem you could also pay you wife/partner . You will come across a huge amount of legislation especially regarding machinery and working hours. -
I had stuff like u have on the left. Put it into builders bags and put it on ebay for £15 a bag had one taker who knocked me down to £50 for 5 bags. I decided it was not worth the time and diesel in the forklift. You could advertise it as kiln dried untreated joinery waste suitable as firewood. You need to watch out for the green stuff as its treated with nasties and now they have a new treatment which makes the wood a deeper yellow colour. With the right kit you could turn the stuff into kindling but it would still be labour intensive. Judging by recent replies someone will be along soon to tell me i am clueless and pessimistic that they are the god of logs.
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We live in Hampshire a fairly wealthy county but prices are low. The closer you get to a city centre the more expensive it gets possibly due to congestion and congestion charge and cost of living.
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The defender can tow 3500kg and does it better than the discos because it has a lower ratio transfer box. Some defenders are able to tow 3900kg but only with some form of powered brakes ie not overun brakes. Discoveries I dont think are rated to do this but may be wrong. The max legal tow weight in the uk on overun brakes is 3500kg.
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Yeah so 6 months work for £6,000 or about the same profit for the sale of one used 800 kva and dont forget the vat man.
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seems ok put like that. But what about rent, rates, chain oil, chains, processor depreciation, processor repairs, derv in transit, transit servicing, insurances, road tax, tractor servicing, tractor replacement, training, holidays, sick pay, chainsaw repairs, replacement. The way I work it is 25% is cost of wood 25% is other materials 25% wages at £10 an hour leaves me 25% so turn over £40,000 leaves £10,000
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I was being optomistic at £1000 profit
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The other problem with seasoning for a year or two is the cost of rent and rates if you stuck 4000 ibc containers in a field you would get a fair size rate bill for industrial use. So kiln drying is quicker and probably cheaper. If you had a nice dry building would you store 5k of wood in it or rent it to a small business £400 a month bearing in mind 5 k of wood will have about £1000 profit in it.
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No but even pen pushers are able to work when times are hard. I would offer £80 a day and show them how to work the processor. A few people I have employed over the last 20 years have given me business advice during tea breaks. I am sure this would work the same for you if you felt the advice they gave was worth it you could give them a £400 bonus but at least you would have some logs cut.
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6 out of ten now. If it gets short supply again in dec 10 of 10 even with the 15% surcharge.
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If you pick up one piece of wood and get 4 6 inch offcuts it makes the job efficient. If you pick up one piece of wood and trim the end its very slow.
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The stuff on the right will sell on ebay for £15 in a builders bag its to small to efficiently turn into kindling. Because the stuff on the left is a bit longer you could get 3 or 4 pieces out and feed through kindlet. We are always scouting about for reject timber to turn into kindling but the stuff on the right will earn u a pound an hour so we leave it where it is. Another option is chip it for bio mass.
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I would agree with this. We have a sheppach ox 3 cost about 2k new now 5 years old still like new. I would not bother spending the time modifying and improving something that keeps bending and falling to bits.
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Mike I was in the local scrap yard today and they were half was through killing a brand new hydraulic pack. The motor and pump are still there but they have now cut the tank and filter up. I think the motor must have been at least 20-30kw would need a 80kva genset to get it away but would make a serious log splitter. £400 would have bought the lot and I thought it may suit u. If they get any more complete ones in would you be interested I would have thought the pack would have been 3-4k new.
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It was probably 3000 rpm and wont have the torque on start up different beast. That motor single phase will pull 12 amps and need in excess of 50 amps to start so you wont plug it in next to the iron. I dont get the ebay thing I have put items on with a reserve of £2000 they finish at £500 then I get some geek giving me abuse because I wont take £400 . I dont see ebay as the holy grail of plant and equipment valuations. If I put an expensive item on fee listing day and it does not sell I have lost nothing
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The machine in the video is what I have in the yard. They are about £3-4,000 The faults on ours were bearings worn in carriage that moves film up and down. Some of the programmes dont work. And bearings in deck. No idea if its true not tried it. Yours for £500 if you want it. Its 240 volt 1 ph have been meaning to plug it in for 6 months but its a long way down on my to do list.
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You put a pallet on with your 70 bags and the machine spins round and automatically wraps it for you. I bought a 2003 machine in good faith but the manufacturer says it has 2 faults which mean it sounds like it is only suitable for spinning your pallets. I feel very ill when I try to wrap pallets so this was a good tool. You need to find a supply of pallets and try wrapping and see how long it takes then work out how many logs you could have bagged in the same time. Remember the cost of the pallet the time to source or collect the cost of the stretch film and the time to load the lorry etc.
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Easy to split smells nice burns really quick ideal for kindling. Often used to clad buildings as it weathers well and turns a grey colour.
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Its too warm and too early. I have found the cheapest adverts are often the best. The local paper is £45 for a business card size ad and it was a waste of time. The local free mag £30 for the month but brought in at least 7 new customers ea time. We stopped advertising 3 years ago as we cant keep up when its cold so it seems daft to pay for adverts. We are slow at the moment but thats how I like in November.
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We have tried this but found the cost of pallet, film and labour comes to as nearly much as the kindling to make. Then you have to pay for the courier in the hope you get paid for the hole lot. I would be interested to hear how you got on. I have a rotating pallet machine which rotates but not much else if its any use.
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Nick if you can get that sort of efficency we would be a good customer next year. We are thinking of scaling down firewood so we can concentrate on our wholesale kindling. We have masses of log customers but due to old processor cant justify the time for the profit we make on logs. We could by logs from you and sell some kindling to take home. The only problem I can think of is its a bit tight for an arctic to get of the road but bulkers are often shorter than timber trailers. Once in we have storage for 160 metres in one shed alone.
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green beech flys through my processor and can use the four way split, same size dry and it will tend to shatter into trash so need to drop down to a two way split.
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I read somewhere that woodworm only migrate for a few weeks in the summer in the perfect enviroment. If you gave someone a woodworm problem it would be 2 years before it became apparent.
