Big Mark

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It is an excellent add on sale and really contributes to the turnover.

Most I've done on one job was 80 Picea abies which took 24 hours of grinding

(in total not continuous...Bandits not got lights!) I just charged my time and the machine costs as it was an add on sale to the felling etc.

We charge each man out at 300euros or if a 3 man team 800euros. Its Rennes, it rich and its the going rate. Further West into Brittany there are guys working from 150-200.

The key for us is the location, Rennes. Cities have earners and the Brit ex-pats are not earners in general, they've already earned and are tight with the spending of it.

I am looking at a bigger machine but until I really pissed of with ragging the Bandit around a new Bandit can wait. Oh, nearly got the Navarra well stuck in our field trying to tip a FULL tipper trailer of wet Lawson chips...