LeeGray

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!

Very useful to know, generally only ever use main dealer if vehicle is new(ish) and want to sell again relatively quickly. Found with vans if changing every couple of years is worth it but not for pick ups or cars.

Get a drum of good quality oil direct from from a merchant and buy filters a box at a time. Do it oil and filter regular yourself and not only is it extremely cheap but you know the quality of the oil and filters. Had my little van in for a full franchise dealer service (first time to keep there warranty) oil change warning came on 500 miles later, dropped the oil and it was shagged and filter definitely wasn’t a week old. Personally I’d rather know it was done properly

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!

I’d say employing someone at £10 full time with usual benefits as above is costing £15/hr. Stick time not billable to customers as an hour everyday average and you’re at £120/8 hr day - 7hrs billing so more like £17 for every hour your billing before all other costs.

30% for cash...the same deal I offered the Nigerian gold miners last week. Fuckers never got back to me either!

Your too late, I got back to her this morning...sent her my bank details, just waiting for the cash now!

What’s the dot for? Security service?

This trumps all obvs!

250m/day double rows, caned and guards. One with a pinch making hole other footing them in . Walk along to cane then guard from either end.

After driving past a woman eating her cereal whilst driving erratically down the A1 this morning I thought that’s the stupidest thing I’ve seen anyone do whilst driving and probably going to be the cause of her death in the not to distant future...so over to you lot! ps no on the phone whilst driving, seems every nob head on the planet is taking no notice of the rules on that one and we all see loads every day

Kebab/chippy where they normally to be seen here, unless it’s closing time on a Friday night of course.

Had the bobbies at my place several times recently saying my lad had nicked a jerry can of petrol from Morrison’s garage. I got the date time and amount then showed coppers the receipt as he was getting the fuel for me luckily. They said oh no it’s definitely a theft as they have cctv proof of him do a drive off. After three days back and forth ‘investigating’ they turned up to show us the damning evidence, a cctv video of him at the counter putting his card in the card machine at the exact same time as the receipt I had! Fucking muppet didn’t even see it and had to point it out to him. Rang Morrison’s store to complain and turned out an employee had just left having reported lots of drive offs and taking money out of the till. Cost the tax payer a week of police time at least

Or put your bags on pallets and get a 3 point hitch set of forks made up to shunt stuff about. The hitch on my little tractor will lift 2t but you wouldn’t want to go far