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C1E means you can drive up to a 7.5t vehicle with a trailer, think it used to be called class 3? You've got grandad rights, unlike us nippers that have to take the tests..... R

Maybe but then again what reason did they have for the firearm, presumable to shoot someone, play with fire, eventually you'll get hurt!! R

Yep thats exactly what I'm looking at. Is that what you use? R

I won't ask......... Yer Mr Ed posted when I had the pics of the big skip in. If i go down that route, I'll certainly be asking nicely if I can pick his brains. Don't want to take up peoples time (other than general advice on here) until I've got it straight in my mind what I want, why and how much I can justify spending!! Cheers again R

Yer for some reason I looked at the auction and thought it had finished, hence I posted that price, realise now it's still going now.......

Sorry my bad!!

Thats the intention, if I do decide to go down that route, may just get another cheap tipper and chuck more money at the mortgage. Was looking at your pics yesterday and am very impressed, certainly makes you realise what can be done!!! R

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I'm thinking secondhand to be honest. My turnover has gone from 250k to 20k in a year, and I reckon it will be 100ish next year, but the year after who knows.......... So I don't really want to be in a position where I have to make payments. And the other thing is if I'm getting new it would probably work out cheaper just to run a few 3.5t as the weight is not normally an issue. I'm trying to make sure I'm properly set up though, as when I had massive turnover I wasn't properly equiped to deal with it and ended up running round like an idiot for no reward. It's going to be a tool so it needs to be able to help me earn more money than an alternative vehicle or vehicles can or at least the same money for less effort!! Rob

Any ideas on what vehicle. I think the roadsweeper was a DAF45, and I certainly wouldn't want to go any bigger than that. Contracts don't start til March so I've got a fair amount of time anyway, well until the faithful fizzbomb and master blow up......... I like the idea of building in lights etc, although I think that may come at quite a cost. Wouldn't mind something that there are already bodies out there for. R

Thats exactly what I was thinking of, but I'm always wary when everybody else isn't doing it, theres normally a good reason!! It would also mean that I would have a genuinely multipurpose vehicle for lanscaping and tree work, what I'm not sure of is, whether I should be multipurposing or making the more seperated...... R

It looks like my contract GM Work is going up again next year and I've scrapped my tranny tipper so I need a new van. I'm thinking of going for a van with a demountable body, now most of my contract work is private estates so it's not a problem to unload what is effectively a skip and leave it there with equipment. Now I'd also have another container for a chip body that could be left on site, or sites depending on the workload. Does anybody have a link to the complete list of rules for placing skips on the highway. I know I need a licence for each skip, and the council already has copies of insurance so they can invoice if I fax them details through. I'm more wondering about lights, cones etc and if it's a good idea full stop. Also anybody got ideas on vehicles. Looks like theres a few transit/ldv roll on/off out there. I presume these would be overloaded very quickly. So probably looking at about 6 tonne mark, but preferably still a smallish vehicle. Budget wise, not sure would like to buy secondhand outright but if I need to finance a new vehicle then I could do, but with work yoyoing don't really want to......... Operators licence is a consideration but shouldn't be a problem, I had one for a road sweeper about 5 years ago so if you can do it once.... Or should I just buy another 3.5t tipper and make do?? R

I guess thats one of the reasons it's so important to make sure your properly attached to the machine! Saw someone lowering of a mewp once, scary!!!

Try a few different insurance companies, there is no right or wrong answer. Arbinsure on the right have just given me a very good quote that NFU are struggling to comete with for my renewal next week. R

Will do. I'll give you a bell with any details.

Are you still after a chipper? Might know of one going in W-S-M 6 inch timberwolf, don't know hours or year, but it seemed alright when I used it a couple of years ago, and it hasn't done much work since, hence he's possibly selling up.............. Having a beer down that way (I mean working hard down that way) early next week so can get more details then if you want? R

Trouble is the email he's got will be one that he's just got and will be discarded afterwards with no trace.

It's grey on red diesel as well I'd say but this threads not for that debate..............

I'm bored so I asked him if I could view, the reply: hello, £2000 including delivery. i will prefer to send you the chipper. it will be more easy. If you are interested please contact me at: ivanhosen (at) yahoo.co.uk or reply with your email. thank you Ivan definitely a scam.

I'm getting muddled up with my words tonight aren't I, you need to use the rob google translation package!! In this instance it's already gone back to the yard, and for whatever reason has not gone for firewood. I don't know whether it was saleable or not. If it wasn't then the best bet for that firm is to just get rid of it. If it was then someones made a booboo. If it was going to cost £20/ton to get it back to the yard then it may be more cost effective just to have it offloaded in the first instance, rather than rent yard space, pay out for transport etc and only just about break even. When writing this I was thinking about a job which had to have all material off site asap, in this instance all the stuff has been taken away in big skips and will be chipped at the yard because there is not way (IMO) it would be worthwhile processing for firewood, back at the yard. If there was more time available on site, then it would be worthwhile snedding up and selling stuff for firewood. Not sure if i've said what I'm trying to say or not, if it doesn't make sense just ignore me..... R

I get that, but presumably that wood has already been 'processed' i.e is all snedded up and presented in round lengths ready to go on a wagon. If it's not then I'm even more impressed with your ability to sell stuff!!! The other important factor is that it hasn't cost £20/ton to move it back to your yard, as you have the equipment that some others haven't got, hence for you it's worthwhile. For a smaller setup that hasn't got a big yard where they can store wood etc it's more cost effective to get rid of something that will cost them to transport and or process.

That's fair enough, it works for you but it doesn't work for everybody depending on their setup. Sounds like everybody is happy in the above situation job done!

It's not but that looked like it was at a yard, maybe in had gone straight there non processed and that was the most cost effective way of disposing of the stuff. But I might be wrong, it happens a few times a year:thumbdown:

Depends what you want to do though doesn't it. If you need to get in and out ASAP it can be the quickest option. It also means that you can clear fell, use and excavator to load large skips, then process it elsewhere if you need to. Trying to sort out the mess afterwards into firewood is never fun!!

To many variables really. I guess it comes down to what works in each situation, which will be different for each client, and each risk assessment and method statement. 2 Trees is certainly what's taught, but if one is not felling then there's only one tree coming down at a time I can't see a problem with your method. R