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I have used the GM and it’s a good machine, not used the forst but by all accounts it’s a good machine

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Well, I looked up the engine used and it's power curve info. 

It uses .1422 American pounds of fuel per hp hour.

That is just over 8 litres per hour.

I used an online converter.

Given a Honda 23hp uses around 4 maybe it's not so far out...?

Mind you, I'm fairly pants at this kind of math...

   Ty

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Why would you want a petrol chipper with that capacities, Petrol at mo is £1.15-£1.18 a litre and gas oil is 38p-45p a litre. 

Where is red at 38 p at the minute? I bought some last week at 47p for 2000 litres
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14 hours ago, woody paul said:

Why would you want a petrol chipper with that capacities, Petrol at mo is £1.15-£1.18 a litre and gas oil is 38p-45p a litre. 

What's your actual fuel spend per week/day whatever on red diesel? Would petrol make a massive swing? 

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15 hours ago, Ian C said:

It’s a little expensive by the looks of it , the 230 petrol is 14k plus vat, that’s best part of 2k more than the equivalent GM or Forst.

Is that RRP or quoted price from a dealer? I was expecting about 12ish plus vat 

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Is that RRP or quoted price from a dealer? I was expecting about 12ish plus vat 

That’s from a dealer actually the forst is the same price
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The yanks use a lot of bigger petrol engines in their chippers, I get the impression there's a lot more idling (of engines) and stacking up of brush as opposed to running machines balls out all day.

 

Fuel is cheaper of course over there.

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