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Did they do it on price or day-rate? Did they also supply materials?

I need a couple of brush cutter ops to clear a site behind an industrial unit in Birmingham ASAP - it was cleared in March and needs all the regen knocking back down. 4 man days (ish!). Please pm rates and availability, or call me on 07970188050. Cheers, Dan

A mate was running a job very similar (possibly that actual job) - felling a couple of thousand trees in an ancient woodland and then moving the soil/leaf litter to a set-aside replanting area. I sent him your details at the time - said it had your name all over it. The HS2 tree cutting gravy train seems to be slowing a bit from what I hear. Lots and lots of people with fingers in pies taking their cut - plenty of money has been made but the whole thing looks a top-heavy managerial led paperwork exercise. I’ve gone out of my way to avoid it (though we did quite a bit in the very early days). One of my regular customers are heavily into soil stabilisation - all brand new kit, every health and safety box ticked, no corners cut. They did a small project on HS2 early on and turned everything else offered down on it since as they weren’t allowed to actually get on and do the job. They reckon they’ve cleaned up picking up work their competitors can’t do as they’re overstretched on the big vanity project!

Undoubtedly the unlimited check book of HS2 I’d wager GW!

The huge drives on the estates that you refer to will bring in far more money than the standing crop the pens are spoiling.

This this this!!! We’ve been flat out since dawn, and back out there tomorrow first thing but this is genuinely enjoyable work! Get there, weigh it up, chop stuff down/winch stuff off buildings/open roads etc, leave it in a pile and go!

I doubt it has mown that - there is fresh cut overstood along with maintained lawn. The whole point of robomowers is that they constantly cut a tiny bit - that photo is marketing bullshit IMO.

Spready spready…

Even in that PR photo the grass looks terrible!

I’m only going on results I’ve seen in customers’ gardens - as I said I’m happy to be proven wrong. I love the idea of them but I’ve yet to see anything replicate the finish of a freshly mowed lawn. (Chelford Farm Supplies near me sell more of them than any other dealer in the UK apparently, so people are obviously happy with them. I do know two people who had them installed but have gone back to traditional mowing though).

I’ve yet to see a robotically mowed lawn that doesn’t look crap - happy to be proven wrong though!

My thoughts and the feedback I’ve had from users is that an out-front mower with pivot steer is a much better option for obstacle-mowing than anything mid-mounted. The tool-carrier aspect of a loader would definitely be put to use by this potential owner - there are plenty of reasons for them to own one and cost isn’t a particular barrier(!) How the quality and speed of cut compares to a stand-alone commercial out-front mulching mower is the crux of the question.

It’s not 10 acres of grass - quite a few obstacles and relative narrowness. They currently cut and collect almost all of it with a couple of old ride-ons so this whatever they end up with will speed things up massively.

Yeah, he’ll be buying new, doesn’t seem to do second hand! It would be a biggish loader (635 upwards sort of size) with a mulching deck. There’s 10 acres of garden to go at… I’ve another customer with a similar mowing area who swears by their Stiga Park pro 540 ix with electric deck, and it would be something along those lines that this chap will probably end up buying. However, man-maths dictates that spending extra to end up with a mower that can also operate as a loader makes sense. It’s harder to justify an expensive mower and then a really expensive loader (which would only be for occasional use). So that’s why the interest in how good the loader mowers are - they would need to leave a nice finish on well maintained lawns (not bollocking down overstood fields).

It’s potentially for a customer who needs to upgrade his existing mowers and is also considering a loader. It wouldn’t rack up massive hours compared to a machine used to earn money, and could save him buying two machines if they aren’t just overpriced crap! I can’t see him buying both though.

Has anyone got any first-hand experience of mulching mower decks on these little artic-steer loaders? Are they any good when compared to something like a Stiga park pro? Can they get enough power into the deck to do a decent job is essentially what I’m asking I suppose!!!

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What sort of reach (radius) would the Liebherr have 2 tonne capacity then out of interest?

What sort of radius gives you 2 tonnes plus Eddie? What can the JCB cut and hold 15-20m up? How much reach and what sort of capacity does the Merlo offer @Gray git?

I wouldn’t remove those without some prior communication between the arboriculturalist who produced the BS5837 report and the planners personally, if the building isn’t already completed and signed off. I reckon it could open a whole can of worms with unrealistic/unaffordable replanting stipulations as the current unfinished development was conditional on the screening provided by those trees. Clearly they need to come out - I think doing it without involving the planners and getting their agreement would be a mistake though.

As per title - does anyone know a good hedge layer in Essex? I’ve got a customer in Danbury who has a few hundred metres to sort out. Cheers, Dan

I’m thinking it’s a spam post tbh. Otherwise an investor who has bought (very cheaply) a run down house with known subsidence issues (that we’ve yet to see) with the aim of bulldozing their way through the planning dept, fix the house up and capitalise on their foresight (whilst further depleting the area of some of the only decent features in an otherwise bland overdeveloped shitatopia hutch-fest). But I might be a bit cynical…

A shame to take those down - nice trees that look to add a great deal to the street-scene… I bet that was a cheap house - how bad is the subsidence (nothing obvious in the pics)? If you take those down and they have been responsible for subsidence then there is a very good chance that the ground will re-wet over time and possibly lead to heave. Not a great deal you can do about it other than install an engineered solution (better footings not affected by subsidence/heave) - if you are going down that road anyway then you could save yourself the expense of removing the trees in the first place.

Try Digbits - the tracks will have a measurement stamped on them somewhere.

Not every day though - sounds like this guy is desperate and this is a one-off job to me. There are often big-money days to be had up and down the country. It’s uncommon for them to be the norm though - you need to do a lot of running around to take advantage of them and there is no guarantee of another tomorrow…