Lee G

9 hours ago, scbk said:

Cool, just out of interest did you buy or make the tow bar?

 

When I bought mine they said the only towing attachment they did was fitted instead of the skip - so I had to build my own!

I bought the tow bar. It was £128 and fits to the skip. Apparently you had to take to skip off before but theses ones you can leave the skip on. 

Ended up buying one of these. So far it's been great and has towed the chipper in and out of the woods no problem. It's going to be a handy little tool.  

4 hours ago, LeeGray said:

+1 for a quad or dumper. Sold my old 4wd Suzuki on eBay for £500, £150 more than I paid for it  and dumper went for £300 more than I bought it for. plenty cheap ones about that will do that job if you are handy and don’t mind rough looking! Trailer kit £150 if you’ve got a welder or new lambing style trailer £500. Keep forever for pennies per year or sell when done and get you’re money back.

That sounds like a good idea, don't think I want the hassle of trying to sell on eBay though once it's finished. 

Plan is to start bringing out the timber as it's being cut to avoid handling it more than necessary and so it's not all laying around in the way while working on the trees. I guess I could stack it once it's down and then just hire a good machine in for a week or two and do nothing by ferry the timber out. 

11 minutes ago, spuddog0507 said:

hi is that a high tip one ? makes life a lot more easier if it is,

Yes it's a high lift. £180 all in for a week, it's definitely going to do a good job.

7 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

hi hired a muck truck several years ago to do a simualer job to what you describe, but ground conditions where quite wet at the time found it hard work and very slow progress with muck truck ,so took the muck truck back to its owner and then hired a one tonne high tip dumper in for a day to compare progress and it was a no brainer one tonne dumper far faster and we could tip straight on to pick up and trailer, all so got the quad and trailer with floatation tyres and does work well but i have to hand ball it off on to pick up, one tonne dumper far better machine for what your doing hire cost about a tenner a day more than a muck truck but about 3 times more production,

Hired in machine looks perfect for the job, just thinking that it's going to be wasted money that could go towards purchasing something. Quad and trailer would be even better but too much of an outlay at the moment. Thinking of adding an arb trolley to the set up so can also tow that around. All ideas, just would it work in practice.

Thanks for the input everyone. 

Figured that hire costs are around £180 per week, we can only be on site for 4 days one week and 3 the other so that £360 will go towards the purchase of a machine. That's without the other days that it's going to be needed. 

Will always have it for the other jobs afterwards too. 

1 hour ago, scbk said:

Overloaded.......the skip is off another machine

That looks so useful. ?

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

Might sound daft, but would it be possible to add a footplate for long, straight runs?

Yes, I’m idle....

One of the first things I thought was can I do the same sort of thing. ?

1 hour ago, scbk said:

Wheeled or tracked power barrow is a choice to make (I have both)

 

Tracks will go anywhere, but turning will mark the ground

 

Wheels are faster, won't rip the grass up when turning, and (esp. on a hard surface) tyres will last longer than tracks.

 

 

The genuine muck truck is a great bit of kit, very simple, not much to go wrong.

A walk behind machine will tow, but you usually have to do it in reverse which can be fairly slow!

 

 

If there's long distances and money involved then the load capacity will be a problem. If you're just pottering about in your own time, or working in tight spots, then a power barrow is ideal.

 

 

 

I think when I bought my Muck Truck Max it was about 1600 +vat new, probably gone up since

 

 

The timber needs to be removed so it's going to be painful and slow bringing in out but even more painful having to carry it out one or two pieces at a time without some sort of machine.  

16 minutes ago, jose said:

had one, great for moving a 750 kg chipper around tarmac etc but in woods not so great. works in reverse ( going backwards ) but not forward. Not enough weight.

With the wheel barrow attachment if u can get it on it will haul it but bear in mind its not that big so ur not going to long lenghts on it.

Ive moved 3-4 ft diameter logs on it as long as i could strap on it and the weigth was not a problem.

Sure i paid like £1800 +vat new. 

mine was a track barrow 350.

They threw in a tow hitch too which is great.

give them a call.

 

Where did you get yours from? I've been looking at the wheel version. Hire price is £140 plus vat for a week or an all round bigger better machine for £180 plus vat. Soon going to eat into any profits if I keep hiring over the coming months. 

I'm looking for advice or anyone's experiences with any form of power barrows. I need to remove a large amount of timber out of a small woodland, there are only narrow footpaths around the wood so no access for a tractor etc. 

I also want to use it to tow the chipper around the wood to chip up the brash. Woodland is flat and doesn't seem to get that wet. 

The work will be on going for a few months only doing a few days at a time every few weeks.  Options of renting a skid steer every time will be expensive same for a power barrow so I was thinking of buying a second hand one for around £1500 just to help carrying it all out a bit at the time. Not sure if this would work or if you guys have any other ideas?

Any advice will be appreciated. Cheers.