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Blue sky today and sun out in t shirt on a rec climb with the new apprentice. crown lifting some field trees for a few beer tokens on a friends farm. had a fab day, mainly thanks to the weather and being able to climb and stay dry at the same time! the saps rising in the trees snowdrops are out just had a brill day in the country sat chilling in front of the fire now with a SC & irn bru lifes good and days like today is why I took up this career:thumbup::thumbup:

ive sent u a private message

we once hired our previous st-30 out to a local landscaper to cart 30 tonnes of leaf mouldy compost stuff 400yards from the drop site up a garden to a newly created bed,had put it in 4wd for 2days solid on hard surfaces and had the front axle so hot the paint had rippled around the front diff

could be worse heard a story of a chap in our local town,had a Chinese takeaway then went to dentist week later with pain from his wisdom tooth, upon examination the dentist recovered a micro chip from under his gum pouch later identified as a locals cat which mysteriously never returned home one night.......................:puke:

if your groundys twatted the camera with the steps you wont see it fall off as it falls off on route homeward bound :lol:

it is indeed dog eat dog, we charge £17.50/hr/man but regularly loose jobs to people charging £15/hr/man, we often get return customers from these scenarios as these other cannot keep it afloat at those prices. We make up with compact tractor mowing normally that goes out @ £38.00/hr/unit + chap strimming @ £17.50/man/hr

ours goes out for the following bits, sometimes need to hire additional implements etc. -hedge cutting -carting/muck shifting in large gardens -log splitting -trenching -small woodland mgmt. tasks -fencing -gritting -larger landscape jobs,moving shrubs/trees -levelling bar for drives/ménages -towing our chipper/ timber off jobs never hire it out without operator as ive learnt it normally comes back bent.lol in the spring it goes out with hollow tine aerator and scarifier to larger maintenance jobs and in the summer its on the flail and or finishing mower hope this helps

eddy_t was the 346 an xp or xpg? there was one for sale(xpg) in the local buy n sell in Biddulph, when I read it yesterday at the mother in laws, there was no bar cover with this one, 15" bar and nearly new chain £150.00 ono smelt a rat as was rather cheap?

had an infra red one mounted on chip box roof to see chipper! it was ace but now on the 3rd one as it either filled with chip bits or someone knocked it off its mount with the ladders. will definatly fit another when I get chance,until then shall carry on by backing up by feel.lol

hope this chap isn't on here. everyone has their own overheads, yes £400.00/day for 3lads is very cheap but if he can sustain a business on this and is fully qualified and insured then let him get on with it. people will work for what they think they are worth, as a rule of thumb our 2man team is £400.00/day which we feel is reasonable, But since the downturn we have moved into grounds maintenance and charge £17.50/hr/man for this, we are constantly being slated by other GM contractors of being too cheap so in general its all swings & roundabouts . We cover our overheads with the above pricing and make a reasonable profit with enough in the kitty to replenish/ replace equipment when required. Also as a rule of thumb our jobs are priced "per job" and not on a day rate, unless its a large job and we are unsure of a time scale etc. IMO in neither slating this company or siding with them as this industry is soo varied and everybodys overheads are totally different. Rant over Alex _M please don't feel im slating your thread on pricing etc etc just my opinion

chap at our yard has the tilt bed as above, nothing but mither, the ramps buckled and the assistor rams seize and bent frequently. Dad also had a 16ft general bateson flatbed. vWas terrible, very poor quality finish,galv started perishing within 18months,chassis twisted and the suspension units needed replacing after only 2 years,he only transports builders tardis on it so was hardly abused weight wise. however never had experience of the tippers, could be different

mk6 tranny 90/350 chipped to 115 no electrical mither from either of mine in 4 years!

think u all need a tranny then 420 miles from £90.00 mixed driving :)

cant get much chip in one

£428.00 each? ouch!!

:lol: brilliant post :lol:

loose nut behind the wheel again Rob?!

lol and all that wood for £8.00 and a bunch of banannas. :lol:

hope you didn't drop a chog on that roof with the broken tiles

log splitting on Monday and just couldn't be bothered going to tip !

spat the front diff out of the frontera today, drove it nearly back to base and lost all brakes as well. big job breaking out me thinks

just carry on driving the dam thing until you get solid advice.....and next time don't upset your neighbours and they wont dob you in it with vosa. :lol:

groundsaws are pretty boring,could only get the handle of my 346 through the feed rollers! wouldnt fit through the rollers after it had eaten the throttle handle, the rest wouldnt fit!

fill it to the brim and take the back roads home