Next truck, last truck...

[Khriss]

@kevinjohnsonmbe  I feel an MBE coming on,  after skilfully dragging this thread around to proper British engineering with fvvk all to with skanky french Arb trucks. K

 

 

 

( sorry Ty, but its Sunday and the Sauvignon has made an appearance now.... Finally 😉) 

[skc101fc]

Youtube hits would have paid fr that now [emoji5] plus yr roll on busi ess aftr. K

We'd only just got basic mobile phones back in the early 90's. YouTube definitely hadn't even been considered then. Scary how much has changed in such a short space of time.

 

[skc101fc]

Sorry for my derail too

 

Hot whiskey in my defence

[Khriss]

@skc101fc  just reminded me of a job in Chelmsford on the  lake in that park of a collapsed Willow, the council wanted removing. Offered us a nice ally Dory to row out to the island with, to retreive the brash. Ran a pull rope out to it an used transit to tow it to shore for chipping. Hilareous job until we saw how much goose shit lathered that island 😫  K

[skc101fc]

@skc101fc  just reminded me of a job in Chelmsford on the  lake in that park of a collapsed Willow, the council wanted removing. Offered us a nice ally Dory to row out to the island with, to retreive the brash. Ran a pull rope out to it an used transit to tow it to shore for chipping. Hilareous job until we saw how much goose shit lathered that island [emoji31]  K

[emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]

[rapalaman]

Central Park? Fished it hundreds of times through my teens and still do occasionally 😁

[Khriss]

9 hours ago, rapalaman said:

Central Park? Fished it hundreds of times through my teens and still do occasionally 😁

Yer. Lovely park, TO used it fr cycling so everything was spot on. K

[Marc Lewis]

If you have local free tip sites like you say, would it be more cost effective to tip more frequently?

[aspenarb]

You can get away with a transit and chipper if most of your work is small reductions or knocking the tops off conny hedges. They are not cost effective on tree removals or clearance work, the down time/ cost of a transit on turnaround no matter how close to a job racks up. There are a lot of guys out there running very expensive chippers capable of filling a transit to the brim in ten minutes, they then feck off from the job for an hour to empty it leaving their muckers behind scratching their nuts. I cant think of anything that drains the profit off a job quicker than inadequate clear up logistics.

 

Bob

Edited January 25, 2021 by aspenarb

[roseyweb]

2 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

You can get away with a transit and chipper if most of your work is small reductions or knocking the tops off conny hedges. They are not cost effective on tree removals or clearance work, the down time/ cost of a transit on turnaround no matter how close to a job racks up. There are a lot of guys out there running very expensive chippers capable of filling a transit to the brim in ten minutes, they then feck off from the job for an hour to empty it leaving their muckers behind scratching their nuts. I cant think of anything that drains the profit off a job quicker than inadequate clear up logistics.

 

Bob

Been saying this for years, never understand why people don't get trucks when there so cheap, trees are heavy like