Renting a truck and chipper

[Justaman.com]

Hello all, I am wondering if there’s any good company’s or individuals that rent out truck and chippers, I’m planning to start on my own this year but before I buy a truck and chipper I’d like to rent one for a month or two. 
 

does anyone have any suggestions? 

[Shaunpaul]

You’ll probably find it easier to hire a chipper than it is to find an actual arb van. Hire places like Spectrum plant will do a chipper for a day/week/month etc. vans are usually contract hire and long term. You’ll find a standard tipper to hire but I’ve never seen one with high sides/chip hood (however I could be wrong). Obviously the shorter the hire it’s going to cost more per day so would this be viable on your day rate. Only you can answer that.

[Mick Dempsey]

What aspect of having a truck and chipper is a mystery to you? 
 

Do you have work lined up?

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

What about a trailer with cages & just cut up? Big jobs hire a chipper I’d walk before I run personally 

 

Jack

[Treetom15]

You could hire a chipper from most plant hire company’s, but a van would be more difficult. For the cost, you would probably be best trying to find a “cheap”ish old transit/Iveco and stick some ply boards on the back, it holds up a lot better than some think and you’d probably be financially better off than leasing a van-at least you’d own the asset and if things don’t pan out you can sell it? 

[woody paul]

6 hours ago, Treetom15 said:

You could hire a chipper from most plant hire company’s, but a van would be more difficult. For the cost, you would probably be best trying to find a “cheap”ish old transit/Iveco and stick some ply boards on the back, it holds up a lot better than some think and you’d probably be financially better off than leasing a van-at least you’d own the asset and if things don’t pan out you can sell it? 

If you hire regular from a company and take it back clean you may get a good deal, there's a tree company ran for years in my area that use ply sides on transits, they run one with out ply sides for logs but if a truck is out of action just switch ply sides to that one. 

[Mark Bolam]

It’s a shite idea.

 

How do you expect to be competitive when you’re spending £250/day on hire fees?

Money that you will never see again.

[Shaunpaul]

28 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

It’s a shite idea.

 

How do you expect to be competitive when you’re spending £250/day on hire fees?

Money that you will never see again.

Easily, he charges £350 to be super competitive, goes home with £70-80 in pocket after fuel and he’s helping the economy by hiring kit, thus keeping people in jobs 😜. It’s not all about money 😂

[Justaman.com]

53 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

It’s a shite idea.

 

How do you expect to be competitive when you’re spending £250/day on hire fees?

Money that you will never see again.

For a job that’s worth 1200 it would be profitable. 
 

[Mark J]

Tree trucks get damaged all the time, I'd be very careful hiring tippers for tree work.