decisions decisions

[arbormonkey]

The old greenmech chip master has become a money pit. Its 20 years old but still beats most on the large Connie jobs so will be keeping hold off it.But need something new as I am getting lost of large contracts now but cant decide between the forst st6 or st8 the greenmech quad chip Jensen greenmech arborist 150 but not a timberwolf .What would you chose would you lease finance etc. Who would you use arblease etc .

 

 

cheers in advance jay

[RichieR]

Fingers crossed I hope soon I be getting my first chipper and I been looking at the arblease way. It certainly looks tempting having not pouring most of my savings into a machine in one go. Good thread Jay

[Ian C]

I would go forst st8 or gm 190 . Just my opinion there are a lot of good machines out there Inc the new Tw, and there British.

Edited July 4, 2015 by Ian C

[dan494]

Saw a tracked gm190 in George Browns this week, looks like a tank!

[Johny Walker]

  dan494 said:

Saw a tracked gm190 in George Browns this week, looks like a tank!

 

theres abig differance to what it looks like & how it may or may not perform

 

IMO

[Johny Walker]

  Ian C said:

I would go forst st8 or gm 190 . Just my opinion there are a lot of good machines out there Inc the new Tw, and there British.

 

not the st6 then iain

[Ian C]

  Johny Walker said:

not the st6 then iain

 

Nah i would go 8" mate,only for the fact that your over 750kg so may as well go bigger or get 750kg 6" my st6 is v good.

[Steve Bullman]

i'd get a demo of the new timberwolf 230 before ruling it out, I assume based on the 150

[dan494]

  Johny Walker said:

theres abig differance to what it looks like & how it may or may not perform

 

 

 

IMO

 

 

Agreed, it certainly looked the part though.

[Gray git]

Selling my quadchip and at the moment the st8 is looking the best contender.

Had the gm190 out last week and it was good but struggled to get conifer greenery further than the middle of my chipbox and felt it pulled in no better than the quadchip so I'd be upgrading to a bigger more powerful machine with little more improvement in performance which says a lot for how good the quadchip is but the st8 performed like a much bigger machine and really packed the chip in.