Gerasimek's Tree-mek

[classictruckman]

Nice looking autocar, what model palfinger is that?

 

[ROYCE]

Jerad is this nose BIG enough to be a Jimmy Durante ?View attachment 35270

I want that!! How much. I have a check with your name on it, we just need to decide on what number I am going to write on it.....But really, what does something like THAT cost. How tall will that boom go? Wanna come to VT and work with me for a few days? I have a two week long project of removing 125 tall white pine tress!

 

[Roy Tree]

Looking into buying one of these myself wondering how much height or capacity u lose with a conventional cab ? I know the crane on the autocar is bigger but having a rearmount bucket truck now makes me want a rearmounted crane. I went to tci show and spoke to Jason and he had sent me some prices want to watch one work before I order...

 

[classictruckman]

You lose the length of the cab+hood or the deck, you're 100' of boom turns into an 80' boom. Much better to get a rear mount.

 

[Roy Tree]

That's what I figured just wondering if the 33002 is big enough? Want the truck to be compact but would like more capacity like the 40002 has with being 4ft longer on truck

 

[Roy Tree]

We rent a 30 ton stick crane several times a month which works well and for bigger further trees the company has a 70 ton link belt not trying to replace 70 ton jobs at all just the 30 ton ones and the daily bucket ones that are never ending...I'm a small two or three man crew tops I do all my own work and think this idea/technology is awesome was seriously thinking about a beaver retreever before this came into play but that was to slow no knuckle and not multi-use as is the tree-mek

 

[Tanner28]

When reaching over the front I will only lose about 10'. When off to the side of course you lose none. What you can gain is a 16' dump box. Each owners market is different. For me I liked the idea of dropping the chunks of wood that are cut by the grapple saw straight into the dump bed. With the grapple saw the wood will be random in length by the manner in which it's grabbed and cut. Stacking and using ratchet straps on a flat bed with a bunch of short hunks of wood did not sound fun to me. At the days end I'll hit the button and dump. I did not want to have a seperate truck dedicated to logs, but some may have that option. If you do then a rear mount would really be a great choice. This is just the reasoning on why we went the path we did, no disrespect to the rear mount guys.

 

[dmd]

Tanner28 what is the payload capacity without being over your gvwr?

 

[Tanner28]

18,000 lbs. This is with a 13k push axle in front of the tandems.

 

[dmd]

I don't see a pusher axle in the picture?

 

[Tanner28]

That's not my truck or post. That's sj_treeguy

 

[dmd]

Thanks
I just switched to using Tapatalk and we'll that's my excuse.

 

[classictruckman]

When reaching over the front I will only lose about 10'. When off to the side of course you lose none. What you can gain is a 16' dump box. Each owners market is different. For me I liked the idea of dropping the chunks of wood that are cut by the grapple saw straight into the dump bed. With the grapple saw the wood will be random in length by the manner in which it's grabbed and cut. Stacking and using ratchet straps on a flat bed with a bunch of short hunks of wood did not sound fun to me. At the days end I'll hit the button and dump. I did not want to have a seperate truck dedicated to logs, but some may have that option. If you do then a rear mount would really be a great choice. This is just the reasoning on why we went the path we did, no disrespect to the rear mount guys.

While I do very much envy the guys who can just up up box and leave at the end of the day 16' is a lot, we're always fighting to get every inch closer we can doesn't matter if it's our 75' bucket, 44 ton kboom or 40ton stick boom with 142' of stick.

 

[SJ_Treeguy]

i will start with Classic 40002 100ft side reach 800lbs lift, 110ft high 800lbs lift if i pull both manual extensions out i am still 800lbs .
ROYCE : With the Mecanil 220 grapplesaw ,the truck is a 1999 volvo autocar 65,000 gvw 13 ft dump , Palfinger 40002 and the cost of the build I have $284,000 invested in the truck . And Yes i would travel to VT as long as there is skiing involved!! As Classic said you lose length with a behind the cab mount but as Tanner28 pointed out a multi use truck is how he sees it . I am on Tanners side ,if the investment is over $200,000 it had better serve a multitude of purposes.

 

[SJ_Treeguy]

Sorry i forgot that is an early on in the build picture there is a rack between the crane and the dump body the holds 20 3'x6' white alturnamats

 

[classictruckman]

How many hoses do you have at the tip?

 

[SJ_Treeguy]

We start the install of the fly jib hose tracks on monday the 4th by friday there will be four hoses at the end , two for the rotator and two for the saw. The two into the saw are than split up by two sets of valves in the saw for the tilt and the saw functions.

 

[Jerad Oren]

This is a short video of a typical removal with the treemek and stem removal.

 

[Mahk_Adams]

Jared wrote:

"It a pk33002 (33ton). So with this jib configuration it has 99 feet of hydraulic reach with the Mecanil grapple saw attached. If you take that off and use 3 manual extensions you would have 115' of reach."

Is the jib configuation the PJ060B JV2 DPS PLUS ? Can you attach or show a link for the load chart? Using just the model number (pk33002) I couldn't find anything that came close to the specs that you listed. But, one brochure included a single chart with a fly jib and the number above, and the specs seemed close to yours.

 

[BzRman]

Sounds like tip height not horizontal reach