a very usefull mog !!! even if it is 65k

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

oh and a leo thirty is 100K if memory serves me right? so this off road beast is a bargain.

[Dean Lofthouse]

oh and a leo thirty is 100K if memory serves me right? so this off road beast is a bargain.

 

The 30 is no good, it has not got the articulated boom.

[tommer9]

What on earth was that mog actually intended for? I cant think of why the original owner would need a vehicle that will go that high off road, as for on road there are any number of huge mewps out there . I though they used helicopters for checking stuff like pylons etc, and climbed them to work on them.

 

 

Or am i being a bit slow? Surely it wasnt originally a forestry/ arb tool?

[ukminch]

If I remember Rob, the payments were £600 per month and I charged £350 per day with operator. So in effect two hires a month paid for the machine and I got free use of it.

 

The only way you get £350 a hire is to have a unique machine, the rqg18 is a good machine with good capabilities. In effect the hirer gets an operator that can do the job for them, all they needed to do was supply ground staff.

 

You would need to be able to hire to other tree surgeons which is now much easier with such as Arbtalk. I reckon if I had the gahooners to go for a Teupen at £65K and pushed it I could get hires off local and not so local tree surgeons through networking such as this

 

One thing I used to get which I didn't persue was gutter cleaning on factories at £400 per day. Factories normally have a clause on their insurances that require them to have their gutters cleaned once per year.

 

The rqg18 did pay for itself but there was always that worry about having enough work in for it. In fact other tree surgeons hired it in and used it more than I did. But there are lots of uses for it which makes jobs much easier like ringing down large stems from a basket rather than off spikes, outer crown reductions, large wide conifer reductions, dead tree removals etc etc

 

Have you not got it anymore then? I don't doubt it makes life much easier for a lot of jobs and that you could get a lot of work in for it. If somebody told me that all they did day in day out was sub to other firms with a mewp it wouldn't surprise me at all. It's interesting seeing how other people operate and what works for somebody doesn't work for another. I guess the secret is finding something unique that other people are prepared to pay for, if we could all do that we'd all be rich!!

 

If anybodys got any bright ideas let me know:thumbup:

[Dean Lofthouse]

Have you not got it anymore then?

 

Yes still got it but with no finance, so it can sit in the barn for as long as it likes now and use it as and when I like

[ukminch]

Ah cool, that kinda answers the question then, if the finance has been paid off through using/hiring it it was obviously a good decision:thumbup:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I used to think I could climb faster than I could mewp it, I spent 6 days solid in a leo thirty, in some tight spots, in woodland and even getting the basket weaved into the main canopy, places I NEVER in my dreams thought I would be able too.

 

MEWPS when you can get them in are the future, no if but whens or maybe, they are the muts nuts, and thats coming from a guy who swore they was all BS

[Johny Walker]

What on earth was that mog actually intended for? I cant think of why the original owner would need a vehicle that will go that high off road, as for on road there are any number of huge mewps out there . I though they used helicopters for checking stuff like pylons etc, and climbed them to work on them.

 

 

Or am i being a bit slow? Surely it wasnt originally a forestry/ arb tool?

 

tommer,@ a guess its an ex utilitys mewp ,prob southern electric if spayed in the origanal couler ,must be uk spec as r/h drive ,only a guess tho:001_smile:

[tommer9]

Yeah i assumed leccy board, but couldnt see when they would use such a thing over a climber? It must have been well over 100k when new. Its huuuuge!

[Mesterh]

Theres not many companies that could use that machine to its potential to make it pay surely!