A little help and advice needed please

[Frankie Lawrence]

I wouldn't use a mewp as its a good way to chuck alot of extra monney on the job needlessly and price yourself out of some work. as the lines will be off anyway you should just be able to spike up strip em down before you even have the mewp set up ready.

 

Keep it simple and earn more monney.

 

 

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[mad matty]

not sure about that did that norwegian maple in 4hrs start to finish not including timber removal, but done in a day. never broke a sweat. hired 80ft mewp with operator. priced the job as if climbing and worked out the same price wise if not a bit better.

[Frankie Lawrence]

not sure about that did that norwegian maple in 4hrs start to finish not including timber removal, but done in a day. never broke a sweat. hired 80ft mewp with operator. priced the job as if climbing and worked out the same price wise if not a bit better.

 

Don't get me wrong I know mewps are fast and I'm not denying that but why are they needed on these trees? It's just an extra 300? To add on the job and if the op is the same price as the other firm on everything then puts a mewp on who do you think the customer will go for? I do also stand by you could climb these faster than a mewp including time to set it up.

 

Anyway all food for though for op

 

 

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[mad matty]

fair enough everyone has their own way of doing it. if the price is the same either way it your choice. just no roping of with a mewp, but hard to tell with out looking at the job.if your quick enough to climb and you have enough ground staff, frankie has a good and fair point

[Frankie Lawrence]

fair enough everyone has their own way of doing it. if the price is the same either way it your choice. just no roping of with a mewp, but hard to tell with out looking at the job.if your quick enough to climb and you have enough ground staff, frankie has a good and fair point

 

That's my point the price of a mewp would surely put more monney on the job for the cost of machine say I did it for 300 pound ( for example) for me groundie truck chipper and you would charge 300 for you groundie truck chipper then you would want a mewp aswell would then send your quote up to ( for example) 600 pound for a mewp aswell.

 

Who would you think the customer going to go for?

 

As you said though if that works for you nice one I'm not judging just trying to help the op win a job.

 

 

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[mad matty]

yeah i get it, i was just saying depending on the job the mewp is quicke,r tree on floor in half the time and completed in half the time. and still able to charge the same rate as climbing. but maybe not on this job. we hire a mewp with operator for £275 and he help hold and throw. but i do get what you mean and all i was saying on our last job we quoted the same as crew that wanted to climb it, and we did it in half the time

[Coletti]

Cheers for the info guys, it's all food for thought, only thought of mewp for ease but I see what your saying about climbing and making the job cheaper, to be fair that's probs what I'll end up doing, gotta sort out getting the power off first

[ecotreecare]

Just climb them, from the pictures the lines look far enough away.

[Taupotreeman]

I think there's a whole thread on power lines somewhere but in short, if you're not sure, get the utility company out to have a look. Electricity doesn't often offer a second chance.

 

 

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[Coletti]

Well the lines at max are only 2 metres away, I would consider that dangerously close personally, definitely warranting shutting off before I think about doing them. Thanks Taupotreeman, to be on the safeside I'm gonna do just that, can never be too cautious around electric