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    Cheers for the info I'll be on the phone tomorrow depending on prices and getting accepted hopefully I'll have one ASAP with them hitches can you get them through bobcat? With buckets I ideally need a 6" 12" 18" 24" digging buckets & a 36" grading bucket and ideally a riddle bucket then a ripper tooth A grapple as in fixed or hydraulic? I know I'm asking a million questions but the salesman would say I need everything then more where as you are telling me what I need in reality Jack
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    They defiantely don't make life easy do they Jack
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    Wish my car did ??
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    I've gone off hiring because the man who I hire it off sent me it with worn out tracks and one of them had a rip in it when he picked it back up he's tried saying I've done it and I owe him 458 for a new track and we keep having words about it but to me it isn't my problem so he's tried being clever and it's backfired I'm gonna phone my bobcat dealer tomorrow and see what I can about rather a e17 or e19 When you say specialist attachments what's the best to start off with I know I need a geith quick hitch with buckets and a tilting grading bucket but what else? Will a 1.7 tonner run a flail? Cheers for the rates I appreciate them Jack
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    I'll give them a ring tomorrow cheers Jack
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    That's my shit heap of a car I paid £200 for it it's a Renault Modus 1.4 54 plate petrol and I pay £180 a month to insure it I even got a quote for just over 5k and that's with a black box in it aswell ? Jack
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    That's exactly what it is and it's got second or third aux line not sure but it's set up for selector grab ect it's a really comfortable and smooth to drive I want my own just so I'm not running about arranging hiring stuff ect 1.7 or 2.7 would be perfect to start with along with a skip loading dumper that's the main things I hire then once paid off I'll look at extending the fleet do you hire yours out and if so do you do self drive or owner operator? Just thinking of ways it'll earn along with my own work around where im at 40 a day for a e10 50 for a tb016 and 60 for a e26 or a tb228b with a hydraulic thumb and 15 delivery each way max 20 mile then 1. 50 a mile extra 1 way after that Jack
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    I've just got rid of a combo insurance company rang and insurance went from 120 a month upto 270 because ive got no commercial experience pricks ? cheapest insurance quote I've had so far is a Mk6 transit swb and that's 1100 a year Jack
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    Most of my shifts at work are 7am to 11 pm or 7am to 9pm then sometimes have to do sleepovers aswell and for £8.21 an hour to get punched kicked attacked it isn't worth it but I need to run my house so just get in eventually I'll get sorted and be able to say fuck it until then I'll stay quiet ? ? I'm actually looking at getting a van for running about as the sound of the body jumping over every bump is irritating ? Jack
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    That's the machine I normally hire for £60 a day but sick of paying hire fees finance won't be much more but I've got a poor credit history I was offered to buy it for £16000 with vat as a deposit but got refused by finances due to credit rating I applied for finance on a bobcat e10 but couldn't even get it in that I hire one for £40 a day but its been abused so to much play in pins ect and everyone else only has little kubotas or jcbs and I really dont like the controls on them really need my own machine as It's dead money hiring I'm going to look at that other forum now cheers ? Jack
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    Cheers @doobin for the advice & information you've just gave me I really appreciate it ? I'm not always hot headed just when I feel backed into a corner I start swinging ? just natural reaction as with pushed for time as daft as it sounds my full time job is a blessing but also a problem at the same time because there have been days I've been out and rattled a little driveway in and made £800 profit but then there's sometimes days or weeks where I've got literally no work in at all so that's why I keep the full time job going it's minimum wage but covers rent and council tax and allows a couple of hundred to live off my main issue is transport as that truck costs me something 327.89 a month to insure but I only gave 1900 for the truck itself that's my main grudge insurance ? I appreciate the offer of the ebook pricing aswell I've never heard of it until you mentioned it Thank you Jack
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    Looks a tidy machine aswell Jack
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    ???? That tickled ? Im not gonna overload any more vehicles ever again ? Jack
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    The seller has no feedback what so ever thought it'd of been too good to be true Jack
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    Out of curiosity what hp tractor would I need & what license would I need to tow a 13 ton digger? Jack
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    It says its in Liverpool I know its 12 years old but it hasn't seen a days work by the looks on it and their keen to deliver it once they've recieved payment in full Jack
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    Does this seem genuine? ? price includes vat and 2 new geith buckets? ? ? Jack
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    They earn me a wage daily so that'll do me ? Jack
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    I'd be happier if I was rich but at the present moment I'm happy just chipping away at it ? Jack
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    Never done many surveys maybe 3 1 of which was first milk in Stranraer that was a good learning experience travelled up and down the country putting drag through liners in the hardest part for me was figuring out how to cut radial patches for the rest bends but apart from that it was a really good job just everyday you came home full of ? it was a good laugh though done my confined spaces and everything through that company I'd of stayed if the wages were better but at the time I was 18 and down as a apprentice so was only getting about £4.54 a hour so got offered more money groundworking. AS for qualifications I learned more out of school than what I did whilst I was there I'm a city and guilds level 2 qualified mechanic passed all my H&S in landscaping got my cscs card with additional H&S for operatives confined space working and a couple extras I can't remeber ? Jack
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    I've always done landscaping since I was young used to work with my grandad so landscaping has always been the one other jobs have paid bills the tyre fitter me and the boss didn't see eye to eye he called me a retard for being dyslexic and I give hom the hiden of his life and I got myself a p45 in the post then the pipe lining was a really bad wage got offered more money as a groundworker for less hours so done that and still do it now and again you need to have more than one trade behind you just incase shit hits the fan Jack
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    Honestly it's ? ?? expensive insurance for vehicles I walk past the older generation and say hello and they look timid all because of the gang crap and the lowest of low morals we all get tarred with the same brush when there is genuinely some good but obviously there is bad aswell Jack
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    Not wanting sympathy ?? just don't want people saying that the youth of today are lazy some are and others are grafters all the good ones are taken that's why there's none about. Agency work labourers get £15 a hour and all what they need is to pass a multiple choice questionnaire that the job centre put you through a cheap pair of steel toe cap boots a hi viz vest and your ready to go £120 a day to drag your knuckles and not think once, it's a easy job aswell as there is all mechanical aids to do the work So who'd want to drag brash for less? Jack
  24. Jwoodgardenmaintenance
    I'm only 22 work 40 hours a week full time employed then Im also self employed there's some weeks I do 14 hours a day everyday so not all youths are lazy I spent more time kicked out of secondary school than what I was in just so I could go to work and cut gardens to make a wage then left school went to colledge as a mechanic got a apprentiship after about 6 - 8 weeks on my apprentiship I left colledge and was a full time tyre fitter for 2 years left there after me and the boss had a fight then got a job as a drain technician patching and lining drains for alphajet drain services (metrorod) left there to go on new build sites as a ground worker then went self employed but I can't always get my own work on so that's why I've got a full time job so I can pay for my house and council tax so not all youths are bone idle and lazy ? Jack
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    Bet you've got a spring in your step ? Jack

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