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You’re not going to like this- but I did weight an 0.9x0.9x0.9 bag full of ash the other day, using the aforementioned crane scales. trouble is I can’t remember what it was!!

We live in hope.

If you're that skint sell your house and buy a flat with no garden to worry about!

Its inneficient, and the last little bit flies out and twats you in the face! 🤣

I’d plan to use belts and pulleys. Following with interest.

All these Chinese machines are the same. I’m very happy with my 15hp for the money. The feed rate is what it is. You can’t compare it to a roller fed 40hp machine. Keep the blades sharp and it’s ok, but I wouldn’t want to be feeding it 4” all day long. It won’t really feed short sections either- they just bounce around and sometimes back out at you. You need to feed it the whole branch, starting with the 4” end. Gravity and well adjusted anvil gap will do the work this way- as it gets lighter it gets thinner so still self feeds.

7hp simply isn’t enough. You need the 15hp model. Here you go- the cheapest 15hp on eBay currently. NEW Summerdale Ninja Shredder 15HP, 120mm Petrol Wood Chipper 420cc WWW.EBAY.CO.UK The modern design, large wheels and well balanced construction allows the...

They are the same as any other Chinese mini chipper but with less (or even no) backup. They’ve gone broke at least once. mine was a bargain at £800 plus vat for the 15hp one

In fairness, probably at least half of the recent inflation in consumer things is the price going up because the cost of energy is shooting up. But the asset bubble is down to quantative easing.

This guy gets it. The money supply was increased after the 2008 crash- kicking the can down the road, rather than face the necessary pain. Since then, the bankers paid lip service whilst carrying on their shenanigans in other things than the subprime mortgage market. Just as it looked like the music was about to stop (removal of the Term Funding Scheme and others which basically let banks 'borrow' from the central banks at close to 0%, to lend out at 30% on credit cards etc)- along came COVID. Cue an avalanche of helicopter money. Furlough, bounce back loans, grants with no criteria other than 'are you a business'. A massive increase in the monetary supply. Surprise surprise, Bitcoin hit $65k and houses shot up by 20% as people found themselves awash with (essentially) free money. We need to hang the bankers from every lampost and revert to the Gold Standard. That's the physical gold standard, not the paper gold market, which is the bankers current plaything: Paper Gold Price Manipulation—Rigged to Fail - Matterhorn - GoldSwitzerland GOLDSWITZERLAND.COM As the paper gold price falls in the previous week, manipulation in the markets has never been more blatant.

Getting rid of the kid for an hour/possibly permanently dependant upon just how far inland the Daily Star is reporting sharks?

Well we are digging out and running 3.5t tippers of soil (or rather dust!) four miles back to the yard all day- nice easy job, and not in the sun too much. I've gone commando in shorts😲, and when it's too hot I just take a quick dip in the 3t dumper full of water at the yard.

My money is on your last sentence.

The company. No question about it. I’d order a new rope for the freelancer, and make sure everyone rips the piss out of the lad who did it. “Watch out Timmy, here comes another anaconda slithering out of the tree! Here, use my axe this time!”

Maybe I read it wrong. Either way the price is right for the job in my book.

Of course the costs change. All that is required is two men and a ladder. So he either sends two men and sends the machines on another job, or he says ‘I’m sorry, the job is too small for me’ Or he prices stupid, hopes he gets it and doesn’t care if he doesn’t. What he shouldn’t do is come on here, acting the big ‘I am’ and slating a firm with just a hedgecutter for doing a decent job at a fair (and profitable for them) price.

Yup, plenty of room for a larger battery- you might need to loose the plastic cover, but nothing a couple of large cable ties wouldn't sort. If you are going down this route, then I'd fit a leisure battery. The CCA required to start a 15hp engine (that starts first pull by hand) won't even move the needle on a 40ah leisure battery, but that battery would stand up far better to being used for winching.

I don't know, but I hear £600 for a mini skidsteer and operator is about right 🤣

What bit of it don't you get? Your hourly rate is justified for what you do best- big takedowns that would take hundreds of man hours without machinery. If you can convince someone to pay you that for a poxy conifer hedge, then more power to you (and you'll probably make more from sales than being on the ground!) If I have a customer that requires a hedge cut, I don't charge two lads out at what it costs to send a digger and a Heziohack. I charge them a fair rate (one could say the going rate?) that covers my costs and allows profit relative to that job. Meanwhile the diggers are out paying their way at a suitable rate for them. In business, this is called duplication. It's not selling yourself short to charge less for two men than you do for two mean and £150k worth of kit. Your snide dig at a bloke not wearing a helmet in a conifer hedge that you could pretty much walk along, on the hottest day of the year just makes you look butthurt.

This 100% £600 a day is good money for two blokes, a ladder and some hedgecutters. John, I don't know why you take umbridge at the suggestion that a garden conifer hedge trim isn't an ideal fit for a business that has spent hundreds of thousands on big kit? Nobody is suggesting that the same two man team with a ladder (however long 🤣) takes on a row of sixty feet tall dead ash on the roadside.

Mine weighs 75kg and is very solidly constructed. I think you'd have to have one made, you'd not find one off the shelf to suit. It wants to be narrow from back to front to keep the load centre as tight as possible. It also needs the brackets welded to a suitable bit of the frame that transmits the load to the rest of it, which you're not going to have on a crate designed to be carried on the forks.

Best I've used. I have had both M12 and M18 Milwaukee grease guns, and this is much faster. I also have the old school Makita drill attachment which isn't bad either.

That will fold up soon as look at it. Plus you don’t want the additional weight of the pallet forks, it’d be too much.

It'll be set next the hedge you want to cut and then climb in to it I think. It's really for those nasty wide ones in back gardens. The beauty of a man crate is that you can push it into the hedge for more reach if needed, and you can be a lot more exuberant with the cutters than if you were working off a ladder. Basically it's no higher than a stepladder, but much more stable.

Here you go.