Logsnstuff

I didnt pocket money no, I was Vat registered in the first month and we have always asked to be paid by cheque. when I started I had enough money to buy some basic equip, some timber and carry me through the first season. I never had to fiddle tax. for 8 years I have ignored it but it's now impacting on me and I don't see why I should sit back and say on you go chaps run your illegal businesses and put me on the dole queue because I shouldn't report you. I roughly make 3-400 sales in a season and I get less than 5 paying cash everyone is now paying BACS faster and cheaper.

I said I would only report people I suspect of dodging not because they are cheaper than me. I have no problem with healthy competition just those using illegal means for an advantage. that's not entrepreneurship that's criminal activity.

it's for the tax to investigate, the page says don't investigate yourself let them do it. follow the link below there's a couple of options on the page. for not paying tax or cash in hand pay. http://www.gov.uk/report-an-unregistered-trader-or-business to the other comment, reporting is looking after your own business, every year it gets harder to make a living because people will always try the cheaper logs they can't help themselves, it doesn't matter what quality you are selling there is no customer loyalty any more. you might choose to let these people put you out of business but I have no desire to shut down and get a job working for someone else. amazon etc are running their businesses legal it might be immoral what they are doing but not illegal and I buy majority of my goods from local shops although I do use amazon costa starbucks etc occassionaly. I do think it quite revealing the responses to this not to get rid of the rogue traders. I have a broad back your insults have no effect. clearly the tax should be having a very close look at the people on this forum.

I'm talking about the people blatantly dodging tax and undercutting to put honest people out of business not because their price is a bit lower, from your indignation presumably you are one of them. why should I let them run a dodgy business and put me out of business. you have a legal obligation to report people not paying tax. what I spent on a delivery vehicle has nothing to do with it.

one of the problems is people thinking you cant ask more than your competition, there are alot of people on here have said I cant ask £100 a bag coz joe bloggs down the road is selling for £50 and that's just nonsense, within 3 months of starting we put our prices at about 40% higher than everyone else's and we still got orders and the competition are upping their prices year on year and closing the gap on us. I do wonder at the reluctance to shop the beer money guys, they undercut and make life very hard. my tolerance for them is exhausted and I will report any I find round my way now, just lucky most who post here are far enough away that they don't effect me.

I'll deliver dunoon she just needs to buy 8 bulk to make it worthwhile.

what size bags

winch on the posch seems all right just don't think of it as a skidder going to haul a 10 ton log.

horizontal lets you load with a crane and do much bigger stuff faster but going horizontal I would want 2m version so you can put easily onto a processor deck.

nifty little lift on this splitter great idea.

there's also multiteks log buster if you don't fancy anything mentioned so far. think it's 100 ton splitting force.

depends on the wheelbase, they only allow 70kg for a driver anymore comes off your payload also fuel has to come off the payload, spare wheel might not be included so that has to come off, also theres no guarantee the vehicle actually weighs what it say in the book. we had 4x 0.73m3 bags in tha back of the sprinter 20-22%mc and we got done for being something like 480kg overloaded. we weighed the bags after they put us over the weighbridge and they were 280kg each but we could only carry 2 legally. we used to build them into the van and run with 7 for long distances. the new truck had the sparewheel and cage etc cut off to save on weight.

3m3 in the back your overloaded, you have a payload of 1.2t ish from that you need to take spare wheel, people, fuel etc that takes you down to 900kg maybe 1000kg available. 1m3 seasoned weighs 550kg?

Hi Jon, it's totally mad thankfully they are pretty much on the max for me delivering and I don't have many customers down that way, but must be frustrating for legit guys trying to compete.

Lothian Logs 6x4 Trailer Load = £50 1m3 Bag = £40 Net of Kindling = £2.50 Small Delivery Charge if Outside 5 Miles of Denholm Don't see how it's possible to do prices like this or more to the point why you would bother.

then it costs £30/£40 for company card and same again for a drivers card.

you only need operators license when you move above 3.5t vehicle. thats why we are all running around in 3.5's not 5 tonners.

think I should move to cornwall then

from the mouth of the vosa guy who was charging me for overloading, he ran through some of the things we needed to watch out for and the problems of whether a tacho was needed or not and hauling timber ready processed needed a tacho no matter where you were hauling it to but rounds did not need one.

you are wrong you can haul round timber back to your yard but if its ready split logs for sale it has to have a tacho even if your hauling them to your yard and not to a customer it must be on the tacho.

I'm surprised aberfeldy can keep 1 merchant in business never mind 2 and both of them saying they do 1500 tons+ per year. unless they are running down the A82 into glasgow maybe.

I regularly deliver to people who don't order until there's 1 nights burning left in the log store, people just aren't stocking up. maybe fast delivery is a problem I had 3 orders delivered same day on wed, 1 of them within 15 min of ordering so they could be taking that for granted.

Doesn't he live in dunkeld saw his pickup there on Wed. dunno how much the inheritance was but the pirate owned barhaul so it could have been a fair bit.

I don't print anything off you can store it to a card if you want and store it on your pc, most of the time I run out of scope I only use trailer if I have to.

there is no exempt, I gave an example ages ago the girl who took her pony to horse trials didn't need a tacho to get there but got placed 3rd or something won a tenner and got done on the way home because it was for reward.