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Well demo'd the Alstor 8x8 today and the Johnsered Iron Horse 2090.
The Alstor is a cool machine and it will do almost everything our bigger compact tire or track loaders will do and with less damage. It will climb rocks you wouldn't think about with a T300. High quality and much stronger built in person than the videos or pictures I have seen. He was loading and pulling 3 or 4 30ft trees behind it at once.
That being said it is still probably 1/3-1/5th the production speed of a T300etc doing the same task. It would be a nice machine to have for those jobs where nothing else will work but for general production its a little too slow by its process.
If you had alot of property to thin out or a golf course to maintain with long carry distances with low turf damage then it would be perfect but not the machine for residential/commercial production tree work in my opinion.
The Iron Horse is something I think all of us should have around. It likes to try to pull a wheelie when loading the log but this guys been using them since the early 80's so he made it look good. He pulled a 30" diameter 15 foot hardwood no problem. And you could stack a lot of brush on it as well. It has 1 winch for pulling in the logs and 1 winch forward to help it if needed. It would be a great machine to have around. Give it to one of the knuckleheads on the job and tell him to go collect as much stuff as he can and bring it to the road or the chipper. It will pull more weight with a lighter footprint than the mini skid steers I have used hands down. Be a great secondary machine on most jobs.
The Alstor is a cool machine and it will do almost everything our bigger compact tire or track loaders will do and with less damage. It will climb rocks you wouldn't think about with a T300. High quality and much stronger built in person than the videos or pictures I have seen. He was loading and pulling 3 or 4 30ft trees behind it at once.
That being said it is still probably 1/3-1/5th the production speed of a T300etc doing the same task. It would be a nice machine to have for those jobs where nothing else will work but for general production its a little too slow by its process.
If you had alot of property to thin out or a golf course to maintain with long carry distances with low turf damage then it would be perfect but not the machine for residential/commercial production tree work in my opinion.
The Iron Horse is something I think all of us should have around. It likes to try to pull a wheelie when loading the log but this guys been using them since the early 80's so he made it look good. He pulled a 30" diameter 15 foot hardwood no problem. And you could stack a lot of brush on it as well. It has 1 winch for pulling in the logs and 1 winch forward to help it if needed. It would be a great machine to have around. Give it to one of the knuckleheads on the job and tell him to go collect as much stuff as he can and bring it to the road or the chipper. It will pull more weight with a lighter footprint than the mini skid steers I have used hands down. Be a great secondary machine on most jobs.
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