Running Cost of Chipper Per Annum

[Highland Forestry]

Just a thankyou to everyone who took the time to contribute with info here. Very informative and useful including all the more general issues that came up.

 

Couldn't type last night from doing an 'old snake' up the willow reduction yesterday, no highpoint and multistemmed so each top had to be reached by different means. Had to use a sling to make footholds, and actually tied a crossing branch to a stem to get something to stand on.

 

When I was crawling along one of the tops head first like 'old snake' in that oak reduction,(horizontal anchor point in this case) I thought jees I'm too old for these antics, and 'this is gonna hurt tommorrow... it does by the way.

 

It all laid on the truck nicely, willows are so perfect for chipper free tree work.

 

 

Yep, Willow is good and soft... chippertastic!!

[Mark Bolam]

Just done an experiment.

 

Checked my pocket - £3.20 in change (was wearing old Hiflex, not renowned for great longevity in the pocket wear department).

 

Chipped for exactly 10 minutes with the Tinnywolf, and checked again - £3.10.

So, 10p/minute = 60p/hour = £14.40/day = £5,270.40 per annum

 

That's that sorted, then.

 

Glad I could help.