to bucket or not to bucket

[rborist1]

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[ROLLACOSTA]

i wonder if these guys share your opinions on buckets

www.baumpflege-bollmann.de

 

[rborist1]

:Eye:

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

www.baumpflege-bollmann.de


somehow i think me and these guys are on the same wave length

 

[rborist1]

:Eye:

 

[Koa Man]

Originally posted by netree
I'm surprised you say that.

My experience has shown the opposite to be true.

Get a 6' stick saw, and you'd be amazed how fast you can tear a tree apart, with the increased work radius.

Regarding my statement at I can do a free drop large tree takedown faster than a bucket by climbing, I base this on experience also. I owned a bucket truck from 1991 to 1999.
Most of our large trees here have wide canopy spreads, 80 to 150 ft. Some might be 150 ft. wide and only 70 ft. tall, with the lowest branches only about 15 to 20 ft. off the ground and 40 or more feet long. A bucket will have to cut its way in. I have climbed up the trunk and started dropping branches 2 ft. in diameter and 60 ft. long in one piece. I never did that with my bucket, especially when the branches started to get about 30 to 40 ft. off the ground. I was afraid the tip would hit the ground and the butt end hitting the truck. If the tree is tall and narrow, like a lot of your trees, I agree the bucket would be faster.

 

[dtw902]

I think and know there will always be a need for climbers, that was not what this thread was started out as. You need to evaluate the kind of work you will be doing and get the best equiptment you can afford. Where I live and work we don't have 150' tree's, small, back yards, fenced in yards, at least very few you can't get into. I do alot of city work overhangs, side trimming. My bucket's boom goe's 135 degree's overcenter and mounted at the rear of the truck. On city work the truck is way faster than a climber, set in the middle of the road trim both sides ground man piles brush, Then move the bucket forward, ( I stay in bucket ground man moves truck forward) and so on all day long. Then we come along and pick up the brush with a Prentice grapple truck. I do very little chipping locally no cost to get rid of the brush. Only chip when a long way from home. Sorry so long my point is get the stuff you need for your area check out your competators and see how they do things good luck.

Dave

 

[fmueller]

Guess I could add that most of the trees I seem to get around here are silver maples , burr oak ,pin oak, walnut, that kind of stuff. Haven't had any take downs yet. I'm pretty much just a small potatoes one man pruning operation. I'm trying to figure out what would be best to make my jobss go faster and a little easier and more efficient as well as maybe get me to the next level. Still working another job to pay the bills, etc. Thanks a bizzilion for all the feed back. But Rollacosta, I can't read German. Got any French tree sites? Sacre Bleu!:jester:

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

if you go google bolmann baumpflege you should have in brackets next to site [translate too english] verstehen die freundin????