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21 minutes ago, lux said:


The day rate he offered me was quite palatable and given how much more quickly it will dismantle a tree and given most of the tree will get loaded onto the lorry directly I thought it was pretty good.

Given that the only credit card he’s flexed to buy it is his own company one I guess the other toys will have to wait a while. emoji23.png

The was a sennboggen doing road side ash die back felling locally recently. Awesome machine too but no where near the reach of the lorry so that probably what’s made him
Choose that.

Sorry I wasn’t having a dig. I actually think it’s great bit of kit, it was a dig at my own poverty. 

especially great bit of kit were there’s no drop zone in urban areas I’d imagine 

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Sorry I wasn’t having a dig. I actually think it’s great bit of kit, it was a dig at my own poverty. 
especially great bit of kit were there’s no drop zone in urban areas I’d imagine 

None taken , it’s not my credit card we were talking about [emoji23]
I know he considered all the various machines. Julian has a log of business with some large property developers , A lot of their developments are in the 10 to 20 million price range on estates like Wentworth and St George’s Hills. Etc so a machine like this will absolutely smash that work and the budgets are there to use it. He’s also hoping for a slice of the road side ash pie with it.
The saw head can be replaced with a winch to turn it into a very good crane. He said to me he was hoping to be able to hire it out to builders etc to increase its potential for earning and keep it productive between trees.
Hope it works out for him. It’s a big spend for guy like him and I’d hate to see it not work out. But he’s a sharp guy and if you want to get into the big boys game there’s going to be an element of risk for sure.
He still won’t put his harness down so now doubt he will be out climbing just as much to keep the bread and butter jobs ticking business over.
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Mr Fancier I dont think you need to worry about that crane truck  poaching domestic work, it wont fit in Mrs Miggings drive and outside with all the legs out would probably need a road closure. It will no doubt be a success but it wont be off the back of domestic arb, its only a tool for lowering sticks at the end of the day and at 850kg`s a pop not very big ones.
 
Bob
With the head on it can lift about 500kgs. Still a very large branch compared to what a climber might take off. That is maxed out though and I think we'll likely be taking much smaller pieces off at full reach. The speed should still make it much quicker than a climber though
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You’ll easily be worth your money and I’ll happily pass on any projects that require the extra reach/capacity and mobility that a Truck can bring.

I know what these can do first hand and there’s no comparison to traditional methods.

 

Best of luck with the new venture.

 

Eddie.

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40 minutes ago, forkingbranches said:
19 hours ago, treevolution said:
I wonder what the day rate will be to hire him in with that machine.
 
I read somewhere that it's costing around £350,000.
 
You could get a tree on the ground very quickly with that setup.

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The truck, crane and head are costing £270k. I am hoping to charge £1500/day.

Where are you based.

 

 

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Do these big specialist machines normally go out on a day rate? Or do owner operators get their own work. If you work out your numbers and can reliably fill your books on a day rate it sounds like a relatively low stress way if working.

 

Probaby less stress than running a large crew with multiple machines to maintain and multiple customers to keep happy.

 

What are the running/maintenance costs like?

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