MEWP or Climbing?

[Gray git]

We do look pretty young and nimble! Must be all the grasscutting and future taking it easy in a digger:biggrin:

 

Fixed that for you;)

[skyhuck]

Fixed that for you;)

 

I'm a big fan of lifting gear, I have a 14M Palfinger crane, IMO, the back breaking humping of timber will wear you out, whereas climbing keeps you fit

[Stephen Blair]

I've done loads of street trees, and the biggest problem is parked cars. We would struggle just to get a small Mog to each tree .

The best thing I've ever seen is the open top double decker, that's genius:)

[Hedge hunter]

I've done loads of street trees, and the biggest problem is parked cars. We would struggle just to get a small Mog to each tree .

The best thing I've ever seen is the open top double decker, that's genius:)

when we do street trees we close the parking for the day,again its how you price time....

 

then we get the mewp in...

[Gray git]

That I fully agree with skyhuck, if I didn't climb I'd be twice my current size and even more grumpy, better than any gym workout and more therapeutic as you actually have to think not just do! Knees still don't like long periods On spikes holding a big saw anymore but that's from rigging gon wrong smashing my knee cap in two.

I pay £120 a day for a 12 m tracked Platform delived to site so if I have a few trees on the same site or close by il climb and strip to poles and use the Mewp for the last heavy timber if no room to fell.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Nobody is talking about using mewps all the time ?

 

Just when the situation dictates it's the best option.

 

See this is where ignorance is bliss. I charge mine out on my local jobs at £595 that's mewp, operator, groundy and saws etc, hardly expensive is it. I,d like to see you get a load of climbers in at that price

 

Ps. I've seen a lot of fat climbers that don't use mewps (-;

[Philip Anderson]

Nobody is talking about using mewps all the time ?

 

Just when the situation dictates it's the best option.

 

See this is where ignorance is bliss. I charge mine out on my local jobs at £595 that's mewp, operator, groundy and saws etc, hardly expensive is it. I,d like to see you get a load of climbers in at that price

 

Ps. I've seen a lot of fat climbers that don't use mewps (-;

 

Why not Dean? If you have invested good money in purchasing a mewp then it is in your own interest to utilise it as much as possible.

I agree that ignorance is bliss having owned and operated our own mewp for 17 years you realise what an asset they can be and the monthly payments on a good mewp can be considerably less than the monthly salary of a good climber with out the holidays!

The opinions of some people that they are dangerous and that they don't trust them is surprising as they are quite willing to trust their man made ropes harnesses etc or are they just unsure of something they have never tried,a good mewp operator takes time to train just like a climber and an odd days mewp usage here and there is not going to keep you proficient just like a climber.

I also think that if people used a good quality stable mewp with plenty of capacity both in height and outreach they would change their opinions.

[Dean Lofthouse]

The only reason I don't use it more is logistics, with only me and a groundy getting a chipper to site as well as the mewp can be a problem.

 

I use it mainly on big jobs which I have a few days on or when I sub in another tree surgeon who brings his chipper for the day

[Dan Earp]

I've done loads of street trees, and the biggest problem is parked cars. We would struggle just to get a small Mog to each tree .

The best thing I've ever seen is the open top double decker, that's genius:)

 

State side they just put a shipping container ( with the bottom missing) over the cars and crack on lol

[monkeybusiness]

State side they just put a shipping container ( with the bottom missing) over the cars and crack on lol

 

If that's true (and I really hope it is) then that is the greatest idea in the world ever!