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  1. lightest trailer than can take a full 3 ton payload legally is the Indespension Alumax. 580kg naked. Lovely to tow as well. http://www.indespension.co.uk/home/2124-alumax-lightweight-plant-trailer.html#
  2. too small to be usefull. Stupid price as well.
  3. the muck truck you HAVE to hold the lever down as its dead mans handle for just this reason. Yours not have one ? It also looks like it has a much smaller capacity that a muck truck max. hope you feel better soon .
  4. cut it off 6 foot from the ground then push it over with a digger. If only a small digger then will have to dig around it a bit as they do set them deep.
  5. Takehome would be around £27k. Lets not beat about the bush this isn't going to make anyone rich. But its not at all bad either for manual work. You would want holiday pay as well as your going to be an employee not a subbie as far as tax man is concerned IR35. employer would stand around 4.5k of NIC Now compare that to running your on ltd co and having the same amount of profit to take out the business. on £39k profit Your PAYE salary will be your tax code/allowance of £12k you will pay £411 NIC and £2k dividend tax taking home £37.5k Now pay £7.4k of corp tax and you are clear about £3k for all the hassle of running a 1 man band business and not forgetting no holiday pay.
  6. The reason tax law is so complicated is the scum in parliament who make the laws have never worked a real job where you get your hands dirty in their life. So they have no life experience. A bit like school teachers who leave school, goto uni and then straight back to school to 'teach'. No wonder the kids today are turning out like they are. Same with the 6th form socialists who think there is a magic money tree. always whining about 'austerity' and how we should be spending more on X, when we borrow billions every month as the tax take doesn't cover the monthly UK bill. What do the mentally fucked in the head Labour want to do ? Increase the tax to make sure they take a lot less of it, thats how retarded they are. And as for the conservatives, they are simple labour with bigger personal bank balances. Real Conservatives would be scrapping 'yuman rights' for the criminal, cracking down hard on the feckless dole scroungers, giving 10 years hard labour to thieves who steal a working mans tools and hanging the 'asian' pedo gangs by the score.
  7. go ltd. lend the company £14k to buy the van off you. company buys van (V5 in ltd co name) pays you back the 14k you just lent. Company now has a 14k debt on the books. Repay this before taking any earnings above your tax code. £11k ish. Repeat for all your tools, gear, computer etc anything business related. Same for a portion of heat, power from h ouse for running a home office. If you go vat registered and can find receipts you can claim back VAT on purchases upto 7 years ago.
  8. so to some up. A private person, who's probably worked bloody hard to buy a second home to rent out as they are maybe self employed and will rely on it for a pension, chose not to sell you a service as you were too risky a proposition and im guessing wouldn't pass referencing. I get the feeling we are only hearing your side of the 'rent suddenly gone up by £300' story.
  9. the annoying thing with pensions. Lets say your a dosser, living on dole and handouts. So free house, no council tax, free spending money etc Saved nothing, earned nothing. They get pension credits and ta da more free money. Kind of makes doing the right thing, working hard etc rather pointless. And socialists/labour want more of this nonsense. They must be mentally ill.
  10. and there is the con. put 100k in the bank and draw on it for 20 years without growth. Oh the tax law dissuades us from doing this as the parasites in the finance houses couldt rape 5% a year from your pot for 20 years for pressing a button on a computer. I'm not cynical at all.
  11. the 107 is purely a date of when you got your licence, if have the old one then you are unrestricted BE, new kids restricted to 8250kg. Also dont forget you have to renew the photo driving licence every 10 years, £1000 fine for out of date one.
  12. thats right you need an old licence and there is no restriction on the weight you can tow, the llimit is the vehicles plated train weight.
  13. Mini artic has been done before on here and is good route to tow 15 tons on a B+E car licence. The hard bit is finding a tow vehicle with a plated train weight of 10+ tons that is classed as a car so 3500KG. The only ones are downplated trucks, that advert is very misleading as a navara couldnt pull the skin off a rice pudding let alone 5 tons legally. The one below is pretty crap but at least has 8.5 ton train weight, the chassis is probably 2 ton so by the time a trailer is added should still be a good 5 ton left for cargo. All on a B+E car licence and none of that C1E con/crap. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2006-06-RENAULT-MASCOTT-160-65-156-BHP-SINGLE-CAB-MINI-ARTIC-TRACTOR-UNIT-DI/132615338318?hash=item1ee07d794e:g:vakAAOSwyJpboEp4:rk:4:pf:0 This is an extreme example 18.7 ton train weight. And its CAR remember.
  14. Not that impressed with it to be honest. Much better machines in EU which beat it in lift, reach, capacity. They have been running proper ducks with 3 piece booms for years. There is a duck that does tow a trailer, you can read about it on Earthmovers. I guess its all down to how its classed on the V5. Would be emminanty sensible for a 18 ton duck to be able to tow a 10 ton trailer, they are speed restricted to 30kph unlike the tractors you see bombing along driven by a 18 year old pole.
  15. Not really. They are road regstered, taxed and MOT exempt so fully legal.
  16. dont hold your breath, never seen vosa ever locally.
  17. rubber duck! No transport costs, drive it to site.
  18. Anyone done this, pulled out the seats and put a draw and rack system in its place ? Thinking of replacing my 3.5 ton daily tipper for a 7.2 ton crew cab tipper on a restricted O.
  19. that price tells me they dont want the hassle. Wouldnt waste more time on it, drop them and goto another digger manufacturer or have the digger as they normally supply it and add them yourself. As for being 'inspected' I'd refuse the jobs personally. Fuck that.
  20. only of any use to work on a cartel 'site', of zero use to normal people.
  21. to the OP, just dont pay. Offer what you think is reasonable (£350) and see what they come back with. They didnt even remove the chip, rip off merchants.
  22. Pikey scum. Gas mark 5. Watch insurance prems half and the population of hedgehogs double.
  23. I use FX Impact for vermin control. It's friggin amazing, can shoot as fast as you can cycle, certainly 1 shot a second. Can turn power up or down as well which is handy for indoor ratting. http://www.fxairguns.com/rifle/impact/

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