Today....

Having a very small staffing, crane jobs that need continuous material processing is difficult.


My employee doesn't machine- feed the chipper.


If I can stage mini- loader/ chipper compatible pieces/ piles at the chipper, or pre-slung in the backyard, I could operate the mini-loader to feed the chipper and keep up with incoming piles well-enough to have the crane there for a few hours instead of all day.
 
southsoundtree said:
Craning piles or loader-carried to the street?

Any tricks for craning brush piles?
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Couldn’t crane piles unfortunately because the only available setup to start was in that far corner…too far from the street. The original plan was to relocate the crane after brush-out to where I could pick & land and wood down at the end of the alley.

I used the smaller mini-ex to forward wood out then chipping took place.took a real hurtin on this job with the chipper being down at a bad time. But hey, there’s never a good time in my operation. Historically busy from roughly January 1 until about December 31. I’m sure you can relate.

Craning brush piles is definitely easy, like coal said. I use a dead/eye sling, but you want to reserve the eye for the crane hook to reduce wear and tear of sliding rope. Because a brush pile will crush down so much while lifting and cinching, and eye can take a beating. We find it best to put the eye through a bowline cinch. Sometimes we will re-tie if the pile crushes up excessively and the sling ends up too long. Lay your longest material down first and you can get away with capturing shorter material inside. Choking to one end vs. on center each has plusses and minuses. Bagster is also dope for excessive short material.
 
southsoundtree said:
Having a very small staffing, crane jobs that need continuous material processing is difficult.


My employee doesn't machine- feed the chipper.


If I can stage mini- loader/ chipper compatible pieces/ piles at the chipper, or pre-slung in the backyard, I could operate the mini-loader to feed the chipper and keep up with incoming piles well-enough to have the crane there for a few hours instead of all day.
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Prolly wanna time how long it takes to feed 10 leads into the chipper, then determine crane cycle time. Once you have that figured, you can decide how many leads to put into each hitch (bundle of branches…”hitch” is a logger’s term that I can’t stop using for some odd reason). Or just have the crane keep forwarding hitches regardless of your feed rate if there’s enough room to stage material out front.
 
Serf Life said:
What broke on the chipper @oceans ?
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Wenot to the mechanic over a week ago along with the log truck, both for PM. Belts were beginning to squeal on larger wood hits to the drum. Turned out they were showing a few cracks. The Murphy Switch was also malfunctioning…switch kept popping out and shutting down the chipper mid-process even though the oil pressure gauge showed good pressure.

Mechanic offered for us to take it back until teh parts showed up. Could have run it but at this point, I need to stay out and hammer against the back log while supporting the local mechanic that‘s a real ace. Between his diag time and the parts order, it just didn’t line up for this last job.
 
Today..... the biggest crane pick I've ever done. 50 ton crane was parked only15' away, so we were able to take some honkers down of a massive red oak. The tops and horizontal leaders did not weigh much, comparatively to the last 2 picks. 2nd to last was about 15-20' of 30'' dim stem, with a mass of unions at the top. I don't recall the weight, for the last pick was my record scale breaker.

Wish I had a pix to share.... About 25' tall, maybe a tad more, and approximately 48'' dia base cut.
Anyone want to put some guesses in? LOL
 
2nd to last pick union wood galore gets very heavy compared to straight grain logs so I’m sayin
20 foot by 30in diameter I’m going with 12k for union wood to play safe
25 foot by 48 at base tapering up to 30 inch easy 20k
Just pulled up my handy green log weight chart ;$)
 
Treetopflyer said:
Just pulled up my handy green log weight chart ;$)
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LOL

I'll take a couple more guesses for that last pick before I tell the tale.
Remember, this is spring time and there's been no shortage of ground water. At one point, in the base cut, the sawdust was coming out like oatmeal......mushy. That was right after the cut sprung a leak and drained a couple gallons. The trees have been drinking heavy.
 
96coal449 said:
Today..... the biggest crane pick I've ever done. 50 ton crane was parked only15' away, so we were able to take some honkers down of a massive red oak. The tops and horizontal leaders did not weigh much, comparatively to the last 2 picks. 2nd to last was about 15-20' of 30'' dim stem, with a mass of unions at the top. I don't recall the weight, for the last pick was my record scale breaker.

Wish I had a pix to share.... About 25' tall, maybe a tad more, and approximately 48'' dia base cut.
Anyone want to put some guesses in? LOL
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Must have a serious log truck to pickup that…
 
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