Forestry Plant Hire in Edinburgh
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Thomson Trees is a fully equipped tree surgery and forestry contractor offering the professional hire of various heavy-duty forestry machines, along with a skilled operator. From our base in West Linton, we are ideally placed to serve Edinburgh and the surrounding areas.
Hiring expensive forestry plant is an ideal way to scale up your business and offer cost-effective tree surgery and forestry services to your clients, without the hefty expense of being an owner-operator. In addition, all hired forestry plant comes with a fully experienced operator, ensuring smooth operation, reduced stress, and no concerns over costly breakdowns.
large wood chipper hireKesla c645t
A large crane fed PTO driven chipper trailed behind a Valtra T234V tractor with feed table to maximise the volume throughout. This chipper is designed for clearing and processing large volumes of branch wood or for producing good quality screened wood chip to G30-G80 for biomass, playparks, horse arenas and other types of use.
- Feed intake – 420mm (16.5 inches)
- Chip output – 120m3/hr
- Tractor – 180hp
- Combined weight – 16t
- Height of discharge chute – 2m to 4.65m
- Width – 2.6m
- Crane reach - 10.2m
- Combined length – 11m
- Perfect for large site clearances
NPTC qualified operator supplied
timber forwarding trailer hireKesla 124H
A large timber trailer pulled by a tractor with timber crane. This trailer is ideal for moving large volumes of timber cut into standard lengths. It has the capacity to carry 2 bays of 2.9m long timber and the crane can lift timber up to a diameter of 80cms and a weight of 1.5t.
- Combined length – 12.5m
- Combined weight (unladen) – 12.4t
- Load weight – 8t
- Width – 2,550mm
NPTC qualified operator supplied
skid steer hirevermeer s800tx
A compact and manoeuvrable tracked skid steer with timber grab designed to move timber and branches. These little machines really come into their own on smaller sites where access is restrictive. Cut down drastically on man hours by mechanising the heavy lifting.
- Length – 2.7m
- Width – 103cm
- Weight – 1.4t
NPTC qualified operator supplied