Martin du Preez

Leave a bowser out with 100 odd litres of red in… also add a load of sugar, bleach and salt in. Should start ****************ing their transit up by the the time you’ve moved to a different site. I know someone who did this on a larger scale in a decoy bowser on a farm. A few vans were abandoned when the travellers moved on from the local green

Apologies, missed this, CM7 Essex

Intermacto or however you spell it. Hands down the best, most robust grab for smaller machines. Ours gets used with zero sympathy, used daily, for tree work, demolition, forestry, ripping out smaller stumps, ripping old fences, used as bucket when I forget one, you name it. 6 years and not a fault

Thank you guys, gone for the 8.5t tajfun from kilworth, good price, if anyones got any hot tips on what not to do winching we’d be grateful. First time using one being in flat Essex

We’ve got some parcels or barrel straight ash saw log, 25-30” plus some parcels of oak. Clear up to 30ft, if anyones interested or knows a market let me know 07580048803

nope but you could get away with £360 on site with 2.7, doesn’t change much for larger machines which is what’s frustrating. BTW they charge customer for diesel and haulage but still. On tree work we just charge how may men it would take to do without a digger, unless it’s a large job where a digger would be essential

100% I’m not knocking it and I also don’t like that mentality. For your own jobs is where you pay it off, same as a digger mounted laser level. Already cuts the cost of one bloke hanging off a staff all day. what I was explaining to the op is that the majority of machines you see in the uk are operated hire. If I go onto a building site and ask the prime (who knows nothing)for an extra 200 quid for a steel wrist they’d tell me to eff off. That’s why you don’t see loads of them. plus your competing with old boys who go out with 14 tonners for £300 a Day 🙄

from someone that does groundwork’s as well you can’t necessarily charge more. People don’t see it that way, if you’re on hire they don’t see the benefit, it’s just the uk. a hell of a lot of people do have them in the uk though, or tilt hitch. We’ve got a tilt bucket (scandy style) and does everything for us. The rest comes down to a good op 😉

You telling me, we’ve moved our timber yard so until the new barn gets built we’ve got lorry tarps, big open land on top of a hill, still getting damp and wet. Normally they’d be bloody dry without a tarp. Having to move them up the road to a barn

If you are serious about getting into the industry. Be careful who you work with/stick with. There is a ridiculously high percentage of wank firms/have a go’s/ glorified gardeners. You want to learn from someone who knows their shit.

If you want honest brutal and knowledgeable advice from some of the most experienced people in the industry then it’s a lot of the guys on this site. The wealth of wisdom on here unparalleled, it’s what got me into the industry and it’s where I did and still do get advice for all aspects of my business. Honestly it’s made setting up a business so much easier for me. So I wouldn’t be too fast to knock them, they are being honest. And if I’m being honest (I do more than one trade) tree work can be simply ****************ing brutal. There are weeks/months where every day you leave nothing left in your body in and end up hanging to a pint like it’s the holy grail. And if you don’t work yourself 100% you’re not worth having. what I’m trying to say is this industry isn’t cut out for the majority of blokes, nothing about gender just strength and endurance (and maybe a bit tapped in the head) That’s what some of these guys are trying to say, they aren’t being crass or negative, you asked for advice, they gave it to you. Take that and prove yourself. I don’t know how everyone else’s teams run but as a bit of advice, when you’re doing a trial day, don’t let them see you struggle, break a sweat, say your tired. It’s the first thing people comment on. I personally will always be grateful for this site.

about to go for a remote control krpan or tajfun winch Would a 8.5t forestry winch be ok behind an old shape valtra, 6800? Mainly for pulling over rank ash edge trees and extracting timber from wet woodlands (seem to find the only ones in Essex)

furthermore if there’s a TPO on it the TO is going to love that homeowner is going to carry out the works. They will also likely only grant a target prune

Chestnuts do not react well to pollarding as they struggle to reach full occlusion. And also yes aesthetically it will look 1000xs better and not like some homeowner or weekend warrior has hacked it to bits because, yes if you want it too look good and not like a hack job, you’re going to get a professional in and bung them a few hundred quid. There’s no way you’ll achieve a decent reduction on that considering half the people in our industry won’t. That is also a shit load of brash to clear up regardless and the thought of doing that without a chipper makes me feel physically sick