Sitting around wondering, how can we be the most efficient and get trees down and cleaned up as fast as possible
Right now, 2 guys, forestry bucket and 12" chipper, mini ex and 14ft dump trailer
Every part of the job is a hold up, 2 hour jobs take 8 to 10 hours sometimes
I know me and my dad (both climb) are slow climbers, so I'm trying to get away from climbing at all, I can get some work done from a bucket, still not the fastest but I can do 10x the work in a day easily
Chipping is kinda slow, looking at a 75ft drywall truck build with a mecanil saw and debris box, cut the tree and put it in the box, 75ft will be enough for most of my work (I'm getting away from bigger removal, hate em)
But, i could get a spider lift and then my only slowdown is handling brush and roping, still have to chip and still have to rope
Part of the slowdowns is tangled rope, usually only 1 guy in the ground so lowering and dragging brush is a full time job
I can build the drywall truck exactly how I want for ~$50-70k, spider lift will be $200k+ but can be financed, unlike the drywall truck unless I go through a dealer
Realistically I want to eliminate climbing, and then focus on handling materials, part of the slowdown is my chippers weak hydraulics, once those are fixed the chipping should be faster, still have to get stuff to the chipper, and get chips off the job, got me a bigger chip truck already, gotta build a box for it, probably 20yd so I can use chipdrop
Grapple saw on my mini ex will also make things more efficient, less tracking around and nobody cutting things on the ground
What are you guys running? Jobsite pics would be amazing, trying to find out the best placement of everything, different ways of rigging to get stuff closer to the debris cleanup vehicle/machine
Stick boom crane would be cool if I had a legit climber but I don't, so grapple saw would be the way I think
Right now, 2 guys, forestry bucket and 12" chipper, mini ex and 14ft dump trailer
Every part of the job is a hold up, 2 hour jobs take 8 to 10 hours sometimes
I know me and my dad (both climb) are slow climbers, so I'm trying to get away from climbing at all, I can get some work done from a bucket, still not the fastest but I can do 10x the work in a day easily
Chipping is kinda slow, looking at a 75ft drywall truck build with a mecanil saw and debris box, cut the tree and put it in the box, 75ft will be enough for most of my work (I'm getting away from bigger removal, hate em)
But, i could get a spider lift and then my only slowdown is handling brush and roping, still have to chip and still have to rope
Part of the slowdowns is tangled rope, usually only 1 guy in the ground so lowering and dragging brush is a full time job
I can build the drywall truck exactly how I want for ~$50-70k, spider lift will be $200k+ but can be financed, unlike the drywall truck unless I go through a dealer
Realistically I want to eliminate climbing, and then focus on handling materials, part of the slowdown is my chippers weak hydraulics, once those are fixed the chipping should be faster, still have to get stuff to the chipper, and get chips off the job, got me a bigger chip truck already, gotta build a box for it, probably 20yd so I can use chipdrop
Grapple saw on my mini ex will also make things more efficient, less tracking around and nobody cutting things on the ground
What are you guys running? Jobsite pics would be amazing, trying to find out the best placement of everything, different ways of rigging to get stuff closer to the debris cleanup vehicle/machine
Stick boom crane would be cool if I had a legit climber but I don't, so grapple saw would be the way I think