Whats your multione loader doing today ?

[digaholedumper]

Totally agree with all points made, A new compact loader ( what ever the make ) once adopted into your daily work cycles will more than pay for its self in the first couple of years, you may not clock a massive amount of hours up but it will save on labour & speed your jobs up. If you make the commitment to buy , it takes a few months but you will wonder how you ever managed before you bought a machine, ( we started to specialise selling compact loaders back in 1995  & our customers " to date " do now accept a compact loader dose have its place ) If you only have an hours work on site its not worth fetching a hire machine so " you manage " ( whoops, should have said  " Struggled  " ) the convenience of owning your own machine cant be measured. 

[richy_B]

This is exactly why I stopped hiring and started buying. Initially a mini digger - I used to hire in from Hewdens and it cost sod all, maybe £200 with transport for the week. The thing that got me was I had to arrange it atleast a few days in advance, then hangabout for hours waiting for it on delivery day. Sometimes there was a delay, once it got pushed back a day. So on and so forth. The lost time was the biggest financial issue, not the hire cost.

 

Having my own mini now I grab it out for an hour to do this, a couple of hours to do that. Stuff that would be grueling and take 3 hours by hand can be done in 20 mins. Hook up the trailer and away whenever you need makes my working life so much easier. The same case for the MO now.

 

 

[Matthew Storrs]

That’s my feeling on hiring too- I know someone who hires a chipper for his tree buisness- a couple of days a month- I said why not buy one and he said no point for just a few days a month- but yet is happy to brash down on a trailer to save hiring- if he had his own chipper he’d save untold time as it’s always there no matter how small the job. 

Out of interest to all you MO owners how many hours do you tend to put on the machine in a year?

[chopper brown]

It was me who bought the Multione without a demo.

 

I had seen it at shows, had a go on Avants previously and done a lot of reading up and followed this thread.

 

I'm only a small outfit, myself and two staff and quite happy to stay small. I have plenty of work on and needed a machine to speed up jobs and ultimately save on lifting.

 

The way I see it is i love what i do but am under no illusion that i will be able to do it for the rest of my life. I've decided to invest in the future and when i can afford it buy kit that will make the job easier and more enjoyable. 

 

I'll put some pics and videos up in the next couple of weeks with the machine at work.

 

Jim

 

 

[william127]

14 minutes ago, Matthew Storrs said:

That’s my feeling on hiring too- I know someone who hires a chipper for his tree buisness- a couple of days a month- I said why not buy one and he said no point for just a few days a month- but yet is happy to brash down on a trailer to save hiring- if he had his own chipper he’d save untold time as it’s always there no matter how small the job. 

Out of interest to all you MO owners how many hours do you tend to put on the machine in a year?

I can't stand hiring, the money I know my dad has spent on hiring over the last 30 years makes me shudder!

which is why I now own a mini chipper, stump grinder, big saws, digger, trailers, quads, whacked plate, etc etc. once you've spent on hiring that money is gone for good! I can get back some of mine when im done with the machine.

getting back to the topic, when you own a machine, you find ways of using it. Even if it's for 5 minutes a day, it's making, not costing!

[kimtree]

16 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Routine stuff, pulling branches up a slope to the chipper.

Hi Mick how's the grapple working out have you had any problems with the short mounting plate?

[Mick Dempsey]

Not really, larger branches we drag to the chipper with the brush end down anyway, makes spinning the butt toward the chipper easier, so no issue there.

 

It developed a bit of a weep on the double acting ram today, which is a bit annoying.

 

Otherwise absolutely love it.

4 hours ago, kimtree said:

Hi Mick how's the grapple working out have you had any problems with the short mounting plate?

 

[richy_B]

Saw this today.

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Avant-Multione-Log-Grapple-Grab-And-Rotator-Forestry-/172831003303?_mwBanner=1

[warren]

Im buying one initially for yard work ... lifting bags of logs onto the lorry which i used to handball. Moving dumpy bags of sweepings over to the bonfire and loading chip when i get orders for some. Whether it goes out on site will depend on the jobs.. I'm only small scale but sometimes those large gardens do call out for machinery.. plus i can hire it out to friends. Turned 50 last week and my back will go at the slightest opportunity. Yes they're expensive but mine will be a refurbished year old ex-rental so its not too bad. Looking forward to getting it ... loads of jobs ive been saving up.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

55 minutes ago, richy_B said:

Saw this today.

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Avant-Multione-Log-Grapple-Grab-And-Rotator-Forestry-/172831003303?_mwBanner=1

Can't see an electrical cable - I'm guessing it should need one to switch from grab to rotate??  Looks like an attractive price.