Unimog pain.

[skyhuck]

It's not on finance.

Yes, its an asset so freeing money to pay for replacement.

Also selling my Mini Cooper S for the same reason and because it just isn't used.

 

 

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How much more per week do you think the mog costs over the cost of a 3.5 toner????

[Breezeblock]

keep the mog and get rid of the mini

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

Convert the mini for tree work and sell the Mog

[Jesse]

Well after a fraught few months i have come to the realisation that I no longer use my unimog for the type of jobs I used to. For that reason it's not earning it's keep so it is now being sold along with the reconditioned chipper.

 

The worst part of it is, I'm planning on replacing it with a Transit and Land Rover with tow along chipper. I can't believe I'm saying this, especially the LR bit, and I may have to kill myself as soon as I've bought one.

However, you have my word that I will never become a LR raver, I'll get the windows tinted so no one sees me in it and will deny knowledge of ownership if asked.

 

Anyway, it is what it is so I'm now off to vomit then drink myself to sleep.

 

 

 

 

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I came to the same realization about 18mths ago, I chopped my u1200 for a new puma and new tracked TW, we try to leave wood chip in dumpy bags so we now haul much less, this set up for me works really well. where as b4 some of the drags where killers now we just chip next to the task and leave in a dumpy bag , for a fee.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

How much more per week do you think the mog costs over the cost of a 3.5 toner????

 

Well that's the perfect question. I don't know exactly because I have not bothered to work it out but I do know this:

I used to do several jobs a month for small/medium size property developers and construction companies. Due to rough ground and volumes to be removed the Unimog was perfect. Since the recession started this work has all but dried up.

 

Now we do 1 or 2 commercial jobs a month and they are usually small. This means that all month we drive to a job and the Mog sits still, chipping up at the end of the day. The only benefit is that it carrys a lot more than a transit ever could in one load.

 

For this reason I plan to replace it with two 3.5t trucks and a 9" tow along. (I don't want log wood). For the odd job when a Mog is needed I can hire in, sub-out or miss the job.

 

I certainly can see your point and it flies in the face of all the reasons I bought my Mog in the first place.

 

There is one other reason for changing which is the break down factor. When the Mog or chipper break I'm completely stranded with the cost of a repair, wages, loss of earnings and possibly unhappy clients. With two trucks, a tow along and a 3.5t tipping trailer I'll have flexibility.

Seems to make sense, I think.

Of course, the easiest option for me is to trade my U1200 for a 1600 and front mount my chipper and tow a trailer as this is the ultimate work rig IMO, but it's just a costs decision.

[ARBOR8]

Shame about haveing to sell your Mog. Over the years i have had 2, U 1100, then a U 1250 both had hiab,s the latter a Hiab 350 the best piece of kit i ever had. Times and types of job change. I now run a Defender 130 tipper with 3.5 tonne trailer. The big jobs just are,nt there often enough now.

[Jesse]

Shame about haveing to sell your Mog. Over the years i have had 2, U 1100, then a U 1250 both had hiab,s the latter a Hiab 350 the best piece of kit i ever had. Times and types of job change. I now run a Defender 130 tipper with 3.5 tonne trailer. The big jobs just are,nt there often enough now.

Not only are the big jobs few and far between, company's are falling over them self's for the work and a lot of it is done at cost or even below cost:thumbdown: its just really hard to make any money on the big jobs, at the moment knocking out 3 or 4 small jobs a day is where the money can still be made. being quick and officiant at your job is how you make your money.

[Le Sanglier]

Not only are the big jobs few and far between, company's are falling over them self's for the work and a lot of it is done at cost or even below cost:thumbdown: its just really hard to make any money on the big jobs, at the moment knocking out 3 or 4 small jobs a day is where the money can still be made.

'twas ever thus, plus they pay that day.

[winchman]

Could you not just farm any Mog type work out for a small cut?

They could go in as you if need be?

I might be talking rubbish, but If I had a Mog I would be sorry to see it go, but its just another operating cost

[Stephen Blair]

Oldmill, up until 2009 I used to run a 2150 with 10" chipper and a Valmet 8950 with roof mount.

The recession kicked in and my kit sat about, and then every time I started it something would go wrong as it never likes sitting about.

So I sold the lot, paid off my finance a chunk of mortgage, my wife's car and put a small trailer on the back of my Caravelle and bought a Cs100 from Jonesies, that's where Gloria started.

Zero drag, easier pace, less staff and almost zero running costs, I could undercut all my competition and make more money.

If I needed anything taken away I would just bring in someone with a tow behind and transit and use their labour

But the secret is to sell your option, I bought a saw horse aswell and would make piles of logs and border features with the wood and chip.

The world has went green and wants to save money, so it's perfect