Billy
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Where are you based?
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My Landy does about 17MPG it's usually fully loaded (tipper) and towing a 1.5t chipper. I've never had radials on it though so don't know what the improvement would be, if any as the BFGs roll very smoothly.
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It will already hold more than it can carry at the current size though. Looks good.
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I have the MTS on my 110 and they're great off road and on. Also wear rate is very slow they've been on for 3 years ( around 60k I would imagine) and still plenty of life left in them
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IMO this is due to the £300/ day lot lifestyles, idiots whatever you call them. If you want to turn over £1500 a week why not do it in 2 days instead of 5. Then they could have their free time, flexibility and all the other stuff that goes with the 'it's not about the money' types without depreciating the trade, everyone wins.
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I agree, and I think this sort of work should command a substantially higher day rate than your everyday conifer removals and topping etc.
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More or less my plan, however the last 5-6 meter of stem can be lifted straight into the lorry in 2-3 sections. It's 3ft+ at 6ft and doesn't taper much. any negative rigging will be pushing my kit pretty hard, I'm thinking I'll push blocks straight into the lorry for simplicity until within reach of the crane. If the transit and tw brigade don't want to do it for less and be there for a week slicing each ring into 8ths.
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Funny you should say that, it's my thread and I do have a grab lorry. But why be cheaper by several hundred I want to win jobs by £50 not £500. And a lot of guys should charge more, I notice a lot of talk on here of " me and my Groundy would do that in a day so £350" that's a mornings money for two if your working with the right kit and to earn good money. People who want to 'just earn a wage' shouldn't be allowed to run a business. Edit- However it is possible that the guys doing a 'days work' for £350 May not be doing the same days work as teams charging £750 for their days work...
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This was exactly my thinking, and I'll definitely be giving you a call if I get it. I would love to see someone get this done by 2PM as someone suggested as I'm allowing most of a day to get the crown down and 1 load of chip and 2nd day to take the stem down and remove + the logs from the crown away. GregM, where do you operate to get undercut on a job like this for that money ?
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I've had a look at removing this, what do you guys reckon on price and timescale etc? It's in a large driveway plenty of room to drop stuff/space for rigging without coming near house etc, no phone lines and good access
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Take a few hours with a decent pedestrian grinder on your own, if there's two of you one could dig out the smaller ones while the other grinds, making it marginally quicker. £250+VAT .
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Eddies right, I've put in my fair share of seat time in various excavators and t really gets my goat when someone says " I can 'drive' the digger" then proceeds to murder some poor bit of land very clumsily. If you've no experience at all at professional excavation you'll waste a lot of time and achieve a poor finish as, or have to re grade the lot when done, a good operator will see the level and grade as he digs to the finished level. And managing vast amounts of spoil effectively levels and so on. However if you don't care about cost and just want to play in a big machine fair enough, but don't kid yourself that it's simple, anyone can do it, but doing it well and efficiently is different. I'd also say go as big as you can within reason with the machine as bulk digging lakes is boring.
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What happensto all the wood once it's collected and why no chipping in site ?
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My Ram with 5.9 cummins could return up to 25mpg from a tank or as little as 4, again over a entire tank!
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What a pain, just passed my C+E last week, I wonder if I'll get a counterpart or not?
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That's terrible, I'm always telling guys working for me to take responsibility for their safety on the ground, all too often they hear me cutting and don't even have a glance up, shocking in my opinion as the consequences can be so severe!
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All levels of experience considered groundies or climbers good rates of pay, full time work available. Please contact William on 07505134004
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Would be alright in the summer, if it's pretty flat. As has been mentioned you will need a wider gate or a wide road too.
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Hit the nail on the head there skyhuck. £330 is a mornings work, certainly not enough to pay an additional wage from IMO.
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£1500.00 1 day presuming you could fell some once some space had been created. What was your price ?
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Looking at the price points it could quite easily be someone more experienced and better kitted out for you doing it in a morning for cash maybe? As £320 for a 2 man team for a day is very cheap, so working on a more realistic £500/ day for 2 guys I could imagine someone going in at £200 for pound notes if they could do it in half a day. Or maybe they're complete cretins and made no money, either way you should charge more ;-)
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Just looked these up they wright a fair bit over 750kg. It's pretty poor this happening as it's such a new product too. But it seems strange anyone's bothering to buy them when you need B+E to tow it but it's only a 6" chipper...and the axles are made of cheese?
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The local farm warden guy reckons there are some big cats in the woods around my place, I've not seen one but there are some very large paw prints that couldn't really be from anything else
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That's well within the limits IMO.
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Road friendly suspension attests a cheaper rate, but it's pretty rare on tippers and timber wagons.
