Stephen Blair

Get a pto winch, hydraulic are cheap and brutally slow!

Sad day when your Mog goes on the flatbed! She's gone to a good home for sure!

A suby climber can get away with a top handle and a 46, spikes, harness, strop and rope. So £1500 isn't far off, it can be second hand. The more you buy the less you are making because it will be expected to be part of your kit at the same price.

Good Groundie are harder to find, a good 1 has no aspirations to climb and start their own business, they just want to graft and go home. Usually they don't even think about trees or even remember past jobs.

I didn't start taking regular days off until I was 30. I've never understood the subbie climber at around the £100 rate. Buy a hedgecutter and make that by lunchtime. I see no glory in tree climbing, it's making money. So what makes the most the quickest wins in my book!

When you make more money you do more like 340 days a year!

The guys just being cautious. Message Martin at A C Price for info.

As a contract climber yes. I was only an employed climber for 6 months in 98 on £4.30 an hour. Realised that was not for me.

I've been making £400 a day since 1999. If you find it scary and dangerous and only make £80 a day with sore arms I think you should get a different job .

Buyer pulled out so still for sale.

4 cylinder, 150-170 HP

Depends on power I'd of thought and there's only so fast the blades will take stuff in. Worth a try.

I'm anxious and obsessive! It was always work work work with me, then along came kids, work wasn't giving me the answers I was needing, I needed to be home more. So I sold everything and obsessed about being a good dad and doing as little as possible work wise. So i sussed that and worked 2 days a week. Found Arbtalk, went nuts in here and did 20,000 posts in a year. Then as the kids got a bit older and the wife wanted me out the house more I tried to make the ultimate Arb truck. Did that for a few years and just bought another Mog, then it was the gym and being fit. So went bonkers at that for 6 months, got the 6 pack and tits then got bored of that! Work got busy so I went bonkers at that again. I am fueled by nervous energy, always have been. Use it to your advantage mate but don't kill yourself with stress and body pains because I've been down that road too and it's not any fun and hard to get back up.

I doubt you can adjust the size of the chip,you can't adjust the anvil! I think you need to just realise your set up isn't very good, yes it's a Mog and pto chipper but not been married up well. Just get your head down and suffer it and save your money, experience will kick in soon and solutions will appear.

There's a 5.5" front mount ducker for sale at AC Price, £4.5k play sell your other 1. Put that on and go and make some money.

What he said!!

You would need to constantly rotate against the screw direction! Couldn't think of a worse thing to put it on tbh! What you want is a leg cracker! Don't know what their real name is and they come in all different designs but I'm sure you can get 1 that would get pined down with the Hiab leg then run off the leg hoses with extended hoses and a diverter. Using the grab to rip the wood off makes it so much quicker compared to trying to just split them with a cone or woodcracker head. Edit here's the 1 I remember seeing.

Find something else to obsess about.

Certainly more tech and comfort. Manouveabilty and visibility is emense, you sit in front of the wheels so turning is great. It's just newer and more modern

Yes bought the U20 from Chris last month, sold my old Mog today. Mick thanks

New Mog

To the OP you are just in a dip until you find your feet, business is always changing and you need to change with it. It's great you are going VAT reg, business must be good. If you feel things are more busy than profit then I would suggest having a price increase and a customer dead wood. The price increase usually does this for you.

Looks great

My first year my aim was £10k and my tree insurance was £900, I did £25k that year.(1999) Don't aim low, aim high. Aim for £100k, forget greenwood turning and get up the trees, that's where the money is.

What's the £25-£30k a year? Turnover? If so that's scarier than the £900 quote.