Ty Korrigan
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Quadchip has been an enormous change for us. We're far more competitive now and out almost every day as we are winning bigger jobs. Turntable is invaluable, prevents me twisting my back, saves lots of energy and stress too. I've got nothing really negative to report and can only say it is excellent value for money. I have no concerns about its plastic covers but those curious little locks come straight from British Leyland as they look identical to my old mini's door handles! Plus the service I get from G.M and my local dealer here. The CS100 is up for sale to go towards a new Kangoo van for me to run about in. Its only been used 3 times since July but I run it up every week still for 20 min. Ty
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Large second hand chippers may seem like a bargain BUT... You 'may' be inheriting a bag of spanners and some-one elses dirty laundry plus as the man says, its too large for his current business plan. The Negri is 'un peut cher' for sure but its a good machine and well built. My mate hired his for a year before buying it off the hire company for too much but it earns him good money all the same. Ty
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Like a Flying Fortress coming in with its landing gear all shot up... Hope it gets patched up soon! Ty
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Yup, thats my mate Duncan all right. Everybody here keeps their wood, its a kind of Breton obsession. I know where your coming from on this. Ty
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It makes small square chips, I know, I've 'fondled' them and marveled at their unshred-like nature, as though the hammers have whacked 7 bells out of the branches then the 2 blades chipped them up all nice and lovely:001_smile: Ty
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With a CS100 around £4500 and a light plant trailer around a £1000 I think this combination takes some beating. I just can't imagine working with a chipper of 13-15hp that also auto-feeds. We'd be queing up to feed it rather than running to keep up with dragging brash. I've got my CS100 up for sale on a site called 'Le Bon Coin' but so far the only responses to my advert have been from the Ivory Coast wanting to send me a deposit...nice. Ty
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Also, I have read on the forum 'allo olivier' (sounds like a French gay boy dating site but its their version of arbtalk) that the motor has no oil filter I think...limited life span? Ty
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More like a Brixton drive by... ratatatatatatatata! oozzzeee 9mm...hhhh! Ty:laugh1:
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Here: eBay | BIOTRITURATORE NEGRI R225 MOTORE HONDA HP13 GX390 ALTA PROFESSIONALITA' And thats just the ped tow version!
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I have a mate with one here in Brittany although his is the road tow version. Duncan loves it although I think it an outrageous price! It has a combination of hammers and 2 knives and the chip it produces is small and square, good looking stuff. However, he is a bit quiet about the output and I have never seen it working. 13hp powering a roller as well as hammers and knives...hmmm:confused1: Apparantly Negri where the 'reference' in chipping technology at one time. For the money, I'd still go for an 18hp CS100, 18/100 or Jo Beau. Over here that wee Negri chipper as a road tow sells for almost 10k euros alone! I bet PeteB knows all about them though. Regards Ty
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Looked out of the window at 7:30am and the rain was thick. So I went and emptied the 3 buckets in the bedroom (new build flat too...) and called my groundy to cancel after looking at the forecast on France Meteo. 9am it cleared up and hasn't rained since but the groundy's wife laid claim to him and so it was down to the workshop to fettle and frett... Ty
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Torrential tomorrow and I will probally cancel a storm damaged and rotten macrocarpa take down. We've done 2 already this week on this site, a small Chateau in a Rennes suburb. Its leaning over a neighbours rotten fence and he's parked 2 vehicles under the trees to inconvenience our client by raising the cost of the job, time=euros... No doubt he'll be out videoing the debris dropping on his white Merc... Slippery, nasty, scratchy, treacherous tree and thats in the dry! Ty
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What about the spares for it though....? Ty
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Chap, Do you have enough work to warrant the expense? We are full time team and our bread and butter saws are the tophandles and 260/261 with a 40/45cm bars, t The 441 with a 62cm bar is only used a couple of times a week for less than an hour each time. The 080...One or twice a month and that we borrow from a mate. The number of trees we get that can't be cut using a split level cut and a 45cm bar are few. Would heated handles really be of use in a mild Normandy winter...? I imagine if you where felling big specimens all day perhaps. Oh...I get it...your having a fantasy shopping after surfing the internet after being rained off for the day...silly me! All the best, Ty
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Ah, I mistyped that one. 4 hours to enter all the receipts etc and alot more for quotes. Then there is the 3monthly vat return...BLERK! Ty
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Well, I thought it was all very well done and quite safe too considering they are students and its a learning curve. Don't confuse French landscapers who do tree work with full time French arbs (latter quite competant) Here tree work is a bolt on to many landscape firms who just get in a climber for the day OR do it all from a ladder so you see all sorts of antics going on if you stop and watch....hhhh! If and when I get a monster dismantle like this I'll be giving a general call to hands on Arbtalk! Ty
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Question for you all smaller companies reg for vat. How many hours per week do you 'devote' to your accounts and tapping up quotes etc We seem to be around 4hours minimum. Thinking of employing a book keeper to free up time... Ty
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Which is worse! Find yourself another expat who is usefull with a saw and you'll never look back. Ty
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Behold! The New Sir Edmund Hilary of the Arb world... Ty
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We get clients to sign a quote that contains the phrase 'Hors vice cache' that simply translates to 'Without unseen problems' So when we did a line of fence posts and found it was 30cms of top soil laid over an old concrete farmyard we didn't get held to our price. Same applies to tree work and garden building the clients supply. Ty
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Rained off yesterday, freezing conditions made an hour and half drive to work impossible due to all the accidents. Today, managed a morning of chipping aided by the wife before packing up at midday beaten by the wind and rain. The client thought us mad to turn up but felt sorry for us and pitched in to help drag brash. Got home to find a leak in the bedroom and zinc flashing waving about in the wind...looks like the surfs up boys! If it keeps up then we may get calls! Ty
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I'm just not that 'precious' as like I wrote before, there are many other arbs who would do worse and yes, my love of money excells that of 'most' trees. Can't feed a family on 'principles' alone. Besides, the work done on many French street trees shows that it does work well with a regime of regular maintenance. Ty
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Agreed, I'm in this trade for the coin it brings and if didn't jump to the beat of a clients drum there are others worse than I who will. I'll not get all 'diva' over best practices and whats good for the tree, I'd rather fill my pockets with lucre and have a satisfied client. Having said that I don't make it a policy to butcher and mangle trees in everyday work. I think the tree in the original post is now...original! A living sculpture to be admired. Ty
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HA! I'm 62kg and my associate is 67kg but our groundie weighs more than a black holes inners and wears XXXL T'shirts. Ty (rained off work)
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I use a Henchman but the thing weighs 25kg and just gets heavier as the day gets on... I think I'll give one of these a go as the Henchman is too tall for some hedges and I am too short to work without a set of low steps. The great thing about the Henchman is the extendable legs which are really long and usefull. The poor thing is the awfull comedy price and the build quality which is lower than an NHS crutch. Ty
