openspaceman

Martin Lewis says the price cap is currently below wholesale prices and is bound to rise in April. Also no fixed deals are available at less than the cap, so yes my fixed price in March will end and a big jump.

That's killing the goose...

There are ways around that for a big company. At my work there was a pool of cars in which a top of the range Volvo featured, only the boss ever had access to the keys. Remember VAT is not the only element of tax. A pool car is an expense to a company and deductible from the turnover. There are many other benefits a company owner can enjoy at the company's expense, remember Tiny Rowlands, he drew no income in UK yet lived in a large house here, not owned by himself.

I thought warfarin was banned for squirrels 😀 Seriously I'm sorry to hear that, best wishes

I have made no political comment, I did not say what you have put in quotation marks. As we are bound to have tax I suggested a tax which was less easy for the very rich to be able to avoid paying in the way they currently do

Hardly. The point is having a tax that can be levied at the point of production or entry into the country and paid by all so companies do not benefit from reclaiming it, as is VAT on most cars now.

This one?

I'm a bit out of touch with what modern consumers aspire to but high end cars and personal goods for a start.

Yes but it's a tax that rich people make good use of and find ways out of paying it from personal money. Again this is why I like a purchase tax on "luxuries"

Bound to be TPO if they specified a 2.5m reduction. Ridiculous to even TPO such a tree adjacent to a building

Diesel seems to have gone up to £1.47 at the major service stations and short queues, longer ones at the local stations but I didn't notice much change in price.

I'm much the same. Most recent failed project is trying to revive an old Ebike with a new controller which I think I have zapped.

My little freebie garden mowers are 16" and set low they do a fair job on conifer . Even better with a HiLift blade but the most bulk reduction is with holly. I have a vague plan to modify one to vacuum slivers off a stump grinder.

Yes it looks like someone has been picking off the outer bark plates

Me too though I still file freehand

As long as it is just trimmings and no wood over 12mm a collecting lawnmower with sharp blades compacts it well

The guards are quite different, my recent experience is with Stihl but the types look much the same. The saw guard is smaller and mounts tight tp the sawblade, it only covers the rear quadrant and in use you can use it to slowly feed the blade into a thick stem. The mulcher guard sits back from the gearbox and if like the Sihl mounts directly on the stem HUSQVARNA Trimmer Guard 544 10 74 02 FPANDG.COM One thing that used to annoy me with the lads is that they would use the mulcher blade bare and without the cup underneath, Stihl calls it a rider plate. Without this it is too easy to dig the mulcher in the ground and this results in increase wear, more frequent sharpening and increases the risk of flying stones Rider Plate for Stihl FS220, FS220K Brushcutters - 4119 713 3100 | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Rider Plate for Stihl FS220, FS220K Brushcutters Genuine Stihl Part OEM Part No. 4119 713 3100 Suitable for the following...

I've got one of these for sale in UK if anyone is interested, 1984 model IIRC

I hope so as I swelter in here and could manage with half the output.

I used to have a medical every two years because of my age, youngsters had them every three years. I never had problems with the alcohol test by simply abstaining for 24 hours, my biggest problem was holding my bladder full before the sample could be given having travelled for an hour to get to the private medical centre.. Recreational drugs apparently test positive for a longer time after, not having partaken of any other an a bit of pot and amphetamine when I was under 20 this was not a problem for me. After an incident the whole crew involved would be isolated and tested and I was never on a job where that happened. We were subjected to random drug and alcohol tests at base but the health and safety man was a heavier drinker than I and he would suggest we left the site for a short while.

Looks okay to me but my experience is only with tractor mounted grapple loaders. On mine the slice of the spool block that controls the rotate function is a motor spool, essentially it free wheels when in neutral, this is so that when you slew with a long log the rotator does not blow off excess pressure via the port relief valves.

If I were a shell manager I would stick a penny a litre on, make hay while the sun shines. Keep the price just low enough to keep the pumps fully utilised and watch what the competition do. Proper supply and demand economics.

I had to queue for 10 minutes and just squeezed 10 litres in but the trip odometer said I only had 10 miles left, wish the bike had a bigger tank.

Yes that was the way 5 years ago when I retired. It's a bit like the guilds of old, only firms with the right credentials can work on the railway, for safety reasons ostensibly, and they then provide clean staff that have been trained to the correct standards to do the work. This enables them to then charge two or three times the rate for the work in a less controlled environment.

I don't want to see Scotland leave the UK but I have no problem with fining someone for littering and only giving a warning for possession for personal use, drug problems need addressing not punishing.