Justified ?

[swinny]

Is that last one true lol

[Tom D]

No Stevie would have asked the client if he had got any other prices and then dismantled it for £6499 lol

[Gray git]

We have had a few local authoritie jobs where a mewp was in the job spec due to storm damage or decay but no reason the trees couldn't have been felled with a road closure but if they want to pay, fine.

It's more when I spec correct traffic management and pedestrian controls and B comes along with a lad in a vizy vest waving his arms at the traffic and 3 cones that I get annoyed.

I use mewps a lot and hence own 1 as it suits the work we do and is more for ease and speed than for safety although I do believe not being knackered ringing down a big stem will make it safer. Some jobs I charge for it being there some I don't but it makes it faster so we make more that way others it'd be a PITA and in the way so we climb, as said it's all down to how you assess the job.

To add iv been on the receiving end of sour grapes and had another contractor try and stir it with a large client after my bid was excepted and not his which was purely down to the size of equipment we took to the job making it far faster.

[peatff]

No Stevie would have asked the client if he had got any other prices and then dismantled it for £6499 lol

 

Careful Tom, he does come on here sometimes....

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

, however in tree work a Mewp is rarely justified.

 

... for long lines of crown lifting or removing ivy off buildings, only once for a dangerous tree, and that was for someone else job, personally I would have climbed the tree...

 

Hmmm...I wouldn't agree here. MEWPs are often justified, or rather would be if either the company owned one or the value of a contract AND their availability locally was favourable.

 

I know we climb dead/dying/dangerous trees, adjusting our techniques accordingly, or at least that's what we tell ourselves, but how often have you been in that situation and something's happened that made you go SH*T, that was a bit too close for comfort...or maybe it was just me.

 

PLEASE consider ALL the differing factors to determine whether a MEWP really might be the best option...at least in so doing and then deciding otherwise, ie to climb, you'll be according with the regs / ICOP.

 

Cheers, n tc out there..

Paul

[fagus]

Likely to be in the LA's standing orders that a lowest bid is accepted unless there is adequate reason; using a MEWP on H and S grounds might be such a reason. In this case it must have been considered unnecessary to go away from the norm.

 

Accepting higher bids can lead to accusations of favouritism.

Edited March 29, 2016 by fagus

[Gray git]

Slight twist on this but I feel might be relevant in a way is iv just had to realy justify myself to the council today as I wanted to take my mewp onto council land to aid in deadwooding a large private oak that over hangs the footpath and playing field, the council have instructed the owner to have the work done or they will appoint someone and rebill her.

All the dead is on the very branch ends mostly less than 2cm diameter so almost impossible to climb and get it all yet they didn't want me on their land, got permission in the end but had to climb the foodchain and argue the point quoting icop and HSE best practice etc to get it! Madness!!

[Tom D]

Careful Tom, he does come on here sometimes....

 

Stevie knows I'm joking... I only picked him as he's a no nonsense wood cutter..