Arbor Trolley - 5 years on

thanks Dave, but I didn't make the vid but I did tweak some edits real quick... so I kinda made the vid but not really. One of our team members Mike is good with vid stuff. Trolley is a handy tool
 
We find that the farther from the chipper, the more useful the trolley is. (Duh!).

Few months ago we had 4 good size ash removals in a wooded backyard. Actually, the backyard WAS woods. All trees on a steep ravine. So steep you could not walk up the hill without falling at least once. Of course, we couldn't talk the owner into keeping the wood, or using long branch sections to line paths. It all had to go.

Trolley saved our a$$e$ on that job. Besides the brush, we could cut 5' sections of trunk, about 18" diameter, and pull the trolley up the hill with the chipper winch. (Luckily the driveway ended at the top of the hill). We just ran the winch rope thru that little 45* angle support rail at the bottom of the handle. Worked perfectly. Without the trolley we would have had to cut those trunks into a million 8 or 10 inch sections and hand carry each piece up the hill, slipping and falling the whole way.
 
I don't use mine nearly as often as a lot of you guys but I look at it like my 088. It's not everyday that I need it but when I do, it's worth its weight.
I've probably voided any warranty by using it as a tag axle to haul some good size logs out with the mini. I'll try to get some pics next time. I find it rather impressive for what someone I work with calls "a fancy overpriced wheelbarrow". Funny that he's the first one to get it out though.
 
Piling on an old resurrected thread:

It's great for large brush piles and essential for bigger wood if there is no machinery.

However what I haven't seen mentioned yet...B&B trees. The Arbor Trolley has become an essential tool for tree planting for us. We'll go up to a 3" B&B (36" ball) on the Trolley. Most 2" trees we slide roll out of the trailer onto the Trolley and pull to the planting site. 3" trees are a bit much for that so we use a "truck crane" mounted in the trailer to pick them up and set them down on the Trolley.

We do a lot of 1 tree here and 1 there. By the time a machine is unloaded and chained back down (not to mention another truck and trailer) we can have the tree moved with the Arbor Trolley and hole dug. Little more tiring, but works great.
 
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Yes it is! You should know we are in flat country....like the fall of the 'river drops 11' over 2 miles' flat. But it's still not fun. Usually one of us pushes while the other pulls. I try hard to talk people into 2" caliper trees!
 
The only time I had a chance to use an arbor trolley, I didn't, by chance circumstance. Spent an afternoon helping Reg on a tiny job. He popped out and when he returned with the trolley I had already dragged most of the brush. Doh! Watched him scoop up one last load, feeling kind of stupid. Oh well, makes for an ironic story. Later it hit home, it was actually Reg's trolley in all senses of the word, that I didn't use :)
 
Bart_ said:
The only time I had a chance to use an arbor trolley, I didn't, by chance circumstance. Spent an afternoon helping Reg on a tiny job. He popped out and when he returned with the trolley I had already dragged most of the brush. Doh! Watched him scoop up one last load, feeling kind of stupid. Oh well, makes for an ironic story. Later it hit home, it was actually Reg's trolley in all senses of the word, that I didn't use :)
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Dat is too funny.
 
Treemuel said:
Do you still store the AT on your chipper, Sean? Do have any pictures of how you set that up? Thanks
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I do.

I can get one.

My neighbor welded a slightly/ 10-15⁰ off-plumb, 10" square tube on the center beam of my chipper tongue. I slide the AT cart over the post after removing the AT tongue.
This angle on the welded tube gives me a little more room for my chipper's tongue jack handle movement. If I take off an AT wheel, the tongue jack handle is much more accessible. The V of the trolley matches the direction of the V of the chipper tongue.

I slot the AT tongue through the little triangle of the AT cart.

I ratchet-strap the AT cart to the chipper tongue triangle. Separately, I ratchet strap the AT tongue to the AT or tongue.

I carry (2) 4x4' sheets of plywood between the AT and engine housing. (2) 6x6" wood blocks ride in the basket of the tongue. These are for either blocking up the chipper tongue jack for a low feed-tray height, or used with a handful of screws and plywood to make a 90⁰ chip catcher corner for leaving chips onsite, neatly.
 
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