richy_B
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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. -
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.
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I'm sure it's a difficult situation but he always has the option of selling up, buying a fantastic 5m house and living exceptionally well his entire life. Money generally buys you choices.
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It's probably bad reporting. Two 'jcbs' involve was probably taken to mean two being carried. Doubt the general public know what a fastrac is. Also excavator hasn't toppled or broken it's ratchets. Looks more like trailer jack knifed, maybe disconnected then hit the cars. From the location of the fastrac it's seems more probable.
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It's described a two diggers on trailer being towed by an agricultural vehicle so I assumed the fastrac was towing. The jcb excavator pictures looks pretty big though, minimum 10t. Hard to see how two excavators could be on one agri low loader. Only one excavator pictured and no hgv. Stuff may have been removed though.
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Saw in the news this evening about a nasty crash in Glasgow. Apparently tractor (Fastrac from image) pulling a low loader with two large looking excavators, hit a bus and hgv and a digger toppled onto nearby/passing cars. One dead. From the rwport it sounds like brakes failed but i wonder if the hgv was overtaking the bus on the wrong side, which may have been at a bus stop. That's a lot of trailer for a fastrac if someone did pull out on him amd he had no where to manoeuvre to. Regardless, RIP. HSE are going to be onto this big time. http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/24/diggers-topple-on-to-cars-on-outskirts-of-glasgow-5902239/
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'Management consultancy and personal injury law'.......
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I believe that because rings kilns are portable they benefit from several exemptions. If that was a fixed light industrial items you'd run into issues.
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You'll be waiting a long time for that to happen! 99% vote with their wallets.
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Thanks. If you have the sales it's worth investing on the right kit. If you are going to do charcoal and make a living you need the volumes you mention. Our Exeter retort can produce a 100kg a day so has to be something you run along side another activity. Standalone you'll never make any money.
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Jaymo, can I ask how much you're kilns were? Presume these are quite pricey.
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Cone splitter on a smaller digger - any good?
richy_B replied to Tom at Heartwood's topic in Large equipment
True but if you are pulled you are highly unlikely to get a fine for less than 5% overloaded. On a 3500 that's a 175kg margin for error. -
Cone splitter on a smaller digger - any good?
richy_B replied to Tom at Heartwood's topic in Large equipment
You can get a 2.8t on an ifor gh1054 trailer (660kg). Just put the buckets in the tow vehicle. Legal but it is a lot of weight and I'd certainly be wary of keeping your speed down and leaving a lot of braking distance. -
I agree. If biochar if your aim an Exeter retort will do it but you will never make a profit. High grade bbq charcoal with the fines going for biochar is the best approach.
