Matthew Storrs
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Bank account advice for Small Start Up Business
Matthew Storrs replied to BackoftheWoods's topic in Business Management
To who? Perhaps It does if you are running a business with its own name and have been trading many years, but for the single man working and generally sorting his own accounts out I don't really see the problem, if your not cheating the system and have the paperwork to back it up it wouldn't be a problem. -
Bank account advice for Small Start Up Business
Matthew Storrs replied to BackoftheWoods's topic in Business Management
If I was starting out now I'd run 2 personal accounts with different banks and scare the business cheques between them. I have a biznes account with HSBC because I'm a mug and believed them 6 years ago when they told me I had to have one. Gains to them are £20 of my hard earned every month- I get nothing from it. -
Oh yes, forgot about those track guide plates on the TB016. I wore mine right through when I had one. I think they were pretty cheap to replace if I recall- bigger machines go on to a roller on the top instead, which IMO makes more sense- not sure why they can't put one on the 1.5tonners. Volvo dealer told me yesterday that he had sold a few 2.5tonners to a civil works company (working pretty much day and night) and they have clocked up 10 and 12000 hours each- they are maintained to the highest standards but shows that small diggers can do big hours if looked after right.
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Hi Steve, No need to change sprockets unless they are worn, my Tak is on 4500hrs and all undercarriage wear parts are original- last year i put a new set of camoplast on and these seem pretty durable- had some on an older digger too and they were good.
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I purchased a new 550 in 2014, it was good for a few months then one day it just suddenly would cut out mid cut, no warning or waning just stop, after a while I'd manage to start it again only for it to cut out again. My solution- stick it under the work bench and deal with it another day- two years past and a month ago got it out again, started no probs and has been faultless ever since:laugh1:
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But then if that's true- Eggs method of putting the handles in pipe wouldn't work right?!
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How about gas lines? Or is more to do with a magnetic pull
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Is there a length ratio in the L shape that acts works best, for example how long should the long bit of the L be? Good tip putting the handles in pipe.
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That's interesting eggs- must admit I was quite surprised to see the water hoard turn up with dowsing rods. Maybe I will have another go- proper handy skill to have.
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I like to keep my mind open to this kind of thing, I went through a water pipe in a field, Was sorting it out myself when a bloke from South west water turned up, apparently the pipe also fed neighbours horse trough so they called them. Anyway he looked at the hole where I can gone through the pipe and 3 meters away preceeded to walk over the area with his dowsing rods- "oh there it is" he says and I watched his rods move together. I thought is was quite impressive at the time, but it only twigged when i was going home that i had capped off the water pipe where I had broke it only 2 days earlier- there would have been no water at all in the pipe he 'located' Anyone do this sort of thing- I have tried it in the past with very little results but perhaps I wasn't in the right mindset!
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Use what came out the hole! Concreting wood of any kind into the ground leads to premature failure as the water does not drain round the post. With post and frail it's surprising how firm it all feels backfilling and especially with all the rails in. Nice job Chestnut fencing- always think that is how a fence should look like!
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sweet chestnut posts in devon?
Matthew Storrs replied to shillo's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I get mine delivered to Dartmoor through Dorset fencing supplies, only worth it if you are ordering a fair bit. Carl as mentioned is near to me also and coppices his own Chestnut- iv never had any off him though. -
Husky 545rx 45cc for over £600 or Kawasaki bk53ed 53cc @ £400. On the assumption that the new Kawasaki is as good as mine has been (old model) I know where I would spend my money!
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I have the biggest Kawasaki one they make- can't remember the model no, but it's been totally faultless in 8 years- literally haven't touched it in a mechanical sense. Don't use it all the time but a fair bit during summer and never fails to start after lying dormant through winter
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Bramble cutting - torn
Matthew Storrs replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Iv got about an 1/2 acre of brambles to clear next week, I think I'm going to brushcut with a mulching head and then I have a rake on my digger which has tines @75mm spacings, going to comb over the area after to remove as much of the arrisings as poss whilst hopefully pulling a lot of the roots out too. -
In theory yes, bigger tyres act as higher gearing, cover more ground for same effort. I'm not sure how much by though, does it also reduce torque to though?
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I use Flexacryl. Which is a bituminous based paint which also has fibreglass type strands in it, it remains flexible which is good for any expansion/contraction etc and is designed as an emergency roof repair paint(although it's so thick you more or less push it around rather than paint it. £14.99 for a litre from screwfix comes in grey or black!
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The last few weeks have been bliss- cold frosty days, the next few weeks looks like hell though!
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This is a pretty typical scenario for me- and it wasn't even raining. Admittedly a Land Rover is not the right tool for this kind of ground but even a tracked digger was a job to get across it, so I can say I don't mind working in the rain as much as I like- some jobs just can't be done and thus as Jon says once the day is lost so is a days pay even if the job is only postponed.
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Same with staff really. I have geared myself up so that I work mainly alone to avoid the stress of staff- but understand that a tree surgery company can't take this option. Rain, though unpleasant, isn't so much the problem as the ground conditions it creates- i fence across some pretty remote moorland/steep valleys etc- the difference between wet and dry ground conditions dictates whether the job can even be done - getting machinery and materials to site etc, so yeah i hate rain with a passion too. Living on Dartmoor we get about twice as much as any lowland areas so to an extent I have to try and persist through it even if my day is utterly miserable and unproductive! Moving to Spain crept into my mind several times today!
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I really like Hitachi tools myself, I find they are as quality as any Dewalt/Makita I have used but at less inflated pricing, the cordless drill had been the only one which has stood upto regularly drilling out gatepost hooks etc and I got a cordless hitachi grinder and wish I had got it years ago.
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Some setup you have Adrian, well done. You may not remember but I did a few days for you back in 2006, I think I was 'lent' to you as I worked for Christian Edwards back then.
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No experience of CandC either, I wouldn't spend £150 on a jacket that has the potential to be ripped to shreds in seconds, however from the various jackets I have tried I have found the proper military 'goretex' to be the toughest and generally pretty good in horizontal Dartmoor rain. I also have a non breathable waterproof jacket which I believe is designed for dairy farmers in milking parlours- it great being pullover design with no Zips/hoods or anything else to get hung up on stuff.
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I guess it all depends on how much he is asking for the tractor, otherwise there could be other makes like a case international which would do what you ask of it whilst being more 'commonplace'! I dunno, I ran two zetors over 3 years- parts were cheep and so were the tractors but boy they cost me big time in downtime and my labour (and agri engineers) fixing them. The last 9540 I had I just ended up selling with a known hydraulic problem to Poland cos I just couldn't stomach spending another penny on it after spending 5k on it within a year, I purchased a much newer modern Same at a much higher purchase price but not spent a penny on it in nearly 3 years and NO DOWNTIME! Once bitten ( or twice in this case) twice shy!!
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A customer/friend towed my 3 ton digger back home for me with a new Subaru Forester, was well impressed!
