MEWP or Climb

[Dean Lofthouse]

They come into their own on long runs of conifer work or long runs of deadwooding or lifting.

 

Or on a single awkward tree with multiple targets or phone lines. They will never take over climbing and who wants them to, certainly not me.

 

As has been said many times they have their place, you don't and wouldn't use them all the time, that'd be like putting up scaffold to wash your windows

[Sciadopitys]

Climbing is the way - unless i'm hungover - then give me a MEWP

[Mesterh]

Why don't all my competitors get MEWPs and steal all my work??

 

They are only cost effective on some jobs, and essential on even less.

 

 

 

I've never been beaten on price by some one with a MEWP

 

You checked every job you have ever priced.

 

I wouldnt buy a mewp but then I also wouldnt buy the setup that you have because to me they both wouldn't be cost effective or beneficial to my business on a daily basis.

 

 

Mewps have there place just like 30T cranes.

[bob]

chiper dosn't need to have loler

 

still covered under puwer though

[Mark Bolam]

two chaps working together, one an operator the other the cutter, or one holding and chucking and the other operating, can in Johns eyes be very efficient. Or two people in a cage built for one can get the mewp rocking.

Does anyone know LEE at universal? I dont want to get anyone into trouble, but we've had some proper wrong times in one of em big ones.

 

I know Lee very well, the gobby little munchkin.

 

Do Universal still exist? Used to hire loads of their machines for telecomms mast surveys.

 

Access is a problem for most of my typical back garden jobs. Would love a little tracked MEWP, but as Dean has said it would stay at home for most jobs. Too much money to have sitting in the lock-up.

 

Does anyone hire these out in the Kent area for anything approaching sensible money?

[scotspine1]

Originally posted by Tim Craig

 

Had a lot of experience with using bucket trucks in the US, cherry pickers, spider lifts and 'Genie' booms in the UK for tree removals. They are all excellent tools in the right hands and can make the job a lot safer and easier provided you have a good understanding of work positioning. I would only let an experienced climber use a cherry picker for a large removal that involved rigging.

 

Most tree surgeons in the UK dont like hiring cherry pickers because they find the cost of renting them prohibitive, especially in the private/residential market where quotes have to kept realistic.

 

This makes no sense if they saved time then then hiring or owning one would make you more competitive surely

 

 

Never said they saved time, read my post again, its you that doesnt make sense, your happy to pass judgement on a subject you know nothing about.

[dodger]

been climbing for 30 plus years the last yew years i have used mewps on a regular basis, can reduce tree alot lighter and quicker and safer. and dont get knacked at the end of the day. mewps have more good points than bad