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It could be worse. If your an employer you also have to pay your employees a wage to do the pointless tests.

Oaks naturally retrench in old age and a reduction can often be done leaving the tree looking good. It might not be the best thing for the tree, but in my experience they seem to cope fine in the short term. Many of our ancient oaks will have been chopped and cut in all sorts of non bs3998 ways over thier 600+ years.. and are doing fine. As long as plenty of leaf is left. Anything that lives as long as an oak has to be able to adapt and take some abuse..

Since selling our 2 trucks for export a few weeks back, we got a speeding ticket in Germany and now got a quote for topping some conifers in Czech Republic... I can have tax deductible to trip to prague to do the quote...

In my opinion yes. We have two 3.5ton isuzu tippers. Different league from the 3.5 ton transit and ivecos.

Happily or legally? Many, many, years ago I recal the crane operator asking how much it could carry as we lowered a 3 ton lump into our smiley transit. Tipped happily. But legally depends on the back but probably only 200 to 700kgs

Cheers for the feed back. It's been a few years since I have been on the tools so my decision making is perhaps biased to £'s it's going to cost.. I do remember the increase in productivity moving from a tw190 to the tw250. I was hoping the 8 inch machines of which there are many had increased in a similar way the little ones had. The tw230 is imo as productive as an old tw190.

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Conversely, buying new or leasing means you waste a huge amount of cash on depreciation. I agree you need a reliable vehicle but a new truck will not earn you any more money then an old reliable one. New trucks do breakdown and still need to be maintained. I can't imagine leasing would work in our industry as the abuse they get means that you are going to get shafted when you return it. My advice buy as good as you can. My preference would be an ex lease vehicles. Often looked after and the worst of depreciation gone..

I am happy with threads going slightly off track... My initial feeling was for a 10 inch machine as when we went that way it gave us an advantage over the competition, but it has to make economic sense. Most of the work we do is domestic and many cope with smaller chippers and they are MUCH more affordable. Technology has changed and the sub 750 chippers these days seem to have output similar to the bigger machines of yesteryear when I was on the tools.. If the same is the case for the 8 inch machines then they might be not far off the output of our old 10 inch machines, and therefore its worth considering them also. There are lots more of the middle size machines about and so used is more likely an option. If I could have 2 or 3 medium chippers for the price of 1 large.. That might make more sense.. There are also a lot more specialist firms with massive chippers who do all the ground clearance stuff these days. I don't want to go down that route..

Is this Forst bashing just from GreenMech staff/dealers and Mick? The guys liked the one we tried and there are some on here who seem to be very positive, I seem to recall Mick Dempsey was when he first got one?

Used a smaller one many many moons ago.. Still at 2400 hrs stuff will be worn out. That can be expensive to repair if you can even get the parts.

My preference would be nearly new.. That seems like a lot of cash for a 12 year old machine with over 2000 hours.. There have been a few old (early 2000's) big chippers on ebay recently with folk asking silly money for them.. a tw250 at £18k another at £9.5. And a 2008 schiesing at £22.5k. with 1400hrs. Madness.. used wood chippers WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Condition is Used. Wood chipper Schliesing 550MX with Hatz diesel engine of 72hp on galvanized tandem-axle chassis (80 km/h). Towing hitch adjustable in height with inertia brake...

We had a forst ST8 on demo and it was capable machine and purchase costs much lower than the bigger machines. But I want 10inch really.. I do have concerns about their long term reliability...

It is deffo top of the pile.. But interested in alternatives. The Bandits are just bigger and less compact and as said we have had issues with the cost of parts with Bandit and Vermeer..

Look good but some serious Euros...

We have the tracked GM and it's OK, but not in the same league as the OLD TW250 which I believe is around 70hp

Looking to update our old TW 250 chipper in the coming year. What bigger chippers are out there? What do folk recommend? We mostly do domestic work but am fond of the 10 inch chippers, I don't want logs to process.. We are NOT often doing site clearance which has become more specialised in recent years and will be mostly hand fed.. The TW250 is a great machine and it TW still made them, it would be top of my list. It is compact and chipps everything you throw at it.. We have a vermer BC 230xl and it is OK (not as good as TW), not going to rush to get another parts are expensive... Bandit spares also seem to be costly (we have 2 bandit grinders) What else is out there? Have the smaller 7 inch machines improved to a similar degree to the 6 inch machines (our TW230 seems to have the output our old TW190).

I don't intend to be preachy... we also run 3.5 ton trucks alongside our 7.5 ton trucks. But if I had the choice (drivers) I wouldnt bother with the 3.5ton trucks. The 6.5 ton iveco is in a different league from the 3.5 ton. It is more robust, clutches last longer, bigger and your normally legal. The bigger trucks are also way better value on the used market. I would recomend all owner operators do the training and get a bigger truck as you would probably save the cost of the training when purchasing the truck. It was pretty easy to find tidy low mileage 7.5 ton Ivecos for around £12k to £15k. We ended up paying £18.5 to find a decent 3.5 ton isuzu.

The 6.5 and 7.5 ton trucks are much better suited for tree work... What we need to do is clamp down on those running overloaded and make it normal to have an appropriate truck and licence..

From my experience in arb 2 years is not a long time. It might be different in forestry but climbers normally (there are some exceptions) need 4-7 years.

Our recent new employee has left for utility work.. So we are still looking.. Mostly, domestic work, good kit and team.

I have a huyandi i800. About half the money of a vw and better to drive.

We extended the drawbar on our grain trailer so that we could carry the hiab on the tractor. That would be another way of doing it.