Business Breakthough

[Blaisey]

I was looking for a stump grinder and was considering spending around £15,000 on one, after some reasurch and a demo from Boxer I was very impressed.

 

Buying the Boxer has had a massive difference to my business All of a sudden I can bring trunk back to the yard all but eliminating logging into liftables. Then I have timber to mill new revenue stream is created.

 

The reason I bought the boxer was to grind stumps its been fantastic not quite as quick as a large dedicated grinder by plenty fast enough.

 

I made a blank plate with a tow hitch great for moving dumpy bags mounting the splitter(although I would like to make a bench), and moving the chipper is like a tracked chipper get any where.

 

Auger is attached to the front in the pic with my wife, drilling the holes for a fence it will drill up to a 36" hole! Great for planting trees Another revenue stream.

 

Grab is amazing move nearly 1 ton of wood in one go raised off the ground, drag nearer 2 tons with one end on the ground! It will move more brash in an hour than one man can move in a day! (with a medium distance drag)

 

High capacity bucket I odered this instead of the standard one it has a proper edge for scraping, great for moving wood chip and manure loading ect.

 

Pallet forks have been ok I don't use them a lot but there fairly cheep and when u need them there like gold.

 

I "ve seen all manner of hydraulic attachments for them and u can customise anything provided u have enough Hyd flow.

 

5 grand a year on the business for 4 years and its yours, its made me so much more profitable and able to compete with firms much larger than me. I can't imagine life without it.

 

Hope this helps some one.

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

hmmm aye looks mint but £15k wow, id love one but i doubt it would pay for its self let alone make me a proffit

Great bit of kit if you can use it most days!!

At last someone else who wears X-fit lol. Thought i was the only one

[Matthew Storrs]

I wish you hadn't posted this, i had just finished convincing myself i didn't need a boxer!superb bit of kit by the looks of it. and so versatile. Just think you'd pay £15k in wages for a groundy, when I think how much labour the boxer would provide for years to come its a no brainer really. Big Bolt on here keeps posting pics of his up with various attachments and it gets me thinking everytime!

[Matthew Storrs]

is that £15k plus VAT for the 532?

[Matthew Storrs]

hmmm aye looks mint but £15k wow, id love one but i doubt it would pay for its self let alone make me a proffit

Great bit of kit if you can use it most days!!

At last someone else who wears X-fit lol. Thought i was the only one

 

I think if your just tree work then it all comes down to having the right job for it, but if you undertake say fencing as well as tree work I fail to see how this couldn't make anyone profit.

[Robert_S]

Looks great:thumbup1:

 

For 20k did you get forks,grab,bucket,auger,splitter and grinder? That's some deal if you did.

 

I assume here was vat on the twenty?

[Big Bolt]

you can use it every day if you specialise in that type of work same as your mog in my line of work it,s way 2 big and heavy it would sit in the yard all the time , and costly horse's for courses

bliasey you need a guard on it like the 322

[Big 'Ammer]

Blaisey,what kind of money was your stumpgrinder attachment and what kind of flow rate does it need please?

[Blaisey]

I'm doing this off the top of my head

 

Boxer and Loading shovel £16,000. ish +Vat it was 17.5 when I bought it

 

Splitter £450.00

Grab £1,000.

Auger £700.00 with 6"&10"

Stumpgrinder £3,500.00 not to sure if that included Vat Great wheel and teeth tho

Pallet forks £300.00

Blank Plate £40.00

 

Boxer 532DX has 55 ltr/per/min as alway u want more but thats the most out of all other machines of this size.

 

There is a garde in front of the radiator its just finer than the 322

 

I don't really do fencing maybe 5 jobs a year.

 

The next thing I planning on making is a whinch to tow myself up on a paraglider!

[Big 'Ammer]

Cheers,

 

is it a stumpgrinder supplied through Boxer or one you have sourced and made brackets to fit?