skyhuck

I think he has one of those Mike, also known as a "schmit plate" (sp). Thats what mine fits on.

9" mate, great chipper, IMO.

Thats the one!! Alex will be able to help!!

To be born an English man, is to hold the wining ticket in the lottery of life!!!!

Just do it Stevie!!!!!!!!!!!!! Once you have you will wish you had done it years ago!! It is just good sense, you are spreading the weight on the mog, with chipper on the back AND the chip on the back you end up going down the road like a speed boat. With the chipper on the back you cannot pull a trailer, unless you get one of those crazy long draw bars that make going off road a joke. And running a mog with out a trailer is, IMO, pointless. You are like me small firm, I do all the driving, climbing and cutting. I have a really good man, but if he left I can easily find another labourer to replace him, they don't even need to be able to drive, let alone pull a trailer. A mog with the chipper on the front and crane trailer on the back means you can go and do a FULL days work , bring every thing home, all in one trip, and because of the capacity you have if Mrs Miggins comes comes out from next door and says could you remove my 45' conifer while your hear?, your not think "oh if only I could get it", because you can!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ducker chippers are OK, they a basically a TP, but they are not as good as the Schilesing, IMO. Alex has a very good S/H u400 like mine, if I were you I would go for that. I would not recommend putting a front chipper on linkage, it make it stick out way to far and increases the load on the front axel. .

See!!! I told you those blinking Silky's were dangerous!!! I'll stick to my 020!!!

Indeed, but I don't claim I would survive the fall , I just don't fall

You recon????? There are many in the cemetery who would disagree!!!!!!!! I believe the highest number of deaths from falls is off the back of wagon's, less than 8'.

Very funny!!!!!!!!!! Old fart just don't want reminding he ain't got long left.

Cccoooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have any ladders. I would have just held it with the crane and then climbed it

AH!!!!!!! Not just me then.

I've never smoke, but I my grandma was a chain smoker, she would light the first one in a morning and then light the next with the one before. In the late 70's when the government first really put up the tax on them, she said "I ain't paying that!!" She took the middle out of a bic biro put that in her mouth, sucked polo's and just stopped. IMO, you just need to be "Bloody minded"!!! She was!!!!!

Have you got some step ladders for feeding it ??

Well done mate!! How long are the ramps?? I bet it was a bit scary near the top!!

Were you at my last show Peter?? You should have come and said hello

You need to be thinking things like, if that 5" branch jumps 3 feet in any direction, when I cut it, will I be alright, and whats stopping it rolling, if its being stopped from rolling by a large limb leave that limb till last.

Well when dismantling a standing tree gravity is your friend and things tend to be fairly predictable. With a large hardwood that as been felled, as the tree hits the ground there is a great deal of energy generated by the fall, much of that energy can be stored in bent and twisted branches, it takes a great deal of skill, and experience, IMO, to try and "read" the tree and release the energy in a safe manor.

Felled tree, I think.

IMO, breaking down the crown of a felled large hard wood is far more dangerous than climbing.

I'd just cut it into 6' lengths and lift it out with my crane

You can go have a look for evidence, if there is some STOP!!

Sort of, you need to familiarise your self with the kind of tree defects,etc, that could be of use to a bat and if the tree has any check them out.

Do you also belive in the tooth fairy??? http://www.scambusters.org/urban-legends/kfc.html

God can be so cruel, being a fat lad is bad enougth, but big nips too, thats not fair.