Squaredy
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I saw some Lombardy pop being ringed up in my village a few months back. I nearly asked if I could have them as the shape was stunning due to the fluting. Would have made lovely table centre pieces - well maybe a bit big. Maybe even could have made lovely coffee table tops.
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The purple one is called Purpleheart.
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If you are an employee you do not need public liability cover as your employer should have this. You might want to consider sickness and accident insurance or permanent health insurance. But first look into the cover your employer provides. Also consider what state benefits you would get if unable to work. Most importantly are you responsible for others eg kids or spouse? It sounds like you are young free and single in which case maybe you would be better off saving for the years ahead when a mortgage, partner and kids mop up every spare penny.
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No-one has yet mentioned the Ash Wizard. This is not a vacuum cleaner at all but you use it with a vacuum cleaner, and it collects the ash (allegedly) so saving the cleaner from clogging . I was given one years ago and thought it looked like a right faff so I gave it away and stuck to a brush. If fine ash gets in the vacuum cleaner I guess it will clog filters and bags very quickly, so I tend to think an old fashioned zero emissions brush is best really!
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Thanks Donnk, good tip.
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Thanks for the idea. Why is the telehandler driver the man to speak to though? I haven’t worked on building sites so I don’t know what the politics might be.
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Thanks for that, and if I can get a skilled brickie locally for that sort of rate that will be fine.
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I think I am wasting my time....but here goes.... I am in need of a bricklayer for a few days work in Newport South Wales. Anybody suggest a brickie who actually needs or wants a few days work at a decent rate??? When I say a decent rate I know brickies can be on crazy money these days, but I hope I can find one who will work for about the rate a skilled arb climber would expect. Is this possible these days I wonder?
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As Tesla have revealed their fully electric articulated lorry I would think they would be developing a pickup. Would be good.... the prices need to start coming down though. Electric vehicles make financial sense for some people if they get access to a free to use charging point. For someone like me even if I could afford to buy one the fuel savings would be minimal. If our government are serious about reducing transport emissions they need to subsidise electric vehicles and hit gas guzzlers harder. Make it an easy decision to switch to electric.
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That is a nice truck though what would worry me is payload. My Tranny is 2900 kg with me in it which leaves just 600 kg for your load. My transit also has a crane but is 2 wheel drive.
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The Willow or the Birch......!?
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Yes that is correct - but it all happens in one go. So you do your VAT return and work out what you owe HMRC. In other words all the VAT you have collected for them as an unpaid tax collector; and then you take off what you have already paid them in VAT on purchases. For example, if in a quarter you have collected £2,000 in VAT and spent £3,600 on VATed items (which would usually mean you have already paid them £600 in VAT) you would then have to pay them £1,400. Make sense?
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It MIGHT be possible for you to treat the stump grinder as a separate business; as another poster said maybe hiring to your main business. But it is a whole can of worms lots of extra costs maybe needing specialist advice separate bank accounts etc etc. i think you are right to be now considering just registering for VAT. The big questions are will you lose business, and will it save you a lot on VAT? If you spend a lot on VATed items this will partly make up for having to charge your customers VAT. On the other hand if very few of your costs are VATable like wages, insurance, then being VAT registered will only help you with the new grinder and similar purchases.
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Durable fencing timbers? Do they exist anymore..
Squaredy replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Landscaping
Don’t forget there are at least three species of Larch grown in the UK. The best of these is European Larch but even this as an untreated post will struggle to last 10 years. The others may last four to five years. Don’t put your faith in Larch as fenceposts. Outdoor structures off the ground yes but not posts. -
Do you not trust your Stihl one? Unless you spend hundreds of pounds you won't get a professional one. Most important thing is to check the middle of the log - ie split it again and check the freshly split face. And if you want to test the Stihl meter find pieces of wood with a known moisture content like freshly cut unseasoned Oak (off the scale - 90%+) and a piece of furniture in a dry warm house (about 10 or 12%) etc.
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I am currently sat at home waiting for a builder to arrive. He just rang me to say he will be late - turns out the satnav led him up the garden path and will now result in him being very late. When I speak to people who are wanting to visit my yard I have to tell them to ignore the satnav. If they do follow satnav it will take them down little back lanes quite unsuited to even the smallest car. A couple of years ago I was returning to my site from a place I had never been and I trusted the satnav. I ended up in a farm yard so I asked the nice farmer if the road used to go through. “Yes”, he said “Before they built the dual carriageway in the seventies.” Is the mapping really that inaccurate? Or are they programmed by anarchists who want us all to drive around all day getting no-where? Or is it because I live in Wales.....?
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Good question and really an accountant needs to answer this. The short answer is this could be very dodgy. If HMRC think you are in effect splitting one business so you can have your cake and eat it they could land you with a big bill for back tax.
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In my experience wood turners will love this. They prefer dry but often will buy green if cheap. You could find out if there is a wood turning club nearby. If there is you could maybe go to one of their meetings.
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Yeah it is crazy isn’t it? As another poster has mentioned cost of transport is a lot to do with it. DERV is quite rightly heavily taxed as vehicles using it wreck our planet and health. Aviation fuel and even worse bunker oil (diesel so polluting you cannot use it on land in most of the world) are so cheap it means we merrily import and export thousands of tons of stuff instead of using local resources. I am not against global trade as such but we need to use it more wisely.
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In all seriousness is that a teaspoon or a dessert spoon or a serving spoon?
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School Children getting paid for work experience
Squaredy replied to Darrin Turnbull's topic in The Lounge
So you learned you don’t like office work.... I seem to remember it was also a week off school. I would have done a week of anything for that! -
That is a good one. Can’t believe anyone makes a spoon nearly as big as that football.
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Ah great, no doubt it will make an already complex set of rules even more unfathomable. Just what contractors need.
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School Children getting paid for work experience
Squaredy replied to Darrin Turnbull's topic in The Lounge
I am not condoning the man as you worked hard and he deceived you. But even this unpleasant experience taught you something you would never have learned in a classroom. So £5 was not the only thing you gained.... -
My favourite has to be Alder. Not the wet wood, but when it is fully dried and being machined, it has a gorgeous sweet smell - like a sweet shop. Ash is nearly as nice mind. Again when dry.
