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  1. John Shutler
    unfortunately I beg to differ, £300 is to cheap. The reality of it is that 3hrs is the best part of half a day so if your then aim to do another "3hr" job afterwards your buisness has only made £600 for the day. Which is not sustainable. but seeing as your a retired climber you might not be up on current pricing as a side point I started my buisness when £350.00 a day for a two man team with truck and chipper was the norm
  2. John Shutler
    That may well be the case, however, if it was a couple of my blokes a ladder and a hedge cutter there would still potentially be two valtras, a Unimog, two diggers, a heizohack, big diesel stump grinder and Merlo roto with grapple saw plus numerous other pieces of kit sat in the yard that need paying for so my rate would still be £150-£165 an hour 🙄 The last conifer hedge we "trimmed" I took away 90 cube of woodchip
  3. John Shutler
    it depends what your rates are, I tend to charge between £150 + VAT and £165 + VAT an hour. but then we don't trim many conifer hedges
  4. John Shutler
    agreed, the it comes to kit id much rather px it with a dealer for slightly less than have to deal with all the messers to make a little bit extra on it
  5. John Shutler
    good sized mac removal. back tomorrow to crack down rest of the timber and chip the lot with the brash. stump ground out in just over an hour. last pick weighed 2.5 tonne
  6. John Shutler
    nice grinder that 35HP petrol?
  7. John Shutler
    certainly looks like a smart piece of kit. Theres obviously pros and cons to every bit of equipment but I've always thought the ability to position a chipper at any angle is handy, be it tracked or on a trailer. This is where my heizo is limited. however I can rock up with the heizo and feed it with the tractor negating the need for another vehicle and person to bring a digger (you could put both on a low loader behind a tractor if you were going alone) I say get it bought 🤣
  8. John Shutler
    planning is a minefield and a lot of the time it doesn’t always make sense. they might decide that the trees need to be further protected following the completion of works but for the time being they are protected by the planning process
  9. John Shutler
    what does this say ? maybe better off reading all the supplied info before getting all heavy handed with the red lines 🙄
  10. John Shutler
    a lot of un educated comments being made on this thread. Everything they have suggested is pretty standard. The Default position of bs5837 is that no works should be undertaken within RPA’s, it is upto the consultant to work back from that, to a point where the methodology of the proposed works will not damage the trees. They are producing a document to satisfy the planning conditions, because without that you cannot undertake the works. They have not proposed that all excavations must be done by hand, only that initial excavations must be done by hand. The wording is very important. Ground protection is best practice when working over RPA’s. if retained trees. They certainly havnt put anything in the report that i wouldn’t put in my self. cost wise it’s possibly on the steep side but without looking at all the other documents that they have produced you can’t say for sure.
  11. John Shutler
    they are cherry products smart boxes, both boxes weigh about 350kg empty but there is a 650kg concrete weight that goes in the front of them if you want it
  12. John Shutler
    why wouldn’t you just tell him how it is?
  13. John Shutler
    time flies, ive been arb approved 10 years now
  14. John Shutler
    camping does make it sound more glamorous doesn’t it
  15. John Shutler
    yeah an old mazda and the spanner for the spout bolts. i got a 5k bank loan to buy the chipper (id already saved 3k) and the mazda cost me 3200. they were certainly simpler times. the pop got felled eventually, not by me fortunately the access was terrible
  16. John Shutler
    doing something terrible to a lombardy poplar early 2000s, i actually smashed a small brick wall in the drop zone and had to rebuild it. my first chipper and truck circa 2008, i shovelled a lot of woodchip out the back of that thing
  17. John Shutler
    bloody handy thing that
  18. John Shutler
    taking out a row of conifers at a hotel the last couple of days, and some random other pictures from jobs over the last month or so. my old valmet 8050 setup i had 4 tractors ago, was a bloody good old thing.
  19. John Shutler
    my brace of valtra n174 and a t234
  20. John Shutler
    Property and how to be a better buisnessman, self help stuff seems to a a trend with tree surgeons from Southampton, I’m always slightly dubious of self appointed experts whatever the trade or buisnness. Good of luck with it
  21. John Shutler
    no need with the kamado, you just fill the basket up and light the middle of it, you can control the temp really easily with the vents and that keeps a steady burn. ive had 10hrs burning with this method and still had charcoal left at the end. the pork jowl had already been cold smoked so i didn’t bother putting anything else in with it
  22. John Shutler
    4hrs in the kamado gear is pretty good, i couldn’t justify a big one but the little one does fine for what i need IMG_6611.MOV
  23. John Shutler
    just the small one, joe junior?
  24. John Shutler
    1kg pork jowl about to spend a few hours in the kamado
  25. John Shutler
    mid/north dorset probably or north west scotland

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