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Thank you everyone for your help. i admit that it’s somethint that I naively haven’t even heard of before (or perhaps paid any attention too maybe) so a lesson to be learnt. I agree with above comment regarding bumping the quote up by 20% minimum. still undecided as to whether I should re-invoice to include the separate items, plant hire etc or Whether my cash flow is happy enough to keep the original invoice as it then gives me a larger amount of ‘paper money’ to pay off my tax bill at Christmas time! Cheers

Ok thanks for that. i will re-invoice then as have a fair bit of hired in plant for the job. Cheers gentleman

Ok I will get that sorted. i still find it bizarre (I probably don’t understand enough) as to why they have taxed me? I pay my own taxes etc and haven’t signed up to the scheme. it has taken all the profit out of the job and made it not worth it!

Hi all, quick wiestion, completed a job and sent the invoice to the construction company, they have since sent back the remittance advice, and have deducted £1600 under the CIS tax. how does this work? i am not registered for it myself, and £1600 is a lot to underpay on a quote that was submitted and agreed on for a much higher figure. Is it possible to claim it back?

Just starting to come to terms with this. Its quite unsettling as I am only 25 and been running my business since I was a school leaver. The stress and worry to grow the business and succeed, earn a profit, pay the rent etc all off my own back in an industry where people are undercutting and haggling for scraps of work is unsettling. ive been battling anxiety and depression for about 2 years, pains in my stomach for weeks on end, loss of appetite (no doubt related) constant being wound up, stressed, unmotivated and tired. I used to love work and climbing and now it is for most days a chore, I no longer climb as too busy sending emails and dealing with clients on the ground. my business has grown and for that I am proud of myself, no hand outs or anything, just pumping every penny I earn back into, hopefully what is to be my future. But this has come at the cost of my social life, family relationship, romantic relationships, overall health and well-being. When you do everything that you can to provide for your other half, when they are the reason you get up and pull those 12hr days followed by an hour in front of a laptop at night, and then those relationships fall down due to the stresses that your mild depression over 2 years has caused... it all starts to get a bit much! i am only 25 and consider myself lucky compared to some of the stories shared by the posters on here, but as much as I enjoy running my own ship and the flexibility it brings, I can’t help thinking if it is worth it. I am in talks to starts some counselling sessions, so fingers crossed this is the beginning of the end ??

Brother in law does a fair bit of milling with his Norwood, in West Devon. Seems to do alright with it. Big firewood supplier but picks the nicer lengths out and keeps them safe ??

Morning all, due to increase in work, I’m looking for another self employed climber/groundy for domestic Arb work in and around South Devon. the usual tickets and equipment will be need. www.southhamsarborists.co.uk 07814376119 thanks, Ben

Evening all my skidster has a log grapple, and the grab has started to ‘slip’ when lifting heavy lumps of wood, by this I mean that the grapple opens itself when a higher pressure is put on it to clasp. My question is: why? It never used to do this, whatever it grabbed, it grabbed and held it. it has a small couple hydraulic leaks here and there, but I do try and keep on top of keeping the oil topped up (although I don’t always succeed at this)... is it a case of that there isn’t enough oil being pumped around to deal with the pressure? Or is there a possibility that the pump is packing up? cheers

Morning All, i am a small, one man band with no direct employees, but a list of independent subbies that I regularly use. They are covered under my employee insurance Yadar yadar yadar...... when filling out forms for work, and they ask for the amount of employees that I have, should I list 0, or can I list the number of regular subbies? As far as the work goes, we regularly go out as a 2 or 3 man team so seems silly (in my head) to potentially under sell and limit myself if I have to say it is just little old me on my own. thanks

A nice crown re-shape and thin carried out down in Salcombe today. 19 degrees and silky work ??

Yes, and then a bit of a long haul after lunch to Newton Ferrers for second job.

Gentle crown tickles down on the coast, felt like summer!

They’ve left a tidy site though! Was down there the other day

Ah crap I’ve already bought a new one ? I could always send it off to spud and then keep the new one for spares.

Saw is still working, but a repair bill would be well over half the cost of the saw, he said.

My 560 has been faultless (apart from cutting through a fence and piercing the fuel tank 6 months ago) recebtlt started a procedure where I noticed we had lost a front exhaust bolt, and a second one was vibrating loose, had no choice but to carry on using it and then started to ‘warble’ when cold until it had re-tuned itself (I assume) after ten mins of running and then ran fine. took it in to my local dealer and was told when stripped down that the entire saw was beyond economic repair. Gaskets leaking, threads have been stripped requiring heli-coiling, electronic wires have been chewed through etc etc and the bill would have been well over half the cost of a New saw. No scoring on pot or piston and he commented how cleanly it had been burning (thanks aspen!) but beyond that it was an expensive bodge. 28 months use of 5 days a week Arb work, so by no means thrashed around in the woods but has still inevitably done some work. PITA as I loved that saw but at £660 for just over 2 years use it’s a bit of a kick in the teeth, like that ex that was bad for you in general, but at the same time, oh so good ??‍♂️

There is 3 bickleigh’s just in South and mid devon. Similar to the time I travelled to Torbay galmpton for a Euc, and turns out it was in a small village called galmpton, near Salcombe.

Evening, looking into buying a cheap kubota b1400 tractor from a local bloke, and although I am confident it will run my saw bench, will it have enough power and weight to be able to lift my thor supermajic 18t pto splitter? Looking for a small tractor which would be my own, and at the same time be handy for manoeuvring chipper etc on larger work sites, and this is local and within budget. thanks

www.southhamsarborists.co.uk

Crawl out of bed 7.15am, in the yard for 7.45, generally on site by 8.30, or before if I have underquoted it and am desperately trying to claw my way back in to control. usually stop for a pasty or a cheese and bacon slice on the way. I would say 10am break is vastly more important to me then 1pm lunch as I am too lazy to allow myself time for breakfast. 20 minutes at lunch and then usually snack like ? on the drive home to the extent I usually don’t have much for dinner. I’m still young so can get away such an appaling diet, but I am aware routine is something I need to work on

My mate, we did our chapter 8 together though if you are thinking of ex army bob?

Kingsbridge

Evening All, small tree company in s.devon looking for self employed guys and galls, climbing work if applicable but predominantly ground work as a ‘third person’ To work as part of our small, friendly yet busy team on a mixture of private and commercial tree jobs. The usual tickets required as a minimum, as well as ground saw. Own transport is required and B+E is preferred but obviously not essential. frequent work with the opportunity for something permanent in the future. thanks Ben 07814376119

Do you work at WRT by any chance? If so, small world! have you tried people like tree 2 1?

I saw somebody on Facebook had one, to me it just looks far too under engineered, and Would likely be something that would be fine for the first 12 months before things warped or snapped (a bit like my timberwolf!) before you then wish you bought something a bit more robust!