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Dan Maynard

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  1. I don't think I could be doing with separate coffee, milk powder etc as not always in my own truck. I usually make the coffee into the flask, there is a brown layer inside it to be fair but I reckon that just adds to the flavour. Once in a blue moon it gets a dose of Miltons, no aftertaste with that.
  2. Just thinking if you're selling it to a Vat registered firm they don't care if you do put vat on, so not really a hit to take.
  3. Also, it's possible but far from given that they will interfere with your foundations. Tree roots are relatively shallow so if you have foundations they will very likely be deeper. This makes it a hard case to prove, so not a strong argument from the TPO point of view.
  4. I clicked through, I don't think you can use that VAT margin scheme. There are specific rules for secondhand vehicles and they don't apply if you have paid VAT on the vehicle when you bought it. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-vat-margin-scheme-for-second-hand-vehicles When you say conflicting information from two different people, were they both accountants?
  5. Even softwood? I'd generally give or throw away conifer as most people don't want it and once I've split a few cube for myself it has to go somewhere.
  6. Copper should be doable clamped between a couple of bits of angle iron, slap the flange over gradually with a shorter piece. It's how we used to DIY car sill patches out of steel when I was younger.
  7. I think we're fairly early stage, the more I look the more I see at the moment but I think younger trees generally are better. There are quite a few thinning trees with a huge number of keys, does sort of make sense that if the tree detects the end is nigh it diverts resources to reproducing.
  8. You might have luck on here but I would say worth ringing people up too. SP Landscape at Red Lodge must be your way, I sub at Richardson Tree Surgery in Cambridge and one of the regular guys has gone to the Lake District for the summer so you might get a few days there - don't know what the plan is not my shout. I'd say ring everyone and try to get a day here and there, all experience is good and makes it easier to get the next job.
  9. Id go a bit lower, the other factor is that lower gives more swing. For me somewhere around knee height, can't remember where I read that. On the ground is too low and you lose energy as the log bounces more, set against the advantage that the log can't fall off so saves on picking up. I've gone mostly hydraulic now but I did set up one block with a tyre which saves a lot of bending and picking, and another block for busting down bits that don't initially fit in the tyre.
  10. Can't listen to JV. Had a nostalgic feeling for Steve Wright show but particularly hated his joggin fishin runnin "no g" feature on a Friday afternoon. Any joke explained is not funny, this was the same joke explained over and over and over again.
  11. Yikes I'd better check my KM90!
  12. I've definitely less in the diary so maybe it's me..... I also reckon as folk haven't been able to get away they are choosing to spend on foreign holiday rather than the garden.
  13. It sounds like you're trying to climb for the first time by inventing a new method of climbing. Why not start with the rope double over a fork and back to a prussic in conventional Drt, and then use a foot ascender to push you up?
  14. Yeah it's flipping complicated when you start reading in to it. Pimlico plumbers and Uber - self employed people who were deemed to be workers and hence get some of the employment benefits. I'm not really clear to what extent it would apply to arb workers, there are some articles around about it applying to casual construction workers. Certainly for me, I have some spare helmets and gloves in the van for people that come and help move stuff, those people don't have saw tickets so I'm not providing chainsaw trousers and boots. Regular subbing to a firm, maybe they should provide PPE?
  15. Smash the fences, fell it is the safest option.
  16. The biggest chunk is plant insurance, when I started think the EL + PL was around £600. Ring Trust Insurance and ask them, they know the industry and your situation is far from unique. I found the other companies (Arborisk, Tree Surgeon Insurance) less geared up to someone part time so their quotes were higher but you need to do the legwork, get on the blower and find out the situation now. Maybe we're all in for a shock next renewal.
  17. Different stuff, theres a set of description on "limb b" workers on the HSE website. This is a new rule as of April this year, distinct from tax. HSE is where Puffingbilly was quoting from, and it does say not applying to the self employed.
  18. Worth pointing out EL is a legal requirement except certain narrow cases such as being related, I think in your case the LLP (akin to a company) would take out the insurance policy in the LLP name and cover you both. Employee in this sense is different to the tax status, it covers nearly everyone including volunteers. You're bound to want more people on a job at some point anyway. Budget wise, I only operate part time and insurance is my biggest overhead - truck, hired in plant, EL, PL. I would also suggest some professional indemnity insurance, mine is bundled in. It's over 2k for that lot, obviously depends on turnover and what plant.
  19. Didn't know but looks like you have heard right https://www.hse.gov.uk/ppe/ppe-regulations-2022.htm
  20. Good question, I'm on chrome browser on Android phone and when I start the 'at' it pops up a list of people to pick from which narrows down as I type more letters. Its not perfect, it screws up if I try to delete the name so I have to leave the page and then clear when it comes back up.
  21. This is a good point, especially if you know the ground has a lot of bricks and rubbish in.
  22. The purple confused me when I first saw it but yes, it's a thing you get with young ash.
  23. I also dig round stumps, you want to find the bricks and concrete with a spade not the grinder teeth. Once dug so many bricks out round elder stumps the stump came out of the ground, didn't need the grinder I'd hired. For me, I look at a day each on the big ones and a few days doing the small ones, I'd rather pay someone else to do the work and have the 5 days back than buy that grinder and the back ache. On the other hand if you can ignore the 36" stumps then the 4 to 10" are the comfort zone for pedestrian grinders, do them gradually and as openspaceman says keep the teeth sharp. Like all things, sharpen before they get blunt and they need less work to bring the edge back.

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