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You could be right iperhaps I am thinking no tax on the first 10k but that could be wrong too 😊.

If the vehicle cost 10 k plus vat = 12k. If you are not vat registered you claim 12 k back against your tax. So often being non vat registered is not as bad as they think. But bad news if you have low earnings and only pay tax at 10% rate and you have to wait up to year to get the money back rather than a couple of months.

You can 100% on a van or commercial things may of changed but you can only claim for £12,000 of value on a car per year so a 50 k car will take many years to right down in the mean time you will be paying tonnes of tax. You can register for vat as you start your business with any turn over. If most of your customers can claim the vat back it's almost a no brainier. It also disciplined you into completing your books every 3 months rather than waiting until you have forgotten or lost the receipts. I am looking into claiming back the vat on a new landcrusier car. Some are vat applicable to certain trades if you need them for work. Not sure of the ins and outs but I think they then tax you for private use which will 100's of pounds a month. I don't know how they handle that because I am sole trader not wage slave or limited does anyone know if it's a loop hole.

I have towed 15 tonne of air braked trailer behind 6 tonnes of new John Deere and it felt as safe as houses. I have towed 5 tonne of trailer and generator round an air field and it felt like a fun parks ride with butt cheeks clenching the seat. Moved the same generator recently with the d4 and it was not much improved. A lot depends on how good the suspension is on the truck. In my opinion 3.5 tonne is enough behind an Amazon. 2.5 tonne is enough behind an old Land Rover.

I have a feeling your accountant may be getting cars confused with commercials. I have a Vito van and claim all vat back as its for work. My landcrusiers car is also for work but I claim all the vat back. But every 3 months I have to pay about £100 for the private use ie the vat element. The LC only does low miles ea year so not really worth it but it does not long to spend £400 in vat on an old car at 20 mpg.

Please don't tow 4.5 tonnes behind a Land Rover.

I think a similar thing happens with kindling machines. Dealer says 70 gas an hour earn at £1 ea profit = £70 an hour or earn £320 from a tonne of timber But they forget it takes nearly as long to cut to 6" The machine and building maintenance, The waste clearing and disposal Then you have to collect material, shrink wrap to pallet and finally load on lorry means its more like £15 an hour

Good crimbo present. When he sends the reg doc off he will get the tax refunded watch you dont get caught out you ave a weeks grace or something.

I have three scruffy bits of kit that can have log grab on one bucket on another forks on the tele all working together makes the job. I found the cost of road insurance for the tele to high. I never got on with tractor and loader too slow and can't see after a tele loaders can be a bit annoying especially with the speed of a large bobcat.

Everything in moderation but I am sure juice is better than lager. Although Jon seems to run well on old Apple juice.

In what way ?

That is a very good point. The reason we gave up logs was we were flat out busy beating processors trucks and tractors in to the ground for two years around 2009 - 10. I sat down and thought the money we earnt was it worth the amount of work and the answer was not in month of Sundays and what would happen if we had a mild winter we would not even break even so canned it. We only did 300 tonnes so had time to do other things but that may of been our down fall as being bigger may of been the making of us with more efficency. I tend to think no matter how cheap you made the logs your stuffed if you cant sell them.

Looking on the bright side I think we are still in a recession added to the fact we have had at least two years of mild weather. Previous year people stocked up because firewood run out in 2010. So it's mild and some people have piled logs up. It can't get a lot worse so if you can survive this you can survive anything. I am glad I just do wholesale kindling now.

I seem to get lots done in my life but as wife points out I am not a tidy person an I leave a trail of mess and carnage behind me. I tend to repair the generator on site till 10 at night then pile everything on the van and forget about it.

I am looking for a jcb 527 67 . In your position I would keep the David brown for the pto and get a tele handler. One machine to run kit and load is a pain. You can never have enough forklifts.

I have given up drink for four months and do at least 6k on a rowing machine 4 times a week. But the vodka shot in juice sounds great to me I am converted the juice idea sounds better than 4 hours of torture a week:biggrin:

I have a big well made juicer in the garage. Probably old and useless but used to produce huge amounts of pulp and the odd teaspoon of juice you could feed in a carrier bag of fruit and get a cup full if lucky. Should you not be keeping the pulp in for fibre and volume ? but as jeff said dont put the skin in or you will get the sqits.

A good way to look at it they do say if you have your health you have everything. Also money does not bring happiness although I would rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable

Uranium could be easier to process it does not need to be seasoned for 18 months cut to exactly the right size and delivered a 4 pm Christmas eve. Also glows in the dark so you don't need lights to work on it

All very true but some how they still seem to get the gas and leccy through. The public are rightly complacent after the millennium bug which never happened and subsequently the dire warnings every year of black outs. If we do run out of power it will be hard as we just don't have the resources to deal with it. If the wind blows now it's weeks even months before people get their leccy and phone back on. Has any one noticed in every day life most places just don't have staff I waited over half an hour at Harry ramsdens in Bournemouth the other day. They had 5 tills but 2 people serving at least 50 people waiting every where you go you que.

I can't claim to of suffered depression or at least not diagnosed. But I have noticed through my 40's I have had a good go at the mid life crisis, I know this is nothing like what you,lads have suffered but at times it feels like a good starting point. I think as you hit middle age you have more ties responsibilities and aggravation. The little things you used to look forward to no longer hit the spot. I can remember saving up for an old vehicle or a tool and looking forward to it. I have a good budget to buy a decent landcrusier but just can't be arsed.

I think the biggest thing that is keeping the log trade down is 24 months of mild weather. a good 4 weeks of freezing weather will clear out some of the stock pile left from panic buying years ago. Most people that buy logs only plan 3 days in advance especially if they have central heating as well.

I think when you get to this stage in your business for the sake of safety and cost it's time to consider a 7.5 tonne beaver tail and operators licence. Pulling 2500 kg for an hour a week is a trailer job but if your moving big machinery 3-4 days a week to a work site it's time for a little lorry with tacho and the brakes to match especially in hilly slippery terrain. I have in the past took a step back and looked at the 2.5 tonne bobcat purched on the 5 year old trailer behind the 10 year 110 and thought what would this look like in court if someone got hurt. Answer = ridiculas

I can only speak from experience but have owned landcrusiers,fourtraks,discos,RR, hilux,trooper, navarra, 110. For moving trailers you can't beat the land rover low box with no diff lock the d2 was just about ok for reliability the d4 a complete disaster . So in future there will be no more Lrs for us. The land cruiser 4.2 and new v8 is too expensive to buy and fuel for work. That leaves the Ranger, dmax and hilux re certified to 3500kg. I have in the past used low box in a Navarra to tow 3000kg up a steep Tarmac motorway with no ill effect especially if towing in a straight line. If you are on a steep hill and need to pull a heavy trailer of the line I think you will do less damage in low box than slipping the clutch. I don't know what went wrong with the shogun but if I get a good load of ballast on my ifor tt105 the whole lot will weigh 5 tonne. Since the shogun is only designed to tow 2600kg that could have been the problem, I would imagine the reason he selected low box is he could not move the trailer in high. I think you can feel if you are straining the transmission by using common sense which most of you have plenty of

Epic fail here. Chuck it in a pile throw it on the burner mentality let me down