doobin
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Zoom in and read the labels 🤷♂️🤣
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And if you are in a rented yard, moving is a lot, lot easier.
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That’s only half…
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You must be looking at fair size jobs if that's the kind of kit you need. My advice (unless you are in a dirt poor area) would be to keep a balance of both kinds of jobs. Commercial can be a trap, both in terms of all your eggs in one basket with a big company and payment terms. I would keep quoting domestics, but quote them relatively high and take them as jam if you get them- particularly with some bigger kit to make them even more profitable.
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£500 per day profit would be £125k a year over 250 working days... People read the headline figure and assume you want that- profit. But as we all know, that profit after wages is soon lost on overheads, and in my case, finance! As an aside- you say you had an extension built a few years ago but also mention that you are trying to buy a house for the first time? I'm confused.
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It’s so much easier. I reckon even with just a mini chipper and loader the average (back) garden tree removal is more efficient. Im a total convert, especially for things like bramble etc growing up in the tree. Just feed it straight into the hopper. You really notice (or rather don’t) the lack of mess from the drag too.
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Each to their own. Personally I like to avoid the trail of bits and pieces leading to the chipper as much as possible, especially with stuff like ash- I'd have chipped into a couple of ton bags or even a big bulking bucket and carried it out if the only lift was a digger. I also have no problem telling neighbours who complain about noise where to stick it 🤣
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I don't like to piss on anyone's chips regarding using diggers for arb work, as I'm a huge fan. But what am I missing? Why on earth didn't you park the chipper under the tree?
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Drop those regular clients. It's honestly the easiest. Being VAT registered is the only way to properly grow a business with the limit as it is. Find clients who expect to pay VAT- and thast's not necessarily commercial jobs. High end domestic clients view VAT as part and parcel of getting work done. Have you considered mechanising somewhat? It's the only route I could find to (vague) profitability.
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It doesn't subsidise food. Commodities are a global market- that's why New Zealand lamb (raised by smart, forward thinking farmers who rose to the top after subsidies in NZ were abolished) depresses the price of British lamb every year. All the farmer friendly legislation does is push up the price of farmland and make it attractive for City investors, who generously let the UK equivalent of the progressive NZ farmer scratch a living on it once the investor has claimed the subsidy. I the UK, you have famers on modern 5-10 year farm business tenacies paying four times as much in rent as the farmer on the third generation of a tenancy from the 70s, who can either just be a crap farmer and cruise along (plenty of them), or use their arbitrage to buy their own farm! Subsidies should go.
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Gotta take enough hay to fatten them up for Appleby 🙄
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Sounds to me more like they charged the going rate but didn't have the skills to back it up.
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They do get good reviews from owners. Spec looks tidy. Still Chinese though. I wouldn't say 42l a minute was enough to run a flail without fitting a priority valve- but that goes for all the 2.5-2.7t machines I've tried. What did you run, @Ian C?
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How? It's not really horticultural- you're not growing anything. More landscaping. I wouldn't want to have to justify it in front of the judge, put it that way.
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What happened?
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I can’t get delivery prices that aren’t at least 20p more than pump price currently, and that’s on 2000l of white. Who are you using? Crown Oil are a joke, Certas recently haven’t been much better. As with you, won’t quote until morning before, and on BOTH the last deliveries have sent me an invoice after payment and delivery with a much more expensive price! Even had their debt team calling me! They got told where to go and I eventually got credit notes for the overcharge. But that’s no way to do business.
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I run digga, augertorque are also good. Unless you are on really good ground, I’d spec to towards the top end of the larger machines flow rate and just accept that it will be slow on the smaller machine. At least it’ll have the torque to finish the hole that way. im about to buy a slightly smaller head that will be optimum for the Sherpa and the e10, but so far the pdx2 has been a good match from e10 to e27. You probably want the one down from that. It certainly earnt its money this morning!
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Mine is the PTO version, and has a foot pedal to disconnect drive in an emergency. Apparently they are not producing them anymore, as it's too much effort to meet new safety standards. I thought the guarding around the blade in particular was very well designed. Anyhow, Davies Implements are the only dealer with any stock left so if you want one, get em quick before they're gone. 26hp runs it great. The TCT blade cuts through 10" timber like butter- an often exaggerated phrase but apt in this instance. With two guys it's surprisingly efficient. As you say, great for the little bits that are a pain in the butt with a chainsaw.
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Well, I don’t know about optimistic, but at the very least I want to be able to process odds and sods for my own use with ease. I’m also considering starting doing a few bags for the locals again- as high oil prices will make wood much more attractive.
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I will get ymself some- didn't even know they were a thing! I used my 3/4" UJ for the first time the other day in anger. Sort of thing you think you'll never need, but if you do it saves a lot of time. I also used for the first time in anger the genuine (£250 each!!!!) 12AH Milwaukee high output batteries. The knockoffs I use are great for most things but the big 150mm battery grinder has so much startup load that it needs the high output batteries. The 3/4" gun wouldn't budge it, I swapped out the battery for the 12AH high output and away we went. I wouldn't spend out on them for all my gear, but I did think to myself as I watched the smoke coming off the nut, "that's where the money's worth is"!
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How do they prove that the machines haven’t just been used on an exempt task? Sounds unenforceable to me.
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THAT is what it's all about!! Nice one mate.
