Tom D

Not had any yet... I'd like a bit for the kids sake, we had a few flakes the other day and they were really excited, but it came to nothing. Ideally a foot of it comes friday night and melts sunday night...

Been great weather for getting out with the kids this weekend, we cooked sausages and then marshmallows on the BBQ yesterday, then played swinging in the trees, and then a walk in the woods today...

Nice work, was the road closed?

What I find sad is that threads like this always seem to attract all the attention even though they have nothing to do with arboriculture. This thread has had way more replies than the top five combined on the video forum........

Nice video Tim, I'll bet it was bouncy, I can remember using two climbing lines off two different trees once to do something nasty, that was bouncy enough, thanks to being tied in to thin stuff....

One's enough for me, I reckon its going to cost about 5k to build it, 3 for sorting out the landy and 2 for the tipper. Still the insurance paid out 8.5k and I bought it back for 1400 so in theory I am up but we'll see how it goes. Its a cat c write off so I will loose in resale value though.

I could never really make grinding work as a business, I offer the service and subby it all out, I make 10-40% on top depending on the job. To do serious stumps you need a decent tracked grinder, diesel, 40hp+, and that is expensive to buy. So when you've shelled out on a decent grinder you want it to be working all the time. I think you are better off doing tree work 5 days a week and if you make an extra £100 on top of your day rate by subbing out the stumps to someone else then its easy money, pure profit basically. Often you only have one small stump to do, and so lets say you can't charge more than £150 for that stump, the customer wants it done this week but you don't have any others to do so you waste half a day taking out the grinder and do it making nothing in the process. On the other hand if you subby it out you get it done for £120 and make £30 for doing nothing.... The subby makes money by doing several clients a day. If you are going to do it, offer a quality service to other tree surgeons and do it full time, or at least try and fill up a couple of days a week.

A galv chassis would add a bit, but whats the bulkhead like? cos thats a big job to swap. I built one from the chassis up once and was caught out by all the wee extra bits that you don't think of, there's a lot more than just a chassis and an engine. Having said that, 4 k for a tipper is cheap if its a good un, irrespective of age

Bullseye are by far the best, will travel anywhere in scotland and have a range of machines from big tracked carlton to wee alpine magnum. I give them all my grinding work and I can always trust them to do a first rate job, no need to hang a bout and check up or watch, just give him address and know that the job will be done right. Nice and polite dealing with clients and totally trustworthy. Call Ben 07833 150739.

The cab is now fixed and we are now about to start on the chip box, so any advice appreciated on size. How much higher that the roof would you go? and how much overhang of the rear cross member? We will have two tool boxes either side, any tips on waterproofing, do you find that water ingress is a problem with ropes and kit etc?

TBH John, I can't see the sense in buying another 10" chipper, I'd go for one of the 15" morbark drum machines, I used one on a job a while back and it was a good machine, big massive rollers like the heizohack and side feed too. Its a fairly compact machine, it makes nice chip as well. Finding one may be tough though. This is a smaller one. The 15" one would be a nice site clearance machine... Morbark 2070 XL PTO for sale - Year: 2004 | Used Morbark 2070 XL PTO wood chippers - Mascus USA

TBH It wouldn't be hard to fit an electro hydraulic valve to that TP and isolate the stop bar in the process.

Where are you? You could have mine on a long hire, we only use it about 1 month a year..

Geddit felled. Like you say someone else will do it otherwise.

You'll not shift much snow with that.

The blue colour is specific to HC and is a compound called aesculin I believe, its a sugar based compound not a tannin.

There's a greenmech technical section on here, why not PM them through that.

So not really a "freak" accident then.

Ouch! if it was 10k maybe.... Thats a lot of cash...

We did our new one last week, we were commenting on the massive difference, its like a different saw. Its not that much noisier either, still way quieter than all our other saws.

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I have a 261 13" on Arbtrader at the moment.......

Alistair has been desperate to demo the road tow one for me, so we will be comparing it to the 1928 on tuesday. So why was the TW better?

Do lots of research, check out old threads on here etc. Alex price is doing them now too, but probably just new ones and probably..££££££££££££

That one in the picture does 50k, if you take the time to do the journey by car and double it that how long the tractor takes. In built up areas the difference is less as they are both doing 30mph. That setup there cost £115k though, My first Valtra was a 6400, that cost less than 30k and I got a tp250 for about 4k. You could get a decent roof mount and chipper combo for around 30k maybe less if you do your homework. The 6000 and 8000 series valtras are pretty bomb proof...