richy_B
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I prefer to fixed grab. Less bits to get damaged, very robust. Got mine from digbits. I'd recommend.
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I got an old tumble drier off Gumtree for £30. Low heat for 60 mins sorts most stuff.
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Fantastic. I'd have no chance of anywhere near that on my mini digger. Is it quick enough to switch between auger head and pallet forks?
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What size is your auger flight theocus?looks about 60 cm. I have a 45cm on an auger torque head on a mini digger and it's useful but could certainly see the benefit of your set up.
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It's probably not the 'ultimate machine' but a jcb teletruk is a super useful machine to have around. The 4wd 3.5t lift version is very capable.
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I'd agree. I have an older L200 double cab on BFG mud terrains. It's great in most offroad work situations and get me and a bed full of kit across fields, mud and boggy areas. What I like about it is not how it handles the rough stuff but how it copes with the easy. If I drove across a damp, level field you can barely see I've been there as the mud terrains don't slip at all. On road tyres or in a rwd transit we'd definitely leave tracks. Towing a >750kg trailer even using mud terrains and it bogs down very quickly and leaves a mess. If I took our ifor 3017 tipper trailer with a full weight load across a wet field it would a nightmare. I can definitely see the value on a single cab or king cab tipper. A double cab tipper is going to be limited though in my opinion.
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Can't comment on a chainsaw but you don't want to hit a discarded nappy with a brush cutter. Believe me.
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Anyone with a tracked chipper available for Saturday 17th March? Needs to get through a 1.5m gap so a 6-7.5" machine. Would need to be able to get to Ealing W7, West London (A40 / M40 turn off from M25) for 9am then about 6 hours on site. Working with one other person. Can pay a decent rate for the day. PM if of interest. Thanks, Rich.
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Nice set up. I was considering something similar for our planting work.
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I read it as a 6ft root plate. Once you knock the soil off I wouldn't have thought to would have been too heavy to shift. Doubt you'd lift it but between the blade and arm you should be able to drag it. Just my humble opinion!
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Maybe not a straight lift but you should be able to drag it out of the ground then carry it wedged on the blade.
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You can do it with a 1.5t if needs be, it's just more digging and pulling. See if they have a ripper tooth available for hire.
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I think from a taxation perspective you might be right. From a recent mortgage application because I own 60% or more of the LTD company I am employed by I was classified as self employed. As a company director you will benefit slightly from the increased personal tax limit but then get shafted by the lower limit on dividends.
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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.
