who do you insure your truck with?

[Dan Maynard]

11 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

I would be very, very careful with tool insurance at the minute.

I sacked mine off because I don’t think it’s worth it.

I was quoted I think £700 to insure my saws (10ish) and climbing kit, thought they need replacing periodically anyway so put that money towards new gear each year a much better use of it.

[shillo]

guess I will have to a ring around on Monday. shame as ive been with trust for years.

[scbk]

If there's no big issues around vehicle modifications, just put the details through a comparison website

[Mark Bolam]

2 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

I was quoted I think £700 to insure my saws (10ish) and climbing kit, thought they need replacing periodically anyway so put that money towards new gear each year a much better use of it.

That doesn’t sound too bad on paper, but on gear over a year old the payout can be as little as 10%.
 

So you could potentially be insuring £1k’s worth of gear for £700 pa, with a £500 excess.

 

Read the small print guys, it’s all right there on page 167….

[Thesnarlingbadger]

12 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

I would be very, very careful with tool insurance at the minute.

I sacked mine off because I don’t think it’s worth it.

Yeah I’m close to not using it. The issue would be if the chippers and stump grinders got pinched then I’d have to by kit like that again. I think I would just jack instead. 

[Mark Bolam]

My bigger kit like that is covered, it’s the smaller kit I don’t think it was worth it.

[IronMike]

My insurance is up for renewal currently, but I’ll be sticking with my current insurer I think. I use H&H, based up in Carlisle. I can send contact details if anyone wanted to try them (full disclosure, I get a £20 Amazon voucher for any recommendations 😲) and I can definitely say they are decent (regardless of voucher!)

[Dan Maynard]

4 hours ago, IronMike said:

My insurance is up for renewal currently, but I’ll be sticking with my current insurer I think. I use H&H, based up in Carlisle. I can send contact details if anyone wanted to try them (full disclosure, I get a £20 Amazon voucher for any recommendations 😲) and I can definitely say they are decent (regardless of voucher!)

Is that vehicle or logbullets? I think I need to shop around next time I insure my trailer and chipper as must be five years since first trailer stolen so that should drop off the radar.

[IronMike]

2 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

Is that vehicle or logbullets? I think I need to shop around next time I insure my trailer and chipper as must be five years since first trailer stolen so that should drop off the radar.

I have Logbullet, tractor, trailer, winch, all tooling, Shogun and family car, public liability etc all with them now. 

[Dan Maynard]

2 hours ago, IronMike said:

I have Logbullet, tractor, trailer, winch, all tooling, Shogun and family car, public liability etc all with them now. 

Cool, will have to give them a call when my policy comes round.