richy_B
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You get good ones and bad ones. For £1500 well worth a punt. Fuel consumption is bad in my opinion. I have mud terrains on which doesn't help but around town, driven sensibly is 22-25 ish. Towing around town 12-15mpg. Ok on a A road run but above 55mph it gets noisey, bumpy and the mpg really starts to drop. Spares and repairs are straight forward - I use Milners for most items. I've replaced both CV joints, battery and alternator, coolant and all oils and nothing difficult to do. Edit - might be year dependent. I am talking about the K74 upto 2005 model.
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How smooth does a floor need to be for a pallet truck?
richy_B replied to Woodworks's topic in General chat
Pumps trucks are awesome on the flat. I can shift 2ton on flat concrete without too much stress. Even small pea sized stone or woodhouse will stop them though. There are 'off road pallet trucks'. In my experience an IBC of loosely filled logs is about 350-425kg wet/green. -
I'd suggest planting the tree then doing the resin the following September. Best to make sure the tree is happy and healthy before spending the extra. We do 1000+ containerised trees into pavements and pits and despite your best efforts, sometimes a tree just doesn't survive. With tree pits i treat the bottom of the kerb stones as ground level. The tree needs to be slightly deeper than you'd plant in open ground or else it'll buckled the pavement in no time. You lay the resin on top of the ground level soil. Treat the resin as a mulch.
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Epicormic shoot removal in a Conservation Area
richy_B replied to BrendanTreeFeller's topic in Trees and the Law
Would be complicated if you had to. We do about 7500 a year (50% limes). -
I've worked on this for firewood, charcoal and kindling. Had a VAT audit and it was confirmed then also. Interestingly I was told the delivery rate (if applicable) follows the product rate. So if you charge £10 for delivery of firewood to an end user then only 50p is due in VAT.
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Good question - a decent firm could be well established, trading for 10 years+, local authority contracts, multiple CHAS/NPTC/CSCS/etc upto the eye balls... Or it could be a small outfit that just very good at making a profit! I'm reality all businesses are different, have different overheads and aims. I know several one man set ups in London who turn over £80k and have very good take home. I also know several 2 and an occasional thirds man set ups that struggle to turnover £80 and the owner/lead is lucky to take home £30k.
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You need to look outside of arb if you want to develop skills relating to running a business in my opinion. A HND or degree in business management would give a base understanding, MBA would be a good option. Big undertaking obviously but very transferable skills. Even just going to workshops or seminars (HMRC do quite a few). The federation of small business is a good resource too.
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I see now - gvwr 7257kg. It's a cool truck but having pickup over 3500kg would be problematic.
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Would something like that fall into the 3500kg-7000kg weight class? Be amazed it its kerb weight was less that 3499kg.
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Yes. My 835 forestry spec is artic steer and I reckon you'd be putting loads of strain on it with a heavy load on the rear linkage (can lift 660kg in the manual). I have 35m winch and a zanon flail which are 250-300kg amd seem pretty perfect weight wise. No noticeable changes to ride or manoeuvrability.
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You must need some serious front weights on for that lift. 1200kg must be the total weight for the tractor.
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I am amazed at the amount of people who work without something in writing. Not even a contract, just an email thread would be enough - 'we can do this for £X' , 'Great, please go ahead'. You leave yourself wide open if not.
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Taking photos of your kit is a good idea. One of the machine, one of the serial number. Pictures seemed to be backed easier than putting all the info on an excel sheet for example.
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Get an old electric forklift. Can pick one up for £1k easy. Save loads of time messing about using the wrong tools.
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Husband and wife company directors more than tree team (can you imagine the arguments!). Perhaps not the average gross for small tree companies but I would have thought quite an achievable figure.
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Yes, the band system is pretty straight forward. The point I made was a husband & wife team/partners/whatever you want to call it is efficient. If you took two salaries of £45k you would end up paying roughly 14k each in taxation. If you took salaries of 11k and dividends for the rest (2016/17) you end up paying around £9k each total taxation (Inc corp). If you took a £90k salary as an individual you'll be paying around £36k total taxation. At the end of the day you are your 'income' is still 90k but you take home is considerably different.
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If the choice is give the tax man £18k or £27.5k I know which I'd prefer. £9k a year more after tax would make a lot of people's lives easier.
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Husband and wife teams can be quite tax efficient. On £90k profit you end up paying 20% total taxation (compared to 33% if you took two £45k salaries).
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I think employment rights are generally a good thing but this situation can be seriously damaging to a small business. £88.45 for upto 28 weeks is nearly £2.5k plus the cost of a replacement worker. It should be reclaimable. I feel the risk of this potential long term cost will just push employers to terminate employment as soon as someone gets sick.
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This will be an expensive lessons in contracts unfortunately. If you are his employer you will need to pay him SSP from the 4th continuous day of his illness. You cannot reclaim SSP. How long has he work with you?
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What had you put in his employment contract? He'll almost definitely be entitled to statutory sick pay, which you have to pay as his main employer. Contractual sick pay will be whatever you agreed.
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http://www.jones-springs.co.uk
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Do you know what it was? I suppose with an electrical system it could be the switches, the senor or could be the motor that does the changing. I'm all for advances in technology but sometimes you just want some basic mechanical engineering. I have a 745i and the electronics on it are bewildering. Fault finding is a mammoth task.
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Has anyone experience DPF issues with the new ranger? Seems to be the bane of new dmaxs and rangers.
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Might be a silly question but how do you tip when there is a tail lift? I can't visualise how the chip gets past the pat the tail gate.
