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I mean i believe it’s advantageous to operate as a ltd company.
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Form for ?
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Looking to fill a couple days per week. Surrey/south east area.
lux replied to Adam_B's topic in Employment
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There is no wrong or right answer but I can’t see sense in people pricing jobs as wages. If you have an old chipper / truck invariably they break down or need repairs etc which is pretty gutting if that’s your wages gone to pay for it. I wouldn’t entertain sole trading. I know my daily overheads wages , fuel , insurance etc etc the list goes on. I make sure I’m covering it and then making profit after tax in the business account. The more organised you are on the numbers the more it will pay off. It is very difficult if everyone around you is cheap but try pushing your prices up , you will soon get a good feel if it’s viable or not and as someone mentioned you can price yourself out of the work you would rather not do and hopefully improve your client base to those with deeper pockets and nicer jobs. Hopefully you see an improvement in your margins [emoji106]
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I’m south east.
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No worries. Hope it’s helpful.
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South east. Surrey / West Sussex border. I pay my staff between 140 and 180 per day as a general rule.
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Plus vat.
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I think for a 2 man day you want to be achieving 600/650 per day. Sometimes you do more sometimes a little less but I recon that’s what you need to aim to average out at to be paying wages and the business having money in the pot. I would try to stick on price work as opposed to day rate. More chance to make better money some days.
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It’s the hardest thing about the job. It’s trial and error I’m afraid and everyone’s price point is different. I would say adjust your hours on site too. Down that to 7. You need to factor in time for loading unloading and tipping. How many people do you put out to most days / jobs including yourself. ?
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I love my husky 562. I haven’t owned the echo 620 but by all accounts they are very good. Looking forward to echo releasing some bigger saws.
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[emoji106]. If you watch the hotsaws101 channel on YouTube he has a ported 562 that he made on there. From memory sporting a 28inch bar. He does some nice modifications. Worth a look.
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Ported ?
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No doubt that will have helped the 560 with a bit more air flow and the good thing is it will tune itself accordingly [emoji106][emoji106]
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My 562 is a belter. I love my old stihl saws. 200t 660 etcetc but I wouldn’t choose their newer stuff. I prefer the 50 to 70cc husky saws.
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You prob know more than I do on it mate. The air filters are substantially different too. Much larger on the 562.
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The cc is the same between the 560 / 562 but I believe a lot of the moving internal components are heavier in the 562 which must generate more inertia/ torque? It could be tuned slightly differently too due to this. I think that exhausts my technical knowledge on it stubby [emoji23] No doubt spud could give us the exact answer
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Has some heavier components driving it. Cracking saw. Mine hasn’t skipped a beat yet. 20 inch bar is its max though.
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Nice to see tidy work and traditional craft being continued. Is the weave / pattern local to the area. My limited knowledge of hedge laying recalls the weaves differ around the country ?? Thumbs up from me.
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Looks home made and ancient. Other than that , no. Is it for sale.
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That’s good figures. I’d be very pleased with that as a small set up.
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Search up a video called motivation by a guy called Dan Pink. I’ve taken relevant points from it and used them to good effect in the past. It’s not a miracle answer but it might make you think outside the box with your staff.
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Depends on the set up. I can take bulk loads to Wests at Petworth and use their kilns. Last time I spoke to them about it they said the kiln runs for 3 weeks. Albeit they are industrial scale sized kilns. I believe small kilns take anywhere from 3 to 6 months to get to Get timber to useable moisture levels. Not too bad to be fair if it’s just hobby / small scale timber use. Any more demand and your production will bottle neck pretty quickly.
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I’m running it on red diesel ... it’s legit ‘guvnor. Agricultural registration on it [emoji106]
