Another 40 year old just starting

[forestboy1978]

6 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

A tracked machine is extremely versatile even in an urban environment. Giving clients an option to retain the chip,towing a trailer full of waste out of a job etc.

 

Taking one off a trailer takes less than a minute.

Hmmm, not really. You have to tip the trailer with the chipper slightly to get ramps from underneath. Obviously uncouple the ratchet straps and stuff and things and then obviously trailer has to be empty to re load the chipper. Bear in mind this is not a plant trailer. Driving plant down ramps off this thing is not pleasant. It's not as bad a my old transit tipper but it's still not ideal. 

 

Do tracked chippers have the ability to have tow bars fitted. In effect, would I be able to tow my tipper trailer off road with the chipper to locations a van could not get?

 

I'm getting that a tracked chipper is the business but after 7k in training and 6 weeks not earning I will be tight. I will have to go chipperless for a while. 10k ish is too much for a machine that wont get a lot of use to begin with. 

[Mike Hill]

Your ramps could be slid beneath the chipper between the tracks,thus eliminating the need to tip the deck.

 

I often drive the chipper onto the chip,instead of tipping a half load.

 

All tracked machines can have a tow ball fitted. Mine has one,as well as a 4 ton electric winch 

 

I have both a plant trailer and a tipping trailer,it's as easy to unload the chipper from one as it is the other.

 

You know your jobs better than anyone,but you won't loose as much on a tracked machine as you will a tow behind. You could also use it to pull small stumps and tow trailers into and out of jobs. I recently pulled a 9 ton Valta and crane combo that was sunk to it's rear diff out off a job,treble purchased the winch cable and chained the chipper back.

 

Versatile machine. 

[Mark Bolam]

You can also fit a small cannon to one when you’re drunk and pretend it’s a tank.

[Mick Dempsey]

Surely the quadtrak is better for that, turntable and all.

Edited January 5, 2018 by Mick Dempsey

[wjotner]

23 hours ago, mitchel said:

dont like you like my work jotner haha

Got your name written all over it Mitch 

[forestboy1978]

1 hour ago, Mike Hill said:

Your ramps could be slid beneath the chipper between the tracks,thus eliminating the need to tip the deck.

 

I often drive the chipper onto the chip,instead of tipping a half load.

 

All tracked machines can have a tow ball fitted. Mine has one,as well as a 4 ton electric winch 

 

I have both a plant trailer and a tipping trailer,it's as easy to unload the chipper from one as it is the other.

 

You know your jobs better than anyone,but you won't loose as much on a tracked machine as you will a tow behind. You could also use it to pull small stumps and tow trailers into and out of jobs. I recently pulled a 9 ton Valta and crane combo that was sunk to it's rear diff out off a job,treble purchased the winch cable and chained the chipper back.

 

Versatile machine. 

Yeah I'm seeing it!

[Mark Bolam]

28 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Surely the quadtrak is better for that, turntable and all.

Hahahaha!

I’m glad I’m not the only one who spotted that Mick!

As long as the enemy remain directly in front....

[tree-fancier123]

18 hours ago, forestboy1978 said:

Yeah I'm seeing it!

Mike Hills post was excellent advice - I would add it may be heart wrenching to do, but if you take out all the racking in your van a tracked chipper would go in between the wheel arches esp something like a TW150 VTR vari track. Search completed listings on ebay for tracked chipper - a tatty one for 7k. If you're van was emptied out you can chuck wood in there too. 200 ps should be good to pull 3.5ton plus 3.5ton trailer up hill! Ive only got the wimpy 140ps tipper version and that still pulls reasonably

I used Tony Darbyshire for training - very good knowledge level. If you've already  paid for it then too late, but I know I paid about half that for everything up to CS39 and that was even doing CS 39 twice as I cocked it up, cutting too close to body and other deadly sins.

For 7k done as individual tickets you could have them all, rigging, medium felling, windblown etc.

If you start advertising for tree work after you will definitely need to sub in or learn rigging, otherwise its trimming and felling conifers.

Spending 7k - I would spend a hundred or so on books first and know some of the techniques before you start.

Jeff Jepson - To Fell A Tree, and Tree Climbers Companion . G. F . Beranek - Fundamentals of General Tree Work ( now a £20 pdf)

Also Best Practices For Rigging in Arboriculture. Probably £100 quids worth in total and a few months time to digest it all.

Oh and just walk away from the knackered looking trees, let someone else hire a MEWP in until youve got the mark of it.

 

Only thing I thought with Mike Hills post is he was close to distorting the chipper chassis winching with all those snatch blocks. Impressive though getting a tractor out

Edited January 6, 2018 by tree-fancier123

[Mick Dempsey]

What I love about these threads is the difference in perspective.

 

As someone else pointed out, it’s a bit like when someone asks ’what vehicle should I get?’ And the advice can vary from a bicycle and a bowsaw to a 15 tonne grab lorry.

[forestboy1978]

59 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

Mike Hills post was excellent advice - I would add it may be heart wrenching to do, but if you take out all the racking in your van a tracked chipper would go in between the wheel arches esp something like a TW150 VTR vari track. Search completed listings on ebay for tracked chipper - a tatty one for 7k. If you're van was emptied out you can chuck wood in there too. 200 ps should be good to pull 3.5ton plus 3.5ton trailer up hill! Ive only got the wimpy 140ps tipper version and that still pulls reasonably

I used Tony Darbyshire for training - very good knowledge level. If you've already  paid for it then too late, but I know I paid about half that for everything up to CS39 and that was even doing CS 39 twice as I cocked it up, cutting too close to body and other deadly sins.

For 7k done as individual tickets you could have them all, rigging, medium felling, windblown etc.

If you start advertising for tree work after you will definitely need to sub in or learn rigging, otherwise its trimming and felling conifers.

Spending 7k - I would spend a hundred or so on books first and know some of the techniques before you start.

Jeff Jepson - To Fell A Tree, and Tree Climbers Companion . G. F . Beranek - Fundamentals of General Tree Work ( now a £20 pdf)

Also Best Practices For Rigging in Arboriculture. Probably £100 quids worth in total and a few months time to digest it all.

Oh and just walk away from the knackered looking trees, let someone else hire a MEWP in until youve got the mark of it.

 

Only thing I thought with Mike Hills post is he was close to distorting the chipper chassis winching with all those snatch blocks. Impressive though getting a tractor out

Lol over my dead body is the racking coming out haha ;-) That was an evolution in progress. Sooo handy having every tool imaginable to hand inc generator etc etc. 

 

Yeah 200ps is handy and I bought the iveco daily for that reason. Van weight 3 tons with tools and it will pull the trailer fully loaded up hill with relative ease. Only down side is I got twin rear wheel which means no a tracked chipper wont fit unless there is one that is 1 meter wide or less.

 

Cheers for the advice re reading. I just don't know if I can learn from a book without doing the job. I'm shit at learning that way. 

 

Ta