fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Got an eletric one that does anything upto 25mm. If you've loads to chip, then an industrial one is better. Use the chippings on your borders.
I have the Screwfix Mac Allister one. It's £139.99 at present
Cant you just have a bonfire and burn it or advertise it for free on facebook? Loads of people have wood burners now.I do know that it has to be dried out but still in these times I'm sure people will take it for nothing.
Branches only, the rounds will get donated to family with burners.
This!Yes, it's what I would expect but if the tree surgeon offers a price for the work and another for clearance it becomes the customer's choice.
I would buy a cheap, small electric chainsaw( say, 6" bar) from AliExpress, stack up the harvest, leave it for a few months, and then invest in a gallon of diesel and a cigarette lighter on the Fifth of November.
Stand around and drink a few beers while enjoying the flames.
This!
It's at the top of the garden up a steep hill. Only access to the back is a footpath/track that's not wide enough for a truck and towed shredder. To carry the wood to be shredded down to the driveway would have doubled, tripled or even more the time needed. Time is money.
Two guys worked very quickly dropping the trees with only one hand hour break for lunch. That resulted in two big conifers and a tall holly being dropped plus the lifting if the crown of a copper beech. Then cutting the bigger stuff into reasonably sized rounds and the less useful of the larger branches into manageable lengths. They were left in piles next to where the trees were. Imho the trees take up more room felled than growing!
As you can see, it's a lot of work to pay for. The surgeon gave us the option on the site visit before quoting. He was kind of hinting that it would cost a lot to clear and most near us save money by clearing it themselves. He said the wood wasn't worth anything and he had just dropped a few better trees for wood so didn't need it for his own burner.
Currently hire costs over the weekend are £155, a lot less than the surgeon. Looking at shredders the only decent electric for medium to heavy use is a bosch atx 2800watt for nearly £300. The cheapest petrol is a bit more and even more bulky. I think I'll hire one.
Mind you the hire one is still a small petrol one. They do a trailer one but don't give prices. The small one had a 13hp Honda engine. From what I've read Honda engines are on the better petrol shredders,