Rear Mount Bucket ?

[Rborist1]

duude, puhlease. This from a man wearing a giant pubic tache stain and a glorified phallic symbol?

Gotta problem with that? This is coming from a Viking wanna be..........getta real man's hat!

 

[Rborist1]

duude, puhlease. This from a man wearing a giant pubic tache stain and a glorified phallic symbol?

Jealous eh.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

At least I don't look like I've just scratched my ass and don't like the smell of my fingers.

 

[arborworks1]

Spoken like a true lawn chair arborist

I would never take your title!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[arborworks1]

Brendon, a brand new 75' hiranger is only 135,000. Why not just bite the bullet?

 

[sotc]

No doubt, your not married yet, should be plenty of money!

 

[Rborist1]

At least I don't look like I've just scratched my ass and don't like the smell of my fingers.

What you can't see in my avatar pic is my backside........my thong makes ass scratchin access easy!

 

[brendonv]

I thought about material handler but they seem like they would be really heavy trucks how they are set up.

I thought a rear mount flatbed would be light on it's feet and more turf friendly.

 

[NeTree]

They are a good deal heavier; I don't know of one with decent working height under CDL, and that may be another issue. Still, if you have the means and a lot of plywood, they are a sweet rig. Brian picked apart a big oak awhile back while I was down visiting, and being able to swing the big stuff over a pool and turn it around in a tight back yard for easy chipping was cake, fo sho.

Working height is key, but the higher the height, the longer the booms, and sometimes that can be a PITA. The nice thing about the rear-mount elevator units is the shorter booms relative to the same working height.

When comparing rigs, make sure you're comparing apples to apples; working height is measured 5 feet from the bottom of the bucket. Platform height is the height from ground to the bottom of the bucket.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

We need some pics from the Skwerlyman.

 

[gf beranek]

Where's he been lately?

 

[Rborist1]

All I gotta say about all this is that, Mat 3 rear mount booms rock! There is no better residential set up.

 

[Rborist1]

Where's he been lately?

Probably cruisin for chicks in his hot new ride.

 

[gf beranek]

Those Mat 3's are the cat's meow. I went to the factory, met the boss's and watched their assembly line working. Rolling out a Mat 3,,, every 6 to 9 months.

they are really a small operation and in dire need of capital. I wish I had the bucks to invest in the company because their product is the bee's knees of lifts. Fo sho.

That 20 foot stinger boom is the key feature that makes it so. Small package to maneuver and get into tight places,,, and 20 feet of extra reach once you get there.

The stinger boom is it.

 

[Rborist1]

We are really fortunate to be running 3 of them. They have replaced alot of climbing for us, we can reach stuff that we could never dream of reaching before. I think that they are the absoute Cadillac of bucket trucks!

 

[brendonv]

PICS

 

[sotc]

PICS

I concur!

 

[sotc]

Man, what a hard company to find any info about. I think UTEP is the mat-3 manufacturer? Lousy website, anyone have boom specs?

 

[NeTree]

Where's he been lately?

He's been in the cut for awhile now.

 

[Rborist1]

PICS

Looks like this one.

 

[Rborist1]

Here is the site:

http://store.utepnow.com/

 

[stehansen]

You're going to want some plywood or alturnamats whichever rig you get Brendon.

 

[sotc]

Here is the site:

http://store.utepnow.com/

Yeah, not much info there that I could find. Nothing on the Mat-3

 

[Rborist1]

They had a cash flow prob in 08 and are substantially smaller then small now.