whadja do today?

[2treeornot2tree]

How is that knuckleboom truck working out? Guess I am anking was it worth the money.

I love it. It is super handy. Alot of times I go cut down a tree, chip it, then take off the roof load up the log. Put the roof back on and go home. Only.thing I am disappointed with is the paint on the box is junk. Got rust spots all over. Gotta call them and ask about it. Also someone hooked up the air dryer directly to the battery and every time it was cold, the heater in the air dryer would come on and kill my batteries.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

58" diameter silver maple. Cut it in half cause I was scared the boom was gonna shut down when I was half over the truck. I cut it long way because there was concrete in the log. Ruined 8 chains. One was a brand new 59" full skip tooth

 

[tree MDS]

Man.. all that extra saw work. You'd think for that kind of dough that thing would be getting tossed on the truck like a match stick. lol

 

[2treeornot2tree]

That log weighed over 7000 lbs.

 

[dbl612]

Pictures from the terex plant finally picked up the new machine glad to be home and out of my truck my ass is killing me. Had 17 hours of drive time in the last two days. Stayed at the soaring eagle casino and resort. Got my ass kicked after a few hours at craps. But other than that awesome place. left with a profit. Woulda had alot bigger profit if I would have quite earlier.
what, no heat in that factory? the workers look like they are wearing hoodies inside.

 

[Toddppm]

Was thinking the same thing, machinery that expensive and they won't even heat the shop for the employees?

 

[tree MDS]

That log weighed over 7000 lbs.

Yeah.. looks must really be deceiving.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Yeah.. looks must really be deceiving.[emoji23]

 

[2treeornot2tree]

By the way that's a 660 with 36" bar

 

[tree MDS]

Idk.. looks like any regular old log to me.. but what do I know. That the one them guys paid you to pick up? Lol.

 

[OLD OAK]

I bought another chipper today. I hope it gets delivered some time this week. The only thing I'm a little worried about is that it's a diesel and I live in a cold state in the winter. We don't always park in places with easily accessible electricity to plug things in overnight so we may have to experiment a little to see what is best to get it warmed up. One thing I think I will do is pull the battery at the end of the day and store it in a warm spot. I'm also wondering if I can install a converter in the bucket truck and plug a block heater into it for the chipper so the chipper warms up while the bucket is warming up before we roll out.

That would be a pain in the ass to remove the battery every day. Would it help it if you added another battery so you would have 2. If there is room for one.

 

[climbhightree]

My employee and I were at Penn Del ISA Shade Tree Symposium all day

 

[OLD OAK]

No work today so we went to the shooting range. Have to be ready for those zombies, they are comming.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

My employee and I were at Penn Del ISA Shade Tree Symposium all day

I donated the demestration tree.

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Idk.. looks like any regular old log to me.. but what do I know. That the one them guys paid you to pick up? Lol.

I am sure the old john deere would have picked it up. Lmao

 

[2treeornot2tree]

it was just a baby.

 

[climbhightree]

I donated the demestration tree.

That was the crane that was there too, correct?

 

[tree MDS]

I'm sorry, still doesn't look all that impressive to me. What, you got a 12' section there that's a little on the bigger side? Wowsers. Lol. And yeah, I'd have gotten it on the truck.

 

[mattfr12]

58" diameter silver maple. Cut it in half cause I was scared the boom was gonna shut down when I was half over the truck. I cut it long way because there was concrete in the log. Ruined 8 chains. One was a brand new 59" full skip tooth

If it picks it up with some extensions out it won't shut down once you have them all in. You can overide it incase you run into some crazy instance like you speak if.

There is a pressure switch or servo on the turret. Once you disable it the crane will lift till lines start blowing.

 

[no tree to big]

Don't look like the clam could have gotten around the whole thing to grab it...