kevinjohnsonmbe

Maybe I'm just seeing it through a different lens. Totally agree with all your points above and certainly would expect established and reputable firms shifting large volumes to be affected by the requirement to abide by legislative impositions. Maybe it'll be the medium to large outfits that will abide and maybe some will regrettably decide to withdraw under the yoke of additional administrative pressures. That still leaves a fairly significant chunk of smaller, independent, rural types that will just crack on as normal seemingly oblivious to centrally imposed red tape. Similarly, some Nouveau stove users, ex-city dwellers, DFL types may trouble themselves with the stove operating manuals and also be influenced by social media campaigns urging us to buy ecologically preferable imported, electrically kiln dried logs at over inflated prices whilst simultaneously rejecting the age old tradition of truly ecologically sound, sustainably sourced low transport miles local firewood. It won't bother me either way but if there is a sudden rush of 2nd hand processors on the market I might dip my toe in!

There we are look ??s - 22 minutes and some sensibility emerges!

You can take that with the sarcasm it deserves and you can stick your offer in your own cavity!

8 minutes for the first ?.... Possibly bordering on record breaking response times! A couple more to tick off then maybe we'll get some sense from someone....?

Just on that point.... Genuine question - do you think it will really make that much difference? I think the firewood police will be just behind the Brexit unicorns, the woodland pixies and the Irish Leprechauns.... Not entirely sure anyone but the bigger players will take any notice. May be wrong.

I was thinking tree fern but wondered if anyone had any better ideas? Had to take down this Cherry last week. I really wanted to keep the stem and cavity but owner wanted down to the ground. He was out when we finished so I took a chance and decided to try and keep at least some of the stem. Haven't settled up yet so I may still have to go back and take it down to ground but I'm really keen to try and encourage keeping it and maybe planting something cool in the cavity. Any suggestions welcomed... (I'm already expecting the usual suspects and their 'helpful' suggestions.... ? - you know who you are....)

Crikes... Yome out of bed on the 'picky' side this morning Mr S or what.....?

He’s ‘done’ you there @trigger_andy! Even for occasional home user chainsaw tasks, find a reliable local training provider and do the maintenance & crosscutting course (whatever it’s called these days.) It’ll be money well spent and easily recouped through future (proper) home maintenance and efficiencies in cutting technique. It may even save you from serious harm.

I cobbled something similar together many years ago out of scrap timber - needs replacing really now. The one in the pic above looks too tall (unstable.). Also, worth considering making it big enough for a barrow to slip in underneath - cut, drop, move with minimal picking up. I can get about a dumpy bag full in one go if I stack him right up!

I didn’t quite grasp the original question Al. I wasn’t sure if there was an element of sarcasm or a gag that I didn’t ‘get.’ To get a £7k VAT rebate you have to have bought stuff that’s VAT rateable @20% which exceeds the amount of VAT you’ve charged on the goods you’ve supplied that are VAT rateable. Do work invoiced at £1000 + VAT (£200) invoice £1200 pass £200 to HMRC. Buy stuff invoiced at £2000 + VAT (£2400) End of ¼ you pay HMRC £200 but they ‘owe’ you £400 Rebate = £200 How you doing BTW? Barter, exchange and swap is a much better system all round, no need to subsidise some shiny ass office barsteward taking a slice of your cake ??

??? that’s my approach too ???

Understood, I only meant it as an illustrative point. Mostly you have to pass VAT on, but sometimes a rebate arises. The point was that out of those rebates, when they happen, it’s possible (if you wanted to) to suck up some minor price reductions for domestic customers. On a side issue, building and yard work? I had some ‘issues’ with HMRC attempting to disallow certain elements of infrastructure which resulted in me taking them to Tribunal - and spanking them ? I’ll have to brush up on the detail but some caution might be advisable claiming building works.

But you can suck up 84.3 £83 ‘losses’ from smaller domestic jobs out of the £7k per ¼ and still break even! (Less professional feed for accountant - if applicable)

I bet I hate HMRC more!

You won’t..... There aren’t any!

My point was genuinely non partisan Egger. It doesn’t matter (in this regard) who’s in office - they all subscribe to broadly similar principles of consume, expand, tax to fund the economic cycle. It’s just the levels and allocations of spending from tax income that slightly differs. It’s the engine that’s broke, whoever is in office are just the mechanics tinkering with the settings and levels and (in the macro macro sense) are pretty irrelevant. The ENGINE needs changing - then maybe the mechanics can adjust their working practices as they start to learn their trade. Tory / Labour / Lib Dum - all using the same knackered toolkit to tinker with a out dated and unsustainable power plant.

You couldn’t make it up Mark. Whenever a ‘benefit’ is rolled out, they’ll be just as many ‘needy’ as there are ‘grabby’ Madness!

It’s f”cking bonkers Egger! But maybe the beginning of the end of the ridiculous Ponzi scheme of spend and tax, earn and tax which is capitalism and consumerism. T’other day there were concurrent news stories on wireless about government needing to ‘encourage’ punters back to the high street to spend money (they haven’t got on shite they don’t need) to ‘reinvigorate’ the economy, Immediately followed by a feature on burgeoning personal debt! I was genuinely dumbfounded!

Yome alright @eggsarascal? Word is they found a bag of bones in the river. Anyone we know?? Murder inquiry after human bones found in River Stour in Sudbury https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-53942532

With the exception of the nipper being off school, hasn’t made a shite of a difference to me. I don’t see many folks anyway, haven’t been on holiday (which has troubled the Mrs more than it has me - I’d just as happy stay home anyway.) Was nice when the roads were quiet but that all went for a burton when the Marmaris masses couldn’t FO to Turkey for a fortnight so Cornwall was gridlocked from the easing of UK travel. Went to the tyre shop today, miserable boot behind the counter started moaning that I didn’t have a mask on - whilst she sat there all day without a mask on. Yep, what little credibility there ever was was pretty much pissed away by Cummings and Johnson Snr minching off to Greece. Maybe different if yome one of 10s of thousands cramming onto the underground everyday, but if you live in town you’ll be surrounded by townies.

I was thinking along the lines of theft by conversion but, having just had a read, it seems Criminal Damage Act 1971 is a better fit. Mynors 13.7

That's a good analogy. The pic below is not 'exactly' in line with the scenario - but any excuse to use it is must be grabbed ?

Totally agree. Often's I used to spend time 'chatting' on potential job sites and just waffling on about trees in general. Only to find matey from down the pub did it for the firewood. Had a real beauty a month or so back: Phone call at 8 o'clock at night asking if I'd go and have a look at a tree that needs "...a couple of branches taking off..." Me - Where are you, what sort of tree is it, can you describe what it is you think you want to do? Them - Well, its a tree, can you come and have a look? Me - Where are you? Them - Lanivet. Me - Can you take some pictures and email them to me so I'd have a better idea of what the problem is? Them - No. I could mail you a picture but that'd take too long. Why can't you just come and have a look? Me - Because it'll take 2 hours out of my day and I don't really want to run around all over Cornwall looking at trees unless you want to cover the time and miles. Them - 2 hours? Where are you? Me - Liskeard. Them - I can get to Liskeard in 45mins. Me - That's as maybe but I expect you'd want to go home afterwards too? So that'll be 45 mins travelling each way and 15-30 mins to have a look at the tree. Them - Well.... How much would that cost? Me - Fifty pence per mile and £50/hour. Them - Oh, is that it then, end of conversation? Me - Up to you really.... You're looking at £150 + VAT for the time and travel otherwise I'm running all over Cornwall "looking at trees" and not earning any money. Didn't seem too happy for some reason..... Might have got the sense that I didn't really appreciate an 8PM phone call to look at a tree which MIGHT need a couple of branches off which is a 50 mile round trip away....

That is an unarguable truth K! However, the 'arb' that would most likely be 'missing out' in these circumstances would likely be the character that has done some work before and is local. I dread to think what sort of 'advice' one might get from that source. It is, of course true, that a householder may get a bundle of free 'opinions' from AT, and it's a bit like ask the audience - there'll be a reasonable spread of responses and it might be possible to take the mean average as a possible best way forward - or to use that as the sounding board and confidence check for the individual advice supplied by the local tarmaccer. Now then, which of the contributors above that suggested a bottle of screech was appropriate was involved in this scenario? Come on, we know your tricks!

It’s all very well you laughing @Bolam, as I was reading the earlier posts I was thinking “that’s a pre-Stella” reply.... Itd be crazed mob and flaming torches “post-Stella.” (Or maybe I’m just applying my own likely response...)