Tom D

A lot of that waste will have been tipped by professionals. There's a site near me that was a house and yard together, it stands alone, right by the A1, the travellers moved in for a while and from the motorway you could see the leylandii and other rubbish building up. Then they left and a few days later I saw a couple of 40yd skip wagons reversing in, obviously for the cleanup I thought. But no, they have tipped off there too! Well known local firms, sign written trucks too.. Thats the way to make money charge £400 for a skip, let someone else fill it and then just dump it......

10 is too low. There are two kinds of chip: arb waste which isn't worth much at all, and chipped timber which varies in price from £50 to £120 a ton, given that it will cost them around £10 a ton to haul it and £10 a ton to chip it, they should be offering you at least £20. I wouldn't sell biomass timber for less than that. If you have somewhere to store it for a while to dry out you can then chip it to order selling it out at a known moisture content. There's a lot involved in selling chip mind you. Call these guys, they may be able to put you in touch with a buyer for the timber. Ridings Machinery Ring (RMR) Ltd - Yorkshire's Machinery Ring

Thanks guys. Yes the trailer snaked and rolled flipping the landy. The plywood bulkhead behind the seats added a bit of stiffness, which saved the driver a headache I reckon.

Thanks John, Gonna get some prices from a local firm today...

4 Cube is a lot more than I thought, what are the dimensions of it? does it overhang the rear crossmember by much? How about tool storage? Cheers.

Anyone got one? One of our land rovers was rolled recently, insurance wise its a total loss, but the chassis and running gear are perfect (it was flipped by a trailer straight onto its roof). So I am now thinking or converting it into a tipper, the crew that use it have a tracked chipper and actually take very little chip home so I am thinking it may be quite useful. That said the tipper must be pretty small on a 110? anyone got one and can give me the cubic capacity? a few pics would be handy too. Any other experiences to share? tool storage, handling roof racks etc. I will be planning on uprating the springs, to take the weight.. Can you overload a 110 tipper or is it too small, she's currently plated at 3050kg, empty she'll be about 2 ton, can you fit a ton of chip in it? I have my doubts, but it could always be uprated if necessary...... Not a pretty sight is she?

That is the future of tree work videos. Well done!

Or just shoot you own... That recipe is also great with rolled brisket, brown it well and have it so the joint sticks out of the stock a little, the top gets kind of roasted and the bottom is falling apart. I forgot to mention celery earlier too...

I'm having beef shin tonight, cooked the day before yesterday, for 4 hours in the rayburn. The trick with slow cooking is to properly brown the meat first, needs to be BROWN not grey. That way you get a really nice dark stock like this... This is on its third day now, its tastes better than it looks, and the kids love it too. In there is the well browned shin ( do it in small batches or it just sweats in its own juice) then add onions, carrots, parsnips, turnips or whatever you like, a bunch of thyme, a pint of ale, dash of Lee and Perrins and some pepper and beef stock . taste after cooking to see if it needs any salt, some stocks are quite salty. cook for 4 hours at 140-160C and enjoy....

I believe it transfers through root grafts, tree to tree, not sure if it can penetrate the root unaided.

The fuel companies are shiesters. Last tank I bought was 59p, but only because I haggled, their first price was 68p. Same with LPG, we were quoted 53p then I haggled them down to 39.5. Never just ring up and order. Always speak to the salesman / manager.

I like the way you edit them Tim.

I've worked on crown land too. Also for JK Rowling and Ian Rankin and 3 Scotland rugby internationals. Never any footballers though.

Probably was less than 20 tbh, just seemed a lot...

Dry spruce does make a lot of fines, especially with a 30mm screen, but the knives last for ages, I am still on the first set, having chipped around 200 ton so far.

Buying a big chipper for biomass is a risky business, I bought my heizo for site clearance and other big chipping jobs. The few biomass jobs that I have had with it have been welcome, but to be honest the have barely covered the finance let alone the running costs. Unless you have a lot of other work for it I wouldn't bother.

What happened last year? I remember the whole winter as being very mild, maybe it wasn't. I think most of these old sayings are bollocks really. Although Many of the really hard winters over the years have started out mild.

old yorkshire saying: "if the ice before christmas will bear a duck, there'll be nowt to come after but slush and muck" Meaning hard winters usually start mild and mild ones may start hard.

Empty your inbox ian I need your address to send you that saw...

Excellent Rich, some hefty pics there, looked very smooth. You can't beat a crane on the right job.

I just put my 6" Jensen on Arbtrader. comes with trailer if you want it, looking for 11k ono.....

The split master is good for making billets but not logs, if you want meter long billets its a great machine, if you want 8" logs then she's not what you want. Your big boiler probably takes a reasonable length though, and for around a grand you can get a wee PTO circular saw that will buzz the billets into logs for the stoves. But don't use the split master for rings as they will fall over or fall off and generally it will be a PITA.

So, we tendered for a job where we were told TUPE might apply, the incumbent contractor had provided details of the wages of their employees which the winning bidder would have to employ and maintain. The 4 man tree squad were paid as follows: one man : £200 per day, one £144, one £124 and the trainee £80... So £548 a day plus overtime pensions and PPE Etc. on top of this a chip truck, chipper, tractor and roofmount and timber trailer were to be provided as well as the usual equipment. As anyone working in the industry knows those are very high wages, but not beyond reason. It occurred to me that it is in the incumbent contractors interest to inflate their wages as far as TUPE is concerned since any other bidder tendering will have to add these figures in to their price. Because wages are confidential and can't be obtained under freedom of information neither the buyer or a rival contractor can know for sure if the stated wages are accurate. In this particular case the incumbent contractor won the tender again (surprise surprise). We were not second so it wouldn't have made any difference to us, but I know that the price that we submitted was 30% higher than it needed to be in order to cover our TUPE obligation. Having spoken to the buyer to express my concerns they were unable to provide any evidence of the actual wages of the incumbent contractors. Sufice to say I have serious doubts that they are on annual basic salaries of £52500, £37584, £32364, even the trainee is on £20880. They also get time and a half overtime and double time on sundays. I know these salaries are possible, but knowing that the price submited by the winning firm was not that much more than the £548 per day it seems unlikely that these are accurate figures. It is possible that the two higher salaries are the company directors, but if that is the case they will be taken as dividends and therefore not subject to TUPE. We just have to take this on the chin but it smarts a little. Does anyone else have any experience of TUPE and or its abuse?

Were they registered on Arbsafe? Thats on of my jobs for this week, taking all the serial numbers and adding the last of the kit to the register.

I just trialled a Dolmar 7910 and was very impressed, I'd buy that. A 660 / 395 is too big and heavy for firewood cutting, you want something between 60 and 80cc to comfortably use it all day and still have the power.