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Fair point. I am careful to present my information exactly as my accountant has asked for it.

I thought you were an accountant? Don't you agree that entering a wedge of receipts into the correct columns on a spreadsheet is repetitive donkey work? If you hand your accountant a cardboard box full of paper, you shouldn't be surprised if he charges you three times as much as he does the guy who emails him a neat spreadsheet.

Plenty of us use tools daily, you're not some special little snowflake.

OP will make much more return on investment getting a 750kg trailer and ride on. By the sounds of his posts he doesn't need to pull any more than that. Even if you have your B+E, a decent 750kg trailer is incredibly handy and light to tow. Given the nature of his work (mainly gardening) he'd be better off by the sound of it with one of these than a larger, more expensive and more cumbersome trailer. Particularly as he has a Transit for waste anyway. I would go with Indespension rather than Paxton, they're around the same money and Indespension hold their value pretty well.

Even a £2.50 13mm spanner is strong enough to shear an M8 stud if you use a length of pipe for leverage. 2 hours? Someone's exaggerating. What were you using a spanner for anyway? A 13mm impact socket on a 1/2" impact wrench puts down far more torque than a spanner and length of pipe will. The Snap-On warranty is fine, but not enough reason to justify the price. All half decent tool manufacturers offer a lifetime warranty. So for less than a third of the price of a Snap-On ratchet, my Halfords Professional ratchet has had the guts replaced for free twice.

Agrimog gets it

Rubbish. A socket or spanner is a simple tool with no moving parts. So long as the steel and the tolerances are within spec then a £2.50 Silverline socket will do exactly the same job as the equivalent size Snap-On socket would for £12.50. Drawing comparisons with cheap chainsaws, full of moving and wearing parts, is a false dichotomy. Snap-On is all marketing, sponsorship and finance for the poor suckers who fall for it.

What's wrong with the bits I posted FFS? Is it for Stihl screws? Because as stated that's T27 not T25. If not, use your brain, go to the sellers shop and find the T25 bits there. You don't want to start using 1/2" drive or air tools on T27 bits. That Makita you posted looks a good bit of kit and the torque specs are more than adequate. Snap-on is overpriced wank, for tool whores I've never broken a Silverline socket yet, and they too have a lifetime warranty anyway. Neilsen are another good budget brand. Draper, Sealey etc is all Chinese too, just rebranded and they charge like a wounded rhino.

I used to pay £500- to a guy specialising in 'small businesses'. Meaning people like you who can't use a basic spreadsheet. Mine is cheap because the information is all there and laid out for him. It also means I am in tune with exactly what is happening, and makes cashflow forecasts etc easy. Shop around.

Nice saw, good power to weight ratio. Given that the latest model MS211 is £262 at FR Jones, I personally wouldn't pay more than £140 for the MS210. It is worth more than that on eBay however.

I love my one of these Indespension Trailers New, Trailers Secondhand, Indespension, Daxara, Box Vans, Car Transporters, Marine, Jet SkiChester, Cheshire, North Wales, Deeside, Winsford, Congleton, Crewe, Knutsford, Wilmslow, Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead, Altrincham, Manches I have a ladder rack on mine, and no cage sides. I find it works best if you put all your tools in the trailer leaving the truck body free for waste.

That's why you sign a disclaimer stating the figures provided to be accurate. Has your accountant really got you believing that you need to let them be your bookkeeper too?

That's what yer wallet is for!

...and then you have to accept his offer or carry it all away again!

Keep the receipts, how bloody hard is it??

I keep the books myself and use a local guy (who is incredibly helpful whenever I call him) to do my end of year return. He charges around £240. You can do payroll yourself too.

Course you can. Your accountant sounds more of a bookkeeper. How much do they charge per year?

If your chipper is not always idle after startup for a couple of minutes before running full chat, consider adding something like Lucas oil stabilizer for a bit of protection. All oils etc can be had from your local motor factors. I'd recommend getting an account with them, it saves so much time. Just make a phone call and it turns up a couple of hours later.

If its for Stihl, it's T27 you want. Here you go, 100mm cheapest on ebay: Draper 10753 expert t27 1/4" hex. tx-star insert bit 100mm long x 1 | eBay or 2x 75mm: DRAPER 10661 EXPERT T27 1/4" HEX. DRAPER TX STAR INSERT BIT 75MM LONG x 2 | eBay God I'm good to you.

Pray the VOSA bloke got laid last night!

Bonnet scoop on most Jap 4WDs is functional, it goes to the intercooler.

You need an alarm that calls you.

Wouldn't fancy dicking around with 60" timber on steep banks for a bit of firewood money. What's your plan for catching the rings at the bottom, assuming they don't take you out on the way down? FWIW, any plan involving letting it roll down to begin with will be a tricky one to justify to your insurance company. It's not just the big chainsaw you need, it's the big handling equipment and big splitter too.

James, you sound green (pun intended) First off, I don't reckon you've got 100t of wood. Small diameter stuff, particularly if twisty, will look a lot but weigh F-all. Given the wildly optomistic amounts you hope to get on trailers (I've never seen an 18t capacity bale trailer even), it's clear that you need to gain more experience working with timber. Secondly, get it into your head right now that every time you touch that wood it's money down the drain, however much 'fun' it might be to begin with. I'll tell you now that if you insist on taking it back to the yard to process, you won't make a bean in real profit. Do it in the woods. What machinery have you got? List it for us and we can assist. The main consideration is what type of handling system were you planning on using at the yard? Bulk bags or loose? And just in case you think I'm coming across as a know it all asshole, here's a tip which will mean you can actually make money. 75% of your logs won't need to be split, being hazel coppice. Invest in something to cut them quickly, ideally straight into a bag. A Portek type chainsaw bench is very cheap and quick but not the safest. An engine driven chop saw is probably best, if you can stretch to it. Some even have a little screw splitter on the side. When you cut your non-split logs, do them at 7-8" and market them for log burners, but bear in mind that there is probably an extra 10% of wood in there compared to 10-12" logs. Good luck mate, you'll need it.

Can't believe you even needed to ask.