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We've just got back from Centrparcs, it was a fantastic weekend, I hope you enjoy it. Last year we stayed in a cottage in Ambleside from the 21st to the 28th December, that was a really good Christmas. We're having a Christmas at home this year and I'm cooking, so we'll probably all laid up for a week or so with food poisoning.

We were dealing with Jenkinsons on that job in the pics, but they are hard work so don't really use them now. I know AHS are a subsiduary of Jenky's but they are much easier to deal with. Matt looked at a job or 2 when he was with AHS but it wasn't a viable option to bring there kit to the site so we used someone else instead.

About 50 or 60 bucket-fulls with a telehandler, takes about 40 mins to load a lorry. Project Gallery - Premier Tree Services - arboricultural contractors for domestic tree surgery and commercial tree work in North Eas

We do, we probably produce twice that amount, but lots of it is blown back on site wherever possible, or is tipped free at local tips sites closer to wherever we are working, to save it coming back to the yard as the yard is fairly small. Then we sell about half what does come back to local landscapers and equestrian centers.

We usually give them a load every 4-6 weeks (27 tonne)

We sell all of our chippings, we get a lot better return for small loads to landscapers etc but we produce far more than we sell to, or want to sell to these customers. Thats where AHS are useful, they send in a walking floor, at an agreed date / time and you load them up, (you will need a telehandler though as Huck says) they then pay you on a self billing invoice within a week. We then get a chunk of our yard back to start over again.1 They'll take any sort of chippings, but it can't be contaminated with logs, stones, or brash etc, just chippings. I

No worries bud, I don't think I made that last post too clear either, the mogs don't travel those distances, usually, thats why we have a 7.5 tonner and 26 tonner, so we can travel. I have queried the travelling of ag machines over distances with VOSA and HMRC and both have said as long as we are using the machines within there capabilities and within the rules, we're fine. They both run on white diesel are maintained to MOT standards etc and so I wasn't made aware of other rules, but I'd be happy to be enlightened.

The're both registered as agricultural, yes. We had no objections when I put my ad in the paper, and I had to put it in twice as I missed the deadline for submissions. If you can sneak into a paper that you think your 'do gooders' won't read you might get lucky.

It been invaluable these last few weeks while the big mogs been in Alex Prices. We got the grab and rotator all piped up, so its been moving timber, woodchip and plant all over the place. It's way better than the mog for traveling in. Huddersifeld and back in a day 230 mile round trip, Skipton and back in a day 200mile round trip, Glasgow and back in a day 360 mile round trip. You can do that in the mog but its not pleasant. I just need some more bodies to really make it useufull. A plant body, and high sider for woodchip, rootballs etc and maybe a bolster body for timber. Maybe a drawbar conversion is on the cards as well. It can't travell off road like the mog can and the cranes not hte best for loading timber as its more of a hook crane but its a good compromise. If anyones thinking of an o licence i'd say go for it, we got ours 3 years ago and never looked back. Apply for as many trucks as you can show you can afford to keep, or the operating centre can hold. I was being optomistic and applied for 6 trucks and 2 trailers and initially we didn't even have a truck to put on, so I put the mogs on there before any neighbours to the yard started to complaining. Then came a 7.5t tipper, the 26t hookloader and I'm now looking at a 7.5t hookloader so we're nearly at capacity.

Thats a nice compact truck, I like it. It'll go a lot more places than our 6x4 I think.

Ditto:thumbup:

I might see if theres any space left on that, sounds good.

Ditto!

I need a yard like like that!

I've heard of the guy with the big Laimet on the fire engtine, I think he was chipping in keilder a while back for their boiler. I'll try and find out if he's still going.

As far as needed to find work!

Nice vid that Dave, did your ground man get bored while you were up there? What make of helmet cam are you using, it looks nice and clear?

I've seen safetracks in 6.5 tonne Iveco pannel vans for rail track work, its spot on as you can go back home, to your hotel, or where ever whith no need to find somewhere local to leave it and then have the worry of it being stolen.

Cheers Daz, you can't miss it, its big and orange! Have you got your mog sorted yet?

I wouldn't write off 3.5 tonne tippers when it comes to driving off road, we've had them in some really rough ground. If you really want a 4x4 i'd rather go for a Trooper, Fourtrack etc over a defender, it'll be cheaper to buy a decent one and cheaper to run if your just starting out.

We used to carry our 9" Tracked Jensen on the back of the 7.5 tonner until it was stolen last week. That chipper was around 2.5 tonne and the lorry carried it no probs. We've carried a 6" Jensen on the back of the 3.5 tonner before but it was overloaded when we checked it on a public weigh bridge so we stopped doing that. It is a good was of getting machines around if you don't need to remove any arisings.

I like the bit when he does raises with his hands behind his back, if I tried that my arms would snap clean off, lol.

How did that video of me end up on the tinternet.

Its only the second time I've done it like that as we've only just bought our own telehandler and wanteds to try it, and it was only as Charlie and Neil are persistently on the phone wanting chip that i did it. If I can shift it elsewhere in future I will, unless they pay they downtime.

We have some very good climbers on the books full time, and one subbie who comes with his own kit and saw and again is A1, he gets regular work and comes in at around a £100 a day. I personally wouldn't pay any more than that as I don't pay myself any more than that, and I have a lot more responsibility.