Ty Korrigan

BUT, it did get better as the day progressed! The later ones are almost passable...ha ha ha! Chip box carries little weight, more for chip containment and to keep the dust in. Rated for 1000kg the original bed with our old tiny ply greedy boards piled to a neat mound carried 1100kg at the local weigh bridge. We don't usually run much over weight around here due to the number of Gendarmes on patrol and the ease of returning to base to tip at lunch. It will take a hour to remove the alloy panels and give the welds a going over under the watchfull eyes of one 'Komatsu' Clive who we only later found out IS a chuffing qualified welder (well at least in his previous U.K life...) Last week near Dreux in Normandy, I saw a similar design to ours but using stainless panels and box tube. The welds where tiny, tiny little dashes, remarkably neat and clean, just leaving a slight rainbow effect on the metal. We've a way to go but as the steel for the frame was so cheap, it will cost us little to make another improved version this summer. Ty

All these years a Lumberjack in France and you've never come across a high lift wedge...? What HAVE you been using all this time...? Ty

Your quite right about the welding. Cheers

True but they smell slightly of garlic and hold their heads higher... Ty

I do get to work in some special places. St Georges de Motel Former residence of the Vanderbilts. Winston Churchill was here at the outbreak of WW2. Working with Rob Ingall, a semi-retired London borough tree officer, Le Jardinier Anglais performed tree inspections, resistograph tests and installing cable bracing. The magnificent lime is in the garden of one of the estate properties in the village. Not many images of the work in hand as I was climbing and the drizzle constant.

Chateau St Georges de Motel Normandy. Cable bracing a majestic lime as well as tree inspections with Arb expert Rob Ingall. Winston Churchill stayed here as a guest of his Vanderbilt friends at the outbreak of WW2. Ty

Just think, no more leaves in the gutter or moss on the roof. It's a gift! Ty:biggrin:

Too big and too close anyway, I think they got a great deal there! Ty:laugh1:

A few close ups before lunch. Really very simple construction. Seb's first outing with the arc welder too. Panels are riveted on. Ty

No roof as yet but provision is made for a made to measure tarp. I've already forgotten about the support bar between the sides and whilst loading the grinder in the rain and low light gave myself a stunning though purely superficial facial injury. Ty

A big plus with this design is that is it 'demountable' within 10min. We also do fencing and landscaping so it was important that the mini-digger could load the tipper without the risk of giving the new box a beating. Ty

New chip box. To replace the plywood horror that was our undying shame. Aluminium panels riveted on a welded box section steel frame. Material cost 450euros inc. paint. Ty

Ah ha ha ha! So true. Here in Frenchy France you need no qualifications to set up as a tree lopper. The evidence is ALL around me... Ty

No, true, however, the average French garden is very much larger here so access is rarely a problem. Ty

This: Negri, il marchio verde - Biotrituratori - R255 - R255TN Although the video show it chipping nothing but soft weedy material, nothing solid. Ty

Something like a PTO version of a TW125 or GM Arborist 130 would seem to fit the bill. Ty

So are there any smaller hydro feed chippers out there? Tractor can lift 500kg 18hp at pto. What is out there? Trying to avoid gravity feed. Regards Ty

Perhaps... A saw for 'amateurs' should only have a 2m electric cable trailing behind. The my French neighbour will be forced to employ ME (or buy an extension cable...duh!) Ty:001_rolleyes:

Speculate, what would estimated weight of a Greenmech 190 Quadchip be IF they ever listened and made one up...? Ty

Which is odd when G.M claim 150hrs... Ty

Well I had 6 guys on site so I can't be shaking out every branch for gravel. 120m3+ of chip from one 'turn' of the blades and some really muddy and soiled material going through on the last day. Measured the volume in our truck and chip trailer as I was delivering it to local small holdings. Perhaps I am being exigent here but a turn of the blades is way cheaper than replacing a bearing 'Inshallah'... Ty

Subjective I know but I've just turned my disc blades after a mere 24 hours. Chipping 100% Lawson for a week. 4.6 hours a day average. That's no more hours than 4 sided Quad chip blades plus the chip was bigger to boot so more volume to ship. I'll put down the short life to the nature of the material being fed, full of dirt and dust once feled and dragged. Anyway, I'm too tired to care as the cost of a third of a turn of a disc blade is nothing to 5 days work for 6 men, a mere incidental in fact. Now down to 20min to turn 2 Quadchip blades without breaking a sweat either. Ty

Then you and I may have crossed paths... I worked at Rohan in Northgate at this period. Letching schoolgirls through our high street window was a daily pleasure. Ty

I'm not all bad... I'm a Chi boy through and through. Those Chi High School girls and Bishop Luffa Bints left are the cream of South Coast totty and left their mark on my youth. Ty

Nothing, he wants to work in France that is all. I want info on his lily white ass that is all. Ty