Rupe

Damn, I picked the wrong night to go out!! EL or PL, my favourite rant!!!! You used to have to have EL with PL because you can't (by HSE quidelines) work without someone else on site, therefore if you think your are a big enough concern to have PL then you must therefore Need EL and that was how it was. Then, insurance companies realised that some people (lots of them), who call themselves "subbies" were of the opinion that they were a big enough concern to need PL, even though they were too stupid to realise that they were the "other poeple on site" so insurance companies started selling PL without EL, and the extra revenue has brought my costs down so thanks you muppetts! What was the question again?

Cottaging and glory holes!!

One thing about e bay though is that you can sell a load of crap out of the attick/garage etc and get your paypal account nice and full. Of course it costs you to get the money transfered from paypal, so people use it to buy stuff. Its like money you never had anyway. If you pay over the odds for a chainsaw then no worries, you possibly got over the odds for whatever you sold in the first place. Ultimatly e bay and pay pal are the winners

Carefull!!!

DIY day at home again was it?

Here they are. No brackets though, but like I said it was only some two bits of angle iron welded to the chassis of the truck body. One of the mudgaurds still has the bolts in place, they would come out if encouraged too!! The other one seems to have two sets of holes on each side, and one set of holes is quite large. Maybe it got torn off and was replaced slightly off line? I don't know, I didn't notice anything odd when I bought the truck.

I've also got the whole rear light board and lights? This was the truck it all came off http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachments/large-equipment/18334d1249140896-new-ldv-chip-truck-ldvds-006.jpg

I'll check them out tomorrow. The brackets were only some angle iron, can't remember its still on the mudgaurds or on the truck bed (which went long ago)

I've got some black plastic mudgaurds off my LDV going spare, for sale. I was going to use them on mine but decided not too.

They are more resistant than some species i.e. they just die slower!! I've removed quite a few large-ish ones that were infected and dying.

Only really hurts when on bare skin!! I'm after a new one soon too, TM again I think.

No, it must be LWB. SWB is the single back wheel model, rated to 3.1t only. The 3.5t tippers are LWB as standard and XLWB for crew cabs. If your wheelbase is 3.25m then its a LWB.

Oh, I see where your coming form now. I have a yard full of crap wood and some hardwood which I sell after i split with my little splitter, slowly, and I get pocket money and the space back in my yard but thats about all. Your saying you would come for day and turn my pile into xm3 for z£. I thien sell the wood for what its worth to my existing customers and the proffit should (in theory) be high than if I had split it all myself slowly. I don't know if it would be viable or not. For me I'm happy to do a bit here and there. I only have about ten customers within hafl mile of my yard and I keep them topped up as and when required.

Bolt removing kit?? Maybe its too small. Gaffa tape the handle back onto the saw and get back to work tomorrow, sort it out at the weekend.

Surely you just hire yourself out at a day rate which is profitable for you. Then if you create less logs than the amount the customer has paid you then tough for them but at least they got the windblown tree down. For example, I have a job next week. Limb off an Ash tree to remove and cut into rings. Cost to customer 200 quid. He'll be lucky to get 100 quids worth of logs from it (I'm not splittign any) but at least it gets the limb removed. If he just wants wood then he can go buy some. One problem you may face is that you say its "friends" that have asked you. Don't forget that real friends will want you to have a happy and financially fulfilled life and therefore they will gladly pay you the going rate for your time and equipment. If they are expecting cheap logs then just sell them some poplar and have done with it. I do mates rates jobs occassionally. They have to help ALL DAY, and do the clearing up and make tea and hot meals and provide beer, then I'll knock off the costs of the extra employee I would have had to bring and the profit that that employee would have got me. Thats mates rates. If they go out for the day and expect the job done when they get back then its full price plus a bit extra so that they feel good about keeping a roof over my head!

I see where your coming from! Ideally with a crane you would tip tie everything. But in this case where the crane isn't tall enough, you could butt tie, but that would overload (risk of) the crane. So you would have to rig normally then pick the peices up off the ground with the crane. Which is what I meant by "pick up big lumps from back gardens". So it would be ok for lifting branches/lumps etc. but not for the actual dismantling of the tree. In my opinion. Interestign thing to own though!!

1.5 ton at 22 meters and only 21 meters tall, not really suitable for "big takedowns". It would, however, pick up big lumps from back gardens, but thats about all. Still it does look like good value, so far.

But you've only saved yourself 1.5 feet so you won't fit much of a tool box in. HAve you got a LWB LDV? Ideally you would need an XLWB so you can fit the tool box in as well. Is the tipper steel? Do you know what it weighs? They are easy enough to swap onto other LDV chassis, I've just made my one in the pic.

Nope. Other than tipmaster or some other truck body builders, but they might cost more than your truck!? Got any pics of the project so far?

Like this one?? http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachments/large-equipment/19985d1252255477-new-ldv-chip-truck-m.jpg

Did you dry it out and smoke/eat it?

Yes it can blow up in the fire, thats how eucs spread their seed, they depend on forest fires. Sounds like a 200 pound job tops. Get someone in and it will take you longer to make the tea and the whole thing will be gone, instead of 2 days worth of hard work which still leave you with a pile of logs and debris to deal with. But, I fixed my boiler when it went bust! I went on a plumbers forum and got told to get a professional in!! I also got advice and went for it. New PCB installed and its been fine since! But the time I spent on it could have been better spent doing tree work which would have easily paid for a plumber to fix it.

Very informative. Thank you, Sarah. I'll sleep better tonight!

No, he rightly led us to proof that the avdanced arborist does exist!!

Crikey, thats an advanced arborist mate, strewth!!