richy_B
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Indeed. That is some serious miles. I was thinking covering your own county and everything it borders.
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If you are willing to travel you will find enough work. I'd expect to covering several counties to do that though. Could be a fairly easy thing to set up though. Pickup, trailer, large tracked grinder, medium and or small wheeled grinder, blower, basic chainsaw and you are away. You could do it for £30k with some decent used stuff. Work from home as long as you have a means to dispose of the arisings. I haven't done a lot myself but would imagine it would get boring after a few months of day in, day out grinding.
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Looks lovely. It is a 3500kg tow'er? I had heard so.
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Unlikely they will ask for NPTC certificates. It is usually the case they will ask if you are capable of and can demonstrate professional competence in whatever it is your are doing/ machinery you are using. The simplest way to establish this is with a nationally recognised certificate, ie NPTC tickets but won't be specifically addressed. When buying insurance they will ask you for very little - if you ever want to make a claim then you will need to make sure you 'paperworked ' up to the hilt! Regardless of this though, if you have 30,31,38,39 you should be well covered for the majority of tree work from a legal perspective. 32, 40, 41 and so on are great additions but I doubt would be considered essential by underwriters etc.
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Kit and crew weight is often overlooked when doing the sums in your head. My l200 is about 1900kg kerb weight. With a full tank of fuel, a few big saws, tool box, fuel can, personal bags and three guys it was coming in at 2300kg.
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Got a set of 5 wheels/tyres. 31x10.5r15lt . Bf Goodrich mud terrains. Lots of tread. Came off a pajero so japanese 6 stud pattern. Look like they have been used for some offloading as there are so scrapes on the sidewalls on a few of them. Not sure they would get through a MOT. All hold air and look to be perfectly usable. I'll stick them on arbtrader shortly but would be up for an offer or even a swap if anyone's got anything interesting.
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Milner is my usual go-to but no luck in this instance. I'm 99% sure it's the alternator pulley - I know it's fairly rudimentary but i spray a little wd40 onto the various pulleys a day apart and the noise immediately stopped when the alternator pulley was 'lubed'. Of course came back a few days later. I'll r try my local garage and ask about an alternator recon. Thanks guys.
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Hello, 2005 L200 k74. The alternator pulley has developed a squeek/squeel. I sprayed wd40 onto the central bolt/bearing area and it went away for a few days. Anyone know where I can get just the pulley from? Rather avoiding replacing the whole alternator. Tried my usual online sites but no luck.
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Great addition. Saves any customer confusion and hopefully saves your guys time by avoiding calls and emails for this exact info.
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Or the money! I google v8 defender and quite a few come up so sounds feasible. What v8 are you looking at? The 4.4 v8 N62 by BMW seems to be available quite frequently. 286-350hp....
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Wouldn't we all! Unfortunately it's a waiting game now. If you don't hear anything within 3 weeks you got away with it (I believe they have 14 days to contact you from the date of the alleged offence, and a few days for Royal Mail) .
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Over 96mph (actual speed) and you might be in for some bother but if you get anything (you never know, the guy might have been reading the paper at the time...) it'll likely be 3 points and £60 fine.
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Depends on your speed. Upto 78mph in a 70 then I believe they can offer a speed awareness course as long as you've not done one in the last three years.
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You can deregister for VAT. If you were hitting 90k but are finding a downturn due to the new price hike you can't be far off the threshold. The predicament will seem worse when you are just over the limit. As your turnover increases the VAT impact decreases.
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I agreed but would push it the other way and put the VAT threshold at £300k in line with the higher rate corporation tax limit. Obviously industry dependent but by time you are turning over 300k you are more likely to be an established, multi staff business and can bear the brunt if VAT better. Yes, it would lose the VAT office quite a bit but it would also save them loads in no having to deal with/chase/check lots of small businesses.
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I've had a couple of audits and never found them too bad. I keep it all legit for that reason. I don't like the idea of having to constantly be cautious/getting away with it. Life is stressful enough.....
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They may do but if you are legit and not pocketing cash you have nothing to worry about.
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To be fair you still have control over the situation as you can just stay below the threshold. If you really feel VAT is going to lose a lot of work and you only just hitting the threshold then should be straightforward. Just keep a close eye on your revenue.
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They absolutely would charge interest and penalties. Its blatant breach of tax law. 15% is fairly standard on their fines - 6 years back VAT plus 15% and potentially disqualified as a director for 7 years = game over. Why risk it? It's just part of business in the UK.
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Does anyone do a steering drawbar on a small forestry trailer? I've never seen one but could see the benefit.
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Say yes you are really interested but can they hang on for a moment as someone's at the door. Then leave them on hold for 10 mins before hanging up. Waste their time like they waste ours.
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Agreed. £27k would get you an AGT 860, 3t trailer and crane, 3.5t logging winch. Also it would be pretty straightforward to road register so you have the option of driving straight to site (<5 miles would be easy, upto 10 possible if you are patient!).
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We get this all over West London. Idiots hanging staffies from branches to strengthen their jaws.
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I agree, no VAT doesn't mean it's suspect. It does, as mentioned earlier, give a bit more confidence. Whether that consWumer confidence is worth the costs VAT brings is of course personal opinion . For me, when making reasonable sized spends of £1k+ (trades work, used vehicle/machinery, etc) I check business status and then a 10 second glance at the companies house file, run their VAT number and check the address is real on Google Street view. This doesn't provide any guarantees but it seems due diligence and a minute to do. May sound a bit anal but I've ( or atleast feel) dodged a few bullets because of it.
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True but even a small firm will hit the threshold in no time. £83k turnover really isn't much. I would have thought a two man team would be charging atleast £450 a day anywhere in the country. Unless it's all cash of course, which if that your route then I doubt VAT separation is going to be a concern of yours!
