Joshs Sweden thread . . and a bit or Norway

[Tree Man Tom]

Like that mate, nice and secure. Do you have "chipping teams", like you come along to the tree work and stack the brash and someone else follows your around chipping?

[Dean Lofthouse]

It'd have been nicer had it been a Toyota mate

 

Which draw does the chip go in Josh ?

[Mozza]

Like that mate, nice and secure. Do you have "chipping teams", like you come along to the tree work and stack the brash and someone else follows your around chipping?

 

They have big hiab wagons that come and lift the brash and logs on the back and then off it goes to the bio mass place

[josharb87]

Like that mate, nice and secure. Do you have "chipping teams", like you come along to the tree work and stack the brash and someone else follows your around chipping?

 

no mate, well sort of,

most stuff gets stacked within 40ft of lorry access and a big lorry with 40ft reach hiab and grab, and roll on roll of skip bin comes along, grabs everything up, including sawdust and takes it away to be processed for biomass chipping to power the city (pics of the HUGE chipper in action are a few pages back)

OR

the branches which would normally be chipped in the uk, just get stacked in a pile, and the logs cut to 40cm lengths, and left under the tree for the customer sort out . . . even at some million £ houses we leave stuff for them to deal with!

OR

if its a real big job, where theres going to be say 5 or more lorry loads of brash and transport costs start getting too much, we hire a chipper, chip in a big pile on the ground, then along comes the grab lorry to pick the chips up:thumbup:

grab lorry will take ANY size wood too!

 

the boss has been picking my brains about tracked chippers and importing them from the uk, as chippers are really rare and REALLY expensive over here

 

It'd have been nicer had it been a Toyota mate

 

Which draw does the chip go in Josh ?

 

chip???? oh i vaguely remember that, made by those noisey dusty things:001_tongue:

 

be even nicer if it was a puma 130 crew cab . . .

 

edit: Mozz has been paying attention!!!

Edited June 15, 2010 by josharb87

[josharb87]

lime pollarding today

 

nice steady day, first tree cut n drop 80% done by lunch, an hour for lunch, then cut n dropped the roadside stuff of the 2nd tree, just stuff over the house and shrubs to rig iff tommorrow

 

 

8am

 

 

 

 

 

 

11.30

 

 

12.00

 

 

 

 

rigging over house left for an easy day tommorrow

 

 

evil boat

 

[Dean Lofthouse]

Yep, thats a pollard... did you make the mast for the evil boat out of the bit you cut off Josh

[josharb87]

haha, it'll be alright dean, it'll look like a loverly toilet brush next year:001_tongue:

 

and some bits of kit from last week

 

bandit 4x4, radio controlled, blade, 38 horse

scania v8 diesel

avants

[burrell_]

nice lime pollarding pic mate u dont hang about u got ur new rope yet

[josharb87]

nice lime pollarding pic mate u dont hang about u got ur new rope yet

 

not yet, some of the other stuff ive ordered has to be ordered in, so we're waiting for that, then it'll be sent in one parcell- dont really want twice the shipping just to have the rope a few days early! hopefully get it this or next week

haha, today was steady, started at 8, left site at 4.15 and had about 2hours of breaks/lunch, if we had busted a gut and worked maybe an extra hour we probabally coulda had it all down today ready to be chipped/collected tommorrow, but there wasnt much point busting a gut today, so we diddnt

[rowan lee]

Do you rate those Avant machines Josh, compared to something else in its class, like a skid steer. I believe there are any amount of attachments for avants as well.