Rear Mount Bucket ?

[NeTree]

I think you meant you have a "Spicer".

The Spicer 6+1 is a good tranny, usually; they stuff them behind the DT466E.

 

[arborworks1]

That's the same combo I have inmy truck. Good tranny. Takes a bit to get used to how close the gears are. Downshifting especially!!

 

[NeTree]

Most flatlanders can start right out in 3rd. Lucky bastids.

I use all ten of my gears. Frickin' row-fest. :roll:

Must be nice to just punch a button, eh Skwerl?

 

[treeman75]

That's the same combo I have inmy truck. Good tranny. Takes a bit to get used to how close the gears are. Downshifting especially!!

I noticed that when I first drove it. I didnt get a chance to drive it vary far they had the back lights taken out.

 

[arborworks1]

I usually pull out in 2nd thanks.

 

[sotc]

Often times on road side contracts you are required to have flashing or strobe lights visible from 360 degrees.

 

[arborworks1]

Meh, I usually just close the whole road!! Advantage to a small town I guess...

 

[brendonv]

I'd like to bid town work when the bucket arrives.

They don't seem to have rules though, No PPE on site, town guys yawning and on their cells phones, logs flying.

 

[arborworks1]

Our town has gotten quite effiecient at cleaning up tree removals. I really like the arrangement we have going with them. Up until 3 years ago they didn't have a set of rules for contracted tree crews. Nor did their crew have any ppe.

 

[SkwerI]

Scott, I guess they aren't sending out 12 guys with rakes any more?

 

[arborworks1]

No only 4 now. Haha.
I worked them pretty hard on this last removal. They had trailers on rotation for logs and a big grapple truck for brush. They had every pick cleaned up before we set the next one down.

 

[cory]

They had trailers on rotation for logs and a big grapple truck for brush. They had every pick cleaned up before we set the next one down.

Uh, I would hope so with that line up.

Bren, town work here pays super low. Not worth it even to "keep busy"

 

[brendonv]

I think here too. I was just thinking the truck would be out, then benefit from the residential calls.

 

[No_Bivy]

Meh, I usually just close the whole road!! Advantage to a small town I guess...

once crane is set up....aint no body gettin round

 

[tophopper]

Wish we could get away with that, we purchase a road closure permit for 90% of our craners and also pay for road barricades. Life in the big city. Naturally,, these costs are passed along.........

 

[squisher]

City work is good to have here. It pays well too. Quite a few hoops to jump through just to qualify though so it keeps out most of the riff-raff. Notice I said most, I slipped through somehow. Lol.

 

[tophopper]

Find the right city and it can be lucrative.

How on earth Squish pulled it off?

 

[SkwerI]

Those Canucks have much lower standards, obviously.

 

[squisher]

Lol. Low standards make it easy to impress!

 

[SkwerI]

Ain't that the truth!

 

[arborworks1]

Agreed.

 

[Burnham]

I am sooooo glad I work for the USFS on federal lands.

 

[brendonv]

How is the truck, treeman75?

 

[treeman75]

The truck is working great! The material handler is awesome too. I had a good size ash with a couple hangers and just tied them off and cut and lifted them right out. It worked slick and saved a buch of time. You find one yet brendon?

 

[SkwerI]

Paul, be very careful rigging off the material handler. I will only 'catch' smaller green limbs that I can just top cut and let them break over slowly without shock loading the boom. Most of the time I will use a rope sling to tie the limb off to itself and cut it. Then once it's hanging I will attach a loop runner to hook the hanging limb to the material handler, lift to remove slack, remove my rigging sling and then move the limb to the ground.

Also be careful of limbs getting wedged up under the winch where all the hoses are. Those low pressure hoses will snap if hit hard enough and that will leave you stuck until someone on the ground can lower you using the lower controls. I gave you the part number for the brass compression couplers you can buy at Lowe's to fix those low pressure lines. Keep a few on the truck with two 9/16" wrenches and a good pair of diagonal cutters for snipping the lines clean.

I'm glad it's working out for you. They are amazing trucks with some minor but very important limitations.