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But we're you doing something hard graft before? Doubt it to still be any good

You can join the masons at any age.

Bull shit all you want , your welcome to your opinion But how long does it take you u to be a decent climber? Isn't over night . The guy who said to me that 16-30 be climbing and then 30-65 you'll be contracts maintenance .. and the is an article on them recently ,must be doing something right to have street tree contracts .

That's bollocks too. I could start climbing at forty and outcompete kids within a year or two because I'm clever and lazy so will find the easiest way to do something.

I actually wasn't thinking of you Mick but if the structural cummerbund fits...

Not on about people like you, the muppets that change a career then have got no chance .

You see it all over, as we age we are fitter better than similar aged 20 years ago - might have been the rule then and that has carried over despite the evidence. Regardless, 'best years are gone' - but that never means throw onto the scrap heap, pointless - even if they are past, I'd be putting in a fair bet that most of us on here (and we are predominantly grumpy older men), we could still put in a fair shift when we need to.

Timberwolf 125 and 190 are both good too. 125 light to move around. 190 will make you look at the job a different way coming from a gravity feed.

Don’t think I don’t know who you’re referencing here!

North Korean scam operator? Bot?

agreed, you need that sort of money for a decent one

Makita DUC254 (but put 1/4 pitch chain) or Echo 2500T are the lightest. Personally I have the 254, it's great for this type of stuff.

the TW230 im only seeing them around 12K .. which is more than we had budgeted for ..

I was more forestry than arb and retires 8 years ago but did use small chippers on arb jobs; Forst have an aggressive feed but poor reliability reputation, 150s were my favorite, never got to use 230.

oh.. I know the paint flakes off a fair bit, can you tell me more .. thanks ..

The 150s are crazy money for such an old chipper. Forst can be a lottery, cheap for a reason. 230s are superb.

Forsts are shit. 150s are good. 230s are great.

this is what I thought, the ST6 was much inline with the Tw230 .. which is why I was thinking a Tw150 at 8k is on the higher side ..

The Timberwold 230's have been out a few years now, im sure there must be something out there within the 8k budget? Its a whole different animal to the old 150

Hi all ... Im new to posting in the forum, tho have gained a lot of useful info in the past from here.. was hoping to get a little advice on some chippers from some more seasoned guys .. I run a small part time tree business, only modest but the time has come that we need to upgrade from our old faithful gravity fed chipper, we have put this off for a while now.. looking at buying second hand, our budget is around 8K, we have seen some nice looking fully refurbished TW150's and we have seen a few Forst ST6 for much the same price.. both look like they would do what we need, I'm guessing the ST6 is better and much newer, but would a fully refurbished TW150 be a better buy? that a STW with around 1000 hours on it.. ? any thoughts and experience on these would be great and much appreciated ..

They were excellent with my Transit mate, and I know @Treetom15 was very pleased with his 4x4 conversion.

Depends what sort of climbing. Despite my youth and conventional good looks, I climb like an old, fat drunk. I'd be no good scurrying round a whole street of plane repollards. But a removal where I rig the thing down without having to go very far, I'll beat a 20-year-old who can't see the ropework.

Bullshit Loads of 40/50 year olds are climbing.

Every time mate, know a few lads who've used them.

Is a small trailer out of the question?