What's this worth with machinery...?

[Mick Dempsey]

It’s up to you of course.

But I get kind of pissed off by work like this being done in an inefficient way. 
This needs a couple of climbers, a decent chipper working all day and some kind of loader or digger and grapple to help the groundies get it processed as it drops.

Rattle it off in three days easy.

A site working like that, efficiently and productively, is a thing of beauty.

One guy spending days and days doing everything for whatever reason is ridiculous.

 

[peds]

On 23/12/2023 at 08:23, Mick Dempsey said:

It’s up to you of course.

But I get kind of pissed off by work like this being done in an inefficient way. 
This needs a couple of climbers, a decent chipper working all day and some kind of loader or digger and grapple to help the groundies get it processed as it drops.

Rattle it off in three days easy.

A site working like that, efficiently and productively, is a thing of beauty.

One guy spending days and days doing everything for whatever reason is ridiculous.

 

 I get what you're saying, but if my life schedule doesn't allow for that kind of coordination, it's not going to buy a rollaway awning for the campervan and a load of decking timber. I enjoy the flexibility of being a 1-man-band, and not having to worry about anyone else.

 

As it happens, it was 7 days of simple and fun climbing (5 on sycamore, 2 on a bunch of spruce at the other end of the garden), 2 days of graft with a tracked chipper, and 2 days of pottering about in the sunshine, sheet mulching apple trees and stacking firewood. 

 

Had to pause for 2 days thanks to Storms Isha and Jocelyn, I've done planting for forestry in an orange weather warning before, but I didn't fancy climbing in it. 

 

So 2 up, 2 down; 3 days for 4 guys; around 12 days in total. Maybe I'll stick around for another day pruning blackcurrant bushes to add one more to my 11.

 

Sure, it takes longer, but I wouldn't call it inefficient. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Different strokes and all that.

[peds]

Oui chef

[peds]

I've had worse views too.