kentjames

Out of interest, what processor is that? looks nice and compact. thanks james

Its always the same predicament when it comes to choosing a vehicle. No one vehicle will do everything you want / need. For me as a landscaper, and now tree surgeon, I have for the last 3 years had a small berlingo van and decent trailer. This works well for landscaping, not so well for higher volume tree work. Now im getting bigger tree jobs and have a need for a chipper I am looking at an Iveco tipper with a ali box on the rear. I think for you, think of the future and consider where you want to be in 2 years, 3 years and this will help you decide on what features and capability you need from a truck. Landscaping in general I think can be best done with a decent 4 x 4 pickup and an Ifor trailer, its the tree work which needs the capacity. You say you only do small tree work at the moment but think about the future and try and future proof to avoid buying twice. J

Its probably being sold on behalf of its owner as they are on tour or KIA, the latter is a sombre thought but it happens.

Great informative website you have there, well done

Surely if its LA then they have to publish their accounts in the public place at the end of year? Ridiculous.

I am with orange who is EE, just upgraded my phone, less money per month and got a smart phone. Had a great service with the guy in the store but I never ever never ever (ever) upgrade on the phone to any company. I always deal with a face in a store and every time got a better deal than the one online or by phone. Face to face with a local shop is always best in life i find for most stuff.

Was out the door at 6am, home by 11, job for the day done and van sorted for the morning. Avoided getting wet all afternoon by doing the accounts and paperwork, never time to laze around during work time.

An alternative would be Hire Wood Chippers near Kent, Essex and Sussex | Kent Plant Hire not used them but they have tracked machines

Not up a tree, get back to work!

59" according to - BXT Wood Chippers - Wallenstein

Looks a fair deal for mixed wood, will probably help someone out of a hole if short of timber. I'd consider it myself if I had a yard.

Thanks Mark, Will be in contact :-) J

Sneaky

£10,000 + egg and bacon sarnies

Thanks for everyone's input here. I think the chipper purchase is a go'er, I just need to see a few more quotes for larger machines to ensure the tw125 is the right machine for my needs and wallet. Thanks for all your input on subby'ing it out to others - another string in the bow which I think may prove profitable in my area but will have to see. Back to the overhead breakdowns and cost verses profit forcasting for me. Thanks chaps J

I know people who operate day to day who don't know or won't (you decide) rake and tidy up properly. I operate to an anal leafless perfection when tidying up. Usually we leave a property tidier than we found it. As to college leavers being green, they must be competent to be passed, this does not mean they are good but that comes with experience and we all started somewhere!

Oh don't worry Paul, I wont be going ahead with it, simply stated what is on the paperwork, the parish council have ticked their box last week and my two applications are apparently going through without issue. J

No, they are TPO applications, I filed the forms myself, and it plainly states that.

An interesting post. My girlfriends landladies husband is a little older, pushing the big 70, most of his adult life in kent he ran a small holding and cottage garden business growing produce for a farmshop which he grew from a shack. These days he has reduced most of the land to grass and had for the last 10 to 15 years been doing fire wood. He has a processor which I have borrowed in the past and certainly makes life easier. Now for the thought provoking bit. Last year he was diagnosed with the big C for cancer, the family were devastated and he thought his time was up, he even passed some of his gardening jobs and tree work to me and I was the only one outside of the family with the knowledge. He went onto an experimental drug and thank god it worked and he was cured. Throughout all this, despite his wife saying not to, he carried on getting the wood in from the pile and processing it. He had a family member deliver the wood and carried on fore-filling orders. This year he has a massive stack of preped timber already processed indoors and ready to go. I find this man one of the most inspiring blokes on this planet and he lives by the moto ''Well you just can't sit around doing nothing can you!''. Which is also shared by my father who despite having a broken foot for 10 weeks did as much around the house as he would do at work, and drove my mother mad, but he carried on too. As long as you feel fit and healthy sir, I say continue, I hope you find your processor and carry on doing your logs for years to come. James

Certainly sounds an unreasonable time to wait. I noted on two recent applications that I've done with my LPA that the acknowledgement letter from the TO states: ''You may proceed with the tree works in strict accordance with submitted details if you have not received any further correspondence from me in respect of this matter by 'X date' 2013'' Might be worth double checking your paper trail to see if similar is present?

Rod, thanks for that, but I don't usually need one for a week and Crowborough is a fair drive from my place - again another overhead to consider both in fuel and time. Unless the hire place is on your doorstep I don't think the hire route can work, inflating the costs of hiring reduces the profit and increasing the quotation to compensate only puts you behind others and looses work? As already stated by others, to do tree work you need to have chipper and truck, and I do agree with this, incurring costs of hiring only puts you behind someone else :???: This has been useful stuff so far though and thanks to all, please keep it coming

Joking aside, If your not experienced with a winch and have done this before then don't. There's lots to go wrong, the tree can jump back off the stump, tree's can snap, cables can snap, the winch (and any redirects) needs proper mounting on a suitable tree and not to mention avoiding the winching triangle. I'm all for having a go but in this circumstance I would watch and learn from someone else on the first one.

Alas its north (ok its midlands but) verses south divide again i think, a similar machine down here would probably be double that money. Im in that position where hiring one in wouldn't be profitable on the job and yet finance for one may be too much long term to fork out for, catch 22, although I think I'm talking myself round to the idea being a good one. I wouldn't hire it out without me operating it, I agree it would probably come back at best very blunt and at worse broken Its a risk some take but not one I would take with a shiny new machine

Wise words, and we are all in work to make money, hence my careful considered approach to chipper purchasing, its got to make money, margins are tight enough as it is these days.

I've often thought along the same lines Mark How do you find your TW125? Does it cope well enough with what you put through it? I dont do massive removals and still think the tw125 would suit me best. The two above, thanks for that, confirms that A the hire shop is a rip off (i knew that) and B that a good starting point would be £180 per day for me and the chipper, thanks Johny - thats a good point, I consider myself a mid range climber at the moment and I am very concious of my abilities and current work rate. Thanks for raising a valid point.