AHS Large capacity mobile crane/chipper in action! only £450K!!

[skyhuck]

AHS will only be interested in a large amount, so they won't come to site and chip a small amount, if you have a large amount then get a timber wagon in at the buyers expense.

 

As for the processing, I was commenting on the pic, if you got AHS in to deal with freshly felled stuff that meant you did not need to process it, that may well make commercial sense, but I was commenting on THIS case.

 

Obviously people are free to do whatever they wish and I was only expressing an opinion

[Mr Ed]

I have used AHS among others extensively for chipping hundreds of tonnes of waste. Depending on the job, it can work well or can potentially be a waste of good timber. You need to be talking in the hundreds of tonnes to make it pay though.

We chipped 450 tonnes of hawthorn, willow, poplar and other crap on a site in Padiham - it was more economically effective to pay for the chipping and get a small return than to put staff cutting out firewood for weeks.

[Stephen Blair]

thats a cool looking truck, i like the woodcracker tucked in there as well. dont know about its chipping capabilities but its manouverability and size is great.

[ukminch]

I dont get that if its cost £20/tonne to get it back to the yard all the more reason to sell it (it would reach min £20/tonne). If the company had not got the means to take it back to the yard you could get it picked up from site at minimum £20 / tonne.

 

I'm getting muddled up with my words tonight aren't I, you need to use the rob google translation package!!

 

In this instance it's already gone back to the yard, and for whatever reason has not gone for firewood. I don't know whether it was saleable or not. If it wasn't then the best bet for that firm is to just get rid of it. If it was then someones made a booboo.

 

If it was going to cost £20/ton to get it back to the yard then it may be more cost effective just to have it offloaded in the first instance, rather than rent yard space, pay out for transport etc and only just about break even.

 

When writing this I was thinking about a job which had to have all material off site asap, in this instance all the stuff has been taken away in big skips and will be chipped at the yard because there is not way (IMO) it would be worthwhile processing for firewood, back at the yard. If there was more time available on site, then it would be worthwhile snedding up and selling stuff for firewood.

 

Not sure if i've said what I'm trying to say or not, if it doesn't make sense just ignore me.....

 

R

[b101uk]

Apparently registered as an agric. vehicle can run on cherry, and be driven at 16, i believe!!

 

Err its an agri machine not an agri tractor thus its 21 years as its >7500kg

[ukminch]

It's grey on red diesel as well I'd say but this threads not for that debate..............

[David Riding]

I'm getting muddled up with my words tonight aren't I, you need to use the rob google translation package!!

 

In this instance it's already gone back to the yard, and for whatever reason has not gone for firewood. I don't know whether it was saleable or not. If it wasn't then the best bet for that firm is to just get rid of it. If it was then someones made a booboo.

 

If it was going to cost £20/ton to get it back to the yard then it may be more cost effective just to have it offloaded in the first instance, rather than rent yard space, pay out for transport etc and only just about break even.

 

When writing this I was thinking about a job which had to have all material off site asap, in this instance all the stuff has been taken away in big skips and will be chipped at the yard because there is not way (IMO) it would be worthwhile processing for firewood, back at the yard. If there was more time available on site, then it would be worthwhile snedding up and selling stuff for firewood.

 

Not sure if i've said what I'm trying to say or not, if it doesn't make sense just ignore me.....

 

R

 

yep that now makes sense

[Buzzsurgeon]

thats a cool looking truck, i like the woodcracker tucked in there as well. dont know about its chipping capabilities but its manouverability and size is great.

 

wood cracker well spotted, I missed that one, eyes like a shyt hawk!

[Stephen Blair]

wood cracker well spotted, you are very observant mr blair!

 

why thank you:biggrin:

[Tree Man Tom]

Err its an agri machine not an agri tractor thus its 21 years as its >7500kg

 

Have they not lowered the age limit back to 18 like it used to be? or was it 17...