Mog or Not???

[Fat Boy Slimmed]

Mainly chip, hedge cuttings and logs, this is all chiped or shredded into product for Slough! Also I have no HGV licence.

[treequip]

If you don't have a HGV licence how are you going to drive a vehicle that is an HGV?

[Fat Boy Slimmed]

I have licence with C1+e so 7.5 tonne with 750 kg trailer!

[leedeerman]

definitley NOT

 

Reasons as follows:

 

Unreliable compared to a good tractor

 

Cost more than a good tractor

 

Cost more to repair than a tractor

 

Parts cost more than most tractor parts

 

They go wrong more often.

 

A git to fix.

 

A good mid powered tractor is will do more than a mog can, just not as fast on the road.

 

 

The amount of times ive seen small to medium size firms with a mog with a hugh chipper on the front 3 point and a pointlessly small chip box on the back ive lost count, having a chipper on the front and driving round at 40 or so mph is bloody dangerous and shoud be illiegal.

 

What they are good for diffurcult access off road conditions not much can get near them there.

 

Most people have them not for that reason but because they seem to think it makes the macho....... stupid machines IMO!!

[combined tree services]

definitley NOT

 

Reasons as follows:

 

Unreliable compared to a good tractor

 

Cost more than a good tractor

 

Cost more to repair than a tractor

 

Parts cost more than most tractor parts

 

They go wrong more often.

 

A git to fix.

 

A good mid powered tractor is will do more than a mog can, just not as fast on the road.

 

 

The amount of times ive seen small to medium size firms with a mog with a hugh chipper on the front 3 point and a pointlessly small chip box on the back ive lost count, having a chipper on the front and driving round at 40 or so mph is bloody dangerous and shoud be illiegal.

 

What they are good for diffurcult access off road conditions not much can get near them there.

 

Most people have them not for that reason but because they seem to think it makes the macho....... stupid machines IMO!!

 

But then again A mog is meant to be used in off road conditions and is ideal for taking a decant size PTO chipper accross farmland to a work site where it can be chiped into and then taken back accros the site without the risk of a any non Drve wheels causing it to lose traction or cause undue ground disturbance ! this it something a tractor , chipper and trailer can not offer ! and seccondly it is not intended for a mog with front mount to travel at speeds of 40-40 mph , when opperating a front mount chipper our mog is always escorted on the highway and at no point will it acceed 30mph on even so much and a dual carageway !! its often the case that a machine gets a bad name beacuse of the opperators !!

[Fat Boy Slimmed]

Have looked a the tractor option or new telehalander with 3point link and pto but it's the problem of having to tow a Hugh trailer behind aswell, to take the waste! Can someone tell me the extra complications of running a 7.5tonner then please ie. testing taxes insurance operators licence etc? As I've seen a good package 7.5 tonnes with hook loader and hiab!

[combined tree services]

well to start a Hook loader and Hiab on a 7.5 ton truck would limmit you to about 500-800 kg pay load , then there are the regular inspections \ cpcs , loler inspections and o licence !!!

[Johny Walker]

well to start a Hook loader and Hiab on a 7.5 ton truck would limmit you to about 500-800 kg pay load , then there are the regular inspections cpcs , loler inspections and o licence !!!

 

why do u need a cpcs

[combined tree services]

we are finding that it is becoming far more common to be asked t provide cpcs evidence for hiab opperators and kit such as hook loader and role on role off lorries before we can opperate them on site

[gemtrees]

Mog deffinatly, more versatile than 7.5t better off road by far, LWB mog will carry 10m3and tow chipper of any size, and a good mog will out last any 7.5t and all in more fun.