timberland ts
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LOoking to get a log truck for my tree business. Wondering what the best set up would be? Was thinking about a tandem axle rear mount. Cdl is not an issue.
what do you run for a log truck
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Yep your thinking correct.If you got 1 with log bosters you can remove them and put a debris box,and switch them out as needed.We have a W900L kenworth with a serco 8500 rear mount with a box on it,and sure do love it!!
garyischofield
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rear mount
Rear mount certainly has it's advantages.Feeding the chipper,handier on yard pickups.I run a Superliner Mack with rear mount Prentice 120.
Rear mount certainly has it's advantages.Feeding the chipper,handier on yard pickups.I run a Superliner Mack with rear mount Prentice 120.
My old company had 3 log trucks:
Freightliner chassis, tandem axles, rear mount Hood loader, with a rotobec grapple, continuous rotation. Used on the crane crew for grabbing picks and feeding the chipper. 7 aluminum stakes per side, nice and light, durable. I bent one of them loading an 11k pound maple butt with the crane (no way grapple was lifting that piece, unloaded by removing stakes,) 56k gvw, way underpowered
International 4900 chassis, tandems, mid mount hood loader, 345 degree swing. Open back, 4 square tube bunks. great for everything but brush, and can be used with the crane but it puts the front of the truck in the landing zone, and wipes out a large chunk of LZ working over the cab.
Ford 750 chassis, single rear, under cdl with Patu 625 loader. Worst truck i've ever run. useful in small back yards for chunk wood, completely replaceable by a mini-skid.
My new company has 5 or 7 log trucks, Macks and Kenworths and internationals, mix of mid and rear mounts, some with full sides, some with just bunks.
If you are going to be using the truck to load large logs, removable bunks/stakes are a necessity, in my opion. you don't want to be lifting 5k+ pounds 12+ feet over the side when you could be lifting 4 ft of the ground and sliding it across the bed.
Freightliner chassis, tandem axles, rear mount Hood loader, with a rotobec grapple, continuous rotation. Used on the crane crew for grabbing picks and feeding the chipper. 7 aluminum stakes per side, nice and light, durable. I bent one of them loading an 11k pound maple butt with the crane (no way grapple was lifting that piece, unloaded by removing stakes,) 56k gvw, way underpowered
International 4900 chassis, tandems, mid mount hood loader, 345 degree swing. Open back, 4 square tube bunks. great for everything but brush, and can be used with the crane but it puts the front of the truck in the landing zone, and wipes out a large chunk of LZ working over the cab.
Ford 750 chassis, single rear, under cdl with Patu 625 loader. Worst truck i've ever run. useful in small back yards for chunk wood, completely replaceable by a mini-skid.
My new company has 5 or 7 log trucks, Macks and Kenworths and internationals, mix of mid and rear mounts, some with full sides, some with just bunks.
If you are going to be using the truck to load large logs, removable bunks/stakes are a necessity, in my opion. you don't want to be lifting 5k+ pounds 12+ feet over the side when you could be lifting 4 ft of the ground and sliding it across the bed.
MackenzieTree
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Saw a log trailer
Was at this yard last week and saw a log loader trailer had to be 30ft long, heavy duty set up im mean eight tires on the ground just a trailor mind you, the graple looked like one you sit up top and pick full size logs up and stack right on, but the cool thing about it was they pulled it with a tri axle dump truck with the hydraulics for the graple hooked up to some pump modification on the dump truck, so pull up load logs and put debri and clean up in the dump, had to share but way over weight for non cdl
Was at this yard last week and saw a log loader trailer had to be 30ft long, heavy duty set up im mean eight tires on the ground just a trailor mind you, the graple looked like one you sit up top and pick full size logs up and stack right on, but the cool thing about it was they pulled it with a tri axle dump truck with the hydraulics for the graple hooked up to some pump modification on the dump truck, so pull up load logs and put debri and clean up in the dump, had to share but way over weight for non cdl
treeman75
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I have a mid mount, I like the dump on it. I have a mini so its not too hard to get the material to the loader.View attachment 280341
What was so bad about the Ford 750 and what year was it?
04ish F750. Underpowered cat motor and 6 speed trans that was perfect for an empty truck but would keep you under 40 mph with a minimal load on it. You'd turn the pto on, but it had no cruise/ throttle control, so if you didn't have someone to feather the throttle, you could stall it out picking chunk wood at near max reach (12 feet). The loader was terrible, they don't make parts for it anymore (that we could find), midmounted, so it had limited reach, just enough reach over the front to crush the roof. 10 ft bed, 18 inch solid sides and then 3 bunks per side that made it a 4 ft deep bed with no tailgate. So you would have to build up the sides with log length to put chunk wood in. Just my least favorite truck, everyones least favorite truck in fact.
Might have had a problem with injectors or something my Cat will pull 30,000 lbs at 55 mph on a flat road a 3116.
Probably, they had other cat powered rigs that didn't have an issue. 3116s and 3126s. Maybe it was the ACERT junk bogging it down. Better minds than mine didn't care tho, as the bossman never seemed inclined to figure out the issue.
I just order 40 yard containers for $365 a piece. Works great for a company my size. If I was doing crane removals every day, however, I can see how it would be worth investing in one.
timberland ts
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I need the size for big wood,only want to make one trip instead of four with my one ton. Also during the slow season i can haul logs for some of my buddies. I haul alot of firewood home and saw logs and pulp to the mill.
Blakesmaster
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Her is a pic of mine, pull four pins and pick the top off with the grapple. The chip box is nice but this will mainly run without the chip top. Had I found a tandem rearmount in my price range I would have rathered that.
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