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Iv been looking for a 18/100g for ages and none came up. And I obviously don't have a few grand laying about or I'd have bought something better. I'm not going to be keeping it forever but I have just parted with my money and it needs to pay for itself. So I want it to perform as intended before I sell it on probably at a loss and then still can't find a suitable chipper in budget.

Right i found my small chipper and jumped on it!! Its a Bearcat 71020 chipper shredder with blower unit. Had it out today for the first time and the shredder is evil!!! just rips small brash through upto 1"1/2 to 2" but the chipping chute which is 5" wasn't doing to well. I had to push the branches through it and it just seemed hard work really. I got it back to the yard and removed the blades (4 of) and thgey seemed battered. So i gave them a sharpen up refitted and tested. It faired better but the chips where like dust really fine. How can i get it to perform like a timberwolf 13/75g or 18/100g because they seem to chip it up on there own no need to force it through and the chips are quite big???? Is a new set of blades needed. Apart from that im well chuffed it towed well at 55-60mph all the way from Coventry back to Blackpool. The 20hp kohler v twin starts on the key first turn and it never laboured once. I'll get some pics up but any advice regarding blades chipping chute is welcomed. Cheers guys.

Hi I'm based in Blackpool but to be honest I'd travel as far north as Glasgow and south as London if there was one at the right money!! Iv got jobs backing up and it s ball ache as I'm hiring a tw 13/75g and although a good little chipper quite limited. The other problem is me the wife have taken on a little nursery in cleavleys and with it the panel van which is sign written. So I'm towing the ifor Williams tipper with it which mean untill I buy a tipper of some description ill have to drop the chipper at the job with my groundies and go back for the trailer!! Madness!! I really should have gone allout and bought the tracked entec then I could have put it in the van and chipped into the trailer!!

Anybody got a small first chipper forsale???

As it states im looking for a entec trukloder/18/100g or similar small chipper and was wondering if any of you guys had one stashed away not doing much. Missed out on one listed on ebay other week that was mounted on a tracked barrow looked like a right handy little thing!! Cheers guys

I have about 30 acre where clear felling at the moment but need this myself really but I'm waiting on another 75 acre of birch and willow that has an awkward farmer tennent on there at the moment. Hopping this will be resolved next year. I also have close to 100 acre of willow coppice that's due first harvest next year but would prefer to to thin and leave another couple of yeqrs. I clearfelled 4.5 acre yesterday and boxing day lol tv was seriously crap.

No I wasn't meaning it in a rude way just as Jon wasn't trying to hijack my thread. All in good taste chaps no need to get excited lol oh and john ill sell you 2000 tonne of birch and willow £25 a ton collection only from south west Scotland hahaha Happy new year

Do one start your own thread.

Im looking for standing and windblown timber to fell and extract myself for firewood in and around the Scottish Borders. I have alot of shelter belt birch and willow to be going at but its time consuming to handle small diameter wood constantly. Could do with a bit more variety. Anyone have any contacts in this end of the world?? 50-75 mile radius of Dumfries is fine which kinda takes me as north as lanark and as south as Penrith. Any ideas??

OOOHH forgot this one!! "I'll bring griz........you skin him" lol It took him about two dog ages to work out he needed to go to Canada??? If i had mad red men wanting to give me a propper hair cut id looking into relocating a bit sooner lol

I just got the new true grit and loved it!!! Jeff Bridges made Rooster Cogburn the mean barsteward that he was ment to be!! Fav line from the film "THERE AINT NO CLOCK ON MY BUSINESS" hahaha I love most of Clints films as already said Jossie Wales is classic. Fist full of daollars a few dollars more and the good the bad and the ugly!! The unforgiven All class films. But what about the modern ones Apaloosa, 3.10 to yuma?? One film i also love that flopped when released was the missoury breaks with Jack Nickolas and Marlon Brando. But yeah i like westerns!!

An incredible hulk bobble head to go on the dash of my truck lol DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY haha

Willow grows silly fast, all the farmers near me where given Gov subs to grow willow for a new power station. They where planted 8 year since and they are well up there already. Not too good for firewood though. We have silver birch on my parents land and some areas that where cleared some 15 years ago have selfseeded and some now stand 20ft plus an 8" at the trunk. Most of the others are from wrist thickness upwards. One thing i do know is that you will soon get fed up of trying to process wood like this as a porsch 280s can get through only 2-3 cube per hour. When all the wood is 8"+ it can do 9 cube an hour. I think you need to start thinking 25yrs+ as 15yrs aint enough to produce worthwile diameter wood. But thats only my opinion.

Right you can all verbally abuse me now because its red face time for me. Im selling .06 m3 for £45 and 1 m3 bags for £75 (softwood) I was given two lots of bags by the folks i assumed the smaller to be 1 m3 and the bigger to be around 1.2-3 m3. It wasnt untill i sat down with a calculator the other day that i suprised myself followed by a wave of embarrassment. This does kinda bring my prices inline with everyone elses though. What shocked me even more was i got a bag in exchange from a customer that belonged to the local builders merchant. They are advertising bulk bag of hardwood for £44.99 but its only 80x80x60 0.38 m3!!! and its soaking wet. I think im gonna sack the bags off completly next year and get a 0.5 and 1 m3 tipping skip to use as set measures and just do loose tipper loads. That way theres no "Their bags bigger than your bag" or "their bag is only so much" etc etc.

Next year ill be a barrow bag convert!! I'll be replacing my net bags with them as nets are a pain to bag up and i have min order for delivery anyway. I asked a few of my customers that buy nets off me weekly what they thought of them and they all said yes they would like barrow bags instead. I'll be ditching .6 cube and 1 cube bags also in favor of .5 cube and 1 cube loose loads on a tipper because no one will pay more than £50 for anything that comes in something resembling a builders bag. Point in case a local builder merchant has ads everywhere Hardwood logs £44.99 and a pic of a cube bag. Their actually selling the logs in 80x80x60 0.38 cube bags and the wood is wet through!! Magic!!! But yeah Barrow bags arer the future lol

I see exactly what your saying and agree also but when i said i wasnt confident i ment with crane rigging iv never done that before. As to taking the tree down in the normal fashion im 110% happy i can do it. Its a really easy tree with big well spaced branches. The only thing to watch for really is where the branch ends touch the building and over hang the gardens either side. The main stem is quite hefty and due to the tree being on a slope dismantle will be slow i guess as every piece will have to be rigged. But other than that its easy street its just the access thats pants.

Hob goblin ruby ale at room temperature by the gallon hahaha Be careful all as plod will be about I got pulled sand breath tested this morning!!! Scored a big fat 0 and got the straw as a keep sake lol copper was a really decent chap too. Merry Christmas everyone.

Took a 25ft cherry down yesterday and ground the stump. Hired the tw13 and a ryco stump grinder for 126 for the pair for the day which I was happy with. When I picked the chipper up I thought here we go another mickymouse machine that you have to spoon feed straight stick to one at a time. Wrong!! When I got into the flow of feeding the brash into it I was managing full branches upto about 4" I know the machine is rated at 3" but I didn't even labour hardly. The other thing I noticed was due to the hopper angle you didn't have to try and ram the branches through either it just munched at it dragging the brash in steady away. Easy to start too with a slow steady pull, didn't do too bad on juice considering it was running most of the morning and a couple of hours in the afternoon. I chipped approx 4 cm3 with it on the day and was very pleased indeed. Down sides I would say are the solid wheels just sink on a wet lawn and this thing is 200kg, small thread like what the stump grinder had would be better. The other thing is the side eject chute. This thing can blow chips for 20ft easy so why not have a small chute so you can blow it into wheeli bin or truck/trailer??? The larger model has this!!?? All in all good quality machine would be happy to own one for smaller narrow access jobs and want to try the tw18/100g next show the model up and comes in fast tow form.

If you read back through the posts I do have EL I don't have pro liability so anyone can feel free to grate away. The tree is actually at the back of a shop recently acquired by a gent who has a huge property portfolio and is fitting the whole building top to bottom as it has been empty for some ten years plus. He is a tight arse no to ways about it. He will prob want a discount for cash but ill be factoring this in when I quote. As for crane work ill be honest I'm inexperienced at the level and wouldn't attempt it. Would quite happily pass on the job and recommend a bigger firm in my area if that's what was needed. I don't mind having a go at something if I'm confident I can do it. If I'm not then I don't take risks.

Bloody hell the force is strong with this one. They are some really wise words my friend and ill be taking them on every job I goto price from now on!! Thank you. I never even consider all the running around I do before and after it always just comes out my back pocket when I'm queing up at the petrol station!! I'll be putting more thought into pricing jobs from now on instead of pulling a figure out of my backside:thumbup:

Haha can of worrms LOL ok people from now on ill double all my prices then add 10% scouts honour lol no seriously I don't want to spoil the job for others and don't want to work for free. On smaller jobs I'm usually not far out but when it gets complicated like this job and the epic conifer hedge ill hopefully get. I'm out of my depth in terms of pricing because iv never had to do it before. I actually put the quote in for £2100 on the hedge in the end. And I do hope I get that one!!

I'm sorry but didn't come out of the whome with twenty five years experience under the belt I guess ill just have to go down the route of trial and error and drawing on others greater knowledge than myself by POSTING on forums like this!! Honestly sometimes I feel that somepeople take great offence to people trying to better their selves. :confused1:

I've seen it lol I'm confident in my abilities but would never price it as a day job cos if it did run over I would be well out of pocket. I think two days is plenty to get it done and tidied. I always price a job then go bloody hell I wouldn't pay that!!! Then start repricing it for less. I know I'm a fool to myself.

I've seen it lol I'm confident in my abilities but would never price it as a day job cos if it did run over I would be well out of pocket. I think two days is plenty to get it done and tidied. I always price a job then go bloody hell I wouldn't pay that!!! Then start repricing it for less. I know I'm a fool to myself.