New Chipper

[Canuck]

I wasn't going to say anything until it got here but I'm really excited and had to say something. Last week I signed my life away on a 2008 Morbark Blizzard 14 with a 130hp Cat engine and a winch. It will be here in 3 to 4 weeks and I can't wait.

[Paul B]

cool, hope it helps make you lots of money!

[squisher]

Cool Ben, congrats.8)

[Skwerl]

Congrats Ben! You better hurry up and make lots of money with it so you can still buy my bucket truck next month! :D

[stehansen]

I'm jealous.

[Mr. Sir]

You're gonna love it! I'm on my third Morbark Tornado. They are awesome machines.

[inztrees]

you'll love the winch if wou have never had one on a chipper befor

[Canuck]

Congrats Ben! You better hurry up and make lots of money with it so you can still buy my bucket truck next month! :D

Next month! I said June.

[TC3]

Is it real shiny ???
Nnnnnnnnnnice !

[sotc]

sweet! it is the same thing as my 13, they just changed numbers! one bad unit

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Nice!! Nowt like a nice new shiny bit of kit.

[vharrison]

Canuck, congratulations! We will want to see a picture when you get it.

[Canuck]

Well, the chipper should finally get here tomorrow. 2 months since I ordered it.

I ordered it on Feb 19. Story is that my dealer placed the order right away and told Morbark to ship it as soon as possible and it absolutely had to be here by April 7 at the latest. That was when I was supposed to start my big city chipping contract. Apperantly Morbark crossed their wires and scheduled to ship on April 7. By the time we figured this out my machine was already being built and it was too late to get it shipped earlier. Thankfully the city pushed back our start date to April 14. The machine chipped on April 11 and I was told to expect it by the middle of last week. Middle of the week comes and I'm told that it will be here friday morning. Friday afternoon comes and I'm told that the trucker is running late and to expect it between 5 and 6 pm. Saturday morning comes no chipper no word or info from any one. I call my dealer on his cell and he gives me the name of the trucking outfit. I call them leave a couple of messages throughout the day. I get a call from my dealer in the afternoon and he tells me that it will be here monday am. This morning the president of the trucking company calls me and wants to ask me a few questions. He wanted to get to the bottom of whats been said by whom and whats going on. According to the paperwork he has it has always been scheduled to arrive on monday the 21st. So heres crossing my fingers that it shows up.

Meanwhile I'm a week into this chipping contract a machine short and way behind. I need to chip a minumum of 10 metric tonne a day 6 days a week in order to finish on time. So far we've worked 6 days and have 35. I made sure that I could order this machine and have it on time before I bid the job and was assured that it would be no problem having a machine here on time. It really torques me when people make commitments to me and then don't even come close to following through. Especially when I make commitments based on their commitments. Pisses me off.

[Skwerl]

The dealer should have provided you with a demo/ rental unit at no cost to cover the delay.

Hope things go better for you this week.

[Old Monkey]

Someone should pay for this. That is not acceptable business practice.

[Canuck]

The dealer should have provided you with a demo/ rental unit at no cost to cover the delay.

Hope things go better for you this week.

The dealer doesn't stock any units. Just orders them when people buy them.

[sotc]

they better bend over backwards for you from here on out at the least!

[Canuck]

He's already helping me out in a big way. I will pay for my machine out of this one contract. He has bought the machine and I will pay for it when I get paid for the job. Only problem right now is that I need the machine so that it can go to work and pay for itself. I'm supposed to be paying a rental fee for the month I'm on this job. We may have to renegotiate the amount. On the other hand he's done me a big favor letting me have the machine before I pay for it. Sure he's charging me a rental fee but then again its not a demo/ rental unit he's renting me.

[Stumper]

Seems like he should simply provide a rental/demo unit NOW.. and you pay the months rent as agreed

[stehansen]

Seems like he should simply provide a rental/demo unit NOW.. and you pay the months rent as agreed

I'm with Stumper.

[lumberjack]

He can't provide what he aint got; he's a non-stocking dealer.

[stehansen]

He should get one from a rental outfit.

[Canuck]

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d92/avaricous_arborist/chipper/blizzard/chipper5.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d92/avaricous_arborist/chipper/blizzard/chipper4.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d92/avaricous_arborist/chipper/blizzard/chipper3.jpg

[Canuck]

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d92/avaricous_arborist/chipper/blizzard/chipper2.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d92/avaricous_arborist/chipper/blizzard/chipper1.jpg

[MasterBlaster]

Congrats!!! :rockon:

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Nice one!! Nowt like a new chipper....

[stehansen]

Did it do any chipping today?

[MasterBlaster]

I bet he just drove it around in the snow, showing off! :lol:

[Skwerl]

Nice looking machine, Ben. Glad you finally got it. :)

[squisher]

Awesome, congrats!

[Canuck]

Yes it did some chipping. Not much but a little. I just couldn't get my new machine and not but it to work. Chipped a 40' blue spruce removal I did this morning while waiting for it.

[Canuck]

And I drove it around in the snow showing off a bit too.....

[Canuck]

Just a little spooky unloading it with the crane. Really I knew it wouldn't be a problem, but none the less I felt better with both wheels on the ground.

[Old Monkey]

Sweet, you are going to like that machine.

[sotc]

one bad machine!! go pay her off!

[Canuck]

Ran it for 12 hours straight today. Damn

[stehansen]

Damm.

[Canuck]

12 hours + 3 Guys + 2 Trucks + 1 Chipper = $3323.38

[stehansen]

Double damm.

[sotc]

92 bucks a man hour, nice!!

[Banned by Squirrels]

What's all that white stuff on the ground everywhere?...













:P

[Tom_Scheller]

You Rockin' Dawg, you! Congats.

TS

[lumberjack]

Chit! I had a chipping job a few years ago making $90 an hour for an operator and the chipper and $150 for the operator +1 person (their people got the chit to the chipper) and thought I was in some high cotton.

Outstanding Ben!

[squisher]

That's some crazy money fo sure our municipality would never let ya run with it like that. Good for you man everyone needs some gravy now and then in this day and age.

[stehansen]

92 bucks a man hour, nice!!

Did you just whip out your calculator as soon as you read that Willie?

[sotc]

heck yeah, i keep it in my start button and use it all the time!

[Canuck]

We are hauling ass to make that. We scale every load and get paid by the tonne. Time means nothing, volume means every thing.

[lumberjack]

What kind of stuff are ya'll chipping? A mini can kick some major ass in some situations.

[squisher]

A mini can kick some major ass in some situations.

Frigging A they can.:D

[lumberjack]

I like grabbing peck pole trees that are under 14" at the butt and say 40-70' tall, cutting them in half so the mini can drag them to the chipper. Set the butt on the feed table, go back to the small end, grab it and push it in. When it gets to the top, keep pushing with the mini and watch the limbs fold up and disappear!

[squisher]

I'm telling ya I was in my glory today huge tops and piles of limbs were fed right in with no handling by hand. Even my old school uncle was blown away by what it did. The best part is you're just riding along not even sweating!!!

[lumberjack]

It's (almost) too much to ask for us to get off and feed a limb by hand!

[arborworks1]

I'm amazed what ive been missing out on with not having a mini.

I chipped up a rather large bradford pear yesterday and actually got a little cold riding around on the mini. It was pretty windy and misting rain.

Sure is nice to shove all that mess in, and ride off to get the next giant pile.


Congrats on the new Chipper that is a fine looking piece of Iron.

[lumberjack]

How do you handle hauling the logs? I think your dump trailer is primo for such a task.

Sure, you can fit them in the chip box, but that requires a chit load more effort than just stacking them in the dump box of your trailer.

[squisher]

Yah that's why I bought my dump trailer, that and ease of transporting the mini/attachments.

[arborworks1]

Most of the logs I leave by the road to get picked up by my friend with a log truck.

Yeah the dump would be ideal now with the mini. I've been trying to chip as much as I possibly can. The recycle dump is about 25 mile round trip.

I have local spots to dump chips and firewood.

[Canuck]

What kind of stuff are ya'll chipping? A mini can kick some major ass in some situations.


Not a good job for a mini. Driving up and down the alleys chipping brush the home owners have put out themselves. Lots of drive time and 3/4 of the piles are small enough that a man can have it chipped before the mini could get there. The other 25% a mini would be ideal for but not worth the hassle of transporting one.

ps. I spent all day pulling wrenches on my old chipper today so only my 2 guys where chipping with one truck. They made me even more per man hour than yesterday.

[squisher]

Probably a grapple mounted on a chipper would be awesome for the chipping programs.

[squisher]

ps. I spent all day pulling wrenches on my old chipper today so only my 2 guys where chipping with one truck. They made me even more per man hour than yesterday.

They didn't have you there slowing them down all day.:P

:lol:

[Canuck]

Probably a grapple mounted on a chipper would be awesome for the chipping programs.


Theres to much foriegn material in the piles. You need to hand feed so that you have a chance at seeing shit. I found a steel pipe in a pile yesterday :\:



They didn't have you there slowing them down all day.


Well maybe I should just take tomorrow off. Sleep in, go for lunch with the wife...

[top hopper]

Im surprised that contract is for chipping. The few cities around here that do those type of annual brush / log clean up programs all use grapple loaders. The labor required is easily 3 times less, plus everyone knows homeowners will throw whatever they can in those piles.
Doesnt sound like a fun job, but at least you got a kick ass chipper to get it done.

[squisher]

Dam what sorta moron would throw something like that in the pile?? I had to sift through a few things this year on my few days of chipping I did for a local municipality who had no limit on what the residents could put out. There was a few piles I was wishing I had some type of mechanical assistance on.

One place someone had taken down four decent sized wolfy doug firs and piled all the limb on the roadside in the worst abomination of a pile. Next year they said they may consider putting a limit per house.

[Paul B]

just blow the chips back in to their yard! :D

[squisher]

I took a chipbox full from that one house, I couldn't beleive it when I saw the pile.:O

[top hopper]

My city doesnt do it annually. But if an ass kicking storm comes through and tears alot of trees up they will do free pick ups to residents. Alot of people take advantage of this and start cutting things left and right from their yard. Ive actually done a good amount of cut-n-run jobs and the homeowners just get it to the curb.

[squisher]

So I got guys like you to thank for that big nasty pile eh?:what:



:P

[sotc]

ha, id do it! and turn every branch 90 degrees just for you:lol:

[squisher]

Oh yah well may your next chipping job involve thorns!!!!:D

[Paul B]

ha, id do it! and turn every branch 90 degrees just for you:lol:

haha! layer it like a thatch roof!

[sotc]

Oh yah well may your next chipping job involve thorns!!!!:D

my guys would complain, id laugh:lol:

[squisher]

my guys would complain, id laugh:lol:

Nah a real leader has to be down in the trenchs with the troops.;)

[sotc]

on the tough ones i am. i like a challenge, get bored with the day to beebopping. besides, i pick up alot more work by answering the phone when it rings. when im working i get sick of my phone and dont answer it which cuts my jobs back considerably

[squisher]

Yah I usually return calls at lunch but these last couple of days I've been returning them at the end of the day. Hopefully one day I'll be busy enough and find a decent enough crew that I can do just like what you're doing. In on the cool jobs but doing quotes while the crew's on the boring ones.:D

[sotc]

heck yeah, the hand that turns the :tool::)

[stehansen]

The city that I'm the closest to picks up stuff at the curb once a month and they use a John Deere loader with some type of side grapple on it. It is the type that are made for picking up piles of leaves, but I guess it works for brush piles too. They put it in a garbage truck and it gets smashed into a big bale in there.

[Canuck]

2 weeks in and I'm getting sick of chipping. Only 2 more to go......

95 pmh today.

[sotc]

95 pmh today.

8) cant get sick of that!!

[Canuck]

No, thats what keeps me getting out of bed after day after day of 12 hours chipping (13 hours today). I started running my chipper on tuesday. Already have over 40 hours on the meter

[Skwerl]

Hey, you do what you gotta do and the chipper will be paid for in no time.

[Canuck]

In a month to be precise

[Ax-Man]

Congrats on the new chipper. Looks very good all nice and new and shiny.

Have you had a chance to use the winch?? Maybe to pull one of those brush piles apart that you have been chipping to make it easier to feed into the chipper when people make a criss crossed mess.

[Canuck]

Congrats on the new chipper. Looks very good all nice and new and shiny.

Have you had a chance to use the winch?? Maybe to pull one of those brush piles apart that you have been chipping to make it easier to feed into the chipper when people make a criss crossed mess.



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