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Why? He presumably manages to send the VAT every quarter. My accountant just does mine whenever they fancy, they have all the data from the VAT submissions.

I'd send it back in that case.

The subscription for the heated seat was the last pisstake from them that made the news. I'd never buy a car like that. If you buy the base model you've already paid for the heating elements to be fitted to the seat ffs!

1900s?

I nabbed it from PlantTalk

I'm only surprised it hasn't happened sooner.

You could add a tipping body for way less than £15k. A straight swap from another truck would probably cost £2-3k, less a few hundred back when you sell the old dropside body. Say £2k for a tidy, possibly already arb spec body and £1k to swap it over. If your 33k miles truck really is a bargain, this is the route I'd go down. As for another £15k for some high sides and a toolbox (arb conversion)- what are you smoking? Parkers valuations are about to be slashed in the coming recession- they are bloated from Covid excess and supply shortages. In the current climate, I'd be minded to start with a presentable £5k tipper and some greedy boards. If you've got an extra £15k to spend then buy something like a mini loader to make your life easier. You get money back every day when you use a loader rather than employ an extra guy, I'd sooner that than electric windows and air con on a newer truck. I'd definately go straight for a tipper- I ran a dropside for a few years as a first truck (used to push it off at the yard with a loader tractor) My first tipper was a game changer.

Spend less on a first truck. Especially with the coming economic storm.

5m public and 10m employers

Just renewed my public and employers liability with JCB at just under £100 a month. 2 employees, incidental demolition, tree felling up to 30m. £250k of machinery cover is considerably more expensive at £250 per month. Two small vans, two pickups (one a tipper) and two 3.5t tipper trucks are on a fleet policy, any driver over 23, Fleet and Commercial sorted me out at £215 per month. Highly recommend them as brokers for fleet policy, JCB are also great for plant. So all told £565 per month.

Regardless of the cheap Swedish insurance, that sounds like you were getting shafted for insurance here. No way a forwarder plus some tools should be that much.

That's it exactly! Doesn't help that it's badly balanced to start with, the axles are dead centre.

You want a big butt to carve a bench out of or planks to build the bench from?

The reason it’s ‘easier with more axles’ is that generally multi axle trailers are longer. A better way to say it would be the longer the trailer the easier it is to reverse. to tie in with what you and @difflockjust said- my ten foot tri axle trailer is a pig to reverse anywhere other than a concrete yard. It’s short yet tri axle. As the wheels encounter a tiny bump, the pivot point shifts wildly and the way you were aiming the truck is suddenly no longer right 🤣

Is that up at Chiddingfold? Japanese knotweed in one corner?

I was gobsmacked when driving through NI and seeing the size of the holes being dug for turbines, and then the ebar cages awaiting concrete. I turned to the missus and say, if those things only last twenty years, I'd be surprised if you get back as much energy as you expended building the darn thing! Had a google at the time, apparently the lifespans of the turbines are turning out to be less than claimed. Surely offshore turbines, mounted on driven piles, where it doesn't matter if they fail eventually, are a better bet?

What happened?

They must be dead straight! I envy you, sounds like good sawlogs.

Thats an absoloute piece of cake to reverse compared to a single axle 'tip run' trailer behind a LWB Transit. The trailer is 5x the length of the short wheelbase lorry- everything happens nice and slow and you can always see the trailer in the mirrors. With a transit and 750kg trailer, those dimensions are reversed (pun intended!) and you can't see shit. My brain can reverse absoloutely no problem, but the best wagon driver in the world will struggle with a 750kg trailer lots behind a transit when they can't see it in the mirrors until it's nearly jacknifed.

I’ve not been asked but I’d definitely charge a premium. Oak that straight and long is hard to come by and would make two sets of 2.8m posts.

A days processing (mainly splitting) with our dog of a tractor and processor combo. Out of one barn and into the other plus a truckload for the customers house.

Simply not the case with the small twitch trailers being discussed here, unless you are putting them behind a Fiat 500. Much better off being able to see the trailer through the rear windscreen over your shoulder.

Finally fitted the lap sider.

A cube of dry wood is 400kg tops. It’s not a truck for aggregate, it’s a narrow truck to get down driveways with a cube of firewood and to help out around the farm. if he had any money he’d have bought one like mine 🤣🤣

He’s going to try it for a bit as is. Towball a pain but with reverse camera not too bad. He’s not an idiot so will be careful to load anything heavy over the wheels. It’ll be getting airbags soon. At the end of the day it might look odd but it’s no different than any recovery spec transit. fitted the tipper pump yesterday evening (nice strong bit of chassis handy where I plated it up where the body was rotten 🤣 All works, which I didn’t expect given the condition so bonus 👍🏻👍🏻