RobRainford

I was planning for this one in Kendal on the 4th. Looking forward to it

I believe old snake has done a lot of splicing of armor prus. I would be interested in this too as I have a few metres to play with too!

cool, if you need any help with your first year assignments let me know, i should be able to help you where i can, some of them can be a real headscratcher!

are there any signs of peeling or flaking bark? it looks like mechanical stress may have caused it, with the wind, but i could stand corrected on that one.

I've heard 'squash when stood on' though. But that theory can get confused with a few fungi!

I'm 19 I don't have as much as much as I planned to get over the past month or two. I would like to be. It works out better when I work for other people for invoicing and stuff like that. There's nowhere taking on. I have all the kit so just work for other people as a subbie. I've been getting more work through my own adverts than I have from otter people. I can completely see where you come from John. My dad says similar things but will help me no matter what. I do manage to keep hold of receipts from honey brothers and other relevant places so I could track back prett easily if I wanted to claim anything. I'm at a pretty base level with everything ATM. With these two week off ita a bit of a kicker as I've been going looking at jobs. But they are having to wait at least a week or two before I can do them. As others have said. If I make mistakes it's easier to learn from them now with less on the table than in year to come where it could mean big consequences

I thought you would have to be registered to claim it back? It seems like it's a good option to go for. Work has been on the up recently and will be keeping me busy for a couple of weeks after my Time off. Is it a good idea to have a separate bank account for these things though? Currently I've been using my personal one as that's all I've got. But was wondering if the bank would start getting suspicious? I can't see any harm, I'm not down as unemployed and don't claim anything. So to them it would just be wages paid irregularly? I will be speaking to some official bodies to find out more Thanks for the replies so far. Helped a lot in clearing the grey areas for me

But first you haveto make an apple pie!

When they are ful they behave pretty well. They like sloshing around when it's about half full. And it wobbles the van when you come to a stop. That just makes it fun though!

Thanks for the tips. There is a business startup place run by the council and I was planning to go there for the advice I need. My mum has done the books for my dad for years so she will be able to help me too. I just need to record of money in and money out. I will try and get some firewood going too. We have a good stack of wood that needs to go so that will be a good place to start!

I do work for a guy where a cscs card is required as he gets work for mayfields. There's a job in the works and I may need a proper arb on the ground. I'll keep you in mind if I'm ever asked

Oh yeah. I should know about that. I wish I was earning over the vat threshold! I'd read up on it and stuff previously and had read what you said Frank on another website. So all I have to do is sign some paperwork really. But wouldn't I then have to sort out another insurance policy? Including employers liability?

Have you not given your barrow a bright pink paint job like the rest of your kit yet?

I never had any jobs in Kendal? I sure will do mate cheers. Organising an inspection next Tuesday. Gonna go up with a torch and have a look. Are there any signs I should look for for evidence of bats? I'm not too clued up about the critters!

currently, i do work for myself, and all the insurances come from my dads side, meaning i have public liability up to my teeth pretty much. However, i am thinking of declaring self employed and wondering what i would need to do, ive looked online and i need to do my tax returns and id have to add VAT to jobs i do and have all sorts of paperwork, plus generic risk assessments, although there is one available anyway, it would enable me to invoice people. But with my dad having a business, i can use that and although i operate under robert rainford tree care services i could invoice people as rainford contract services which is his company, and then money paid to them i will get paid to myself as wages, which then would need tax depending on the amount. Its a real headscratcher, as when i dicuss it with my dad he says i can put things through the business and can invoice people through his business. There is a wealth of information available i know, but i need mroe real life interpretations of this information in order to help myself make the choice, i was planning to do it next year after i finish my foundation degree, and go to st helens chamber for business advice, where i may be eligible for grants if im lucky.

They would probably be your best bet IMO. We have enough so when spraying we can take an extra 2000l of water. Plus they will fit inside a van. With room for gear too. We used to run a system with a tranny van with the tank in the back with a small Honda water pump coming off that. Worked well

when ive used a friends tachyon compared to my XTC i found very little difference in feel, it was definately lighter, but it felt the same in the hand and the thinner rope seemed to work better with a VT system.

we have about 10 1000l IBC containers, large hole on top for filling and tap at bottom, you can fit a hose to these and then attach a small water pump, you can get two on a trailer and be towing approx 2 ton. The tap is the lowest point so work well as a gravity fed hose.

Happy birthday matey You may be younger than stevie. But there's very few of you eld folk who are younger than me!

That looks like a pretty cool Place to work at! I can hear the sound of. Hedgetrimmers ringing in my ears looking at that!

Cool. I'd love to make a bench out of the logs we have. But it would take a while. I've made a couple of stools. Automatic quad? I would say they are for softies but we had a Kawasaki 650 with a CVT gearbox. That thing was a beast. 60 mph across a bumpy field at night. Selectable 2/4wd in 2wd it would pop a wheelie easily. And if you hammered the throttle in a corner you'd be facing the other way pretty quickly.

That's a pretty amazing tree. I found a website a while ago that had a list of all the champion trees in the UK and had some of the ancient yew trees. Each one was spectacular in it's own right. Where's mr Blair, that's a good candidate for a stunt fell!

Haha that's one cool picture. The HSE say nothing about trees, in the sense that they have to be safely secured to the floor!

some good pics there ed. the guy in the last pic looks puzzled that the wood has a bench in it! plus thats a cool quad in the shed!

ive been using samsons from the book they have produced, following what they say as best as i can. Each one seems to give me a bit of a lump for a crossover, unless im doing something wrong.