LeeGray

Yeah, nice to meet but no problem. Message your address with postcode over and I’ll get it off to you.

Good idea, I’ll give it a go. reminds me of wearing carrier bags inside boots when I used to motorbike through the winter. Now I’m a soft shite and don’t even want to drive unless the heated steering wheels on?

I’ve got some of those but can’t feel a thing through them, and the inside bits always come out seperately. Definitely war though and cheap enough.

Northumberland

It’s always the hands that get me, never found a pair of gloves that you can work in that keep fingers warm. I can be sweating in shirt sleeves but fingers are in pain. Any tips for good gloves?

Got the husky and love it now I’ve calmed down from remortgage to buy a couple of big batteries. Well worth it though, ended getting the strummer and mower for home as it’s so nice not having the engine noise

@aspenarb was very generous to me recently, so happy to pass on some goodwill when the opportunity presents itself ?

Hi Saul, if the op doesn’t want it and lets me know then it’s yours. Better he has one than you have two unless you’re in need of another particular.

I’ve got this old tirfor that I never use and had been in the container for years, you can have it if you could use it and pay the postage

Your bathroom must be compact ?

I’ve got my name down for a bollinger if I can afford it when they get released. I’m amazed no ones building electric defenders yet, you can buy all the chassis parts easy. Drive motor on each wheel for fantastic breaking/traction, plenty of room in/above chassis for battery, would probably have more power and torque, not worried about battery weight, most users won’t go far in one journey, folk love the look and pay over the top prices anyway! if I had millions in the bank that’s what I’d be having a go at.

Maclean’s had it up for £25k for a long time, tbh I was shocked it didn’t go then so must be rough

Half of an ibc tank with a plastic manhole cut in top or Side for your box, then drainage pipes cut into it for runs

True, barb looks nasty and I don’t use it personally but stock net doesn’t catch my eye. Suppose anything galv stands out initially and clippex will fade in time. and anything trumps pink/blue baler twine crochet ?

Only use shield stakes for customers unless they want post and rail. They have a fifteen year warranty so hopefully will last somewhere near that and through mole valley so you’d hope they’d be around in fifteen years, they still look strong at 3 years but time will tell. Some folk will always want cheapest sawmill posts but they’re knackered in 5 years so I don’t bother supplying and just do labour only on these. Creosote posts seem plentiful now but wouldn’t fancy putting thousands of those in. At home I’ve got an old oil tank filled with all the old oil and creosote which I soak stuff in if I’m fencing at home regardless of prior treatment and anything I mill myself goes into this but customers would never pay enough to cover that cost. Larch strainer milled, dried and soaked would have to be £50! Compared to sleepers at £18, but people don’t price in the haulage, pointing and the 6 in the middle of the pack that are shagged either. Hate clippex. I can see the appeal, just go out in the pick up with hundreds of post and a hammer but It just looks horrible, alright on the ranches of Australia but looks wrong in our countryside in my opinion.

Yep but now know the limits of the machine. Anything other than flat ground not good

Was pleased it had no doors and easy to exit as it went. Great for most things but anything uneven is extremely dodgy I’m learning. Not so much the weight but the narrow axles and being a long thin machine make it very unstable sideways

Prefer new grabbers to discoverer, I found more quiet and better grip on and off road. Never tried toyos

Nowhere near overloaded with about 200kg on but tipped the little loader yesterday, at least I know the gradient limits now!

Nice view from today’s job

Not tried it on mine but the Americans seem to do this, be interesting to hear from someone here

He was made redundant because he was no longer suitable for the job. Chronic back pain and gut problems not being ideal for a hands on labourers role in often remote conditions. There’s an obligation to try to find another role within the organisation or to adapt to the new capacity of the employee but both are impossible for us given the nature of the work and our size and job centre advisor/accountant couldn’t see a problem. To be fair and hopefully going for me he’d had plenty of time off at full pay and I’d try to do what I could but needs must and there’s no way I could pay long term sick if it came to that and hire on a subby to cover as well. Lesson learned and I’d now only use self employed at a higher rate for jobs as and when.

Yep, one form from the job centre was all it took.

Exactly this, so long as the redundancy is correct. Better 1 on the dole than 3! Luckily the employee was an older guy who could see it wasn’t possible to keep going as was and I gave him plenty of notice. Maybe if I had 50 employees I could have switched him onto light duties but that’s not my reality.

Just to be clear I was saying at £10/hr its costing £17 not charging £17 per hour. I think a man with some kit would need to be £40 to be sustainably profitable or at least 2 men and a lad would want to be £100. Personally I charge £25-28 plus vat/hr for a start but really prefer to price a job to make money on it. My calculation for the £10/hr are based on what I think the bloke who worked for me on the books for years used to cost. Took me a while to realise and just laid him off recently after two sickness absences looked like turning into full on health problems. Making someone else’s wages is hard work, even harder when there at home with there feet up!