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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    I don’t often work by the hour, but I’ve not worked a normal job for $400/hr in years. Normally we have a Manitou 3060, 416hp 22” chipper, Yanmar SV100, and a 165hp stump grinder on the job. We’re not set up to do every job by a long shot, so we focus on our strengths. If not for it being...
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    7-10 minutes of production per month generates the revenue to cover the bill, although the bill is paid annually. I had an audit last month, I haven't heard anything, so I reckon they're good for another year.
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    Tree related work you shouldn't need insurance for?

    It sounds like you need better customers and/or beter work. My general liability coverage, if broken down to a monthly rate, equates to 7-10 minutes of our normal production rate.
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    Part time mechanic

    They're who I bought my Manitou MRT from, it's been a good experience for me as well.
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    Latest helmet comms

    Mesh is the way to go. We primarily use the Sena Mesh Expand, keeping a few in each truck and the Manitou.
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    Light ground protection

    Rotobec’s grapple saw. I have wood mats, they hold a bunch of chunk and aren’t very fun to handle. They’re getting replaced with plastic mats. I don’t think the mini would enjoy the gaps between the timbers, also rolling them up seems problematic. I need to go back and find those posts to...
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    Light ground protection

    Easy trick to reduce the mats deflecting causing the ground to sink is to just add layers :joy: For the Manitou on a moderately soft area, we'll be at least three layers thick with the standard mats. The number of layers can scale as it gets softer. A single layer doesn't offer much ground...
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    Light ground protection

    ~700lb/each
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    Light ground protection

    The price seems unattractive. Funny those are presumably half the thickness of standard, I’m working towards ordering 6.5’x 13’x2” plastic mats to reduce the labor dealing with our standard mats.
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    Enhancing Fall energy absorption

    My take is work positioning shouldn’t be used for fall arrest.
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    mini grapples.

    Why that style instead of a root grapple style with the longer floor?
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    Adapter for Avant to skid loader or mini?

    For $1200 and fabrication not being a passion of yours.... I'd just buy it and use the time saved to give some bids.... everyone wins and you end up with a better result (I assume).
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    Best sources of employees?

    I've said for a long while that it's a low cost of entry, that can borrow a pickup truck and a chainsaw is a "tree guy."
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    more fun with knucklebooms

    What kinda radius was that, @Treetopflyer ?
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    Best sources of employees?

    I agree about cheap labor being wildly expensive, I won’t afford it. I’m going through a bit of a change here, but by spring I hope to have a full time helper that earns $60k+ year base pay, we average (annually) a 4 day work week or less, and they get an average 30%+ production bonus.
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    Chipper drum failure

    Same with my Morbark.
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    Opinions on Bandit 65xp with 25hp

    More chipper, more horsepower, more better. I don’t have any specific dealings with the 65, I used a Vermeer 935 with a Perkins diesel back in the day that was fine for what it was. If it’s not a screaming deal, I would wait for what I wanted unless situations required other actions. My...
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    Do you think tree removal gets more focus and attention than other aspects of tree care?

    Different strokes for different folks, Also different areas have different priorities and resources. I've favored removals for years. I'm working on developing as close to an only mechanical tree removal workload as practical.
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    Bandit SG-75

    If you replace them in pairs/sets, the balance won't be meaningfully affected; no reason I see that you couldn't run them as leads. I don't know that there's enough weight difference anyways. I don't know if it's possible to adjust feed speed remotely on the SG75, but on the RG80/RG165 it...
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    Bandit SG-75

    The Saber Tooth will cut more like a Green Tooth, at the expense of a faster wearin and less durable edge compared to the standard teeth. My experience was New River teeth lasted considerably longer (2-3x) than Green Teeth, but cut considerably slower.

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