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You could be right the land has doubled in value he may have parked some money there for retirement. How much would he get in the bank. My isa just dropped to 0.8 % if your skint money in the pocket is great but if your getting on and have worked hard for 30 years plus it's time to invest and slow down.

Making babies

Drill feels hardly run in. I had two drills and four batteries the other drill is as new but stuck on hammer. So my drill has seen of four 18 volt 3.4 amp batteries. It always seems like for an extra tenner you can have a new drill as well and now it's lithium technology. Pattern Chinese batteries are £44 ea . I bought 20 drills with charger and 2 batteries for £95 a piece. But they were reduced from £200 each.

That's good going I remember getting good results with the new Panasonic not that good though. These days we are down to 50 wood screws on a fresh charge. Leave the battery a week and it's flat.

Ring hitches clank more when the trailer is a little tail end heavy. If the fuel tank is near the hitch keeping that full can sometimes improve things. I prefer ring hitch at least you know it's not. going to fall off if you collect a customers machine and they have worn out the coupling.

Cord or arb a risings ?

I found syc, maple, beech, ash and birch all very good and similar. I did not get on so well with oak, poplar, willow, elder or lime

Like most things in life the cards can work well but take your eye off the ball and they will give you a right shafting. The reason I have two cards is to get the best price. But I notice the card companies list the advantages of a card and price is at the bottom. If I use a bunkering she'll garage ( all motorway ones) it's 92p if I use one off the major routes it's £1.30 not funny in an Amazon. Both my cards were free now they are trying to charge me £30'for the next 3 years. If your bank account suffers a glitch they will charge £30 for a missed dd If you loose or wear the card out £40 for a new one. No loyalty points with a card which negates most of the savings. Signing in to get your statement can be more ball ache than checking your paper credit card at the end of the month. They start off good prices but Ifyou spend less than 8k a month they start shafting you on price. If you spend that sort of money get two suppliers then take the business away from them and then squeeze their balls they are a snakey lot. All in all if I did not have the cards I would give them a miss.

I can understand why people starting out go in cheap. I own my workshop and all kit is paid for if I was starting out servicing generators i could not compete with me. I bet at times I quote 2005 prices with out realising it due to being too busy. If you go in cheap work hard and make your mark you can put your prices up later it's not a contract for life. I don't need to work for peanuts if the phone goes quiet I help the wife make kindling or bolt the junk back together in the yard and get it up the auction.

Thanks everyone for the advise on Hitachi I will look closely if I decide to buy a new drill. My Panasonic works fine it's just battery life has dropped off. Shame batteries are so expensive even building your own.

I see a hitachi with two lith ion bats for £100 in screw fix catalogue stood out as a bargain if they are any good. I need a new cordless give my Panasonic a bit of a poor review on this thread thinking it was just over 5 years old but looked this week and it 11 years old so its done good.

I can see where the problem arises both sides need educating. I don't think it just happens when cyclist ride up the side. Lorry drivers forget there is a cyclist. An idea I had was to fit a micro chip in the handle bars and fit to the zip on a pedestrians coat if it comes close to a truck sets of a warning to the driver.

Jon you will need that 2000 kva just to keep up with your internet use

200k is ok even I can't blow that on toys ea year

Is there a pension worth doing ?. I have looked carefully at investments over the last ten years. Pensions look a complete rip off the only person to guarantee a good wedge of your hard earned is the stuffed shirt and tie that signs you up. Land I think is worth doing. Buy to let needs very careful looking at or you will end up giving cheap housing to careless chavs. Tractors tools and plant are a good investment in your business and keep your tax bills down. Need to remember I think the 1/2 million capital allowance has gone and you can only spend 26k a year. Step of the gas occasionally invest in your self and take an extended holiday see the world we are not here long.

If you are going to try and use it for the family in any way has to be double cab. If you are going to try and use it for work in any way has to be an extra cab preferably with the suicide doors. Personally I think the load space is too small and too high for most jobs they are good for pulling a 2 tonne trailer through a Forrest or quarry ( as long as it's not wet ) I would think most people in this game would be better off with a £400 ldv tipper for work and a nice car for the family.

It's been 11 months give him a chance. I seen some of Elfins projects and he finishes them unlike me never finished anything in my private life every job on the house is half done never seem to get the last 5 % finished. I avoid taking on projects I just loose interest more a buy it enjoy it scrap it sort of person.

Jon just sell up and buy a house where your nearest neigbour is 100 metres away. That was our set up with one next door neigbour who we get on well with. They are building 1000 houses around us now so time for a move soon. You don't need to go from one extreme to another to get some piece and privacy. Remote but still connected is good.

I would say it's a 2000kva fg wilson set it has a wilson control panel. If it is made in China it will need 500 pieces a month to keep it running 😊

But not for long those Perkins engines were not the best. I think they took over the design when they bought out Dorman. Judging by the colour and the p2000 made by fg wilson in Ireland.

There is something satisfying about loading an arctic with the result of many hours of toil. How many bags on that load looks about 48 pallets. What timber do u use and how many bags an hour.

We still make really nice kindling but we still don't deliver unless you take at least 14 pallets at a time the haulage will probably kill the profit for you. 200 bags on 2 pallets will be £65 per pallet + vat just for the haulage.

You forgot marriage guidance Joy I think everyone has the ability to ask stupid questions just some are better at it than others

The reason I don't lend kit out is most people do not look after your kit as you do. If a job gets hard rather than pause and find a solution they abuse your kit as the repairs will not come out of their pocket a few months down the line. I used to have a small fleet of large silent hire generators. In the space of a week I was chasing payment on several hires paying for a new injection pump as someone had refilled the tank with water to save acing for diesel on off hire. The new set I had just paid 20 k for and sent out on hire someone with thick grease on their boots had scrabbled up the side and walked all over the roof. I sent the whole collection to auction banked the money and not looked back.

I had a mk 4 and got a professional tipper conversion done very versatile but a bit lacking in the payload stakes. About 400 kg if you need to stay legal. The ram and steel work eat well into the Load margin. For chip I would go for a 3500 kg gross truck