LeadWasp

Is your land agriculturally rated for planning purposes? If it's not in production could it be classed as set-aside? You won't be able to used red around stables/livery yards or anything horsey other than fodder production.

If the OP meets the requiremetns he won't be 'dodging tax', simply avoiding it as the law allows. Most people practice tax avoidance throughout the year - it is lawful and not immoral. When someone factors, for example, car tax into a choice of purchase that is a form of tax avoidance. Savings, inheritance planning and so on are all forms of lawful (and sensible) tax avoidance. Tax evasion is another matter and increasingly these days people are almost deliberately confusing the two. If someone has a tractor, classed as Agricultural and thus zero rated for road tax the law allows them to use red diesel for agricultural or forestry purposes provided they meet the categories shown in this article. https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/red-diesel-rule-changes-hmrc-spells-out-dos-and-donts

As long as you are using the machine for agricultural purposes you are entitled to use red diesel. Making hay? That's agriculture so you'd be fine. The biggest problem is finding red now that plant hire places have stopped carrying 20l cans because construction equipment can't use it. If you have a tank which can take a minimum 500l delivery by tanker then you're OK...or a friendly local farmer.

Hey there, hope all is well your end 👍. Miss those Catton days, not sure when Senny will be up and running but I'm keeping the faith. To keep this on thread 😇 what happened to your mega field stove - last I saw it in Eskdalemuir it was pumping some heat out with a tempting stew on top!?

This might be of interest - hot off .gov.uk. Details arrangements for protected sites and a variable rota for the disconnection of load blocks. Hope for level 1 not level 18. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electricity-supply-emergency-code your block letter is normally at the top of your electricity bill. There is some good news though to offset our woeful shortage of hydrocarbon storage and refinery capacity in this country: With the usual far-sightedness of our elected representatives (regardless of party), having failed to stump up maintenance costs for the Rough field gas storage facility in 2017 (about 70% of UK gas storage ability) ministers have now **** themselves enough to give the nod for Centrica to reopen it. In 2017 showing their in-depth understanding of geopolitical influences officials at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said they were neither surprised nor worried by the loss of Rough, arguing that the market had coped well without it over the past year. Also Stublach (used to be Byley? - they keep renaming these sites) is now fully on-line I think https://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/stublach-gas-storage-project/ I'm not sure of this site's relationship to the former GPSS oil storage site just to the SE of Plumley - it may be the same site as the whole area between Byley and Plumley is riddled with hydrocarbon storage facilities. I know there was an oil recovery project at the GPSS site which might have cleared the way for the caverns to be reused for gas. Basically the idea was to recover a huge tonnage of old oil stored since the '50's I believe and to try to process it. The project has been halted now. https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/11706894.construction-work-at-oil-storage-site-set-to-begin-this-month/ http://csorp.net/

By coincidence the Beeb played out this scenario during 2017 in Haslemere of all places. Some sensible observations in here about slowing spread by simple handwashing, controlling spreaders and so forth. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059y0p1

Thanks for the steer - I had seen these but didn't know much about them, so useful to have a 'user experience' so to speak. Like you I'm looking for something light I can walk all day in.......

Gumleaf are sized large but quite narrow - so my usual 11 (45's) were too long but slightly tight, however a 10.5 was too tight. Started looking abroad - Scandinavia - but just sent a Swedish pair back. How difficult can it be to make a decent wellie.................. Oh and the latest joke to come from Chameau, according to a local shop, is that they're telling stockists that their boots are fashion items and not designed to be worn continuously........

How very noble of them, their convictions can be bought for a price. How weak and shameless can you get, especially when you compare their poor effort to the real courage of true conscientious objectors (not that I necessarily agree with such an attitude, just that it takes real courage to stand firm to your values when all around decry you).

I (we) at work use industrial telehandlers and I got everyone in under the CPCS scheme. A basic training package of practical and theoretical tests, plus CITB H&S test will get you to red card level (valid 2 years). In that time you need to convert to a blue card (valid 5 years) by basically doing an NVQ. This involved another trainer and a couple of days. Revalidation on 5 years basically involves a work diary of operations and experience. As with all these schemes it's jobs for the CPCS folk. https://www.citb.co.uk/cards-testing/construction-plant-competence-scheme-cpcs/plant-operator/ On construction sites beware the jobs that want you to labour when you're not driving. If you wanted to be a labourer, not that there's anything wrong with it, why would you spend time and money on learning to drive a handler! Speaking to guy on a shoot the other day I understand there is good money to be found on industrial teles with zero hrs contracts on rail projects. Enables a spot of portfolio working if that's what you want. very best of luck

Windows OS is like a badly designed privy. Early versions were outside ones that had a draught howling under the door and the toilet roll holder on the wall where it could get in the way of your elbows. With each new release they may have cured the drafts but the roll holder is now out of reach on the back of the door, the damn thing doesn't flush and there's no bookshelf. More importantly having got used to the concept of the throne itself being found at ground level they decided to put it high up on the wall in a dark corner! Thank heavens ancient humankind didn't have to suffer an earlier incarnation of MS - just imagine the stone tools.....................

I'm with WW on this Nath - go on, indulge yourself! You do plenty of things for other people so award yourself some fun! Pics please!

Just checked my delivery documents - it's 12,500 miles or 12 months whichever is sooner. Also 2019 models have their towing capacity upped to 3.5 ton.

Other thing to note is that Mitsubishi dealers have quite a lot of room to manoeuvre on the price for L200's.

Pretty sure the L200 is a 12,000 mile service interval now. Just bought a L200 and had the back Line-X'd. Had it out on the plough on the last shoot before Christmas, horizontal sleet and water running off the fields in rivers. Handled our clay like a pro. on the factory (Duellers) tyres No complaints. I also like the fact that the factory seat covers fit like a glove - unlike the Shogun's.