josharb87

Crikey! Gusting hard up here.

What do you want to know?

Thats probably the main reason i went SE!

If access allowed yes (OP mentioned fences could be removed) My reasonings: Costs (with operator) £100 more than a groundy. Others on here have mentioned chucking "a load" of guys at the job. This sounds more expensive, although more inside the box thinking. "A load" of guys would frustrate me. Id get frustrated at the ones not pulling their weight. Just because its designed to work in the woods shifting cord doesn't mean it can't be used in a garden shifting branches! Its far more viable IMO than a quad-quads are useless at dragging stuff up hill and would need to do many more trips to extract everything. The alstor is great at shifting loads up hill in comparison. Someone mentioned a mini digger.....that would need hundreds of very slow trips to get everything out. No faffing around winching trees and branches up, maybe redirecting and winching again, dragging to final resting place, manually stacking. Winching here sounds slow imo. no manual handling - crane, grab and rotator does most the work. I don't have access to petrol winches, or any decent winch tbh. Felling and shifting everything looks like an easy day for 2 guys and the machine. And IMO the most cost effective option. However, i don't know the uk prices or availability of Alstors, and i wouldn't own one-too expensive and unreliable!

Steady on sweetheart Whats an argocat got to do with anything???? Completely different type of machine. A simple google search would have pointed that out to you. I said kit available TO ME and the OP was looking at alternate ideas. The alstor (with driver) costs me about £100 more than a groundy, for the day. So perfectly viable imo.

If you say you can remove part of the fence then do it! With the kit i have available, id remove as much fence as needed, fell everything and rent in an Alstor 8x8 mini forwarder to shift everything out the garden. maybe some ply sheets to cover the patio (from rubber tyre marks)

They have a Scandinavian dealer (Denmark) but i would guess (going on past experience of another make here) they will have some sort of agreement that a uk new machine sale has to go through a uk dealer unfortunately

Reading between the lines on other threads marc has commented on, you're in a bit of a catch 22 situation, very specialist machine for the uk, one(?) dealer, that in the future you'd want good back up/service from, lawyers might burn this relationship. Sounds disgraceful tbh.

I would assume then that the tow ball weight you mention is the maximum recommended nose weight standing still on level ground. Bit like your axle ratings, go over a bump fully loaded+weight of trailer and you'll easily go over 3.5t for a moment

When braking a correctly loaded trailer should be pushing into the vehicle, not pushing down surely? Bob, is that for HGV's or light /sub3.5t trailers too? I know that here (normally the same EU licence specifications) sub 3.5t trailers can be a maximum of 2.6m wide, with side overhang of load 20cm per side included in that 2.6m. then theres also the visibility from the mirrors to factor in.

Not being funny, but it sounds like you ARE one of them!

I reckon it's water, the bucket filled with water when they washed it or rain water then when they stopped it all splashed out the bucket, or they lifted the backhoe to transport position and water splashed out

Different country, but yes, 10% rise in hourly rate planned.

????? Gross train weight of 2250?? Sounds quite light for vehicle, load, trailer and load Do you mean the towing weight/allowance?

Interesting Justme

Out of interest, are the Landcruiser pickups actually plated at 3500kg tow weight? A lot of the older (10year plus) american stuff is plated surprisingly low, some 6,5v8td chevys are only plated at 1500kg here. The new single and king cab hilux's are plated at 3500, but not the double cabs yet. the older ones can be uprated. one thing to consider too is the mainstream pickups are all rear wheel drive on the road, so if your "4" wheel drive landy struggles for traction on the roads you drive, i can't see a rear wheel drive truck coping better? 4x4 SUV and a fast-trac?!

Thanks, it's a 640, it's great, a grab on the front with rotator would make it awesome. Fits on the 12ft ifor tipper which is a bonus. This job it was used for getting the stems of 2 of the trees out of a playground, then bucket to push the takings up into a pile. Really efficient.

Some recent pics, The felling work was monday/tuesday, 15 trees, 10 straight fells, 350m3 of arisings, rest of the pics are some from the past 2 weeks, Restoration of an álle (felling, pruning and new planting) Reducing of a Lime, Birch, and nice woodland chipping

Then surely your vehicle wasn't maintained to a road worthy condition in the first place

Surely if you're a subby climber YOU shouldn't be running to a dump site every 15 minutes anyway? We all love big kit, but we don't belittle those with kit that is anything other than the biggest money can buy. Especially when we don't have it ourselves. Try keeping you're condecending remarks to yourself. Stephen seems to refinE his business every other month to the perfect set up that suits HIM.

I have no idea tbh jomoco, I, like you had less than 1% of a situation/information and thought I knew absolutely everything, more so than those with 100%

there isn't space!!!!!! A front hitch still won't get a 8ft chipper through a 6 ft gap

A bigger crane would have had that tree done quicker too, I don't get your point? You must have something? Are the chippers yours? Thing is about the uk, is that a morbark 2400 and suitable chip Lorry might mean you have to park over a mile away from where you want to be....seriously! I have this rig help me a lot, one job he had to leave his trailer 5km away as that was the closest he could get with space to swap bins and turn around with the trailer.

Out of interest, What's your setup jomoco?

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