richy_B
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Hello, Bit short notice but i need a climber for Saturday. Needs own ppe, climbing kit and saw. Easy job deadwooding a few oaks in a woodland for an event - no rigging, chipping, clear up. Rescue climber with kit here. Likely to only be 4-6 hours but paid the day. 9am start. Transport to us required, can pick up from local tubes/stations (Greenford / Ealing) if needed. £250 for the day if you have all your own kit. Can pay immediately, needs an invoice. Thanks.
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Seems to be the case. For the self employed and LTD employing a few employees look like they will be hit hardest. If fact a double whammy if you are a LTD company as you are technically self employed as a director. Add pension contributions to that for employees, rising minimum wages and rates rises. Great, well done GOVT for fostering small business and enterprise!
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Ouch. I saw an AA guy get into a 2005 Berlingo with standard locks in under 2 mins with some wire. Scary how easy it looked.
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That's an absolute sh*tter. You don't know what to do to try and reduce this. Do you sign write the vehicle? Do you not? Hard time for him but hopefully be can get back on his feet again. Just watch out they don't come again in a month for the insurance replacements.
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Not to rub salt to anyone's wound but I'd agree. It's often when we've become a bit complacent that you seem to get hit. You got to clear the van out every night, you have to put the wheel clamps on every time, you have to lock it back in the container when not in use.
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Speculation is national insurance rate for the self employed may rise from the current 9% to 12%. Have to wait and see if there is any truth to this.
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Budget comes out at 12:30 today. Sounds like some hits for self employed and small business tax. Not sounding great for many of us on here.
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Pretty terrible. Did he forget to empty the van out that night or was out early?
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Your collection of kit never ceases to amaze. A truly awesome arboricultural anthology of equipment!
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Are you being asked to guarantee the survival/replant failures at your costs? Will their be a covenant written into the land? The client may not actually be concerned about the long term life of the hedge, just need something green till the paperwork goes through. A project near me (funded by a developer) saw a row of approximately 120 x 5 metre thuja's planted along the boundary of a house with a very large rear garden. Cost around £65k for trees and planting. From what I saw there was virtually no aftercare and 90% were dead in the first year. The developer got the planning permission he was after though and subsequently built 8 houses in the rear garden. I expect he recouped his £65k ten times over. Seems an awful waste of trees but worth establishing straight away what the client actually wants/needs. Not worth you racking your brain to find the best way to do it horticultural only to find they couldn't care less.
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On my L200 double cab I sometimes carry an full IBC for watering. Probably hitting about 1200 kg including some misc tools. An Ibc is 1.2 m long and I'd say 75% of its behind the axle. The rear is very low. If I put the same tank in a super cab and can get the IBC 50/50 over the rear axle you are maybe 25mm higher. It's still pretty usable in a double cab, you just need to watch your exit angle. Your tow bar hitting the ground of a driveway as you hit the camber for example. .
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The MET are busy catching drivers texting at the lights. Luckily there are no murders, rapes, robberies, kids carrying knives this week so they can put all their efforts into dishing out £200 fines.
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Could you get a medium size tree spade in a skid steer /loader and do they one at a time.
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The beauty I suppose would be that you could do both. Excess heat from the kiln casing, pipe off the a lot of the gases for other uses. I did think you could run copper heating elements up the chimney as well to get more heat. The chimney used to glow as the sun went down. Regrettably I couldn't make any of that work in London due to obvious urban constraints.
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When I had my exeter I had planned something like this. I thought about removing the outer skin and insulation, a few wraps of copper tubing and then skin and insulation back on. Then run the piping to a large tank with a hot water pump in line. Essential you have a thermal accumulator tank you could then run a heating system from. Never got any further than thinking about it though!
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Good that it is a custodial sentence but in reality they will do 2.5 years at most. Prolifiant criminals likes this should be multipliers in my opinion. 10 years a piece might make people think twice.
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Handy looking machine but doesn't seem to have any rollover protection.
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What trailer for Arb work ? (Affordable & not Ifor W)
richy_B replied to James905's topic in Large equipment
My local trailer dealer told me a trailer is an investment not a purchase. I appreciate he's a dealer! But i couldn't agree more. Ridiculous how their hold their value. -
Exactly. Buying a vehicle for an employee to use as a personal vehicle is dangerous territory. Complicated for company tax, VAT his tax, H&S, employment regs. Pay them 40p per mile for using their own vehicle for work use when required. Save yourself a world of problems in the future.
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I was told by my insurer it is approximately £23 per £1000 insured for tool cover. Obviously going to be variations and significantly higher if you only insure a few thousand worth. For £10k kit about £250-260.
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Its probably a US receiver type hitch - just slides in.
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After keeping an eye out for 8 months I finally bought one. Petrol model with conveyor. Would have prefered a diesel but it was a really good price for hours and condition. Done a few hours with brashy material and it's works a treat. Will be out working all Summer.
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Exactly what I'd be asking. One basic ticket in 11 years of tree surgery. Something sounds seriously wrong here.
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It may depend on what cover you need for the trailer. 3rd party cover so it is came off and got someone, etc or if you want fully comp so if you are hit both your vehicle and trailer are covered. Many won't offer the latter.
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Storage of logs in a shipping container. Good plan or not?
richy_B replied to TeaMonsta's topic in Firewood forum
Mine was an ex refrigerated for food. 250mm insulation and stainless steel interior.
