Gray git

A few I took of the day Cracking little machine and I'd recommend getting Blake to operate as just so efficient as just gets on with the job, fair few ton of timber and brash shifted without effort.

Had to share this ?

Done the same and possibly the same company, how can they travel an hour to do a job 5 min from me for less than I'd have paid in wages to my staff.

Mechanical efficiency! [emoji106]

That's 20m³ of chip, I really don't think that's possible without machine feeding and even then I don't belive it possible on that size machine, put in context this is 7 ton of timber on our botex, I know some is too big but do you think you'd be able to get it into the machine in a hour?

Absolutely! And can throw the chip rediculous distances and pack it so tight into your van you'll be overloaded every time [emoji6] biggest advantage is it will outlast nearly everything else on the market with basic maintenance.

Watch this space as should be able to share something Interesting on this by the new year....

I'll go have a measure at the weekend

Could you let me know hight of cab as would be real useful on a church job we have Coming up but got to get through a covered porch gate thingy.

Very sensible considered answer, to many spout of without any understanding.

Small van doing 45mpg and 80quid road tax and 300 insurance Big tipper doing 20mpg if lucky 280 road tax 1500 insurance No public liability no employee liability no personal indemnity no hired in plant no chipper insurance 4-5 grand saved. Advertising well that's a personal thing how much you want to spend but if you want to get £400 jobs everyday you'll have to put min a grand a year in. Somewhere to run out of, a chipper or possibly a trailer and mash to start with, tipping charges. If you work 220 days a year at 400 I'm up to about 50 a day costs give or take for the above then pay your helper 150 as that's been agreed what it should be your down to 200 so yes it's twice but then your off every Saturday and evening quoting and doing paperwork so adding 50% more hrs to your working week so for a shit load more hassle your actually not that much better off per hr till your established enough to take on bigger jobs or have a decent contract and even then you need 100% drive to do it. Might get shot down for this post but I've seen so many lads try and fail because they just looked at the cheque in had and not what it actually cost them in reality to do the job.

No you turned over 400, take out of that insurance, advertising accountants costs vehicle costs the list go's on, a lot of subbies think it's all big money and belive me as the income go's up so will the outgoings then you start to need help and suddenly your paying someone who thinks they should get more so the circle begins again.

As above I only ask stubby groundsman to turn up with ppe and own lunch, climbers only personal kit, saws are all mine as why pay someone more to use what I've paid to own. If you were bringing the Mills in for a day I'd be charging more as that's hard on gear so acceptable. I think the market for a skilled stubby groundsman bringing with them decent gear and experience is the smaller company who has taken a job outside there normal comfort zone so you become invaluable, hell I still go do it every so often for people. That's not saying experienced help for a bigger company isn't needed and valued but don't expect more for geer that's not needed or asked for.

Where abouts as I seem to see rates vary even in the same county, but then it is 8500km²+

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Wilderness lighting They had a stand at apf

Really wish I had time@MattyF but hardly keeping up with what's on the books for tree work which is why I'm advertising for more staff but only had non driving students apply. I reckon if I had all the bits in the workshop and the vehicle there me and a helper would get one made in a day with just painting left to do. I'm really pleased with how it turned out and the response it's getting especially matching the other landy and rb, just got the grafter to do and a lighter chip box to build.

Yip I tow with my picker but got to remember you grosse train weight as some are only rated to 6t gtw with the picker being effectively fully loaded to 3.4 ton all the time it knocks your towing allowance down to 2.6. My 130 is 7t gtw so fine with the bandit and now we have recontidioned the engine and gearbox tows beautifully again. You'd not even notice the quad chip behind you but do make sure the bucket won't hit the chipper as with the tw150 it's very close and I think it could actually hit it at the wrong angle.

Hope so, drilled and tapped the cross been so it's well fixed and less than 5mm thick, light has been designed for fixing under plant to light the ground where space for larger lights isn't available so apparently very tough. Been watching carefully for the last week and that part of the hopper only really gets brushed with smaller stuff so unless I hit it while crane feeding it should be fine.

Another little mod to the 90 tonight Hopper light

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As far as I know you can sell a machine with hp on it and not have to tell anyone as realistically there is no way of checking unlike on a car so you could sell it privately, get the money back into your account then clear the balance on the hp and look at the loss as cheap hire for the last 3 months or expensive depending on how much its dropped by. Personally I'd go back to the dealer I got it off if it was a new machine and start talking to them about upgrading the machine as they could be in a far better position to sell yours as a ex demo machine on your behalf and possibly give you a better price for it to sweeten a deal on a bigger unit.

More likely to get work from someone else in the industry if you have a useful bit of equipment and plenty of picks of what It can do rather than from Jo public following you

Pictures please and location, local estate we do a lot for are after one as he was cursing not buying my one earlier in year.

For the lower hp I'd look at a farmi as it's 45° feed so requires less hp or kelfri do a copy budget version that looks quite exceptable for occasional use.