Yes. Arboriculture equipment is financed regularly — wood chippers, stump grinders, tracked and towable chippers, timber cranes and grabs, tipper trucks and chip trucks, arb trailers, MEWPs and cherry pickers, winches and specialist climbing and rigging kit. Hire purchase and lease are both common structures.
The pattern in this sector is that the truck and the chipper are the two big purchases and everything else follows. Lenders are generally comfortable with both, because they are identifiable, have serial numbers and hold a decent resale value. Smaller hand-held kit — saws, harnesses, ropes — is usually too low in value and too hard to trace to finance on its own, though it can sometimes be included as part of a larger package.
Lenders will look at how long you have traded, your accounts or bank statements, your contract base and whether the work is domestic, commercial, utility or local authority. Regular contracted work is viewed more favourably than purely ad hoc domestic jobs, because the income is more predictable.
The advantage is obvious: the right chipper or MEWP lets you take on bigger jobs and work faster, and the finance is paid from the work the kit wins. The risk is that the payments continue through quiet spells, bad weather and equipment downtime. If you cannot maintain them the lender can repossess the machinery.