Tree monkey 1682

Didn't want the finance element of it, for me continual things on finance isn't good,, it's probably why so many construction firms going bump, firms living beyond there means rather than assets being owned.... Should things start getting awkward you can sell things off or at end of useful life you can sell stuff on.... If dealers are twats I just walk away, I've no interest In time wasters or people thinking their doing me a favour

No poor negotiating skills here, they just refused the cash, due to what I quoted. If you want something new or specialist I doubt if you'd get a discount on that. But from what I've seen near me the eurocomach are well built machines, thes still some on the continent in the original colours. Cat... Been and gone now made in China upto ten tons... I'd rather have a lui gong and know what I'm dealing with. As far as I know yanmar are still good, but I don't rate the big three now, seems like they're building machines down to a price... Rather than Korean or Chinese machines are built upto spec.. But I'd need to look over a machine and where the local fitter was, and call out fees etc

Thanks, I've brought a few new machines.. Never been able to haggle or get a discount, that was the way it is, really after to be honest 2001, due to the money laundering and terrorism act post 9/11. You can't count the new holland agri dealers as construction... Farmers always bleat they've got no money and yes they have to sit on certain stock. But if you went into a case dealership and tried to haggle I doubt you'd get far... I still know some people waiting on machines to come in a be prepped. I went in to buy a 2.7ton digger from new holland dealer new old stock as you said , ram was weeping, algae growing around the window, no warranty and a dent where they'd turned the quick hitch around and put a dent in the dipper.. Would they correct the faults or give warranty or discount nope.. That was a 3 Yr new old stock machine (kobelco). So it didn't get sold... Also when I last spoke to dealers dependant on where you are in the UK is dependant on what you pay... Example is a Hitachi digger was cheaper in Scotland than the south by 2.5k. I queried it with Hitachi... Maybe im surrounded by shite dealers (I doubt as they not be in business still!) But that's how I've found things. Also cnh group has parted ways with hyundai, now part of the devlon (doosan) group. Cnh group have now purchased a new mini digger manufacturer, that I can't remember who it was, and now they produce there mini and midi machines.

Hi doobin, Hate to say it but you are very out of touch with the construction side of things, most machines on site get chopped in either by three or five years, this is either best residual value or from a hire perspective less things to go wrong or if they do they're on warranty. Regards to buyers market, genuinely the are waiting lists on machines, people like Hitachi you pre order machines a year in advance of needing them, thus keeping Hitachi machines artificialy high irrespective of a recession. You can't haggle or knock down a dealer, you either buy it or don't.. Thes not many old machines out there any more, most were exported , the ones knocking around are old knackers or the exporters weren't intrested in. Also the gets a point when machines aren't viable to "fix". This comes from someone who spends summer on diggers and autumn, winter on trees.

Having tree guards isn't always great either, not only do the young trees compete with grass, but if u don't manage the grass, grass grows in the tree guard and you get vole damage because there not being picked off by birds of prey...

Talking to two different local plant dealers of decent size, that's where the equipments going, there paying stupid money for it as well... Near on the same price new as after 3 years hire... That's according to dealers, when I sold one of my hitachis the track bed and hydraulics were fkd, dealer still offered 10k for a 4k houred machine, plated 2007. Takeuchi tb 108, brought from a dealer for 5k ex speedy hire, ten years use, hours unknown sold for 6.5k . To be honest the used market is nuts because of exterior factors... People are paying stupid money for used machines. But that's where alot of machines are going.... Not africa and the middle East now.

Is it even worth getting a survey on?

It's not a buyers market, thes beaten to hell diggers going through auctions for more money than what they are going new.. That's to a 🇷🇴 market. Also thes a long waiting list on new machinery So no buyers market.

OK put another way, I've never seen internal casing look that bad in the way of staining, for a machine that hasn't been rotorvating, one of the biggest flaws with that 231 was plastic housing, tiny bit of warping can also cause lack of oiling.. You'll have to buy one and find out! But that whole range 211,231, 250, 251 were dire built and not good with reliability... Think brummie car built by Germans

Well I have to say that alot of the trans community that are inside currently are there due to sexual offences.. Not good

Looking at the condition of it, have you been rototorvating or cutting dirty wood without sharpening the saw chain? If u have then the chances are you've warped the plastic engine housing and it won't oil properly. But mine wasn't as stained as that on the inside, mine did it after doing a stump and making sure it was uber sharp... Sold it on ebay. Better off buying a echo Cs 310,, got three years of pro use before it started sucking in air, stihl isn't what it used to be, but the still Ms 231 was a nice saw to do firewood with

Think also the council will take the view the tree was there before the house. You can see trees that have been damaged by "builders" driving plant. Tree dies off the side that compaction/ groundwork have taken place on... Always makes me wonder why people buy houses next to established trees, then try and stick carports underneath!

I'd not go that far yet...... 😂 How ever, the other day I turned upto a job where the was numerous palms, cordlines, trachs! And guess what, the was about 10 of them growing with bamboo, vines and some specimen trees.... It's a small garden. Great! *forgot the other thing with these plants you have to quote a bar and a chain or two.. Because of the grit within the tree.... So they are a pain!

Seens, their a bugger to raise the canopy on, horrible to fell or dismantle and even worse to grub out by hand... They are a nightmare... I live in a coastal area where part time gardeners plant them... Leave them and forget them.. They are a pain.. Then don't forget that they can't be chipped, 90%water based and £100 a ton to get rid of green waste... I can say unless there in a botanical garden, or you've access for a digger to remove them, they are an absolute hunt of a plant... They're on par with, knot weed, himilayan balsam, ragwort, bamboo and rhododendron... That delightful victorians brought back.

Cut them down 5"from.the ground and get on with it!

Not worth the hassle, they are also expensive to be disposed of, they will lift walls/slabs, unless kept in a pot they aren't worth it

County Council are gods really bud, we've had them dictate, work only at night, only in winter and restrictions on times to avoid peak traffic!

Get traffic management in, then it's all there hassle, should if and when it goes wrong. If you do the streetworks ticket, you can either be a supervisor, or an operative - but not both.... Also a second set of insurance as arb insurance won't cover setting up traffic management, ud need a hole different company set up to do solely the tm,. For the sake of amberon charging £500 a day ud be better of using them. If u met all the criteria crap, you'd still naff up on the traffic management plan..... Only county council approved contractors can do it, even though it looks like a 12 year old has doodles a load of road signs on an os map!

Gawd knows bud, just remember them in the Royal agricultural show at Stoneleigh Warwickshire,... But they're not far away from where you're based, How about upm tilhill and fountain forestry? They might not be still going, also I'm showing my age😂

What about chantler timber?

Have you looked at woodlots? Online, it sells all many of stuff from small producers

Get a better close up of the leaves, are you referring to the yellowing of the leaves?

Your missing the obvious about UK people, that the are a certain group of people who think they're to good to do manual jobs... Their still hoping to have a degree job and the arogancy that goes with it.. Yet being a plant driver you earn more than a uni bod!

Not being funny, but what does Wales really produce? It's got no industry... And relies on eu grants, if your going to comment about brexit and leaving the EU, you have to cover everything as this is politics can't cherry pick certain topics it's all of it, If we were going to fanny around with the EU, then we should have had a democratic vote about it... Not going in the back door and buggering it up again. It's democracy, just some people didn't like the fact of the process, wrongly or rightly.

Is this general grade chip? Ie gone through any type of chipper as volume reduction? Or has it gone through biomass chippers so it's the perfect chip? If its average chip then it will be £21 ton if its graded clean chip ie g 70 or something like that and has gone through biomass then from 10 year ago it was closer to 100 a ton, but that was few years ago and south Dorset price, quite far from Didcot