Rolloff Grapple truck
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mattfr12
The Bulldog
yes and yes. not a roll off tho a hook lift.
roll off is old school hook lift is way easier don't even have to leave the cab.
roll off is old school hook lift is way easier don't even have to leave the cab.
mattfr12
The Bulldog
heres a picture of what your talking about. not cheap tho the hook lift is gonna be close to 20-25k installed. truck to mount it on with a grapple even with a used older truck your gonna have 60g's in it. also look at the tree trader theirs pages of grapple trucks for sale if you buy one like that its gonna be a PITA and more costly to get a rolloff hook lift installed your gonna be better off starting with a cab and chassis.
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Iustinian
ArboristSite Operative
you are absolutely right. We have a hooklift on a stellar shuttle a-frame and its very easy to operate, but very very expensive. its a good setup if you want to be able to do a lot of different things though. We did some hauling for a concrete contractor who ripped out a driveway and he loved because its very easy to get logs into it with about any skidloader. (We usually use a CTL80 Takaheuci/Gehl, but also have 2 wheeled CAT 248 and 268 all with grapples)
the nice thing about the hook lift is that if you have the money you can build different boxes for it and run logs all day while someone else is loading all day. We've talked about building a chip box for it and using the Sterling dump truck as a chiptruck pulling the Bandit 1700 whole tree chipper we have. That would be faster on smaller clearing jobs, because of having only one trip, versus having to haul the big treelan chipper in one trip and then the walking floor in a second trip.
not something I'd recommend for someone just starting out strictly because of the price though.
mattfr12
The Bulldog
We had two twenty foot containers made one fits inside the other, Because it is narrower. So we can drop to 20 foot chip boxes on a site theirs always something to chip into never waiting on the chip truck to get back.
swyman
ArboristSite Operative
You guys are the shiz nit! For shizzle
mattfr12
The Bulldog
Just always trying to think outside of the box.
Iustinian
ArboristSite Operative
thats a badass idea, one haul to get them both to the job. I like it.
mattfr12
The Bulldog
Ya it works good easily done if you order a second container make it a shade smaller.
swyman
ArboristSite Operative
I meant it in a good way, you have a hell of a setup. I love equipment that takes the load off the worker! You have some cool tools to really make you productive!
mattfr12
The Bulldog
Ya I know I was Just saying we never try to follow the normal. Im always trying to think of a faster way to rock and roll with trees.
