I have several businesses, one of which is plant-hire. I pay all sorts of insurance costs.

On a pin-money basis don't hire - sell. Sell on a 'sale or return' basis, taking the replacement cost as deposit - this limits liability.

 Handling 'collection' and 'dropping' any item  you hire is the easy bit.  The sad commercial reality is your customers will feel they are hiring a crane (or whatever). Stark reality is they're buying the ability to mess you about, yet you'll never convince any of that fact.

Witness this forum's out of touch with reality, 'courier' threads. These  appear every few months.  One post was proud to proclaim and actually boast how he'd taken up a businesses time to lower  the higher courier cost (north of the border) to subsidised Royal Mail rates... this without compunction. This with the gall to call it 'customer service'.


Wittsend's comments only scrape the surface.

Over the past 25 years this question/initiative has been asked of the club.
Why doesn't the club lend out (special) tools 
It's a veritable minefield.

It amazes me too. Most of us will be grown-men, yet a mindset that aligns to this is better suited to a 'kin Miss World Contestant.

Dealing with entitled, litigious, malevolent public is your difficulty.  I say do it, hire your crane... only proceed eyes wide open.

May's top 10 to choose from ...

You can have up to 3 votes. 



1) Patina rules!





2) The Northern Lights





3) A nice pair





4) Camping out





5) Lovely day out





6) Brew-up in Downham





7) Underneath the arches





8) Great Whernside





9) The long ford





10) A Fred special










 


Results in a few days time ...

Caution!
In the parts manual pendant and non pendant refers to the track rod ends, not the arms.
.W.

Spotted yesterday.
An early spoked steering wheel.🏆😁

Thank you for that.🏆
It's for a 1964 109" so I'll assume it's 1158mm.👍

Got any interesting June Series 2 pictures 

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Available at; https://pangolin4x4.com/item/47. not me.

Some great models on show here. I recently picked up the Tamiya pink panther and ambulance kits...

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