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Are you serious or joking?

Is fast prefer to climb/ fell/ prune than process material especially the chipping.


I have about (1) 23' grapple truck- bed worth of material to be hauled from the last few months. In the past it was $500 a load. Now 550, 600 on Oct 1.

He smashes a lot in.
 
i‘m not joking. when i started working for myself last year (almost no contract climbing) i was able to borrow a friends grapple truck and hauled brush… since than i bought a chipper (and chipped into big bags in my van… horrible idea) and later a dump truck.

now chipping is a lot of fun…also dumbing 10m3 without effort is now a beautiful thing to me. knowing how hard it is to pull two full big bags out of my van…
 
Are you serious or joking?

Is fast prefer to climb/ fell/ prune than process material especially the chipping.


I have about (1) 23' grapple truck- bed worth of material to be hauled from the last few months. In the past it was $500 a load. Now 550, 600 on Oct 1.

He smashes a lot in.
Yeah, serious(ish)
I spent a few years loading and unloading brash by hand.
Feeding either of my chippers with sharp knives and anvils, watching forks get crushed and chip getting launched into the tipper truck doesn’t really get old for me.
 
I don't know what percentage of material I chip versus haul brush versus leave to the homeowner.

I run a one-ton pickup as my equipment truck on all jobs.

Chipping with hauling means a second driver for the chip truck being available all day, which isn't always available, or a chip trailer. I almost always work 5-10 minutes from my shop which makes 2 solo trips to trailer equipment practical.

Most customers keep chips when I chip (or they go into the woods). I'm chronically short on chips at home. I chipped some brush this summer for planting mulch.




I don't mind machine-feeding at all. Hand-fed chipping isn't bad. My body doesn't like long drags.

I find it loud and dusty (not unlike many tree work things, particularly removals). I wear a respirator to chip when the conditions are dusty.

One or a couple big grapple bites empties my trailers of most things. I'll have a grapple truck come before too long.



I'd far rather do technical work than chipping.


Different strokes for different folks.

😃
 
I don't know what percentage of material I chip versus haul brush versus leave to the homeowner.

I run a one-ton pickup as my equipment truck on all jobs.

Chipping with hauling means a second driver for the chip truck being available all day, which isn't always available, or a chip trailer. I almost always work 5-10 minutes from my shop which makes 2 solo trips to trailer equipment practical.

Most customers keep chips when I chip (or they go into the woods). I'm chronically short on chips at home. I chipped some brush this summer for planting mulch.




I don't mind machine-feeding at all. Hand-fed chipping isn't bad. My body doesn't like long drags.

I find it loud and dusty (not unlike many tree work things, particularly removals). I wear a respirator to chip when the conditions are dusty.

One or a couple big grapple bites empties my trailers of most things. I'll have a grapple truck come before too long.



I'd far rather do technical work than chipping.


Different strokes for different folks.

😃
for sure it‘s a balance thing. wouldn’t want to chip all day ;)
 
Sold some tonight as well. Stage for burning. Looks like another delay though at the high country job. Weather issues at 7500 feet and have to go over 8k to get there. Aint doing that in hale a t storms, sorry no.
Might have to schedule it for next year
 
We can have residential burning in the country of material generated on site. If I prune my trees, okay to burn, if I bring in customers' waste, it needs to be dealt with otherwise. (Grapple truck for me).
 
IMG_5678.jpeg I have some questions about Biggun work on September 14th. Do you think this was the right decision? P.S. I think I was fired from my job as the Top-arborist in St. Petersburg right after that! )Or the next day, for sure!) P.S. After this, as a radical arborist, I must commit hara-kiri with a chainsaw and die in agony, thinking about the irreparable damage I caused to defenseless trees!) Of course, this is all fantasy, but I'm interested in any opinion...
 
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It can take up to a year for carbohydrates to leave large wood, so kinda like temporaly wringing the towel.
Also large aspect ratio cuts like that have far less sap wood for wound closure.
After not too long the tree will begin showing a more defined branch collar and begin closing on its own, like deadwood in the forest.
Later can take the stubs off….

Or maybe they are intentional heading cuts to produce sprouts, or had to take the limbs for a new building…

I think of large stubs as a decay fuse……. Far from the trunk…. Cause big wood is more heart wood than sap wood and depending on sps can have a tough time closing.

Or maybe knot.
 
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