198 mature poplars to fell Coalville.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

A week tops. Andy Dunlop is nearer you with a swing shovel with keto 150.

[Craiglr90]

So has anyone taken the job on yet ? When is the deadline for it to be done ?

[AHPP]

Since we're playing the hypothetical pricing game:

 

1) Clear ground. Big (~500hp) tracked mulcher. £3000?

2) Clear ground. Smaller tractor mulcher(s). £1000

3) Fell trees outwards and backwards (leave them lying in a herringbone pattern). Two cutters and one bloke following them fuelling and sharpening saws. £1000

4) Massive chipper with a crane/winch and drive it up the middle. £9000? Shoot chips where the tree came from or into big lorries/trailers. £ no idea what that would cost or what people would pay for the chip.

5) Let some other poor grind them.

 

Double the price for safety, add some profit. Call it £30,000 if my price guesstimates were OK.

Edited September 6, 2014 by Stephen Blair

[ShooTa]

my god that could be a stunning avenue,,,,,,