Philip Anderson
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As are most land rover based ones flirting just under the weight. And transit tippers!!! Well over.
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Hi Joel ,we've got a Ruthmann on a nissan cabstar -27 m working height 15 m outreach and its steady as a rock ,the CTE should be fine at 20 m and 9 m ,we had a 22m ruthmann but found with tree work you need as much height and outreach as possible . We find the Cabstar is good off road due to it having weight spread evenly over the whole chassis this is with normal summer tyres, ours is 3 years old now and when the rears need replacing we will probably put m+s pattern on . People have advised you that you need different machines for different jobs which to a certain extent is true,but we find if you own a machine of a certain type you use it and get very clever at getting it in places your also familiar with controls / characteristics so safer.go for it it could open up opportunities for you in other fields as well.
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When the customer does not pay
Philip Anderson replied to chippermonkey's topic in Business Management
Not a lot of trust there then ,I ve been nearly on the other end of that sort of policy with a builder up front stage payments went bust 3 months after my job!! I prefer to work on trust, they trust me domestic or commercial customers to do the job I trust them to pay if not procedure in place to deal with it and set out in terms and conditions ,in 30 years trading only a handful of bad debtors all dealt with in small claims court satisfactorily I'm not about to ask little old ladies for 50% up front as I think personally its a bit sharp practice. As for the original post why would you tip a load of chip on drive after you have been paid ? Learn from it and move on. -
I own a new 30hp 2010 and have tried the bandit you still need down force which might need 2 hands especially when the teeth are a little dull! The cutting head on the 2010 is much more aggressive but the original poster should try both then decide .
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Not necessarily it's let down by the cutting head in my opinion ,the sandvik head on the 2010 cuts faster and has more weight so it doesn't bounce on the stump ,you still have to work both!!
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Nice job could do with a safety helmet though!!
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running a log splitter of a teleprter
Philip Anderson replied to Johny Walker's topic in Large equipment
We run a 20 ton binderburger off a matbro ts 260 works really well have done so for 6 years /seasons splitting no problems engine wise,we have a direct feed to front of machine and a lever to lock in place so constant pumping we then connect to free standing splitter and put split logs straight into bucket disconnect hoses to splitter and tip in shed .this works very well you just need a bigger bucket for your machine!! -
Sounds more like a hit than a miss,I was referring to previous posts regarding the dividers in the cage and people were talking about cut and hold. You could fit a decent chunk in that 4 m cage there weird when they extend out 40+ m is a big machine for tree work. My comment about the operator was not aimed at you personally the chap who services our 27m Ruthmann was telling me about an operator of a 72 m machine who hit a chimney / flue with it and bent the boom ,it cost £70k to repair, some operators shouldn't be if you know what I mean.
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He wasn't that good an operator then!! Hitting the limb with the boom a big no no.What do you mean by make sure your rams are bang on,if there not it shouldn't be in service . You should have a divider in cage this then prevents cut and somebody else holding that's the whole point of them .thats why ours is a 1 man mewp operator cutter rigger,you also get more outreach which is very important.
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The commercial installations have different rates to domestic ,I put 2.5 kW domestic system in 3 years ago so FIT is now 48.8 pence I'm not sure what it is for systems installed now .we have fitted an I solar which diverts exported electricity into our hot water cylinder.our install cost then was £8k I think you can get 4kw system for £4.5k now might still be worth doing and panels a better now with independant inverters.
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Then you'll be arguing about who uses what kit when like my in laws do when they wanted the combine at the same time,they ended up buying 2. I liked the car parked under the hornbeam at North Walsham ,I think the same happened when we pruned it about 5 years ago a nightmare different car I think maybe he's bought a new one!!
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Do you charge more for commercial work
Philip Anderson replied to Dryad's saddle's topic in Business Management
I agree ,you get good and bad payers in both domestic and commercial sectors a good mix is ideal and ditch the bad payers quickly . -
Until you fall out or something goes wrong!! It has been known
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Check the oil and filter. Might be blocked filters should be replaced annually depending on use.
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Tree surgery accident in Dorset involving MEWP
Philip Anderson replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in General chat
Forgive me Dean but when you say could have developed the same fault as mine what was that fault? Do you still have yours and trust it? The Dancing around effect statement sounds quite damming. I just have a couple of comments really a 5 degree incline / slope is not basically flat or level most large truck mounts have 5 degrees as their max incline, some only 1degree!I know spiders are different but do not have the same counterbalance weight as a truck mount . I'm also a bit confused over why the firm who hired the machine were found solely responsible surely it would have been in their interest to get it independently inspected and not just by the manufacturers agent and certainly not destroyed. Also on machine choice was this solely down to the hire company or did the contractor have some liability? I just ask these questions as a mewp owner operator who hires out as this ruling does have implications for us all of course not anything like the 2 poor chaps involved in this horrible accident. -
Just as I thought:thumbup:
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Is that roof space for little people?
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All depends on the size of the loft conversion we did one 10 years ago by a specialist company Trussed Loft Conversions 25k gained 2 big bedrooms saved moving and all costs involved which now mount up .
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We run ours with 18 inch and 15 inch on 550's
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I'm not sure where the 12 weekly checks come from were on 8 weekly maybe not high milage but arb work is hard on vehicles. Big vehicles big parts big money ,but the carrying capacity and last of the larger vehicle outweigh the costs in my opinion. Tax and insurance very little difference as long as driver is over 25.
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We had a loft conversion carried out by truss loft conversions ,you definitely need building regs which require upgrading of floor joists ours required steels to be put in also fire closures on doors insulation etc. The only issues come when and if you decide to sell if no planning or building reg approval in place then it will be a major issue and will not get past mortgage surveyor.
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I think you mean the planned development is within the RPA ,it's up to you to justify the case for an encroachment and mitigate it if you feel it is justifiable ,that's why they are employing you as a consultant,the problem was with the old 20% some developers who I worked with banked on using this 20% as development space!wether the tree needed it or not.
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There you are then your converted!! With regards to using mewp to access anchour points as long as your attached to mewp then tree and mewp then just tree I thought it was ok as long as so body takes mewp out of the way.
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Maybe he's too girly to!!
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I won't try to convert you lost cause!!
