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  1. felixthelogchopper
    Do you have a case citation for that? I would be interested to read the reasoning.
  2. felixthelogchopper
    Perfectly legal to track your employee's company vehicle in working hours. I would be more concerned about the OP's employee reading this thread.
  3. felixthelogchopper
    You can always create your own currency Tom, the poond.
  4. felixthelogchopper
    Chestnut, Lime and Poplar, all seasoned since September? Let me get my cheque book right now!
  5. felixthelogchopper
    In my experience, trying to make yourself understood on AOL help lines is an utter waste of time.
  6. felixthelogchopper
    Have you tried Stanton Hope? Failing that, you could try Dave Harris over in Rayleigh.
  7. felixthelogchopper
    Size 12 feet and a good fit in size 12 Oregons. I only wear them if I'm going to be standing in water all day though as they are nowhere near as comfortable as proper boots.
  8. felixthelogchopper
    No customer is really perfect until the cheque clears.
  9. felixthelogchopper
    I agree with Stevie. You have no idea of the history behind their actions. My mum and dad had a neighbour once who washed dog mess under the fence (until my dad and I sealed the gravel boards with cement and the crap ended up in his garage ), tried putting his fence over 1ft onto my parents' land and then attacked my dad with a claw hammer when my dad began to take it down. I wouldn't think they would have given him the steam of their pee, let alone logs, however crap they were.
  10. felixthelogchopper
    He did used to work in the shipyards before making it big so I guess that's what he means.
  11. felixthelogchopper
    Just to liven this part of the debate up, if either of the parties is not a member of the EC then there is no obligation on England to allow an open border to allow Scottish citizens in to work, ie no legal requirement to allow free movement of workers or goods.
  12. felixthelogchopper
    I've had the Kumho tyres on for 18 months and the only time I have lost grip on tarmac was going over a diesel spill which was unmarked. I've done 24,000 on them and they still look like new.
  13. felixthelogchopper
    So not just an elaborate excuse to Mrs L as to why you have a secret Vaseline stash?
  14. felixthelogchopper
    Good news, it's on AOL mail, not Arbtalk.
  15. felixthelogchopper
    Muntjac jiz.
  16. felixthelogchopper
    Pass. It just came over the top of everything but I was on Arbtalk at the time. I've got a couple of things open on Firefox at the moment though (AOL mail and Arbtalk). Sorry I can't be more help.
  17. felixthelogchopper
    Quick heads up. I just had a Java update come up over the top of everything which fortunately got blocked by Norton as it was a virus.
  18. felixthelogchopper
    I have heard of a customer asking this question. The tradesman explained that he didn't give a discount for cash as everything went through his books and the customer then disclosed that he was a Tax inspector.
  19. felixthelogchopper
    Best not to ask.
  20. felixthelogchopper
    It's great to have hired-in plant insurance as well but you don't need that or Employer's Liability when you are free-lancing, which is what Kenty referred to. The thread title is 'PL insurance for a freelance climber/arborist', not 'how many different types of insurance might I need to cover every eventuality?'.
  21. felixthelogchopper
    Totally separate from the PL issues, why would you pay for Employer's Liability insurance if you were freelancing?
  22. felixthelogchopper
    Try talking to the neighbour
  23. felixthelogchopper
    The list of people using the tip to unload chip is growing slowly but steadily. Still got plenty of room for anybody else who could use a handy tipsite just a few minutes away from junction 28 of the M25. The charity site near Maldon is crying out for more chip too.
  24. felixthelogchopper
    Treequip can probably explain it better than me but the main issue is the confusion between self employed and sub contractor. Self employment is really only a status for Tax purposes. Being freelance doesn't make somebody a sub-contractor for the purposes of insurance. I worked as self-employed for all my admittedly short time in Arb. In that time, I provided my own tools sometimes, my vehicle sometimes but I was always working under the insurance of the guy whose job it was. The only insurance I had was PL solely for my own jobs and motor insurance for my truck.
  25. felixthelogchopper
    Jules, it all depends on how you run the job. If you get a climber in for a day and provide a ground crew, you are dictating how and when he/she does the job at a macrolevel. The climber controls the groundcrew purely at a microlevel as his/her actions dictate how the job continues at the level of the manual activity itself. The employer will tell the climber when the job is to be done and with who they will be doing it. The climber has no say in the quoting stage nor any financial stake beyond their own fee. The climbing kit and saw are mere tools of the trade. You would need to place the job in its entirety in the hands of the climber to make them a bona fide subcontractor, meaning they have to arrange kit and crew themself.

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