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  1. doobin
    Kubota engine filters are widely available, I go with cheapest on eBay- about a tenner for oil filter, £3 for fuel. Hyundai R17 hydraulic return filters are only around £15 which I thought very reasonable.
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    I think that’s unreasonable, bobcat do first service for free!!? first service I guess normally subsidised at least as it’s a very important service. Truth be told I enjoy servicing them as much as driving them so maybe I’m a little biased. Oil and filters as you described would be around £50. So that’s £125 labour ish per machine. I could knock a machine out in an hour easy and that’d include greasing! but each to their own! Sounds a fair dealer price but I’d rather the money in my pocket for an easy couple hours work.
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    Jesus Matt you could do it yourself for 50 quid in parts and a couple of hours. There’s nothing to them. A pound saved is a pound earned, and basic servicing is the one of the easiest ways to achieve this. Even if it took you all day you can’t tell me you’d have made £380 on a miserable wet day and have a full year of £380 days booked? Main dealers are renowned for tricks like Kev describes.
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    Have you checked the system voltage with the jump pack attached? Can cause issues with computer control units.
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    Other way round mate.
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    This will give you a far better quality of customer than checkatrade et al. And much cheaper, but does require legwork.
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    Remember that any business to business contract has no coming off period and renewal terms can be tricky to decipher. Be very very very careful what you sign. and don’t bother with check a trade, there’s only about five percent of the population left who still believe it has any credibility, and they’re about to be decimated by Coronavirus...
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    If he wants a safe store that his missus can easily manage, then it may as well be in gold.
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    If I'm reading it right then Andrew gave Jack the landscaping work. Didn't tell the client yes, £XXX per day and then pay Jack £XX. Just gave him the job. So half day for Monday is fair enough in my book.
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    After reading that, my honest opinion is that JackR sounds like a run of the mill snowflake chancer (and that's not neccesarily a slur on him, perhaps it just reflects today's upbringing and society). Andrew sounds like a decent bloke. But that's just based upon what I've read. Maybe 10% of lads these days will be grateful for any time you give them helping them learn, and show an interest. 90% of these then go on to become their own boss, and have to deal with the 90% of young lads who think they're worth top money just for turning up.
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    Tree surgery isn't horticulture or foresty. They've dropped a massive bollock here, and instead of clarifying the situtation WRT red, or even giving a level playing field, they've simple muddied the waters further. Every tree surgeon will be claiming they do forestry work and every countryside based digger firm will be claiming they do agricultural work. Those ripping the piss currently transporting plant on with tractors will continue to do so, and also rip the piss running diggers on red on domestic jobs.
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    Lock Down?

    doobin replied to 5 shires's topic in General chat

    I can’t see house prices dropping save from a total apocalypse scenario. Way too much demand. Soon as one boomer drops dead another will buy their house with their gold plated inflation linked pension.
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    Unless desperate for cash I’d leave the gold in his will to her- it’s going up in price and is a stable reserve in these uncertain times. It’s almost certainly only worth scrap money, but with that quantity it’s worth driving a bit to find a proper bulk dealer, not a pawn shop. A few quid extra per ounce will add up.
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    You can spray it any colour you like, but without an etch primer coat first it won't stay there!
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    Makita all the way.
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    I keep thinking that. As I rip it out by the roots with a grab and swing it onto the fire with it's companions.
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    How expensive?
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    Indeed. And the young farmers will keep playing the big I am with a 13 tonner, Daddy's tractor and Daddy's (red) diesel!
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    Can't disagree personally, but I don't see it happening.
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    I reckon ag will still be exempt, as farmers are price takers and the government doesn't want to see the price of food rise. So the abuse will continue. All they have to do is clarify and then enforce existing laws. Wouldn't take much, just a civil servant with knowledge of the industries involved ? and a flying pig.
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    An exemption system would just be abused the other way. Farmers would be fuelling a fleet of diesel range rovers and claiming they only used a tenner of road use a week in their diesel corsa. Plus the manpower needed to audit all this- it's like means testing for benefits, it would be cheaper to turn a blind eye. Red is easy to prove- you get caught, throw the book at you.
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    It will put the cost of everything up. How much more would quarried stone cost for example? Excavators and crushers running on white!! how about we enforce existing laws first? It’s not hard. Pull a few gypos running their transits on red and make an example of them. Why should I put road fuel in a generator??
  23. doobin
    I can't see gas going any time soon. People talk about their log customers, who only have a log burner, like it's the norm. It's not. For every cosy stone cottage with a wood burner, there are a hundred flats heated upon gas in the towns and cities. By luxury, I mean that gas is cheaper than logs bought in. Someone on here once worked out the cost per kwH of logs vs gas or oil. It was a huge difference, and gas is pretty cheap right now.
  24. doobin
    Same as any 50/50 tyre really. That’s why I have a set of mud pluggers on different rims. Five minutes with a forklift and impact wrench to swap them.
  25. doobin
    You might be best off getting a price for a nice new alloy one. Check fitment between this and newer models- if the truck is currently sound and you'd go Dyna in future, then you can always buy a cheaper flatbed and swap bodies down the line.

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