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Chainsaw Newbie - First time buyer, all advice welcome
AardvarkTreeServices replied to bvfservices's topic in Chainsaws
Your CS30/31 should be around £400 and will cover the specifics of saw maintenance that you wont know if you've been working on other 2 stoke tools. Unless you're looking to go straight out working for someone else dont bother with the assessment until you've got a bit more experience cutting and saved up for it. If your gonna be using the saw long term or regularly, get a pro saw from the start or you'll soon be frustrated with a home saw. -
I think the split wood or thinner sticks will burn faster cos they've got a bigger surface area burning than the unsplit or larger bits.
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Working in France. Any tips or info...?
AardvarkTreeServices replied to Jayv39's topic in General chat
But try starting a conversation in english and you'll get 100% french back. Always, always start off in french and they'll help you as best they can and have a laugh along the way. -
21 emptying the ashpan 22 sweeping the chimney 23 clearing are the grot in front of the fire Remind me why I'm not burning oil???
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I missed the most obvious one! So it warms you at least 4 times and more if you dont get the logistics right!
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Heating with wood warms you at least 3 times- Once when you cut it Once when you split it Once when you move it into the house Makes you appreciate how cheap fossil fuel energy is!!
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I have an old set of HSE inspectors guidance on chipper infeed chutes that states for gravity fed chippers with the chute at more than 45 degrees from horizontal and the chipper anvil at 800 mm above ground level, the lowest part of the chute should be no less than 1400 above floor level. Although the notes were from 2002, human anatomy hasnt changed that much so it would be a fair guide to chute height. BTW, CE marked machinery is no guarantee of safety as anyone can buy a label off ebay and stick it on. Not likely to happen with EU made machinery, but stuff made outside the EU and you should ask the importer for a copy of the declaration of conformity and check it conforms to EU standards.
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9000 lumen! You planning on reversing at motorway speeds?
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The ones you linked to on ebay are 1600 lumen and one on each corner of the truck will give you plenty of light to reverse by.
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The post I quoted said the employer has to provide PPE which isnt correct. The employer has a duty to ensure that PPE is available and if the employer and employee agree its ok for the employee to provide it and get reimbursed by way of a higher rate, thats the employer discharging his duty of care. If the OP decides to change the current arrangement by asking the employer to now provide PPE ie playing a different "card", then he can expect a lower rate. Thats the OPs card to play if he wants.
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I think it will always make the flue and the whole solid fuel experience work better! Having a hot flue gives instant draw if air vents are opened. It reduces/ stops tar/soot build up and the associated risk of chimney fires. It reduces the frequency of sweeping as theres no crap build up. In 12 years of heating a good sized house exclusively on wood, we've swept the flue twice and got less than a builders bucket of ash out in total. It may not be mandatory to insulate the flue but you'd be mad not to!
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Technically thats correct on the PPE front so if your providing most of your kit you should be on a slightly higher rate to cover the cost. If you play the "your my employer, you provide it" card then expect a slightly lower rate. If your employer hasnt offered to provide PPE then hes not really on the ball from an H&S/litigation point of veiw and is leaving himself a touch exposed if things go wrong!!
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If the comments above were aimed at my earlier suggestion, then I'm absolutely not suggesting you do things yourself. What I suggested was using a book keeper to do the routine repeat stuff during the year and an accountant to do the black magic at the end of the year. Your input would be no different but the rate you pay a book keeper to run the paroll and VAT will be way lower than the rate you'll pay a firm of accountants.
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£3k is a lot of money to be paying. Theres no need to have your accountant on your doorstep if that means paying a hefty premium. You can have a book keeper do the weekly/monthly PAYE and VAT and just use a remote accountant for end of year stuff. The money saved will pay for a holiday when you make the annual trip to the accountants:thumbup:
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If you are running a Ltd Co. you and possibly your wife/partner will be employees of the company as well as shareholders so there will be weekly/monthly/annual PAYE returns to be done. If you are not employees then ask your accountant why not as you're likely to be missing out on some of the perks of working as a ltd co.
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If your mum is doing the monthly VAT and PAYE returns, £1500 sounds steep!!
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That does sound like a big hike but if your accountant is doing all your accounts, hes now probably doing alot more than before, like Weekly or monthly PAYE calc, return and payment Monthly or quarterly VAT calc, return a payment End of year PAYE and expenses returns End of year self assessment calc and returns Companies accounts prep for companies house and HMRC Unless your turning over £350-400k a year you shouldnt be paying for auditted accounts as they dont need to be auditted below that figure The monthly PAYE and VAT are straight forward to do yourself and you should easily slash the accountants bill in half by doing them yourself. I pay £600-700 a year for year end accounts prep and personal self assessment to be done.
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Burning dry firewood but with high resin content?
AardvarkTreeServices replied to Lucan's topic in Firewood forum
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Well said- treat the cause and not the symptom.
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Burning dry firewood but with high resin content?
AardvarkTreeServices replied to Lucan's topic in Firewood forum
Assuming it was august 2014 then if its the only wood you've got burn away. If you've got other wood then personally I'd keep it till winter 2016. As far as resin is concerned if your flue is insulated and you run a hot stove then no worries burning sticky wood. We burn a fair bit of resinous stuff and dont have any problems with tarring or smoke but thats in a stove run hot with a well insulated flue. -
Your not allowed to say things like that, someone will get upset. Truth is its as much our population that needs getting under control as it is anyone elses population.
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Renting shouldnt stop you. Heard lots of people saying its the right thing to do, but not actually heard of anyone taking in "refugees".
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Out of interest have you contacted your local council to offer free board and lodging to a syrian family?
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We have a second number on the same physical line so you can only make one call at a time. The ring tone is different for each number so we know which number is calling us and answer appropriately- one for business and one for personal. Its £5 or £6 a month but I think you have to have your line rental with BT. Theres usually enough wires run to a house to have a second physical line so you have two numbers and can make two calls at once but its way more expensive than the 2 numbers on one line.
