Matthew Storrs
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I don't really reccomend the husky 338xpt if thats any help! rather underpowered compared to stihl, far less 'zippy', plus sounds like a bag of nails when you start it, nice shape tho
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I know the problem, park it over a spray of woodchip before you change it.nuisance tho and i find you cant get your hand out the way quick enough to take the sump plug away, oil all up arm etc!
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sorry missed that it was mostly Alder, might be a market for producing charcoal there...
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It depends on what the material is worth to a coppicer, dependent on species, age, size. many will buy a stand of you and they use/sell the coppice to make their profit, It may be worth contacting someone up your way to speacializes in woodland management, they would look at it and give you a better answer, roughly how big are the trees in diameter?
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When you think about it these prices are incredibly cheap for the amount of work they do, when you think a bloke and a little stumpgrinder worth £15k would charge that whereas a 50k machine requiring a lowloader to haul it gets very little more.
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led zep and deep purple for me, zz top is always a winner too.
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Thats good, i know people charging that for a 2.5 tonner, Morris Leslie hire out a self drive 7.5 tonner for 80 a day plus delivery, which is a steal in my opinion.
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you could get a 100kg weight on that but if you encoutered sloppey ground it can get a bit unsteady, 80kg would be better, but unfortunatly the vector one is a bit heavy for a 1.5 tonner @225kg in total. I have one on a takeuchi 1.6t with the expanding tracks, complements a tractor one very nicely despite only having a 90kg weight, as it can nip into all sorts of tight spaces and tows behind landy, i had to have it made/altered from one which goes on a compact tractor and it suits it very nicely, won't knock in bigger than 6inch diameter tho unless i drill a pilot hole with the auger
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pros for a digger one over a tractor one, .can reach almost anywhere, can be used to grade any ground plus use other attchments etc, quicker one man operation. uses far less diesel. much cheaper to buy. downside- you have to have a tractor to tow bigger diggers around, can be less accurate driving over a decent fully hydraulic tractor model. 2.5-3 ish ton digger makes for the most efficient carrier.
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protech are ok but you have to have that leg down to steady it all, the vector design doesn't have the problem and the design for lifting the weight is far less 'heath robinson' then the protech ones.
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With quite a lot of experiance of digger mounted ones and different models. look at the vector powerdrive ones, the beauty of them is when you put it on top of the post the weight of the boom/postdriver is taken by the post itself and makes for far more effective hammering, don't get one with a leg as they are very easy to bend when making adjustments to the post, what size machine. IMO experiance a digger mounted one in the right hands is far quicker then a tractor one. downside is you cant have as big weight- depends on digger size tho.
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Hi as above, im looking for someone who is a self employed groundsmen, required for reletively frequent work, although not consistent as depends on work load. Ideally looking for someone with experiance of felling/lowering operations, cs30/31 and driving license. Im based in Princetown, so if anyones interested pm me. Thanks, Matt
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Sorry, just a bit too weird for me, did get the giggles tho, couldn't tell whether I was watching the ballet or a scene from 'one who flew the cuckoos nest'!
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Theres a local chap on dartmoor who has an 18inch heizohack if any use. Dartmoor woodfuel co-operative is the name.
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I believe that if you work out doors, lead a healthy life etc you will find you rarely get ill as in colds flus etc, In 8 years of tree work iv never had a day of because of a virus/cold/flu.
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Are you an arborist or a tree lopper?
Matthew Storrs replied to joe into trees's topic in General chat
Well I tried it but it started asking about handsaws:confused1: so i gave up. -
Sorry to divert from the thread, but which mini loader do you have? Iv been getting quite excited about the Boxer ones recently. Seems like lots of Arb chaps are heading down this route. maybe they will be the next chipper/stumpgrinder mainstay piece of equipment!
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Thats never a bad thing:biggrin: Your totally right tho, A local team to me has 4 staff whereas I only have subbies, He runs his company on manpower I run mine on machinery. Even though he has bigger overheads and is VAT registered, he can beat me on some jobs simply because he can do in a day with 4 blokes what takes me 2 days with 2 of us, even tho Im probably cheaper, But he runs a very standard setup compared to me and thus on the whole I reckon i have the edge over him on many (usually rural) jobs with my tracked chipper/minidigger & grab combo. AL about having the right tool/setup for the job
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I know, but i assume they deem it ok to have unmanned boards aslong as its remote control? In which case I don't see the difference from my system.
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I suppose it depends on how you define 'manned'. I don't see how a remote control is any better then my method using self standing stop/gos and asigning a ground member to each signto change the sign round once the road is clear.
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Interesting point, but on many jobs your setup may be no quicker then tranny andchipper one, yet your rig/outlay will be costlier to run, you wouldn't/couldn't charge what your competitor charges then. I guess it all comes down to having the most efficient kit for whatever majority of your work is.
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Ref land rover 90/110 200/300tdi 6 nicked in weeks
Matthew Storrs replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
Do your 300 tdis not have immobilisers? Mine does and makes a hell of a racket the moment you open the door? can't see how they could mobilise it without it going of first? -
probably! don't see the point of having a bloke standing next to a self standing sign just for the sake of it. The signs I use could no way turn by themselves etc so I don't see the problem.
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Is it really possible to quote a job as a job, rather than how long it will take you? surely when you look at a job instantly you would need to think how long it will take you and thus how much you need to charge in order to reach your daily target. Whenever I look at a job i would find it impossible to quote without thinking how long it will take and in a way how many 'days' I need to put on it to cover myself.
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I use lollipops on a tri stand, so the groundys can put them on stop and leave them whilst they do the clearing up then switch them back to go, it saves having two blokes just on the stop/go boards
