What vehicle and gear did you start off with?

[normandylumberjack]

I started with a metalic green Subaru pick up when i was 17, 1.8 petrol went like stink, loved it! with a husky 44, mcchullock hedgetrimmer from argos (also doubled as a long grass cutter!) a few hand tools and my dear old mum got me a honda mower for my 18th. it had an ifor canopy to keep the tools safe, but liked it better with the lid off. Wish you could still get them.

[case maxxum]

I saved up all my wages and bought a smiley transit and a tow 6inch timberwolf. when i left qts qroup. then i got a case maxxum 5130 with a farmmi then a mog u 1250 . now ive got a 57 plate defender a transit smiley county caged tipper and iveco access platform. a case maxxum 5150 pro front links pto. a botex 560 10 inch jensen tracked chipper a neuson 2.5 ton digger.a ford ranger thunder. and alot of other bits and bobs to much now.

[Stuart A-C]

I started off with a Nissan d21 pick up and a £150 husky, now got this lot........ to be honest, it was less of a headache when it was just me, the dog, and the pickup!

[Taupotreeman]

Isuzu Bighorn (petrol) rented trailers, couple of 200T's and an old Husky and blower. Chopped the isuzu in on a isuzu elf tipper (which is still ticking along) bought an old chuck and duck chipper which will take up to about 9 inches and is almost bullet proof. Still have the husky, pole trimmer, set of live line poles, 2 Ms200's a 460 and a 066. Pretty much all I need and covers 90% of the work. Anything bigger I sub out.

[martwizz]

bout a month ago i bought my first chipper a vermeer 6inch

 

We had one of those at my old firm, i had the displeasure of using it on one occasion... never again

 

we called it the pencil sharpener

[normandylumberjack]

I started with a metalic green Subaru pick up when i was 17, 1.8 petrol went like stink, loved it! with a husky 44, mcchullock hedgetrimmer from argos (also doubled as a long grass cutter!) a few hand tools and my dear old mum got me a honda mower for my 18th. it had an ifor canopy to keep the tools safe, but liked it better with the lid off. Wish you could still get them.

 

Then got a defender 110 HT, spent loads making it look nice and it died after a week, chopped it in for a low milage ex fire brigade 110 staition wagon utility, 2.5 PETROL- I loved that truck, had 2 cars run into me and i was able to drive home, both drink drivers ( a big problem here!), thirsty and noisey and felt like an oven in summer and a collinder in winter, but it looked the part. when it got too pricey for me I got a 200tdi disco with 200k on it. not a bad truck but the electrics went on everything, one at a time. transit connect t220, transit swb 52plate 100hp- best truck I have owned, ex hurse renault traffic, 1.3 petrol- what a heap!

Now volvo v70 2.4 petrol 170bhp- holds all my tools, gets me to the job fast and home even faster, no more hauling logs, im just a gun for hire! hire a pick up if needed.

[treedom]

I started out with a golf mark and 2 builders bags. Became my own chipper with a pair of secateurs!

 

I could get 1 1/2 bags in the back and off to the tip for me. Car cost e £50 btw!

 

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[jnoon]

I started with a 106 van and wilstow Atv mesh trailer, a 024 av and a few hand tools,

18 months later got myself a mk5 hilux

Made a chip box for it up rates the suspension and lifted the body

On and bought my kwick chip 160

Just worked hard and saved hard haven't borrowed a penny

 

[Brett]

First started with my rover 200, my rock climbing kit (aye, sketchy), and 2 borrowed saws.

[Scott Walker]

1994 mazda b2200 pickup, entec chippit 6inch chipper, 020t 023 357xp

 

Now ive got two nissan cabstar tippers with chip boxes, mk5 hilux and a combo van for quoting a tw150 and a tracked tw150 and a carlton sp2010 grinder, case 4230 tractor 6 ton fransgard winch and a host of saws and a log splitter.