All these cheap skid steer loaders about…….

[Treetom15]

23 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I don’t own a skidsteer but apart from Vermeer, I’ve heard good things about  Ditch Witch. 
 

Can I ask what is resilience utility?

It’s felling on utility networks (powerlines) to make them “resilient” to storms/trees falling and causing damage, just a larger volume of timber to move!

[Treetom15]

16 hours ago, dumper said:

Look at Cormidi can’t fault mine just fits in transit 

That looks the business! It’s ok weight wise in the tipper then?

[Mick Dempsey]

5 minutes ago, Treetom15 said:

It’s felling on utility networks (powerlines) to make them “resilient” to storms/trees falling and causing damage, just a larger volume of timber to move!

Ah, so clear felling under and around lines as opposed to ‘siding up’?

[Treetom15]

6 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Ah, so clear felling under and around lines as opposed to ‘siding up’?

Exactly, a bit better than the usual powerline horrors if that’s possible😂

[dumper]

2 hours ago, Treetom15 said:

That looks the business! It’s ok weight wise in the tipper then?

Pushing our luck just a little

[monkeybusiness]

On 07/08/2025 at 17:31, Mick Dempsey said:

My brother bought one to help his son in his tree work business. 
 

I’ve seen videos, it’s ok, lumpy and jerky, beats lifting by hand. 
 

In the absence of enough money to buy a decent brand, it’ll do. 

Madonna is looking a bit rough these days!

[Tree monkey 1682]

Most of the decent compact track loaders are over a ton in weight,but you might want too look at the merlo cinglo compact track skidsteer might be a bit lighter also u can get hydraulic winches and flails for same machine. 

But expect to have to take cpcs in tracked skidsteer certs or tracked carrier cert on anything to do with utilities. 

[dumper]

5 hours ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

Most of the decent compact track loaders are over a ton in weight,but you might want too look at the merlo cinglo compact track skidsteer might be a bit lighter also u can get hydraulic winches and flails for same machine. 

But expect to have to take cpcs in tracked skidsteer certs or tracked carrier cert on anything to do with utilities. 

Just been into a site today no certs required for tracked loader or carrier if you don’t sit on it with a seat belt if you stand up it’s a wheelbarrow 

thats not to say shouldn’t have some training we sent the manual for mine to our local training company, they came out and we spent a afternoon showing them how to use it, they then gave us a certificate 

[Tree monkey 1682]

1 hour ago, dumper said:

Just been into a site today no certs required for tracked loader or carrier if you don’t sit on it with a seat belt if you stand up it’s a wheelbarrow 

thats not to say shouldn’t have some training we sent the manual for mine to our local training company, they came out and we spent a afternoon showing them how to use it, they then gave us a certificate 

Is that because they don't have a qualified instructor in, cpcs or forestry machinery certs.?

Or are they npors 

We have a tracked dumper , its still covered on site as a tracked dumper.

Is this npors or lantra that did a cert?

[dumper]

We asked Citb for a course they replied that the machine is a chariot and not covered by any of their tests , didn’t bother with the forestry, npors had no qualification for a machine that you stand on my machine is a loader and dumper had it on site at Nine Elms on roof gardens they were happy as it weighs less than a tonne, what ticket have you got.?