brynseiri

If your turnover yearly can take a finance payment hit then you are safe - so if the implement has a quiet period then you aren't relying on its work to pay for it. I have kit I have bought new, bought new on knock and now payed for and old kit bought outright ( bit different as am an agricultural contractor) and TBH buying a machine in the knock was easier than buying outright, I could budget for the payments and also meet all my other bills without worrying. Remember buying a trailer outright and had to work my backside off for months to make up the shortfall, whereas if I had done it on knock, I'd own it today plus something else. You can only really get cheap finance if at all on brand new kit, so it's a case of weighing up the pros and cons. If you can afford it, meaning you have plenty if work of all kinds, then it is a no brainer. If the finance payments will soak up income, profit and the ability to meet commitments, then stay well clear until the aforementioned situation is the case. I would also steer clear of finance if possible on a new to the business machine, EG if climbing is your established enterprise, and you get a stump grinder as a new enterprise, then that would be unwise, as it is un established and you may find it hard to get work for it and end up climbing like hell to pay for a stump grinder that is stood up most of the year.

Read the contract first before you sign up to it. But, if sell it, the gentlemanly thing to do would be to settle up for the finance straight away. Settling up fee isn't to bad with agricultural kit, but I have only bought from John Deere on the knock. FACT- if you buy kit with outstanding finance on it, you will be liable for the finance payments, hence HPI checks on cars, same applies to kit as serial number will be in the finance contract. Lad I know bought a pair of Ivor trailers on the knock, halfway through he sold his tipper trailer as he believed as both trailers were the same price he now owned one outright - duh, he owned half of each in law, anyway the buyer came round a month later after buying some spares for it looking for blood as trailer had outstanding finance on it. I would think at 50% finance you are on better terms, you will already own half, so repayment settlements would be cheap, probably a £250 fixed fee I'd have thought.

Well, kept it clean, and not so bad at all, so I guess it must be a housekeeping thing.

I would stick to your guns, at the end of the day, you need to build a case unfortunatley. What I mean is, get some bona fide advice, don't ask the vosa man as he wants you to get an operator's licence, which I beleive is not needed for your use. The only road work your mog does is travel from site to site, you do not carry out road haulage for financial gain. Also, dont call your unimog an AG VEHICLE from now on, call it an AG TRACTOR, at least in writing to people (S) concerned. Independant advice is best, and find a decent solicitor who deals in road transport cases. IMO, you shouldn't be running on white diesel, and check that the use of white doesen't instigate opinion (nameley a judge and a jp) that using white means you need an OP - youv'e got to remember that judges arent too well up on matters themselves, but your solicitor will explain these things to you. Gather your evidence required after speaking to your solicitor, if he tells you you are within the law 100%, that means you telling him everything you do, then you are safe from VOSA. You then carry on as normal, dont give in, and if VOSA try to prosecute you, you are safe knowing they have no case, and you will get all your fees back, that's if it makes it to court, and that's a big if.Where do you park the mog overnight? how did vosa find out who you are and what your mog does? does where you park it have neighbouring houses who would complain?

Who would be any the wiser? JFDI, the powers that be wont know unless you post the gps coordinates on here!

Anything is better than a sledgehammer! I have a Bryce HD 2, too heavy to put on a minidigger, but quite compact on the tractor for those tight / wooded / steep places. Only wish I'd specced a rockspike in hindsight. But, you can hire a fair few track machines with peccers for the 1700 extra a rockspike costs. The cup on a peccer is a good idea, you can switch over easyly for pecking holes in rock.

What attracted you to cannabis in the first place?

Like I stated, none of them realised the damage it had done to their mental health, and my point being is I have seen alchohlics dry up, never seen a cannabis user give up so easily, and I stand by my statement that it turns fine young men into bloody useless idiots. Far too many of them have short fuses too, had a 40 year old cannabis user (who maintained it was just recreational, but I doubted it by his behaviour) try to get hold of me in work once, just because I said i didnt like green bananas at lunch and he did ffs!!! Lucky I was quicker or it would have been me in hospital or worse. So after some experiences such as those, I dont like cannabis, I dont like working with idiots daft enough to smoke it, and I deffinatley know of people who take it and should be sectioned for the safety of the public.

Worked with a few who do weed who swear it doesent affect them. The effects were that bad, these people didnt realise the damage it had allready done to their mental health. Everybody had to work around the problems cannabis users have, like paranoia, violent outbursts, dangerous practises. I hate drugs, and more so since I had to work with a couple of "tokers". I had the mispleasure of working with a supervisor who did it, he insisted on driving the JCB, and was useless at that sober, never mind whilst smoking pot at the same time. I do not worry about offending or rubbing cannabis (or any other drug) users / abusers the wrong way, they are all the same. All these pressure groups make out cannabis is better than alcohol, well, they are wrong, at least alcoholics can sober up and be ok, cannabis seems to stick in peoples system and rot their brains. I have refused to work with people because of their drug problems, and was never affraid to explain to bosses as to why I was refusing to work with these people. Everybody should put their foot down to this sort of rubbish.

Same happened to one I had, the crank shaft seals had gone aswell as everything else. Run it over with the tractor......

I'll have to try a few things when I next use it, maybe it could be the handle, maybe it softens, I'm not sure. I will do some investigations and post here. Thanks for your replies.

Glynllifon Agricutural college does all the nptc certs, and also all nptc certs are covered by Bro Hiraethog training group near Dolwen, Colwyn Bay, done a lot of my training such as HGV, 360, jcb with Bro Hiraethog And I know for a fact they have run the medium and large felling courses in the past, the contact you need here is a guy called Irwedd Griffiths, tel 01492 680499, he will tell you if he has any courses coming up soon, then he can book you in on it if the price is right. Am thinking of doing the same course my self soon.

Just stripped it, its a tiny job, two screws take off a cover and the whole lot is there for all to see. The springs were intact, brake band was intact, so I blew the whole lot out with an airline as there was some sawdust / crap in there. I noticed the plastic sleve on the main spring was a bit too far forward, moved it back but doubt it will make any difference. took the brake drum and sprocket off and blew that clean aswell, put back together and it works fine, only other thing I can think of is it does it after a fair bit of use, so might be brake band changing with heat? I'll keep an eye on it, and see what happens.

Make one from some old timber if you have it, then at least it wont hurt the wallet in build cost, if you touch it with the saw, or if ou touch it with the saw, it wont blunt the chain being made of wood!

The brake has become difficult to use on my Stihl MS441, difficult as in hard to engage and has to be pulled back further to disengage. I recall having a similar problem with an ms260, and IIRC it was one of the springs had broken. Has anyone else experienced this? is it a spring or something else? am about to strip it and see. When I went to the dealer to order a spring, the apprentice was serving, and he gave 101 reasons as to how it was broken, but as a competent fitter myself, none of the lads ramblings made any sense! Any past experiences would be much apreciated.