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my main issue is 90% of what id use a crane for I need over 100ft tip height and 100-140ft radius, with a 50L about 80% of my work becomes crane work
ive derailed this thread long enough lol, continue
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my main issue is 90% of what id use a crane for I need over 100ft tip height and 100-140ft radius, with a 50L about 80% of my work becomes crane work
ive derailed this thread long enough lol, continue
SeanKroll
Treehouser
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Market here is garbage for anything, nobody will pay a penny more than they have to
I charge pretty well usually, when I've got the bucket truck and chipper out on a job it's atleast $200 an hour, I bid on a tree to tree basis but usually I'm at 2600 to 5000 a day for 2 or 3 guys, 2 trucks, chipper excavator and a dump trailer and maybe a crane if I need
FJR
Treehouser
Cory and Tom! How are you guys doing?
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Excellant!
frig, Id be happy if I could use a spider lift.
One of my buds got a job with Arborworks not long ago. Showed up with a grapple saw truck they have him run. If he comes on property to do my gray pines, maybe he'll let me try it for a minute.
frig, Id be happy if I could use a spider lift.
One of my buds got a job with Arborworks not long ago. Showed up with a grapple saw truck they have him run. If he comes on property to do my gray pines, maybe he'll let me try it for a minute.
stikine
Treehouser
Geeze, I hope that nice sawlog isn't going to be firewood.
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Kaveman
Treehouser
I don't take wood in to a mill, there's not really the option for that, the timber industry in Arizona is effectively dead, but if I've got a nice length, it comes home to meet the Granburg mill. Then I do terrible things to the resulting boards. Like starting projects that won't be finished in a year...
Mick!
TreeHouser
I get a mill to take wood from jobs, if it makes my life easier. He never pays though!
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treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
@cory
Was that red oak?
We sell a lot of wood to the mills when they are paying decently. We also sell a ton of logs to a firewood producer. 16 semi loads off a clearing job last week. The firewood guy pays pretty good as long as he’s not hauling junk. We also keep a fair amount of processor grade firewood logs. Hopefully in the near future we will have our own mill. Boss wants to start up another hobby I guess. Besides producing lumber we will be able to build our own timber mats and cribbing from the less desirable timber logs.
Was that red oak?
We sell a lot of wood to the mills when they are paying decently. We also sell a ton of logs to a firewood producer. 16 semi loads off a clearing job last week. The firewood guy pays pretty good as long as he’s not hauling junk. We also keep a fair amount of processor grade firewood logs. Hopefully in the near future we will have our own mill. Boss wants to start up another hobby I guess. Besides producing lumber we will be able to build our own timber mats and cribbing from the less desirable timber logs.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
My apologies. I almost forgot ( and I’ve been slacking on taking) the work pics. This was one of two removals for the city yesterday. Finished up our contract for the year unless an emergency comes up. They called in today saying they found a little more money and have two more for me they want done before the holiday.
flushcut
TreeHouser
I’m pretty sure the max load is “shits about to get real” load.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
For that pick the max is my winch capacity. On a single line at that angle it can’t hoist enough to tip or bend the boom. Once that number starts dropping it depends on what my load charts tell me. Most of the numbers on the chart are stability while a few are structural. For my crane those numbers are at 85% stability. If you get close or go over them all kinds of lights and alarms go off. Makes a tense situation worse in my mind. Also with my crane, my numbers are a lie most of the time. I program the computer to the light counterweight even though I have the heavy one. Gives an extra margin for error. That and when I tell the guys what I’m good for I can show them the computer screen and they won’t argue with me. When we get to the spar picks I tell them the fake number and then I reprogram to the real numbers so I don’t have alarms in my ear.
I’ll add that I’ve only had the red lights going twice. Both times I was exceeding the winch pull by a few hundred pounds. Really slow movements and then put the block on and go big.
Sorry just relooked. That was tipping capacity
I’ll add that I’ve only had the red lights going twice. Both times I was exceeding the winch pull by a few hundred pounds. Really slow movements and then put the block on and go big.
Sorry just relooked. That was tipping capacity
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Maybe 40" dbhx 120', 60' from the house. Had a secondary trunk.
Took the neighboring doug-fir, also infected with Laminated Root Disease.
Took the neighboring doug-fir, also infected with Laminated Root Disease.
85% of tipping/structural
it it says MAX 8500 pounds, nothing happens till 10K
that being said, for tree work we stay under 70-75% of the MAX, so if it says MAX 8500, we dont pick over 6300, gives almost 4 grand of play before things get expensive
I would like to note, the crane has no clue how its set up, when it says 8500, that is the gross capacity, net capacity comes after we deduct the cable, stowed jib, hookblock/ball, rigging, etc
as the climber, I have to remember when we pre tension picks, if im still tied into the hook then I have to remember, as soon as I come off the hook that magic screen will drop 200 pounds, so if I ask for 1K of pre tension, I will actually only have 800 pounds, not accounting for boom deflection which will take up some of my weight when I come off the hook
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