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Mmmmm CBI... a whole different ball game there mate

Hmm I've never seen any chipper produce 100% G30 or G50. The boiler infeed spec is the deciding factor on how much oversize they can take. AHS used to screen there chip, the fines were sent for horse corrals, the over size for play chip and the G30-50 was sold to medium size installations who paid a premium for good quality chip. Screening was viable because of the high value of the end product and the chipping was done in a yard witht he round wood being bought in.

I've put some nasty stuff through a Heizo mate, I'd say it's comparable with your big Conehead but i didn't ever put a big pine through it. The problem with the Heizohack is the small rotor, if you stuff the infeed full of trees the weight of the material on the top of the pile means it's slows right down pulling in. Aggresive infeed is the key and I think the American chippers win hands down in this area.

FFS Ed lol I'm going to stop posting on the same threads as you lol @ the Jenz comment.

You want to see the splinters that come out of a 180k Jenz chipper Marc and that's with a screen i wouldn't worry to much about splinters to power stations but it's easily sorted as Ed pointed out.

Ahh this old chestnut lol Steve I have experience of the bigger TP chippers and have crane fed the smaller TP230 with a roof mounted Valmet. I would avoid disc chippers for all the reasons Ed states. Heizohack are brilliant chippers, very agricultural but good chippers. Ed will allways recommend yank chippers...the build quality is agricultural BUT stronger i think than teh Heizohacks. The 16" Dynamic Conehead I crane fed is easily as good if not better in some ways than the comparable Heizohack. --------- For the use you specify yes you maynot want to produce biomass but for site clearance you will want a strong chipper. Alec will be expensive to stick a Heizohack on any type of base unit but it would be a quality piece of kit. If it was me i'd be sourcing an American chipper of between 12-18" capacity and putting it on a road tow chasiss to pull it to site behind either your Mog, a 7.5 tonner or your Unimog. Have a search it's amazing the value for money you can get with the American chippers even if you sourced one in the US and imported it. With regard to spares etc. I think people forget chippers are very simple machines, motors, pumps bearings and engine spares can all be sourced easily IF you now who to speak to and where to look. Failing that Steve just get us in to do your site clearance jobs mate

I think they had that Norcar at the APF, fantastic little thing !

Get out in the rain and do some work man

Andy rodger that and good luck with it. Dave I didn't see him mention the Lancaster Canal otherwise i would have twigged that lol.

Andy, there is a network of narrow boats that travel in particular the British Waterways network supplying coal and logs to house boat owners and marinas for the lesuire market. I wish you the best of luck but i think you'll struggle to break into that market unless you can undercut these floating suppliers. Maybe find out who supplies their logs now and supply them direct ?

This is a very very small market, i take it you would be looking at supplying Marina's rather than boat owners directly ?

When were you at Merrist Wood Scott ? I was there from '93-97.

Sounds to me like you big'd yourself up maybe at interview and they gave you a hard time on purpose. I suspect those trees were always going to be ripped out with a machine !! Good luck with it all !

3 Phase electric ? We need to get one in the barn mate

What sort of output could you expect from a system like that ? Is the drier the yellow cylinder Ed ?

Dunno about trees but i likes a well manicured bush !!

Maybe depends what info you want mate lol

Unless of course you do it by PM lol

All over the UK mate but I'm not giving anymore of my hard earned insider knowledge ;-)

Tango Whiskey Alpha Tango lol

My near miss was turning down the Army Air Crp for Tree Surgery LOL

That sort of work Matt is billed at agreed points or weekly or monthly etc.

That's AHS for you ! and that's why i always gave arbtalkers 6.00 a ton minimum. There profit is in giving you as little as possible guys !

LOL Simon !!