Billy

Hammer a smaller socket on

Mike grips/pipe wrench if access is there

Cut a groove and screw driver it

Cut a grove in one side near a corner and turn it with an air chisel or hammer and screw driver etc

Borrow a welder and weld a new bolt to it

If you do it for nothing, process it and sell it to them as firewood then you may be able to, as long as there is no charge for labour

But the logs some of us sell are from trees we've been paid to cut...so strictly speaking you could give it a go but I reckon you'd be investigated after a year and it wouldn't be pleasant!

Why do you need a chipper or grinder to supply someone with wood ?

Reduce cutting and holding and 1 handed cutting. I had a bit of it and made an effort to use step cuts more, seemed to sort it out.

18t front mount crane normal tipper, rear mount crane would be great but having to rip sideways could limit tip sites if you don't tip in your own yard and have kit to tidy up after yourself. Where the crane is needed we can usually manoeuvre to get it involved, but of course if it were at the back it could be used a bit more...I'll do out some more pictures shortly. Also this size is far more number and manoeuvrable than you think when first making the step up.

Driving on Woodchip in December, grip and lack of ground pressure etc is surprisingly good.

When it's not going to be profitable, we had the start of a pair of monster conifer hedges to reduce from around 50ft to about 20ft and things wouldn't have been productive enough in this wind, went and removed deadwood from some chestnuts instead, which was difficult enough, it was defiantly the right decision!

IMHO the likes of you have screwed this country just my "extreme" :001_rolleyes:opinion:001_rolleyes:

Compliment if I ever saw one, presuming you mean there hard work and determination puts that of many homegrown workers to shame?

Diesel and tyres. Or just some kindling depends on your fire starting skills.

I guess Bens point is with some people if they had to pay for a taxi they may declassify the emergency all of a sudden to something that could be done that evening.

Or many people suffer with completely dependant partners ( not through disability) and so complain on a regular basis about problems that could easily be solved by a second driving license or car in their family....But rather than work to adapt they simply make it the problem of their employer, friends family etc. In a real emergency obviously people need to get going quickly and efficiently but there's no reason why this can't be done with minimal disruption to the working day I find its usefully handy to have 2 vehicles on site for a variety of reasons.

That's what I think they are worth. it is the same round here firms sending climber and a groundie out with van and chipper for £300 -£400 a day and it's not enuf the groundie will be on £50 and climber £80 a proper tree surgery team should be £500 minimum there's to meny willing to under cut!afew of my mates are plumbers sparckeys and teacher and wouldn't even think about setting off for less that £150 a day tree work deserves To be the same level

Is this really that common? That's silly money even +VAT IF you have good kit and work efficiently those figures would cover a mornings work, I know of people who work for that but it's because they're very slow as Bob said earlier in the thread.

Steady on mate. I hear the same from a lot of business owners. They work 14 hour days, seven day weeks, and earn less than the lowest brash dragger for their troubles.

 

Why? To provide jumped up climbers like me with a secure job, regardless of their own personal sacrifice.

 

Instead of your cynicism maybe you could recognise business owners for the charitable martyrs they are?

Hahahaha, excellent.

I saw yesterday a job advert on one of the Arb related FB pages for a U.K climber salary 28k depending on experience.

 

As a company owner I can only dream of such renumeration...

 

Ty

Maybe you should get a job then ?

First day out for the new truck.

 

Road lane closure with traffic lights.

 

6m3 of chip by 11:30 then off to the weighbridge on the way back.

 

2.2ton of chip so 366kg per m3 of small oak and chestnut chip.

 

We need to lower the drawbar on the 190 and lower the towball on the Iveco.

 

The truck pulls very well loaded and is a totally different beast to the 3.5t

 

Ty

It ok to run a chipper with no in feed tray and safety bar In France? Or does his one get around that problem with the height of the hopper and other obscure rules ?

The accounts department of the building co tractor will email you the tax coupons when you are paid.

I've just started out on my own, priced and did a few jobs before Xmas, made good money, bit of subbing in between, but now on a job I have badly underpriced, going to take 5 days instead of three, with extra labour on top. I could kick myself. Should have known how long it would take, maybe I've been spoilt working for a big firm with lots of kit and bodies to help out. Forgotten how long things take with only 3 of us, a saw that's not big enough and having to handball everything.

Feel like going back to work for someone else. But I won't get far with that attitude.

Learn from it, always give a realistic price for your own set up. I've never got it too wrong but had a few where I've just broken even and it's very frustrating! Best to lose a job being a bit dear than be out working for nothing.

Report them, what's to few guilty about?

If it's relevant to your commercial activities then it is a tax deductible cost

When you say 7 tonne are we talking pay load, GVM etc? Just trying to figure weight differences between the UK and NZ.

All numbers relate to gross vehicle weight 7.5t truck with about 3t payload in this case

Had several machines with this engine all have done this fairly regularly if you see them working hard in low light

So would you suggest a 4x4? I was looking at something to get me by to start off with. Don't plenty of people run just transits or cabstars etc? I would ideally need something that isn't to bulky to start with as a fair amount of the work I will be doing will be city based. Avoiding narrow streets with big trucks is always handy.

Not moaning at your advise as its all well revived by the way.

A 4x4 and trailer is to compliment a transit and chipper. The point is if you're successful you'll soon realise a 3.5t truck limits your work considerably, and the cost of purchasing a 7.5t is not much different aside from the fees obtaining the operators license. If I knew what I know now when I started I would have gone straight to something a bit bigger.

If your going for a bigger lorry than the 90XP or maybe even a bandit 150 will out chip those other machines hands down....make them look feeble and slow even! However I'd use something smaller if sticking with a little truck as the discharge on the bandit is so fierce it could be a real problem in a normal street situation if chip was to miss the back of the truck.

they are great machines and the huge letterbox opening on the 90XP (17") lets it drag in surprisingly large branches and small trees.

Bandit 90XP throws chip very hard even hedge clippings and light stuff go right to the front of the lorry some 5m away and I'm sure would blow chip 2-3 times that distance if need be.

Bandit 90XP throws chip very hard even hedge clippings and light stuff go right to the front of the lorry some 5m away and I'm sure would blow chip 2-3 times that distance if need be.

HSE compliance. Other than that there's not a lot to go wrong. All bearings are large and easy to access for service or replacement just look for the same stuff you would when looking at any machine/ vehicle for obvious issues oil condition etc etc.

I've been up the pyg and round the far side of the horseshoe ( not cryb goch) with wife child and baby in my back and the dog in tow.

The descent from the summit straight down a scree slope can get a bit loose! And it's a fun scramble up the side of the big cliff half way along. ..Probably a different kettle of fish in winter though, however if your with an experienced bunch I'm sure it'd be fine.