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1 hour ago, Clutchy said:

Thanks for all the responses

 

Went with Capital on tap in the end as credit limits offered were pointless at £900 on fuel cards

 

Got accepted straight away, 30k limit and cards for all team leaders foc. 56 day payment terms 

 

1% cash back or slight bonus on top if taken as vouchers (which is a nice bonus as a director as assume can be taken without HMRC needing to know 😉) 

 

Referral link below for £75 each if anyone is interested 

 

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Not much difference

19 hours ago, Mesterh said:

Just out of interest how much fuel do these generators use?

My 14kva standby roughly uses just under 3 litres an hour running at around 10-11kva

We are paying 148.19 plus vat this week, which is quite a saving.
You need 2 or 3 different cards and play them off against each other, if you just have one you will get screwed, they will phone after a few weeks of not using the card and offer a better price.
Just make sure they don't have a no usage or low usage fee and card issue fee.
If they can f#ck you over they will.

"Don't bother bringing any sandwiches tomorrow as you won't be here long enough to eat them"

On 02/06/2022 at 15:44, Hodge said:

I don't agree, we had a real lawn for years, no matter how much I tried it had moss and muddy spots, the kids couldn't play on it if it had been wet, they wore patches away from playing football. Real grass is a pain if you have kids and want to use the space all year round. Our lawn now gets loads of use, feels fine under foot or to lie on.

Interestingly one of my customers has just ripped up a couple of hundred square metres of not a cheap plastic grass he put down a couple of years ago as he's kids hated playing on it because it just didn't feel like real grass.

52 minutes ago, Hodge said:

So I have put 38 in the front and 50 in the back and it drives fine, I will know more next week when I have my trailer on. I have just had uprated steering tubes fitted, as the track rod end pulled out of the standard tube last week, luckily it was when I pulled in for a pee before getting on the motorway....

Bloody hell that could have been nasty.

I have a Hypertherm Powermax45 XP, nice bit of kit but it takes a decent size compressor and a very good power supply to keep it going, I am currently renewing the size cable to my workshop as every now and then it will trip it out.

Also for future reference Duncan at Britcar has or certainly had a lot of odd ball parts for old Landies, he used to buy container loads of obsolete stuff from all over the world, but they went bang a while back and although started up again I'm not sure what the situation is with the old stock.

Consider the resale value.
You may pay a lot more for a decent make but it will make the extra back plus a bit when you do eventually sell it.
I personally wouldn't touch a chinky digger, inferior quality steel imo.

£45k for a 110, wants to be something special for that sort of money.
Makes me extremely glad I bought my LC79 now

1 hour ago, sarahdaniels said:

Hi all ok just wonder if any of you guys or girls have used it and what brand is a good one to go for , i have looked all over the net and you know how it is to much choice and not enough info .
I am going to do the front garden which is 6 mtr x 3 mtr and 6 mtr x 2 mtrs so looking for any ideas .
i am going to use yuzet membrane i used that on all my allotment projects over the years and all the walk ways to keep weeds away and it is hard wearing and the water passes through no issues , ok over to you lot

stay safe and thank you for any info

Any particular reason why you want environmentally disastrous fake grass over a proper lawn ?

4 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Anyone know much about it? The doctor tells me I've got it in my hands/fingers, if you've got it what do you use to relive the pain, apart from beer,pot and painkillers?

Assuming they have done a blood test for inflammation markers ?
There are many things you can do diet related to help if it is.
You could try avoiding foods from the nightshade plant for a start, potatoes being one, Tomatoes another but not so bad if cooked.
I now avoid them but every now and then slip and have potatoes and my knees and fingers are a nightmare for a few days.

17 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

There are numerous places around the UK where low and high water slack can be measured in mins, the Severn barrage has been spoken of for years but no progress. The current boom in wind farms is nothing short of a National disgrace, if people realised how virtually zero of the  structures being put up or vessels used to install are built here or crewed  by UK nationals they’d be shocked, billions being made by overseas yards and foreign energy companies with virtually no benefit to the UK workforce or taxpayers. 

Same as our solar farm, German company own and installed it, apart from a couple of English people and a Romanian security guard the entire workforce was German.
But the whole installation was run so well it had to be admired, everyone knew what they had to do and got on with it, it was quite impressive to watch, at it's peak there was over a hundred workers on site.

Have as much solar and wind power as you like but if it is in the hands of big companies like a lot of solar farms are you will still be shafted.
The big one at our farm is owned by an investment company now I believe, but has changed hands a couple of times.
Houses need to be more energy efficient and we need to use less.
Planning to go off grid has been great for us and a learning curve as we have had to look at ways to be much more energy efficient.
Nuclear is just creating problems for our children imo.
Hydrogen does look like a way to go, There was some talk about using over generated power from solar and wind being used to produce Hydrogen during off peak times, although not overly efficient it is kind of a way of storing power, electricity is a problem because it's very expensive to store.

More efficient use of energy.
Ease the planning rules on solar for domestic properties would help.
When the houses at the back of us were recently built, virtually every light in every house was on for weeks throughout the day and night.

6 minutes ago, JACK MOODY GROUP said:

Jack Moody Group as well as Recycling is a leading specialist in the Landscaping and Civil Engineering Sector with over 50 years of experience and like other businesses, we are always looking for innovative new ideas/opportunities and services that we can offer to both our existing and also new customers alike.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that we now offer our quality award winning Landscape product portfolio at unbeatable prices directly to yourself from our Lodgewood Farm site, which I’m sure you will find of great interest being a local business.

New Product ranges now available for collection are as follows:

·        Award winning peat free compost (PAS100 Accreditation) £10:00 Per Meter Cube

·        Top soil / compost blend 20mm – perfect for planting (BS3882 Accreditation) £7:50 Per Ton

·        Premium quality bark £35:00 Per Meter Cube

I hope that you find the above new product range beneficial to your Business and should you have any questions you can call and speak to our onsite specialists Tel: 01922 417648 or please feel free to contact either myself direct on Mobile: 07783 151496 or Mark Beasley (Mobile): 07734 799171

I would like to take this opportunity in thanking you for you continued support and look forward to seeing you at Lodgewood Farm very soon.

Ian Rickhuss - Jack Moody Recycling – 07783 151 496

Do you do walking floor loads delivered to Essex on bark and compost ?
What size is compost screened to ?
What grade is the bark ?

How do you measure when loading, by volume or box weight system ?

9 hours ago, aspenarb said:

 

I think with cranes the best way to max out on the non hgv route is to strap the crane to a 4x4 or towbarge that can legally pull a 3.5 ton trailer. Just use the tow vehicle as a toolbox and crane.Cant think of another way of legally carrying a two and a half ton plus payload.

 

Bob

We had considered doing it that way ourselves, trouble was it tied up a decent truck that couldn't be used for much else and the extra reach needed to lift any decent weight at the end of the trailer meant a much bigger crane so less payload.
For us it works well as we only need to get just over 2000kg on the trailer, but can also put 1400kg on the truck if need be  giving us a combined carrying capacity of just under 3500kg (7000kg GTW).

1 hour ago, Ty Korrigan said:

I was considering one for the Ifor tipper, mounted to the draw bar if skinny enough and easily removable. 

I see a French company advertising in a FB group offering a high side 3.5t tipper converted for a mere €27'000.

Upon closer inspection it does appear to be a knuckle boom. Claims a ton lift.

   Stuart

 

 

All depending on what you want to lift, you haven't said.
You can't really mount them on the drawbar as it will give you too much nose weight, to make them properly legal they ideally need to be fitted to triaxle trailers.
They are never going to be "easily removeable"  they need a fair bit of bolting down and chassis strengthening and you will have a powerpack to consider.
Our new one on a 14ft flatbed Ifor without sides carries just over 2000kg and will lift just under 1000kg at 3.75 mtrs.
Ernest Doe built a little crane trailer with a maxilift last year for Anglia Towing, I believe they still have it, it was built for carrying bulk bags but TBH although very nicely built it looked a bit pointless, very small and very heavy.

Dunno about cost but weight wise they are not much lighter at the same weight lift capacity than a small knuckleboom and you can do so much more with a knuckleboom.

What do you use for accounting software ?
As far as I'm aware /e/OS is only available to install on a few phones ?
I have looked into this before as I am not keen on all the tracking but truth is if you run a business it's nigh on impossible IMO as we have become too reliant on apps and such like, but there are measures you can use to help stop most of it.

Ernest Doe.
Although mine was a small setup, they build some pretty big units.

Is there even any vans out there atm for sale ?.
I notice van monsters yard empty the other day except for about 8 tippers.
A couple of people I know try to get vans and can't find anything.

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

I like Ian Hislop:
 

 

Anyone who ties that twat bernard jenkin in knots is good in my book.
How that lame arsed moron has been voted for so many times is just beyond me, in my experience he only helps constituents if there is something in it for him.
Bloody vile man.
Rant over

25 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

He is deluded, or full of shite.

 

You choose.

Can I choose both ?

4 minutes ago, Mark J said:

I reckon Michael Gove is likely to be the next PM.

 

Jesus Christ
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse.