Unimog Club UK

Castro, I do chip into the trailer or take the crane off and carry the chipper on the 3 point linkage and chip into the back when I have a few little jobs on in a day. 

My chipper is a Vermeer 625AI with a slight modification i.e. folding chute, tracks and a slew ring ( I got fed up of being tied to moving all the brash to the chipper so spent a week putting it together).  Best thing I did with it and as you can see below, I can now take the chipper to the job.  Vermeer didn't even ring me up about it when I showed them the pictures in 2008, at least Greenmech copied it for the next APF but mine is the only one that can spin around and around.

Good thing is that the unimog can carry it so I don't have to have the trailer, and the crane can lift it over a hedge.

I'd recommend Tico cranes, I borrowed a friends and liked it as it can spin around and around, so a search on ebay again and a year later found this one, although in a right state (new hoses, tubes, valve block and controls) it fixed up ok.  Shame Hiab bought them out and 'closed them down'.

Mine's a K472, they also do a larger one and I watched one on ebay go down south for 600 pounds on a trailer, so they don't fetch much, but you do have to do some hydraulic work as it returns all the oil back into an integral tank.

Winch on the crane is excellent, you can lower and lift vertically which is really trick with a hiab as you will know if you have one, and conifer hedges stand no chance as their not out of reach!  I sell firewood in 1 cubic metre bags and I've got the hang of using both the winch and fixed crane hook to tip up the bags as well, so really versatile.

The Landy was picked as it's capable of towing an Ifor at 3.5 tonnes and has no electronics, new Nissan style pick up's look good but cannot tow much more than 2.6 tonnes so I don't believe their legal to tow big ifors, so no use to me.  Back to the old school really and parts are cheap so cannot complain.  Still does 30mpg which isn't that bad.