donnk
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Everything posted by donnk
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Any good places for digger service kits ? Dealer prices are pretty tasty.
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£230+vat makes daily bucket pin greasing much less painfull and likely to be done!
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Please quote the Act stating that as I call BS on that.
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setup a ltd co VAT registered for your business clients and all your materials, they get the vat back anyway. Sole trader for your domestic. When you first register for vat you can go back 7 years to reclaim VAT on allowable expenses (KIT). If your not earning cash already then you will pay a lot less personal tax as well. donnk
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Been looking at electric for ages, with the new digger on order and the 5 tonner and telehandler to grease as well pulled the trigger. My kit is dewalt so got a dewalt one. Have to say with the fastloc is bloody great.
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use the dewalt gun, battery fits the other kit. Makes doing the swing bearing and teeth a breeze. Hold the trigger down and rotate.
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stick with AT2 grabbers on the disco4. White poncy letters on the inside of course.
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lefty nonsense. steal from the working to give to the feckless.
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where is best place to get one ? The size that would cover a 7.5 ton trailer. Not the plastic crap, the nice soft, oiled fabric type ones from old.
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You have proven they changed the axle weights ? Your link mentioned nothing about them.
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yes obviously. You have the trailer designed not to transfer more than needed same as hgv setups. a la mini artic. there are a couple of these setups in London can deliver 5 packs(6 ton) of bricks pulled by a daily. Gets around the socailst LEV tax. The look like low loader trailer with all the weight over 2 axles.
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yes obvious from the photo the tug was full of crap. Wouldnt have been an issue with a B+E setup though. all the weight would have been in trailer.
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err yes it does. And according to the Gov they are the same. I think you are splitting hairs. https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-weights-explained
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nope. rear axle limit on 7.2 daily is 6 tons. downplated its a 3.5ton vehicle. Again you confuse the two. you cannot put 6 ton on the downplated solo tug. you CAN put 5 ton on the rear axle towing a trailer whilst observing the plated train weight as there is no trailer weight limit on B+E. B+E is allways a better option than C1+E if you have an old licence. The only hassle is obtaining the right downplated tug for your application, but there are many out there from 4 tons upto 12 tons payload. All without the hassle of C1+E.
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you wouldnt be there a loads of mini artics on the road so it isnt a problem. Builders in london use them for the 5 ton trailer load for delivering bricks while not having to pay the crazy london day rate tax. Boat movers use them to deliver boats etc, loads of niche users.
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Dont understand ???? a landrover has a MAM of 7000 as do many other cars. so yes loads of cars have a mam or train weight much higher than 3500kg.
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I dont think so. The DVSA wouldn't be able to state a changed GTW as they are not the manufacturer. They only approve the downplate NOT state what the downplate should be.
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from a previous thread, this is an extreme downplate example where a cat B vehicle can tow 13 tons.
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like i said earlier, you can tow any size of trailer (5 tons or more) with B + E its much more flexible than C1+E you are only limited by the max train weight on the tug vehicle plate.
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or the new plastic one.
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not completely true if you have b+e on an old licence you have no limit on the weight you can tow, the plated train weight of the tug is the only limit.
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I would be getting specialist advice to be honest. Power correction is quite easy option, you get a specialist in they measure the loads work out how big a capacitor bank is and you just do the math. The fans though, that would be where i would be trying to get some saving. Talk to one of the big manufacturers they will know, someone like https://www.halifax-fan.co.uk/products/energy-efficient-industrial-fans
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Ground source heat pump. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper.
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That fan looks very very ineffecient in terms of electric used. I dont know anything about your setup, but if these fans are the main draw of power and therefore running costs I would be looking to make them much more efficient. How much would say 10-30% saving in annual electric bill be worth ? First I'd get a company in to look at Power Factor Correction, this kit would be an immediate saving needing no changes to your plant as its all done on the incoming electric. Depending on the potential savings I'd look at swopping out those fans for much more power efficient ones, if the are on 24x7x365 you could see some massive savings. http://www.kwsaving.co.uk/Business/pfc/pfc-simple.htm https://www.aircontrolindustries.com/products/industrial-fans/axial-fans/
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no not list, being supplied with the digger as a package. due in 4 weeks or so. Will update
