The wonders of the tube reciever

[tree MDS]

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Help.. where's my crane! lol.

 

[tree MDS]

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Did need a nudge from the front winch on six wheel drive bucket, coming around this corner though.. but I already knew that was gonna happen.

 

[treemandan]

And once I did this contract job with this guy who had all this big equipment and all this confidence but what broke him that day was not being able to easy move his chipper around the job. He hooked something up with a chain to the bucket which had to be adjusted constantly and wore him and me out in the heat messing with it. I didn't have a pintle with me cause he said he would something and sure enough that is what that dummy had.

 

[tree MDS]

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This chipper is pushing 7k, so it kinda dwarfs The Deere.. the tires are filled, but chains and a big log on the loader (to keep front end down) would help a ton, if you really needed to (out of) get somewhere.

You know how we do dan!

... I guess I put off finishing stacking that firewood enough now..

 

[Blakesmaster]

My mini will handle our 200+ only on flat ground. Even then I turn the chute around backwards and have Eric stand on the infeed chute to help keep weight off the tongue. It works, but not well.

My bro used to have a receiver tube on the front of his 'yota and we used to put our old chuck n' duck anywhere with that set up. Dano's right about that, fer sure. If you can't back out, just unhook, turn the truck around and pull out. Not that I'm a fan of pulling out.

 

[squad143]

I'd love to see some pics and get some ideas.QUOTE]

I purchased a front trailer hitch for my truck. It hides under the front spoiler. Had to cut a small square hole in the spoiler for the receiver tube to stick out of (just under the front license plate). It was designed specifically for my model truck. Bolted on in 15 minutes. Cost a little under $200. If your handy could be done alot cheaper. My buddy that does my welding was away and I needed it in a hurry. I just added the price to the job.

The reveiver tube on the skid steer; I purchased a mounting plate off ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/MINI-SKIDSTEER-...887?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45f7decf7f), paid $80 for it and then had by buddy weld on a reciever tube.

 

[squad143]

Sorry boys, I just can't see the point##

Not saying it doesn't exist, it's just that I've never seen a location that I couldn't back into## Providing, of course, that it was possible to go in front first, too##

I do quite a lot of propertys that have long, narrow, winding driveways with no where to turn around a truck and chipper. Throw a few hills in there and you'll be backing up your chipper for quite some time. I find that by attaching the chipper to the front, it is quite easy to see where i'm "pushing" the chipper. Almost as fast as driving in without anything on the front (almost). Plus I don't need a backup spotter.

I have always operated my vehicles with this philosophy: If you can't back it in, then you darn sure better not drive in forwards## I've never been stuck in a spot that I was able to back in to, but I have seen situations that were impossible to back out of##

That may be true if its just a vehicle only.

Backing up the truck with the chipper on the front is no different than backing up the truck without the chipper attached. The chipper just follows the vehicle.

I have an added issue in that my chipper is more narrow than my truck, additionaly it has a short tounge. By the time I see it in my mirrors, it is well on it's way to turning.

Regardless, I've had to push larger trailers (boat, dump trailer, etc.) into some pretty tight areas and it is much easier to see where they are going.

I don't use it all the time, just on jobs where it will save me time.

 

[tree MDS]

I'd love to see some pics and get some ideas.QUOTE]

I purchased a front trailer hitch for my truck. It hides under the front spoiler. Had to cut a small square hole in the spoiler for the receiver tube to stick out of (just under the front license plate). It was designed specifically for my model truck. Bolted on in 15 minutes. Cost a little under $200. If your handy could be done alot cheaper. My buddy that does my welding was away and I needed it in a hurry. I just added the price to the job.

The reveiver tube on the skid steer; I purchased a mounting plate off ebay (MINI SKIDSTEER MOUNT PLATE SKID STEER TORO DINGO THOMAS - eBay (item 300511317887 end time Jan-14-11 05:45:48 PST)), paid $80 for it and then had by buddy weld on a reciever tube.

Aww.. so cute!

 

[pdqdl]

Should change the topic to " what are you using to get your chipper in"... working is the street ( or even close to it) is soooo droll. The Dingo won't handle the 4500 lb chipper on slippery surfaces though it has pulled it up steep dry drives. If you turn to much you only have one tread making power though and that won't work.

Ok!

When it really gets rough, I hook our Bandit 200 to our 10,000 lb 4wheel drive tractor. We have a pintle-hitch tow bar made up to bolt onto the draft bar on the tractor. When it gets really rough & muddy, we still get the chipper anywhere the tractor can drag it.

Sometimes we move the chipper around with our brush grapple attached to the A300 bobcat, but not very often. We use the safety chains hooked on, and put a tooth from the grapple down through the pintle ring, but that really isn't too secure.

 

[pdqdl]

I do quite a lot of propertys that have long, narrow, winding driveways with no where to turn around a truck and chipper. Throw a few hills in there and you'll be backing up your chipper for quite some time. I find that by attaching the chipper to the front, it is quite easy to see where i'm "pushing" the chipper. Almost as fast as driving in without anything on the front (almost). Plus I don't need a backup spotter....

I understand all your points, but isn't having the chipper attached to the front of the truck kind of useless when you get there? Don't you have to detach the chipper, then turn your truck around to catch the chips?

I have a great big heavy chipper truck with a 12k knuckleboom crane in front of the chip box, and it takes forever to turn it around. Like yourself, my chipper is invisible when it is straight behind the truck. We added several feet to our chipper tongue, just to make it easier to back up and to keep the truck bed out of the radiator on sharp turns.

Easier backing up: put some snow plow marker poles on both corners of your chipper! Mount them wide enough to see where the chipper is throughout the backing up process.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

It can be a PITA turning the truck around several times, but in some of the older properties with little room between houses it is faster to push it forwards then horse it around in reverse. Some guys have a knack for it, but even then if you have targets in three dimensions, it is better to see where you are going.

On some of these jobs we are dropping the chipper to dump the truck at least once anyways, maybe rotating small two trucks because a 5 ton does not fit.

 

[squad143]

I understand all your points, but isn't having the chipper attached to the front of the truck kind of useless when you get there? Don't you have to detach the chipper, then turn your truck around to catch the chips?

Easier backing up: put some snow plow marker poles on both corners of your chipper! Mount them wide enough to see where the chipper is throughout the backing up process.

A lot of the cottage propertys that I do removals on, we just blow the chips into the woods.

I have some "snow plow" markers on magnets that I'll attach to the chipper when backing it up.