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  1. maybelateron
    This applies to you capital. You can also give money away without inheritance tax implications, as long as you can prove it came out of income rather than capital. For example, if one of you children needs their house roof replacing you can pay for this out of income, then die within 7 years but have no IHT implications.
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    Interesting comment. Do you mean there are some who don't know how to run it as a business efficiently (I didn't think you meant that), or there are some who aren't 100%, or possibly any%, dependent on it to feed themselves, which I think you meant. I am lucky enough to be in the latter group, rather than the former.
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    Agreed entirely. I know it is easy to say as someone who has been trading for a good while (both jfc and myself, whose paths I think may have been similar) but word of mouth recommendation is so useful. I am very selective about what enquiries I actually quote for if they have come via my advertising, as I don't want to be the sixth quote for a job some distance away.
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    Exactly the point - you've not said what (if any) kit you have, and what you can do yourself. Bit difficult to give furthter meaningful advice without this info.
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    If a potential customer says they want to pay cash to avoid the VAT I simply quote them what I need PLUS the VAT, but let them think I am doing them a cash job. If they accept the quote they can pay with cash, I put it through the books, and I am happy with the outcome.
  6. maybelateron
    Like our new king said when meeting Liz Truss: "Dear, oh dear"
  7. maybelateron
    I have recently taken down a Catalpa that we regularly pollarded for years; only took it down because customer wanted it down, not failing in any way. I was amazed at how quickly it grew back each time.
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    I had a guy years ago on a zero hours contract and it worked well for both of us, as we were fair to each other. This situation you describe reminds me of a worker I had for 5 years, until last year. He worked very hard, and did the job well. I found myself gradually accommodating more and more of his requests to fit his work round his partners hours, to an unreasonable extent. Has he said he wants more money by working more hours, or more per hour. Sorry if I sound a miserable old git but I have sadly found that too many employees think if they have a fair and ethical employer they can push the boundaries.
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    I don't know, good thought though.
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    The guy who grazes his cattle on our two small fields rang me with a problem with his MS230 this afternoon. He had done one hour of sawing yesterday and about the same today, when he got fed up with the saw dying repeatedly. Turns out he had inadvertently filled up the saw with petrol instead of 2 stroke. To my amazement when he brought me the saw, the compression seemed ok, I drained the tank confirming the diagnosis, and refuelled with proper 2 stroke. Within a few minutes the saw was running well and idling happily. I was amazed by this. I would imagine the bore must be scored from this misadventure, and I can't imagine the crank/big end are happy. Time will tell, but I am amazed it carried on working for so long on pure petrol. Anyone else got any anecdotes of this nature?
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    I'm pretty sure NFU would do it. Can't remember if you have to join up though. I have always been delighted with them. Some years ago one of the staff in the local office took the trouble to ring me to tell me that if I upgraded from Countryside membership to full Farmer and Grower level it would more than pay for itself in discount on our insurance for house, contents, two cars, and all my business vehicle/mewp/chipper/trailer cover. Couple of weeks ago I ordered a new Hilux and got 13 per cent off due to NFU membership. Full membership costs me just under £240 a year. I hope your recovery is going well. Best wishes.
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    Customers, who'd have them. Can't live with them, can't live without them. It does get pretty irksome when they think that can tell you their maximum budget and expect you to work to that. Some of them are either clueless or sharks, but from the customer side of the equation.
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    Agreed it looks like Willow. We recently took down a Catalpa/Indian Bean Tree and it looked very similar. Not many of them around though.
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    I always err on the side of caution, and never push the boundaries at all, but I did check with my accountant about clothing that is not PPE. If it is embroidered with you business name on it you can put it through the books they said. However, that is no longer relevant to me as we just use standard Hi Viz tops now with no embroidery, but this is then classed as PPE.
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    Yes I have. It is my go to tophandle for pruning and early stage of dismantles, unless I want to use my battery one for peace and quiet. To put it in perpective if I could only have one top handled saw model this is what I would choose, and simply change over to the MS261 when needing something bigger. The 201T is a great saw, but as an older climber with hands and wrists that are no longer young and strong I do need to use the Echo as much as possible.
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    As has been said by several people, those blades are utterly shagged/useless and a gravity fed machine like this needs sharp blades to pull the material through. I quite understand the problem the hire people have with users chucking stuff through that wrecks the blades, but nonetheless it is ridiculous to send a gravity fed machine out with blades that haven't a chance in hell of pulling the material through. As has been suggested, you should not be expected to pay with the blades in this condition. My first machine was a Timberwolf 18/100G gravity fed. With the blades newly sharpened it would pull straight conifer branches through so fast the discharge spout would block, especially in the rain, until I learnt how to stop it pulling so fast. Once the blades had just lost the edge very slightly it pulled in at the perfect speed, then when they needed sharpening it was a pain to feed material into it.
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    I have a steel bumper (insurance company informed!) on the front of my Disco 2 with two towing eyes, proves very useful.
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    I wonder how many people forget to account for the loss of traction that can occur, depending on the angle of the rope, and slope of the ground, and whether the driven axle is at the anchor end of the vehicle, or the other end. For example: Unladen rwd 3.5T pickup trying to pull a big tree with short rope attached high in tree, and truck is driving uphill forwards - not going to be easy as the rope will reduce the pressure the drive axle tyres apply to the ground. Same vehicle, same tree and rope position, unladen, but reversing to pull gives more traction.
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    I am never impressed when people include "experts" in their trading name. We have a firm near us who do just that, and I have seen them being reckless in their lack of traffic managment. Just seems arrogant to me. Rant over🤣
  20. maybelateron
    Was this Bartletts or is that just a joke?
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    Not wishing to sound like a smart arse, but if you're going to fell it in one so close to the road at least have the sense to stop the traffic while doing the back cut. Wonder if HSE are aware of this incident.
  22. maybelateron
    A good point.
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    I can't remember using my MEWP as an overhead anchor in the past, but I have on more then one occasion climbed onto the plinth around a church spire/tower while still attached to the MEWP basket, or onto chimney cappings when removing vegetation. Of course, no organisation is likely to endorse this in our current litigious society. I suppose if a very heavy worker started swinging on the rope under the MEWP and got far enough out with a swing they might exceed the "safe working load" for the machine. But then what fool would do such a thing?!
  24. maybelateron
    Do you have something inside your trousers that keeps splitting them? Sorry, childish comment, but someone had to make it. I have used Stein Sentinel and Stein Guardian type C for a few years now, with no problems when climbing. That said, my 63 year old hips may not stretch them to their limits.
  25. maybelateron
    Whereabouts in the country are you?

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