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Chief, your logic is good about the cost difference but being a business owner I have to look at things froma very different point of view, one that doesn't exist or matter to most of us here.
I'm sure my friend from New England, the 'other' Ted, will bear me out on this point. It is the END cost that counts, not so much how you get there.
Case in point, a 'regular' tow behind chipper is about $15k. and requires a couple of labourers to 'feed' it, etc. on the other hand, if cleanup time affects the overall schedule then it becomes VERY cost effective to go to a MUCH larger machine, and possibly one that does other things too, like stumps. In my case (see pic. # 4) I can chew through wood faster than 4 or 5 chippers could come close to, stumps included. The end cost is about half what a tow behind chipper would be, and I don't have stumps to deal with. The time saved is a major factor too.
In the case of a homeowner it is different, but still important. As Ken said the plan is to do 6 trees a night. What if he could do 24 trees a night? Then he would be done, and free to do other things, in one quarter the time.
Best of luck.
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Amen, Murf. After all is said and done, the bottom line better not be in the red. Some comments regarding the tub grinder, there is a local who clears land and harvests trees for lumber (around here it is mostly poplar or tulip)and charges $3000. per acre of heavily wooded land. He uses the Vermeer tub grinder, a feller/buncher, an excavator w/thumb, a forwarder, a skidder, a TreeLand whole tree chipper, and two lumber trucks, plus assorted related equipment. As a businessman I call that a "smoking deal," one of my customers called it "highway robbery!" Go figure.
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In the process of building out a new golf course we often have to clear MANY acres of trees.
Since the owners of the development cant make any money until people are playing on the course time is critical. We often have situations where the land has been cut by lumber companies to extract the prime timber, then we have to deal with everything else. Anything saleable as firewood is shipped off-site, everything else goes in the compost pile.
We also do land clearing, storm cleanup, and line clearing for the Electric companies to keep the equipment busy as much as possible. I would LOVE to be able to get paid $3,000 an acre, we only average after selling the wood , but also have to deal with the stumps for that.
I think the average person would be pretty hard-pressed to do it themselves for anything less than that.
Best of luck.
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