muttley9050
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Starting a Petter PH1 single cylinder Diesel engine
muttley9050 replied to Baldbloke's topic in General chat
No I'm not. Was just interested in the price they are making these days. I spent 2k about 8 years ago on a 1 tonne thwaites skip loading dumper and haven't looked back. Far more complicated than the one the op has and will probably never last as long, but a joy to use and paid for itself many times over. -
Starting a Petter PH1 single cylinder Diesel engine
muttley9050 replied to Baldbloke's topic in General chat
Do you mind if I ask what it cost you? -
Starting a Petter PH1 single cylinder Diesel engine
muttley9050 replied to Baldbloke's topic in General chat
Used to have one the same. was a knack to starting it. Something like this Decompression up. pump slide up. Crank up to speed. drop compression. keep cranking till it goes. I could always do it. others couldn't. You may know but when you hold the crank handle make sure your thumb is in the same direction as your fingers, not grabbing it like your making a fist. have heard of some serious thumb damage from holding incorrectly. -
Looking good
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Not particularly susceptible to warping. Make the beams big. Chunky joints. And you will be fine. Draw bore 2mm instead of 3mm. If you wanted an easy, less skilled build then it would be simpler to get it kilned and use more timber fixings with square cut joints and housings
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Where are you based? Yeah it can be done but pine is a bit weaker than the usual green framing timbers. Tenons can split out when draw bored if they are not big enough. If I had pine and needed a shed I would use it for sure. But I would oversize everything as much as I could. It would also be a good idea to build our and get a roof on and not be in to much of a rush to clad anything in. Let the timber surface dry well then treat it all then clad it. All the timber needs to be treated and this would be best done when it's drier unless you have access to a pressure treatment plant. Kilning isn't really that beneficial if you use the correct building methods. Joints could be more mechanical and cut quicker in seasoned timber though.
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Customers asking to pay cash to avoid VAT.
muttley9050 replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
Not offended. Takes a lot. Some builders are shit. Same as some doctors etc. Just disagree with tarring from the same brush. -
Got one of these for our 100kw biomass boiler and it's a awesome. Went through a couple of generic cheap ash vacuums and bust up a couple of old Henry's before biting the bullet. It's a great tool. Still can't be used for hot ashes though. [emoji621]️ HZ350 Hazardous Soot Dust Chimney Sweep Utility Vacuum Cleaner | Avern WWW.AVERNCLEANINGSUPPLIES.COM Numatic HZ350 hazardous soot dust chimney sweeps vacuum cleaner is designed with excellent suction level to clear hazardous soot dust.
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If you get a piece of wood, do a test with her on how easy application is. Osmo a baby could make it look good and repair a scratch etc. Polyurethane needs much more care and cant be satisfactorily repaired easily.
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Customers asking to pay cash to avoid VAT.
muttley9050 replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
One of the last jobs I did i let the customer order some of the materials as he was very fussy on colour It reminded me why i don't let it happen usually. It was a landscaping job. Priced up for bricks and sandstone. When I got to the job. The bricks were all engineering bricks which take a lot longer to lay. They Had been unwrapped and moved by hand round the back and covered with a holey tarp. They were soaked. The slabs were granite which also take a lot longer to lay/cut and need slurrying. Fortunately this customer was very fair and accepted my reasonable extras to cover the changes. Laying dripping wet engineering bricks in December was no fun though. -
Customers asking to pay cash to avoid VAT.
muttley9050 replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
It's called business, its not a trick. I don't charge customers for materials unless it's an extra. I give them a price for a job. In order to work this out I get a price for the required materials multiply by 1.15 and use this figure to work it out. If the customer got a price for the materials I doubt the total would be much different. The 15% is to cover me working out, ordering, collecting, unloading etc the said materials. If you pay a groundie £100 a day do you charge the customer £100 or more. I've heard of tricky tree surgeons making money by charging more for staff than they pay them. Also I very rarely leave customers dissatisfied. Probably because I charge enough to do a good job. But some people can't be satisfied. -
Customers asking to pay cash to avoid VAT.
muttley9050 replied to benedmonds's topic in Business Management
As a builder I would suggest that these are both incorrect. Builders have staff and pensions. Same deal as an average tree surgeon outfit. Although I'm sure it has happened. I really don't think many builders are asking customers to set up accounts with jewson. I have good relationships with my suppliers and I get good prices. Materials are then charged at +15 to 20%. A good earner. I wouldn't trust a customer to have the correct materials on site when I needed them unless i spent a long time schooling them. This is what the mark up is for. -
Osmo poly x. Don't waste your time with polyurethane on an uneven surface with metal in
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Looks great Rob. Bit of a faff in set up but great result. Wouldn't it have been quicker to just half it on the first cut or were you worried about a longer bar being less accurate
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So narrow boats only run on red?Then how do you define a pleasure boat or narrow boat. If someone hires a narrow boat for a weekend jaunt surely that is purely pleasure.? Edit Ok. The post about 60/40 wasn't there when I posted. Must have been typing at the same time. So you pay duty on red. OK
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I was always under the assumption that any fuel used for propulsion which was travel based i.e. Not moving a digger round a building site but moving the digger to the site, should be white diesel. If a narrow boat has only one tank it should be filled with white. If it had a seperate tank for heating then that could be red.
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Would be lovely but slightly out of my budget with the vat. Also way too heavy to put on a mobile base
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Just bought this scheppach for £760 and a 2 hour drive so very happy with that. Way less than I thought it would go for. Cheers for the help
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So it would appear at least some of the scheppach and charnwood saws(smaller) are identical and made by the same manufacturer. But what about the bigger ones. I hate modern manufacturing. Can't come a single review on the charnwood w670 either.
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This one in excellent condition sold a couple days ago for £1750
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I was just reading a thread about the scheppach 4010 and on 2019 they were selling used for about £600.
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Thanks for that.
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There's a couple of 4010s on there. I think they will make around £1300 from what I've seen lately. One finishing tomorrow is only 2 hours drive so a possibility. They other 5 hours drive so too far. Seen a smaller scheppach saw and the are good. Wish I knew if the charnwood was much worse because a new one out the box is only £400 more and no day spent collecting.
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Some people seem to love charnwood. Others seem to hate them
