richy_B
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Sorry Mick, hadn't realise you were based in France when I was asking about the VAT situation. Makes more sense now.
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And they act like it got that big over night! Instead of the 40 years they've been looking at out of the kitchen window.
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No disrespect to you or your product but that's a hefty price tag.
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How much is one to fit a double cab (as pictured)?
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Fair enough. For all intensive purposes it seems to qualify but I guess you might have an argument on your hands if you receive a VAT inspection, particularly if it's 'only for business use'. I wonder how this works with the Amarok or the 3 litre Navara for example.
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How much is coppice woodland worth an acre?
richy_B replied to william127's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A single acre or as part of a larger compartment? If you sold a single acre in the SE I'd imagine you could get £18k upwards. If you were selling 10 acres together I'd reckon 140-160k. -
Can I ask why the 200bhp model can't have the VAT reclaimed? It is a weight issue?
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I was a big gold rush fan but it's just gets more and more farcical. All the staged 'quick the machine about to tip over' moments when it's obvious nothing is happening. And those Hoffmans! They should put the dog in charge, they'd be more organised....
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I have bfg mud terrains on my l200 and had them previously on a ranger. Really good but noisey. I got a set of 4 fitted by a mobile fitter for £500. Pretty chuffed. No experience of the coopers.
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3495kg if you want to be technical! The 4x2 is less but the 4x4 versions are full weight. Now whether you want to try and tow 3500kg with them is another matter! Definitely some ballast in the back I'd say.
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Agreed. 3500kg tow weight as well.
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I doubt it makes a huge amount of difference whether it is your home or rented from a rates perspective. The big difference will be in corporation tax. If you are paying a mortgage then the repayments are not tax deductible but the interest is. If you rent this is 100% deductible. The last thing would be does you mortgage, if applicable, allow the property to be used for commercial use.
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My understanding is business rates are assessed on a combination of square meterage, type of 'space' (soft surface, hard standing, covered, steel framed building, brick building, etc) and then you get a multiplier based roughly on what you do/use it for. I imagine it varies locally quite a bit. For me 'covered storage' ie somewhere to park your machinery, had a rateable value of 17.50. If I used the same space as 'workshop' it was 32 per square metre. My multiplier was something like 0.48. There is an exemption for small businesses with only one premises when the value is under £6k. Then a sliding scale between 6k and 12k.
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Maybe big corporate customers and the lads on the ground just grab what they need with asking the price.
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I'm sure everyone has covered most points but I'd be apprehensive about taking a big pto onto a steep site on the back of an alpine. I have a agt 835 forestry spec and, as the all do, the handling is great but with 500kg+ on the back you'd be asking for trouble on wet slopes. As an alternative idea how about hiring a tracked dumper to get the tracked chipper in and about? £300-500 for a week but you could load the chipper into it then slow on the bad bits and put you foot down on the more level bits? I've used a 3 ton before and it was pretty quick.
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Found myself in a HSS today and there was an ad for red diesel. They sell it in 20 litre plastic containers. £24 plus VAT!?! Can't imagine they sell many of those.
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Sorry, no help to you but I made something similar for a friend a while back. Looked great on the day. Split after a few weeks. Definitely run a sander over it.
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Do they get 5 days a week, 50 weeks of the year work though? Plasterers I know do.
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You could be right. Personally I've always been envious of trades with minimal kit. I mean as an arborist you have a 3.5/7.5t+ tipper, chipper, several chainsaws, PPE, climbing kit, rigging kit and so on - easily £30k worth of kit everyday you head out. A plasterer can get away with a compact van and a hundred quid worth of kit. Plus easy to work from your home where as even the smallest arb set up needs a yard somewhere.
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I saw some 'premium' bags of hardwood logs outside b&q. All absolutely coated in thick white mould. I'd be embarrassed to try and palm off such shoddy products.
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My tip is something that might be obvious is putting group anchors below the axles of machines/trailers and a short chain. I often see people have gone to great efforts to concrete on a big post/steel eye but then chain the chipper around the tow bar/front etc. Easy to get a grinder/torch to. Two separate HD eyes welded to the base of a container, two separate chains going over the axles to the eyes with two big padlocks is my approach. You could cut it still but you have to slide right under the machines to do so and it would be a awkward.
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I've not tried the new(er) ms661 but had a 660 for years and it's a great saw for bigger stuff. I run a 25" and 36" bar.
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If you are going to put your hand inside a running machine you probably deserve whatever you get. A trimmed finger is getting off lightly in my opinion.
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Good looking brekkie. I have a bit of toast (if I'm lucky) on the way out the door.
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Agreed. We have been able to benefit from deductions I would have never known about doing it personally.
