self propelled chipper (Shreks wee chipper)

[skyhuck]

ithing the 125 with feed rolers is a great machine for what it is mate , but the smaller push round a grden jobby is a pile of rubbish mate

 

If you tried a blunt 020 you would say the same, small chippers MUST be sharp!!

[Mark Bolam]

I currently have the in-between one which is the worst of both worlds! Too big to get in the garden, not big enough to cope with bigger jobs.

 

Want to get a 125 as I need something I can shove around on my own if needed (often, 'cos I have no mates). I'm not asking for Bandit-like performance, but the high lift into the gravity fed machine and providing the anti-stress with my mitts is putting years on me!

[combined tree services]

If you tried a blunt 020 you would say the same, small chippers MUST be sharp!!

 

true , and this was a hire machine lol

[Tom D]

I'm really impressed with that little machine Stevie, how wide is it, I get quite a few jobs in the Edinburgh tenaments, I looked at one yesterday where the guy wanted a guarentee that no paintwork would be damaged in the hallway:thumbdown:. I do my best but a guarentee is a step too far. That little thing would be great if you could get it through a doorway.

How much cutting did you have to do to get that conifer through ?

[Stephen Blair]

i didnt cut any of it again, i did the whole hedge with a silky, so if there were any right angled branches then i cut them off in the tree. on the really thick ones i did hold it back for a second when it was halfway through, just so the revs didnt drop much, or if it was really thick i would pull it back and let the small stuff drop down then push it through with the rest of the branch. it is as wide as a wheely bin tom, i havent measured it, itried to video it but i couldnt get my phone to sit upright anywhere.

[Tom D]

So in that case how much was it?

[Stephen Blair]

i got a show price deal from peteb, but i think they are about 4k usually

[skyhuck]

sorry dave, i never saw your post, i reckon he said,' excellent now i can chuck this job now that i am not needed' or ' ha ha, that looks crap'

 

His exact words were " they are just for lazy barstewards " (or a similar word)

 

What a man!!!!

[Tom D]

I wish some of the hire companies round here had one, all the other gravity fed ones I have used have been utter crap. but that one looks good. I probably don't get enough work for one to justify it though.

[Stephen Blair]

honestly tom, next time you look at a job have it in your head that this is the only machine you have and you are not going to take anything away. and promote that, there is always room for some stuff somewhere, then just price it that way. give the customer a comparison. so if you have to spend a morning with 3 guys and one load of chip and arisings taken off site lets say you will need approx 350-400 quid i reckon, now if you could go yourself and just do a garden tidy with lopers and silky, take nothing off site, not do any dragging. take a little longer and say charge 250. the customer saves 30% you dont have 8 hours labour to pay, a big vehicle and chipper plus fuel and time to run crap off site. happy days.