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Good news, I was going to say 'buy it!'

Good suggestion Dave. It's probably something that those in the gods at these firms have never thought about, their only concern is maintaining H&S standards and I suspect to them spurs are a disposable [and so far as they must believe 'easily mislaid'!] piece of safety equipment, like safety helmets or hi-viz.... If staff 'lose' their spurs, why wouldn't they just issue them with new ones.... I'm very suspicious of the practice of buying company equipment directly from employees, as a manager in a company it doesn't sit well with me.....

There's some great and easily understood advice on this on the HMRC website explaining capital allowances and writing off. I can't remember exactly how it works but the sort of stuff you're talking about can all go in your allowances in that tax year [assuming you pay for it up front] and can then be written down every year [think it's 40% each tax year, although there are 2 different depreciation formulas] until it's written off the books as an asset and can be scrapped. But also correct in saying that an asset which has been written off the books would generate or be classed as taxable income when sold. If you purchase on finance it doesn't go in capex [although the deposit might] and goes in 'annual maintenance allowances' or something or other.... Search the HMRC site, much better advice than me...!

Yeah, and it sounds like he was watching the other chanel there for a second thank god he got back in the game when he did Good news that he'll make a full recovery, hopefully it'll be a quick one. Chainbrakes work really well on the ground in a 'good stance', but up in a tree, how often are we really positioned so that a chainbrake will function correctly? Lucky fella.. could happen to anyone...

To be honest, if it's sitting in a scrappers I'd start at a tenner!

As a small business, if I was replacing equipment like that I'd like to think I would have had the nous to research a bit first and would know that my surplus equipment had a second hand value and would dispose of it myself, even if the cash just went into a slush fund for the christmas party. I'd be a bit hacked off if my staff were selling them for their own gain. I don't sell surplus materials from our sites for my own benefit, it comes back to the yard and goes on the company ebay account. However... for a firm like WPD for instance, selling second hand spikes is not going to be a priority and if someone was injured using spikes they'd sold, they must be concerned they'd be liable, so I'm sure people are correct when they say that spikes are replaced with new regularly and the companies don't ask for them back. It's definitely a grey area. There are bound to be genuine staff who use them well and get new ones when they're given them, and let people they know have the old ones. But there must also be staff who keep selling them and claiming they've lost them and getting issued new ones. Personally I'd rather have something cheap and honest than cheap and potentially dishonestly acquired.... But I don't really know any linesmen to tap for their old spurs....

No experience of it in arb use but our local oil & fuel supplier runs one [or perhaps the next one up] as a tanker, reckons it's a great little truck...

That's a fair observation! Although, as I said, if all you have to spend is £100 and you're not spiking up and down all day every day, they are a reasonable purchase to start off on. But a set of branded spurs should be the aim, either by saving up from jobs done on cheap spikes or holding off on buying the cheap ones and saving up a bit more now.... To paraphrase 'Ar Graham' from Blind-d Date...' the choice, is yours... My next purchase will be Distels....

Here's another one. Incredibly they don't have a website, but what they don't know about and can't do with prop shafts probably doesn't exist. And living in the 1970's their prices are from that era too.... Proptech Ltd.

Thank you... that's exactly what I was hoping to contribute and more or less what I wrote before I fell foul of the language laws with an ill advised starring out of 'shedload'.....

I couldn't stuff 160 quid's worth of used non-sequential small denomination notes into a brown envelope fast enough Tony.....

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No contest earnings wise..... you'll be a pauper driving a tractor after a lorry...!

I'd double that figure if it was in my garden. Corner of a field fine, but garden? Higher... definitely higher...

Buttons mate. Tractor driving is much like tree surgery [believe it or not!].. it takes years of experience to become really good at it, to be able to set up and operate a drill, drive a harvester, spray, spread fertiliser.... But even when you have that experience there's still less money in the job than climbing trees. Seasonal trailer work will be minimum wage... you're competing with 16 year old farmer's sons looking to earn a bit of cash. And last time I did it I calculated my earnings by pints of cider....

These are the same spikes, sold by the same guy [think he trades as AGS Landscapes - has been felling some trees up the lane to my office recently]. I have a pair and I have to say, for all the negative comments, for what they cost, 1. they're not nicked and 2. they do work. They're definitely not the best spikes in the world but mine have taken a bit of hammer and I'm still alive. You pays your money and makes your choice as they say. My opinion: Gaffs are quite soft, going to give mine a sharpen. They're not especially light nor expecially comfortable. They're the cheapest you'll get new irons with replaceable gaffs. They're a stepping stone, something lo learn on, but not the spurs you'll build a career on! As soon as I can afford it I'll be ordering some ali Geckos..... Make of that what you will!

I thought that but it's not, it's a smaller bore version of the previous long stroke 2.4 Ford engine. The 2.2 in the Freelander and Evoque are the same as the new Jag XF engine which is smaller bore / longer stroke still...

I didn't realise you were competing Murray! I thought you were just going to watch!

I thought I heard Argo were on their uppers...? Can't stand them as a company, they snaffle up the IH plant after the CNH merger then shut it down and ship production to Italy, trashing another chunk of our industry. And farmers STILL buy McCormicks..! [Not many I know... ] Is the irony not lost on farmers demanding the public buy their homegrown produce from farm shops, while they quite happily go out and buy foreign made kit...?! Basildon Blue all the way!

I'd go TD5 myself, great engine with bucket loads of potential and a proper Land Rover dash with openy-venty thingers in, not that nasty great plastic monstrosity they shoehorned into the new ones....

Dealer terms mate. Otherwise what incentive is there for the dealers to give good service if the manufacturer sells them cheaper than the dealer can? Same with most things.

How awesome is this?!... Cingo CINGO M 12.2 H400

They don't.

Would make sense.... both being Italian machines. Wonder if Argo own Merlo as well....

Mine has a hole in the top, and it sits very low in the water... does that make it a kayak then?