Matthew Storrs
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Is there much call for chipper and operator hire?
Matthew Storrs replied to mikecotterill's topic in Business Management
Wouldn't specifically bother if I were you unless you have the machine anyway. Iv hired my tracked timberwolf out with me on a day rate once this year. never again. You'll never work your machine soo hard as they want every minutes worth. -
sligtly different but i run a post driver off my digger, exactly same principle as a log splitter, after an hour or so the oil is pretty hot, cause its being forced back and forwards so quickly.
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grow your own:thumbup1:
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Sorry, I was mixing two posts, you said if you were using two trannies and chipper it would take 3 days, hodge said up his way itd cost £3000 ( so a grand a day) I'd love to even get anywhere near that a day for an average days tree surgery.
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hydraulic power pack, how much do they go for if you don't mind me asking?
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at £3000 3 days assuming you were using 2 trannies and timberwolf still a grand a day. im moving to bucks!!!
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ok, thats good, i wouldn't want to strain the pump unneccesarily, do these small (1.6t) diggers run logsplitters say 13 ton ok?
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never seen one on my takeuchi, its just a two way pedal forward and reverse if ur using an auger with it. whilst you mention it is the timber grab on your 1.5t kubota a rotator?
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aah i see, its like that! If i hold down the aux pedal in the digger it makes the hydraulic pump creak/strain when the implement ram isnt in stroke, so unless i keep the logsplitter ram travelling all the time wont the digger hydraulic pump be strained all the time? Again, don't think this makes sense:blushing:
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I don't think he was actually going to give a day rate but rather what we would expect from a day.
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in Surrey maybe:thumbdown:
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I know some of you on here run splitters of mini diggers cos iv seen the threads but how do you operate them, obviously you would plug the hydraulics into the auxilliary on the digger, but it would only work if the pedal in the cab was pressed down wouldn't it? Don't know if this makes sense...
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Round here (hillbilly part of devon) you wouldn't expect to get much more than £420 - £450 for the team you have to offer. up country you might be able to add another £100 london maybe a further £100.
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thats a flippin cheek!!!
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some of my customers don't pay me for up to a month, not their fault, just the invoice has to go through several pairs of hands before it gets paid
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loads of threads on here about that, and I think the general line of thought is, however much you need to make..
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yep, but if your in the right line of work, decent machinery will make you more money than staff, less stressful too.
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they wouldn't get away with paying a mechanic etc when they felt like it so it should be the same with you. I know what its like though you don't want to make a fuss and scare them for the future but there are tactful ways of putting it to them that you require payment sooner rather than later.
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I don't have a 125 but i do like the sound of them, i rarely chip any bigger than three inches solid wood, and I don't run a super fast paced buisness, so whats a little extra processing? Plus I like the fact that 10 grand would buy me a brand spanker and nice and light to tow. christ, anyone want to do a trade:thumbup1:
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aah. so that explains your 15,000 posts:laugh1:
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Do you mean the the groves that that the top roller goes up and down in when feeding brash? I always grease these at least weekly. I wish timberwolf would use oversize bearings, id happily pay extra
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kid wasn't going to budge without a little force, and thats exactly what was given, something had to be done and im pretty sure i would have lost my patience with the kid at this stage too if id been wanting to get somewhere.
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i wish!
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i asked a timberwolf mechanic why they don't put greasable bearings on, he said the older ones used to but people didn,t bother greasing them regularly and so they failed regularly anyway so hence the sealed bearings. im sure people would grease them tho if they knew it was going to cost £600 to have the bearings done!!
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im never out of my work clothes anyway so thats alright:001_smile:
