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Ty Korrigan
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On 18/11/2021 at 08:16, Hodge said:

19k plus vat, I had one. When running well it's a great machine, I did not like the engine. It was always hunting. I now have a SG40

Just received a quote for the 37-110

€29'000 plus tva  (£24'700 plus vat)

 Does any-one know the Vermeer prices of any of the 3 smaller grinders?

    Stuart

 

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I don’t think you need a calculator to justify a small grinder or even the big ones if you are into clearance work. It’s the mid range grinders I am not sure about, currently hire in medium sized tracked grinders. I am not convinced you would get a decent return on investment when you look at the cost of maintenance  and resale/trade in unless the thing was out every day.

 

Bob

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5 hours ago, aspenarb said:

I don’t think you need a calculator to justify a small grinder or even the big ones if you are into clearance work. It’s the mid range grinders I am not sure about, currently hire in medium sized tracked grinders. I am not convinced you would get a decent return on investment when you look at the cost of maintenance  and resale/trade in unless the thing was out every day.

 

Bob

Other friends have told me similar. 

In fact, 4 of them run used Vermeer 252, one with a 30hp engine.

Simple and effective.

I've just looked again at hire machines, really nothing more than 25hp available here.

      Stuart

 

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I get the same for a days grinding on my 35hp machine as a days felling/climbing.
 
Or a grind on a tree I’ve done myself turns an average day into a bumper day.
 
I’ve had it since 2014 done 500 hours. Good moneymaker.
Taking Bobs approach to calculation you could figure that at 1000 half hour stumps at say 150 quid a go average, so 150000 turnover over 7 years, obviously knock off costs of teeth, fuel, belts, etc but looks like a return for sure.

I think where I live so many of the stumps and gardens are smaller that the 35hp machine would not be used as much, which is stopping me from rushing out to buy one.
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Pricing is rarely so cut and dried.

Say I take an oak out for €750, I know that I can get it done by 1pm and so I’ll push the grinding which will be an easy hour and a half on a free afternoon, I am going there anyway so I’ll do it for €250, et voila a 4 figure day no sweat.

But if a random client phones up with a similar size stump in their garden it’ll be €490. 
 

Sometimes it’s a discounted sweetener, sometimes it’s a straight out earner.

I don’t want a third party involved, and I don’t want to go back to the site on another date to clear up or generally keep an eye on things.

 

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On domestics our small grinder gets thrown in the back of the transit whether there are chips/chogs in there or not, chipper is up the back of the transit and that's it. If our four wheeled rayco or a hired in tracked mid sized grinder are taken to a job its another truck/trailer involved, true costs of that grinder/grinding start to rack up. 

The big rayco up the chuff of the mog eats nothing other than a bit of maintenance and that's still doing battle 30 years on.

 

 

 

 

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On domestics our small grinder gets thrown in the back of the transit whether there are chips/chogs in there or not, chipper is up the back of the transit and that's it. If our four wheeled rayco or a hired in tracked mid sized grinder are taken to a job its another truck/trailer involved, true costs of that grinder/grinding start to rack up. 
The big rayco up the chuff of the mog eats nothing other than a bit of maintenance and that's still doing battle 30 years on.
 
 
 
 
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Just bought myself a 1620. Old machine but since I’ve been using the 1625 a lot I guess I know what to expect.
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