Second hand chipper prices ???

[Johny Walker]

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

 

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

[Tree Man Tom]

Probably the cost of new machines rising is pushing up the price of 2nd hand machines?

[Le Sanglier]

Well it seems to me that very good quality larger machines (50plus hp) are very cheap considering. maybe its just my perception.

[Ty Korrigan]

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

[Le Sanglier]

maybe thats why they are cheap

[Dean Lofthouse]

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

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

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.

[Le Sanglier]

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