Day rate for this?

[RobRainford]

The 550zx. My favorite chipper. Proper well made machine. The size of the hopper is great and the feed rollers grip anything and everything!

[arbwork]

Ok so, red line oil you know Jim then?, rollers are good and hungry but can flick short pieces of wood in a dangerous way, especially if they have no branches to steady them, care / training needed for hand feeding. Back to original q. price depends on what you are doing with the unit, if you are saving your client a fortune by chipping loads o stuff they can not manage with out you then higher £ , if you are just helping yourself out by making life easier by using the chipper it will be lower £ justify prices to suit the works, i.e. dirty building site clearance will= more wear and tare ( if not tears! ) therefore more charge, good luck J

Edited July 9, 2012 by arbwork

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Holy crap, priciest round here is £450 plus vat, we are charging £250 + vat!!! Altho our setup less impressive - MTX 135 with 560TL feeding a Jensen A041 12"...

[Johny Walker]

Holy crap, priciest round here is £450 plus vat, we are charging £250 + vat!!! Altho our setup less impressive - MTX 135 with 560TL feeding a Jensen A041 12"...

 

i get £250 for me & mi tracked 6" jensen !!!!!!

[Andy Collins]

I charge £250 for me and the wee Jo Beau!!!!! For a tractor and 12" chipper arond here, id say £450 shoukd be the minimum. Time and again I hear the argument from others that they cant get x amount for their far more expensive machinery, ie big JCBs or tractors with big kit... To them I say you could if you tried. And to compare with agri rates for kit...well there is no comparison. I have hired a telehandler and driver for the day in the past for less £££s than 1 climber!! I think living in a rural area, with many farms with big kit on them helps keep the cost down, and they are grateful when they are slack to earn something for their workers to do something.

[roseyweb]

Can you crane feed the chipper as I guess that would make a difference

[WoodED]

If I carry on like this I’ll be living in a tp! just put it on the biggun then! at the mo have 1 hack, 4 tp 2schilising I think .....runnin out of fingers ps good luck with the cs thingys ed... need 1 of the chips for the pops!!?

 

i have sujested using you and your hiezohack to that trust god knows how many times, but no, they still send us out with a 7 inch timberwolf.. its slowing us down so much.

[WoodED]

i would have said 500-600 a day depending on quantity.