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And a crappy one will be overloading the front axle.

Cool. Thanks for posting that up.

That would be cool Dylan, thanks. Jerry, I haven't added any counterweight and yes it is kind of tippy, I just always keep the grinder pointed up hill if there is one lol.

If you wanted to pm me the details that would be cool. It's a roll-off and grapple, single axle? That seems heavy kinda heavy?. Yah I've got air in my bucket that's the only way to go. Looks really nice, might be outta my price range for trucks up here? Does it have a grapple?

Heh cool man, really nice looking set-up. Funny thing is I have a ramrod wiht a 38special as well. Welcome to The Treehouse! Justin

I'm hoping to stay single axle as moving up to a tandem I'll need a different class of license(training and money), bi-annual inspections, and greatly increased insurance. Also then it would limit my options for having an employee operator. All those thing combined with the greater initial...

Wow, that's nice. There are plenty of self-loading logging trucks around here but none with the boom mounted at the rear, all behind the cab. Like these ones.

Rear mount does seem like the ticket but yah I don't see many used. I've spied one on the interwebs that looks like it would be ideal though so they are out there. Also that would work well with the dump trailer I already have if it was a larger job. Maybe something like this...

Cool. Thanks for all the info/advice again. John, I'm not going to be buying new unfortunately. I'm just starting to kick the idea around but if things go as planned for me I'll probably be looking of spending in the neighborhood of 40-60k, so second hand. I may spend a little more if I had...

Something like this might work for me if I could get one together at a comparable price. I coud expand my plow business if I got a 4x4 short wheel base and then I'd be actually legal for my sander. I'm guessing the 550 would need to run the trailer off of a pto or are the trailers usually...

They will handle fairly decent sized logs to though it seems from some of the pics I've seen. I'd like to salvage more logs if I can too, I have a decent buyer. I wouldn't be giving up on chipping that's for sure.

Lol. There it is! She's a beaut!!!

Yah Brian on the Treetrader it seems about 95% of those grapple trucks are from Florida. Y'all have the market cornered down there.

Well that's the thing I already have a dump trailer. So I could still utilize it too if I wanted. I like the idea of a good sized trash truck that isn't pulling a trailer though. Trailers always seem to cause problems sooner or later. I like the looks of those trailers but then I'd have to...

I'm thinking I'd have to buy another truck to haul something like that though. Definetly something to think about.

That trailer looks kick ass. I'mma gonna google that!

Seems like that would be a bonus whether it was for chips or just full-time grappling. I mean more room is more room right? Thanks for the info.

I've never really seen one with sides, like you could just load nasty debris into as well as wood/logs. I know you and Mike run with a sweet grapple trailer and Brendon has one now too right? Any links/pics/prices?

Holy crap MB that must be a hell of a truck. Chips dump for free around here is why I was thinking of the back-up chipping option. Seems like if it was just always off but you needed it and it was out behind the barn and the grapple just grabs it and plunks it on that it wouldn't really effect...

Yah there's lots of self-loading logging trucks around here 6 or 7 axle is the standard there but for log lengths. No one around here has a smaller one with just sides and whatnot for cramming whatever you'd like into. Just thought I'd start a thread as it's an idea I'm kicking around and I...