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has any body else noticed the cost off s/h mobile chippers ,to me they seem to be very expencive ,in general ,you can get a tracky for simlar money ,& less hrs :confused1:

 

thought times were hard ,but no bargins to be had it would seem

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I have to ask...

Why use a big chipper these days when firewood commands such a premium?

I get by (just) using a CS100 wee chipper on this basis.

Todays job was an example.

Dismantle of a pollarded Sugar maple with 4 stems.

All the branch wood dead straight and easy meat for the 30cm blades on the chipper.

Anything over 6cm was firewood.

As a cord (3m3) costs around 200euros and the job cost 375euros, our client ended up with a job heavily subsidized by the waste as fire wood.

PLUS I sold the chips for 25euros locally.

So why use a really big chipper?

Ty

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I have to ask...

Why use a big chipper these days when firewood commands such a premium?

I get by (just) using a CS100 wee chipper on this basis.

Todays job was an example.

Dismantle of a pollarded Sugar maple with 4 stems.

All the branch wood dead straight and easy meat for the 30cm blades on the chipper.

Anything over 6cm was firewood.

As a cord (3m3) costs around 200euros and the job cost 375euros, our client ended up with a job heavily subsidized by the waste as fire wood.

PLUS I sold the chips for 25euros locally.

So why use a really big chipper?

Ty

 

A lot more people burn wood in France than they do in the uk.

 

Every man and his dog is buying a log burner in the uk at the moment so there may come a point when we have to use parts of a tree that we would normally chip, but at the moment, time is money and big chippers save time

Posted
I have to ask...

Why use a big chipper these days when firewood commands such a premium?

I get by (just) using a CS100 wee chipper on this basis.

Todays job was an example.

Dismantle of a pollarded Sugar maple with 4 stems.

All the branch wood dead straight and easy meat for the 30cm blades on the chipper.

Anything over 6cm was firewood.

As a cord (3m3) costs around 200euros and the job cost 375euros, our client ended up with a job heavily subsidized by the waste as fire wood.

PLUS I sold the chips for 25euros locally.

So why use a really big chipper?

Ty

 

Try clearing hectares and hectares of twisted laurel spaghetti on a steep slope. You want the biggest baddest tracked chipper you can imagine. You rapidly ditch the idea of keeping the timber.

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A lot more people burn wood in France than they do in the uk.

 

Every man and his dog is buying a log burner in the uk at the moment so there may come a point when we have to use parts of a tree that we would normally chip, but at the moment, time is money and big chippers save time

 

dead right

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