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  1. Donnie
    Yes it did. Of course, right over the forest road. Got the harvester man to come by and try and push it but the time he had gotten close it spat the jack out, sat back on the wedge and then the wind really picked up so he just cut it onto the road when I was on the road making sure nobody was coming.
  2. Donnie
    Does anybody else have those days where you must seem to leave all your 5 brain cells at home and make life very hard for yourself? Fighting some high winds down a banking, felling up hill outside edge trees and this happened. First time for everything.
  3. Donnie
    Let me take a few days to process that one. I feel like I get it. But I also feel like I don't.
  4. Donnie
    How come it would be in theory less than 20 percent of 1000?
  5. Donnie
    So for example if I were to be vat registered. Day rate goes from 220 to 220 plus vat. (264). I keep 44 quid in a different account for every day worked. (220 a week, 4000 for 3 months worked for VAT). I keep receipts for the abundance of shit I buy that I don't really need and claim that against the 4,000 pound per 3 months. Say I spend 5000 in total on shit like diesel, tools for the job, consumables, big titted bitches in that 3 months. By rights I will be able to claim back 20 percent of the 5000, which is 1000. So I would only need to give the VAT man 3,000 back out of the 4,000 earned off of increase in day rate with adding VAT on. Or am I missing something? Will I need to pay another tax or anything on this money? Also to add, I would be staying as sole trader.
  6. Donnie
    Surely this is a problem for my employer then as they hold the decision to employ us or not. Theres guys on machines that work only for them, for 20 odd years.
  7. Donnie
    Will this be a problem going VAT? Or is this already a problem in the eyes of the tax man etc as a sole trader? They wouldn't employ us as they'd see the real costs of cutting more than likely
  8. Donnie
    Brashing from dusk til dawn wondering where he went wrong in life.
  9. Donnie
    I write my invoices out on Excel, print my copy and email it to the contractor I work 5 days a week for.
  10. Donnie
    But my dad would still batter your dad.
  11. Donnie
    I already pay an accountant for my books as a sole trader, as he easily saves me the money I pay him with his tricks and it keeps everything right so not bothered for paying an accountant at all. Worth letting them crack on!
  12. Donnie
    So as VAT registered, you pay tax quarterly too as well as your vat returns?
  13. Donnie
    I think you can voluntarily register for VAT. Was just a thought as I spend so much doing my job etc.
  14. Donnie
    I went self employed as a cutter almost two years ago and I am now going into my 3rd tax return year in April. On average 48,000 income before tax and expenses. I invest a hell of a lot of my wages into my work, a lot on diesel, van repair bills, petrol, saws and reels of chain all on which I pay VAT on. I can count on saws and a road tow splitter that I've bought this year, I've spent around 7,000 including VAT. PPE and chains etc easily 2-3000. Along with a lot of diesel doing 20-30K miles a year. I'll be doing my books in a week or two, and I'd be surprised if my total expenses and investments etc including vat were below 20,000. I only work for companies who are VAT registered, mainly big harvesting companies. Am I better of being VAT registered?
  15. Donnie
    Wonder how he got on. @Roebus
  16. Donnie
    2 tuna mayo pieces. 3 tins of mackeral. 8 boiled eggs is the boy for me.
  17. Donnie
    Nothing on good old Buzz Martin.
  18. Donnie
    Is it one for forward and three for back? Two for stop, and four for go.........
  19. Donnie
    Another topic derailed. Good night
  20. Donnie
    Aye of course. We just bring the homing pigeons out the back of the van and use them instead.
  21. Donnie
    Absolutely. Unless you want to die, if the operator hauls in and you're in the zone chokering you are as good as dead. And no we don't use those horn things that American's use. Don't even know if you can get them. And I doubt you'd hear them that far up a hill surely in the weather we get in these places.
  22. Donnie
    I can assure you this is the ONLY thing they have ever bought us. And they are all under warranty. Can't really say they're that great for reliability. Defos make the job a lot safer and easier. @Botty Cough doubt you'd be able to see a high vis jacket never mind a hand gesture from bottom to the top of this. Hand signals probably work when you're mincing around little Miss Daisy's garden meadow snipping her hedges but not here. Xxxxxxxxx
  23. Donnie
    They're grand when they work! Clear as day. I'd of just bought us the Stihl ones probably. We are winching big long gulleys that you can't even see the chokerman at any point as lots of dips. I wouldn't have bought them 😂 grand for music as well when brashing.
  24. Donnie
    Boss bought these for us all for high leading. Unreal quality. On my 3rd pair due to water damage but we sre winching in the wettest part of the country 😂
  25. Donnie
    Keeping them standard for a bit. See what they are like first. Might get the 72 done at some point who knows

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