want to buy a chipper in Ca & stay legal

[heromaker]

Hi, I'm getting back into the business and found out that I need to buy a 2007 or new diesel chipper to be Legal in Ca. I Don't have any desire to go 30k in debt for a chipper right now. I found an old asplund drum gas in great condition for 2k but the air quality official tells me I need to put a brand new engine in it or he wont allow it to be registered. It has a ford 300ci in it now, I'm pretty sure that engine is out of production. Any Ideas, I don't want a high over head, Ive been there done that for over twenty years. I have plenty of work out there but I'm getting older and just want to keep things simple do quality work and take my time, enjoy my craft not be put into the position where I have to compromise the quality of my work for production so I can make my over head. When I stopped back in 03 I had to make 25k a month just to cover Work Comp, PL, PD, payroll etc. I would appreciate any ideas or information that would help me get back to work without setting my overhead so high that it forces me to go back to the grind.

Thank you

 

[ropensaddle]

Hi, I'm getting back into the business and found out that I need to buy a 2007 or new diesel chipper to be Legal in Ca. I Don't have any desire to go 30k in debt for a chipper right now. I found an old asplund drum gas in great condition for 2k but the air quality official tells me I need to put a brand new engine in it or he wont allow it to be registered. It has a ford 300ci in it now, I'm pretty sure that engine is out of production. Any Ideas, I don't want a high over head, Ive been there done that for over twenty years. I have plenty of work out there but I'm getting older and just want to keep things simple do quality work and take my time, enjoy my craft not be put into the position where I have to compromise the quality of my work for production so I can make my over head. When I stopped back in 03 I had to make 25k a month just to cover Work Comp, PL, PD, payroll etc. I would appreciate any ideas or information that would help me get back to work without setting my overhead so high that it forces me to go back to the grind.

Thank you

Good luck with that pard and welcome. I would have problems with Cali gestapo, I would think the emissions from the illegals living there would be a bigger threat than a chipper. What if they all fart at the same time would that cause the big one?

 

[ropensaddle]

Good luck with that pard and welcome. I would have problems with Cali gestapo, I would think the emissions from the illegals living there would be a bigger threat than a chipper. What if they all fart at the same time would that cause the big one?

On a more serious level it would suck to be told my chipper could not be used and that's just the start. My bucket and grapple and 78 skid steer lol I think I stay here.

 

[sgreanbeans]

Slightly off topic here, I had a 71' Boss 351 Mustang, It had 605hp at the rear wheels and had 3"stainless thru series 50 Flowmasters, brought it out to Cali, left it registered in Iowa.
COPS HATED ME! Cali law prohibits them from giving me a ticket as long as it meets the standards of the state that it is registered in. They pulled me over a number of times, couldn't do anything! Iowa doesn't have inspections! Cops here wanted me too light them up, even went to an ol blacl top road and had a cop there to take pics as I treid to simulate a top fuel burnout! Bad for the tires tho!
Jeff you may have seen that thing down at East Lake, bright yellow and black, slightly tubbed and VERY LOUD, the Immigrant workers would go crazy!

 

[sgreanbeans]

When I stopped back in 03 I had to make 25k a month just to cover Work Comp, PL, PD, payroll etc.
Thank you

I'm with ya, overhead sucks, sounds like a new thread, how to stop the monster!

 

[jefflovstrom]

Slightly off topic here, I had a 71' Boss 351 Mustang, It had 605hp at the rear wheels and had 3"stainless thru series 50 Flowmasters, brought it out to Cali, left it registered in Iowa.
COPS HATED ME! Cali law prohibits them from giving me a ticket as long as it meets the standards of the state that it is registered in. They pulled me over a number of times, couldn't do anything! Iowa doesn't have inspections! Cops here wanted me too light them up, even went to an ol blacl top road and had a cop there to take pics as I treid to simulate a top fuel burnout! Bad for the tires tho!
Jeff you may have seen that thing down at East Lake, bright yellow and black, slightly tubbed and VERY LOUD, the Immigrant workers would go crazy!

Near Otay Lakes?
Jeff

 

[jefflovstrom]

Hi, I'm getting back into the business and found out that I need to buy a 2007 or new diesel chipper to be Legal in Ca. I Don't have any desire to go 30k in debt for a chipper right now. I found an old asplund drum gas in great condition for 2k but the air quality official tells me I need to put a brand new engine in it or he wont allow it to be registered. It has a ford 300ci in it now, I'm pretty sure that engine is out of production. Any Ideas, I don't want a high over head, Ive been there done that for over twenty years. I have plenty of work out there but I'm getting older and just want to keep things simple do quality work and take my time, enjoy my craft not be put into the position where I have to compromise the quality of my work for production so I can make my over head. When I stopped back in 03 I had to make 25k a month just to cover Work Comp, PL, PD, payroll etc. I would appreciate any ideas or information that would help me get back to work without setting my overhead so high that it forces me to go back to the grind.


We are at three tiers in California now and next year will have 4. You will not be able to register a chipper that does not pass CARB. Big companies to one-man shows, don't matter.
Jeff

 

[ForTheArborist]

Hi, I'm getting back into the business and found out that I need to buy a 2007 or new diesel chipper to be Legal in Ca. I Don't have any desire to go 30k in debt for a chipper right now. I found an old asplund drum gas in great condition for 2k but the air quality official tells me I need to put a brand new engine in it or he wont allow it to be registered. It has a ford 300ci in it now, I'm pretty sure that engine is out of production. Any Ideas, I don't want a high over head, Ive been there done that for over twenty years. I have plenty of work out there but I'm getting older and just want to keep things simple do quality work and take my time, enjoy my craft not be put into the position where I have to compromise the quality of my work for production so I can make my over head. When I stopped back in 03 I had to make 25k a month just to cover Work Comp, PL, PD, payroll etc. I would appreciate any ideas or information that would help me get back to work without setting my overhead so high that it forces me to go back to the grind.

Thank you

I haven't bought my big chipper yet, and I'm wondering what is in store for me when I start looking for one. As long as it is not too many more thousands of dollars to get it in, I'm not worried.

I really think they are stupid though for the laws the way they are. There are not nearly enough chippers in this state to make a big deal out of, and yet they come down the worst on the smallest area of pollution. It's like the regs on chainsaws and weed eaters. How much could all of the saws and eaters in the world pollute combined? Likely it's not enough to make a big deal out of, and upturn the whole industry for. The fact is that those clerical people in offices don't resemble labor people in the field, and the labor people are an easy shot for them to throw the book at like a free throw shot they know they can make all too easily. They make an impression just for making new laws even if the laws are worthless. To explain this further more 90% of the laws that we'll all ever need were made decades ago. All of these extra laws are just things that people keep contriving just to keep calling themselves law makers that make action. And on top of that there are more and more of them being hired than ever before. Go figure.

 

[ropensaddle]

Hey Jeffy if I lived in your state I would be an outlaw bro :monkey: So I guess they get the five o after a workin man but let gangs get away with murder:smoking:

 

[ddhlakebound]

All of these extra laws are just things that people keep contriving just to keep calling themselves law makers that make action.

Just so I'm clear....

You think it's stupid, and they're only doing it for the action.....right?

Ironic.

 

[ForTheArborist]

Just so I'm clear....

You think it's stupid, and they're only doing it for the action.....right?

Ironic.

You read what I wrote. That's ironic because I didn't think you could.

 

[redoakneck]

I heard that fireplaces are now illegal in some parts of Cali!!
I wonder if there are emmision standards on all gunpowder used by the gangs and the cops?
Better call the terminator himself- I think in one of those movies there was enough smoke from all the explosions to exceed mt. st. Helens!!!

FRIG


:monkey:

 

[ForTheArborist]

I heard that fireplaces are now illegal in some parts of Cali!!
I wonder if there are emmision standards on all gunpowder used by the gangs and the cops?
Better call the terminator himself- I think in one of those movies there was enough smoke from all the explosions to exceed mt. st. Helens!!!

FRIG


:monkey:

 

[mikewhite85]

It's 1100 bones for a permit to remove an oak, sycamore, or black walnut in California too

or at least in LA county it is

 

[ropensaddle]

It's 1100 bones for a permit to remove an oak, sycamore, or black walnut in California too

or at least in LA county it is

Wtf thats friggin unreal bro y them dad burn bureaucrats,liberalies dats just plain hogwash. I am coming out there just to be an outlaw:monkey:

 

[jefflovstrom]

Wtf thats friggin unreal bro y them dad burn bureaucrats,liberalies dats just plain hogwash. I am coming out there just to be an outlaw:monkey:

California is the place you wanna be,
so load up your trucks and move to Beverly!
Jeff

 

[ropensaddle]

California is the place you wanna be,
so load up your trucks and move to Beverly!
Jeff

Now Jeffy ya would not be baiting ole rope would ya:monkey:

 

[ropensaddle]

Now Jeffy ya would not be baiting ole rope would ya:monkey:

Ya think I would fit in?

 

[ForTheArborist]

Sure, there's plenty of free rides and stays at jail, and there's plenty of your kind there.

 

[heromaker]

Ca Chipper

Well thanks for the feed back. Do any of you have any suggestions about a powerfull gas chipper, what the best make and model is. I want a strong large capacity chipper atleast 12" but I would like 15"to18".