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Dan Maynard

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  1. Dan Maynard
    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?
  2. Dan Maynard
    Smash the fences, fell it is the safest option.
  3. Dan Maynard
    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.
  4. Dan Maynard
    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.
  5. Dan Maynard
    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.
  6. Dan Maynard
    Didn't know but looks like you have heard right https://www.hse.gov.uk/ppe/ppe-regulations-2022.htm
  7. Dan Maynard
    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.
  8. Dan Maynard
    This is a good point, especially if you know the ground has a lot of bricks and rubbish in.
  9. Dan Maynard
    The purple confused me when I first saw it but yes, it's a thing you get with young ash.
  10. Dan Maynard
    It's that ol' black magic @Stubby
  11. Dan Maynard
    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.
  12. Dan Maynard
    (I just did that because your link hadn't gone black for me)
  13. Dan Maynard
    @gobbypunk
  14. Dan Maynard
    The cookie seems to me the cut which has the worst possible shrinkage problem combined with least mechanical strength. Think I've seen suggested to cut in two semicircles for drying, plane the edges back flat after they've moved and then glue back together.
  15. Dan Maynard
    I like the look of that flying.
  16. Dan Maynard
    Yes, for that number of stumps and especially the big ones you are wasting money buying a 13hp machine. I'd get someone in with a tracked grinder for those even if I already owned a pedestrian machine, it will save days of back breaking effort and there's no need to even break a sweat.
  17. Dan Maynard
    And I bought Marks grinder, didn't even make the ads as I was looking for one when he asked a question about trading it in.
  18. Dan Maynard
    Hmm I am longtime Dolmar fan, if you're going Makita I would skip the 5600 to be honest as it a F saw for farm. The EA5000 is a good 50cc or up to EA6100 for 60cc in pro saws. They're not produced any more but cracking value for money if you find one.
  19. Dan Maynard
    Looking at health, there is lots of sprouting branches, good leaf cover, they are clearly vigorous. The decay inside is the dead heartwood rotting out, it has no real impact on the tree health. I would guess these are one or two hundred years old as the base stools are wide, probably felled every 20 years for firewood. Your last tree is cedar. The wood is brittle so when they fail it tends to be dramatic like that, possible there was a defect around some small damage earlier in the trees life.
  20. Dan Maynard
    Next thing to check would be take the exhaust can off and have a look at the piston, does sound like air leak possible but that might have led to lean running. That could have caused the damage which leads to bogging when hot.
  21. Dan Maynard
    Facebook I guess. Also not that trustworthy imo.
  22. Dan Maynard

    Gloves

    Dan Maynard replied to Trist's topic in Climbers talk

    They sound ideal for Joe when he's taking things really seriously. I'm going to have to try some of these other gloves so I can compare, I get a lot more than 5 days climbing out of a pair of Showas but would be good to know if there's something better. Maybe I'm very sensitive and gentle on the gloves?
  23. Dan Maynard
    I appreciate the straightforward approach now though, as HRG says it's not for everyone but he's looking for the ones it is for.
  24. Dan Maynard
    Thanks mate.
  25. Dan Maynard
    This is why I suspect not a real person. That and the fact he doesn't come back with a stupid joke when I say it.

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