Jonny69

Did a little Horse Chestnut reduction today with mine. Roughly 4m3 of chip and a bag of rakings. Left the logs for the client, the machine would have just about chipped the logs, but no point wearing out the knives. Used about 3litres of fuel and 45minutes chipping on the clock EDIT: The last picture is massive and I cant work out why. Sorry

This is a tricky one. As you may lose more than just the car/truck by using personal loans! arbmark, on the original issue. Depends how old the vehicle you wish to finance is. You may well find that you pay a large premium for financing an older vehicle (i.e more than three years old and the premium will rise with the age) I was chatting with a salesman from Ford commercials on Wednesday. They offer an exceptional package on their new Commercial vehicles. 3.5% flat with two £10 admin fees and a deposit of just the VAT. This is pretty well unbeatable for normal people unless they are buying and financing a lot of machinery every year. If you buy an older vehicle and finance you could pay 2-5x that for the privilege. Plus you still have no warranty and an old truck. BTW I do not work for Ford just was very surprised at the finance package they were offering. They must really be desperate to shift new Vans.

True, I think I have a few years of youth left before days like that are no longer an option!

Not 100% true, I can fill my trailer with the Bandit 490 (Know nothing of the Greenmech) in 1-1.5hrs with two people chipping. I reckon that is 6.5m3 of woodchip, which will quite a lot more capacity that a TT85. The time difference come from prepping the brash correctly to allow you to chip that fast. It takes a lot longer to cut up neatly for a gravity fed than a roller fed machine. The most I have done with two guys in a day is three loads of chip in my trailer, this included felling the trees, cutting the logs and a 30 minute round trip to tip off. I will say that I was pretty sure I was going to die though and the job would have been completed a lot more comfortably with a proper chipper, however sweat is free and running two vehicles to site is not, so.................... Pictures are posted April 11th https://www.facebook.com/TreeworxArb?fref=ts

Sounds like a really good idea to me. Where does that end though? Will people be down plating 3500 to 2500 to come under the restriction and continue overloading it anyway. Or would any LGV be included?

Tricky one. This is why when people ask me for a day rate, it ends up a lot to cover me in case it goes wrong. If you had priced the job yourself for two people. How many days would it have been?

Did you give them a fixed cost?

I have watched all of their videos and can only assume that they have a log splitter for the big stuff which will on take up to a certain length. The guy on the grapple cuts all of the timber to the same length. The videos of the camera on the loader are excellent. He knows what he is doing, raking up with a log every day without having to have a digger on site must save huge amounts of time.

This is not the right thread, but............ Monsanto are most certainly evil. There is a huge amount of information on the internet to back up that fact. Not just GM crops and herbicides. Monsanto's Harvest of Fear | Vanity Fair Only a matter of time before their lawyers come to bite farmers in the UK. EDIT: Found one a bit closer to home http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/12/uknews.pollution1

Me too. Monsanto are having none of my money. You can kill woody material with glyphosate (I have done on sites where they are very strict on chemicals) I am pretty sure it is the lack of penetration into the leaves that means it takes a few goes to kill it.

I had a go with one at the APF, the last time is was at Cannock Chase. Was not terribly impressed, in comparison to the american stuff at a similar horsepower/cost. Also not sure if there is/was a radio remote option for it. Though this was over 4 years ago, I may have used a different spec machine. However it looked very nicely made and the design well considered, except it was very easy to push the machine about on the stump because of its balance/weight. Treesurgeonpoole on youtube has one. Maybe give him a call.

Try a fry up. Sounds bad for you, I find if I eat anything other than bacon and eggs my body is giving up by 10am. Fry the eggs in butter, so basically. Bacon: Protein and salt Eggs 3 or 4 is ideal scrambled: Protein Proper bread, not cheap white crap: Carbs Tomatoes/beans/mushrooms etc: I like these but the eggs and bacon are the critical bit for me. I am trying to find the article which explains how different body types require different foods. Also you can drink as much water as you like, if your breakfast is poor your body will not metabolise correctly and you will have no benefit. I prefer to go easy the water and only drink what my body tells me to. No more. There was a really good article in ProCycling last year regarding the performance benefits of being very slightly dehydrated. This is not the article in Procycling but explains it well Over-hydration - Too much of a good thing? Succeed! Sports Nutrition

What are you eating for breakfast/dinner?

That's cheating. Got any videos of the one in the UK at work?

I think that depends how you define "works well"! How much are they? I suppose if they are really cheap then it is viable and not worth running a dedicated grinder. One of the 13hp wheeled grinder looks similar and a 25hp push along will be a vast amount quicker. The only way I can see you can make one work well is with a dedicated engine and pump. I thought about making something that you pick up with brackets on the blade. A 30hp + engine and matching cutting head.

Where is the video of her running then Dean?

I have sold a LOT of stuff on ebay, mostly not tree related. But hobby bits and bobs. From £10 - £10,000 and on all of it I start the listing at what I want for the item. About 80% of the time I have agreed a price, sell, am paid and have the item posted before the auction has ended. Had a lot of people message me with negative comments because I sold and removed the item before it ended but TBH 1 guy with cash on collection is worth 10 who say they may have bid if I had left it running. This way also avoids you paying end of auction fees which saves a lot of money. I have only ever had one issue with some snowboard boots because the buyers paypal account had been used by his son in Morzine to pay for them. Paypal closed his account and froze my transaction too in case it was fraud. I didn't post them till it was all sorted. Simple. Had 3 tough looking Eastern Europeans once turn up at the house at 2am paying for some Hi-Fi kit in a white van. They were really nice guys and were over here touring the country collecting all of the stuff they had bought on ebay in the few weeks prior. Slightly scary, but he got a big wad of cash out and everyone was happy. I would never bid an item up, I have been asked to do this by mates and am not interested.

This video is worth a look if you have not seen it. MONSTER TREE SERVICE MADISON GIANT COTTONWOOD 2012 - YouTube I found it very interesting, some dubious looking antics. Not how I would have done it, but he gets it down quick.

This machine is mine. I think it is great for a little chipper. Relatively easy to wheel about, though it is still over 200kg. Obviously you have to cut the brash sensibly but if you do the output it excellent. Less time trying to force bits through it the better.

They tow pretty well, friends of mine have had 3 or 4 now. All on gas, auto with various specs and engines 5 to 6.5L v8's. They are pretty bouncy with a heavy trailer on and do not to anything like as well as an amazon, discovery, shogun, range rover style truck. But the reason they sold them all was the never ending problems with the gas conversion kits. At any time at least one of them was off the road with head and valve issues to do with lubrication. They all had lubrication kits on them and the problems still arose. They all did about 30k per year towing though and the trailers went out and came back at pretty much 3.5ton with machines on (they were not used for tree work) They are also very slow, with or without a load and the auto boxes are pretty agricultural. Oh, and the brakes are not good, they were another fairly constant issue.

I had a 13/75 on hire for 3 days middle of last year because I needed it for a narrow little garden. The worst pile of turd I have ever seen. The guy loading it wanted to kill himself after about an hour. Knives were not blunt, I know this because of the amount of times I had to undo the discharge chute to clear the debris that had blocked it. Problems are they are big (wider than the greenmech, jo beau or bandit). Heavy. or the feel heavy on those stupid wheels which catch every tiny piece of debris and sink in to soft lawns. The main problem is that they don't chip! Anyway I bought this and think it is great. I owned a 13hp Jo Beau m300 several years ago, which was good. But the 18hp makes all the difference. Never tried the Greenmech as I like the Bandit stuff, but their machine is supposed to be very good too. Also I would not worry about fuel because my bandit will use twice the amount the timberwolf would, however it would chip 5 times as much. I think I get just over 1 hour out of a tank. That is roughly 5m3 of chip, however if the stuff going in is awkward that is reduced. EDIT: Forgot to add if you buy the timberwolf, make sure you get a few sets of felcos. Cause you will need them to sned the branches to get anything into it.

Common misconception It sounds like there is finance on the car, if this is the case the V5 and any other proof of ownership you want to fabricate, invoice etc are meaningless. Until the deal is settled the finance company own any asset which there is borrowing on. The worst this can screw you is if you buy a car privately, 2 weeks later repo men turn up and take the car you just bought because it has outstanding finance. There is nothing you can do other than pay the finance (essentially paying twice for the car) or lose it. There is a certain type of car seller this is very common with, not wishing to be called a xenophobe, I will refrain.

The Binderberger splitter made £4200 + VAT and TAX. The only thing that went for even close to sensible money was the Jensen Chipper, looked a really tidy machine for £5200 As for anyone paying £1000 for a used 880, unreal. Also it was really cold.

Good advice, but is assumes the bits in red are correct for the OP.

Same as me, I towed all sorts for about 5 years after I did my test at the age of 22. I failed twice on normal driving stuff, nothing to do with the trailer. Ended up costing me roughly £600. The best lesson I had was in a Ford Focus with a normal driving instructor for two hours the morning before I took the test. I still should have failed the 3rd test because I never used the handbrake when I was supposed to, but the examiner was good and told me he cold tell I was in control of the vehicle, which was nice of him. (Or maybe he was under that months pass quota, you can never tell)