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  1. Mr Ed
    Then by definition, it was'nt a failed business.
  2. Mr Ed
    haha, that reads like one of my posts:laugh1:
  3. Mr Ed
    Yeah, but you can always tell the older hands by how they refer to them. I still call them 020's, the younger lads look at me funny. I still remember the scorching noisy square metal 020's, great saw.
  4. Mr Ed
    Funny thing, thats what my roads always are...
  5. Mr Ed
    The roads I have put in need to be good for 44 tonne artics. Your method is ideal for lighter duty, as long as your happy with a raised road.
  6. Mr Ed
    Good luck.
  7. Mr Ed
    Demolition rubble as a sub base, strip off topsoil and turf. Track in rubble with excavator. Infill with sub 50mm, vibrate in tight and topdress with type 1 or road planings. Anything else is just wasting time.
  8. Mr Ed
    Using woodchips to make a road across muddy ground is insane. Want to make your muddy hole even muddier? use woodchips!
  9. Mr Ed
    Rhys, I accidently deleted your messege emptying my inbox. I'll let you know on those chippers as soon as I get a price.
  10. Mr Ed
    Yeah, seen a few like that. Good friend of mine had a powercleaning business, he was making money hand over fist, but he blew the lot and lost his business.
  11. Mr Ed
    Been there Andy, and it aint no fun - or any help whatsoever. Dragging yourself back from that takes an enormous amount of sheer hard graft.
  12. Mr Ed
    I never liked the 1884, and its a shame he's obviously broken a genuine county to build that. 1474 was the best machine county built.
  13. Mr Ed
    Matty, I would go for the Timberwolf for reasons of newness and good dealer backup. If you can, get a 190, it addressed all the problems the 150 had. The schliesing is not a bad chipper per se, but the TW will serve you better.
  14. Mr Ed
    If... its in reasonable condition, any grab and rotator is worth about £1k. A rotator alone is worth over £500.
  15. Mr Ed
    It would'nt be for working. It would just sit there looking shiney.
  16. Mr Ed
    got a bundle in the pickup chris. I'm at Worsley on monday if you want them
  17. Mr Ed
    Get one for sunday best too.
  18. Mr Ed
    Really. I saw the written quotation on that machine.
  19. Mr Ed
    yes, either rear feed or side feed like a hiezo / jenz etc
  20. Mr Ed
    Sorry Jerry, I forget that arbworks is you For what you paid, and the setup you have, I think you made exactly the right decision. I was very impressed with the hiezo chippertruck, far better than the Jenz. In fact I discovered recently that some German contractors are converting their Hiezo's to run 4 large heavy duty blades.
  21. Mr Ed
    I scrapped a big Erjo last year. Got sick of it sitting round in bits. Arbworks, my dynamic had 4 big blades, I could change / turn all 4 in 8 minutes, and would do so every 4 hours of chipping. I've heard the story of blunt hiezo's continuing to chip, and I prefer to stick to the laws of physics. I dont particularly like Musmax chippers, seen a few working and not particularly impressed by their performance, size, or price tag. I guess I like a chipper thats simple, strong, easy to maintain, and has minimal components. My dynamic 565 could produce endless perfect G30 or G50 chip with NO screen, and out of logs, brash, bark or brashmats. That chipper was under £80K brand new and came WITH a 270hp cummins engine, and would out perform a 400hp jenz costing 3 times as much.
  22. Mr Ed
    Dont know Ross, but I know Nick the owner of AHS, and I saw the original quote for the machine. Plenty of chippers I prefer, Dynamic, Bruks, Erjo, Morbark, Bandit, CBI. The chippertruck is a very elegant soluton to the issues of sze and access, but the Jenz machine is just WAY too expensive. I'm not a huge fan of the Hiezohack, but AHS were offered the blue Hiezo chippertruck at the APF for just over £200K complete. I think that was way better than the jenz performance wise, and in a different galaxy on price.
  23. Mr Ed

    Which 4X4?????

    Mr Ed replied to Frank's topic in General chat

    I built a mini pickup with a metro turbo engine running full boost. Fantastic little toy.
  24. Mr Ed
    I have used AHS among others extensively for chipping hundreds of tonnes of waste. Depending on the job, it can work well or can potentially be a waste of good timber. You need to be talking in the hundreds of tonnes to make it pay though. We chipped 450 tonnes of hawthorn, willow, poplar and other crap on a site in Padiham - it was more economically effective to pay for the chipping and get a small return than to put staff cutting out firewood for weeks.
  25. Mr Ed
    I'm going to look at a couple tomorrow, will be cheap but may need a bit of TLC. Jensen 530, TW150 and TW190.

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