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If it's 40 minutes that's a lot of chipping ! £150 including taking the chip away but no tidying up after. It's not worth any less you'd be hard pushed to rent a chipper for less than that.

 

Yep you can you can chip allot of brash etc in 40 mins. 3 to 5cu/ mtrs easy

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I usually break it down into an hourly rate for operators, minimum of 1 hour, + a separate charge per cubic metre of chip for waste disposal because it's not free to dispose of the chip (waste handling licence, dragging chip around and record keeping is not free) + some for the chipper and fuel.

 

It gives the customer to chance to keep the chip then, so you don't have to drag it off site and move it far.

 

I usually find that when you get a call like that, they have just priced a skip to take it away and got a shock! you also have to realize that they won't have cut it up to suit your chipper and the way you work, the last one I did had cut a conifer up down to 2 inch stems, which means loads of picking up rather than bunging a 5" tree through the chipper in one go.

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forgot to add about the skip!
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Anothe vote for 'I don't chip other peoples stuff.'

 

From experience the 'customer' thinks all the hard work has been done so its just a case of 'the last bit of the job'. I can earn a lot more per hour doing a full job for someone so why waste my time and equipment filling in for some knob who can't do a full job.

 

I would have to be desperate for work to even contemplate it.

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Anothe vote for 'I don't chip other peoples stuff.'

 

From experience the 'customer' thinks all the hard work has been done so its just a case of 'the last bit of the job'. I can earn a lot more per hour doing a full job for someone so why waste my time and equipment filling in for some knob who can't do a full job.

 

I would have to be desperate for work to even contemplate it.

 

I have done many times for the right money and for mates who,s own chipper has brokern but never ever lend it or hire it out for others to use. A big big no no.

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If it's 40 minutes that's a lot of chipping ! £150 including taking the chip away but no tidying up after. It's not worth any less you'd be hard pushed to rent a chipper for less than that.

 

By the power of grey skull you can fill a grab lorry with chip in 30mins.

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