GRCS for sale

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Holy guacamole!
I gotta come do a guest week with you sometime, sounds fun.

I find that most of the time I can get what I want out of a lifting system by using a mini. If I'm dealing with something quite massive though, I have definitely been grateful for the GRCS.

Ive done that exactly twice knowing I was pushing my luck. I’d probably bore the crap outta you within a average month.

 

[Friedrich]

I got the Stein 3001 with the winch before I got a Goods. They compliment each other well. Would still like to have a Hobbs. And a Smartwinch.

the smartwinch is junk, i sold mine. greg has custom harken winches on his device. steven just uses off the shelf harken which are full of plastic….

 

[Serf Life]

I find that most of the time I can get what I want out of a lifting system by using a mini. If I'm dealing with something quite massive though, I have definitely been grateful for the GRCS.

Using the grcs frees up the mini to grab the butt and pull out the pick whole, space allowing. Mini whip tackle has done some big lifts and certainly faster than a device. Mmmm options

 

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David Driver had the bomber wheel made for the Hobb's. Anyone who knows David can
attest to his big wood rigging. What some people like myself call big wood is usually smaller, lol. Now I have used both, and I love the Hobb's because I am mostly dealing with stand alone trees. I don't need both and I would hate switching out from winch to bollard. I just think the Hobbs is bombproof. I have access to get a wheel so Hobbs is my choice. That wheel is a game changer.

I’ve seen the wheel and they are expensive $460 or something like that. I took a 3/4” drive socket and mated that to a HOBBS for less than $100 for the socket and ratchet. Virtually no additional storage required.

 

[Daniel]

This is the truck mount
The long bar that plugs into the receiver is around here somewhere too

I think ir could be converted to attach with just a truckers strap per muggs modification.

 

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Using the grcs frees up the mini to grab the butt and pull out the pick whole, space allowing. Mini whip tackle has done some big lifts and certainly faster than a device. Mmmm options

You can lift, lower, and grab with the mini but you kinda feel like a puppeteer doing it. And it’s tricky. Lol
I really like lifting with the mini if you have the room to run, which isn’t the often in my market. So the Goods rings supreme.

 

[Analog]

This is the truck mount
The long bar that plugs into the receiver is around here somewhere too

I think ir could be converted to attach with just a truckers strap per muggs modification.

Does this allow you to attach the GRCS to a 2" receiver? Forgive my unfamiliarity.

 

[Daniel]

looks like the GRCS will see action tomorrow... it's been years...

 

[Daniel]

Does this allow you to attach the GRCS to a 2" receiver? Forgive my unfamiliarity.

yes, there's a long bar for that .. it can be mounted vertically or horizontally.

 

[Daniel]

looks like the GRCS will see action tomorrow... it's been years...

I used it today and it worked beautifully. The guy I was subbing for wanted to cut down this beautiful hickory to make room for the big dying ash.. GRCS came thru BIG TIME... made it look easy...Check the above video. There was very little clearance from the surrounding trees for many long horizontal monster limbs... GRCS made it work..

SHould have some good video of the action coming.

 

[96coal449]

I used it today and it worked beautifully. The guy I was subbing for wanted to cut down this beautiful hickory to make room for the big dying.. GRCS came thru BIG TIME... made it look easy...Check the above video. There was very little clearance from the surrounding trees for many long horizontal monster limbs... GRCS made it work..

SHould have some good video of the action coming.

Nice.

Here's a quote from a member when I was contemplating buying mine. " It doesn't come out often but, when it does it's worth it's weight in gold."

Here's a quote from you.

GRCS came thru BIG TIME... made it look easy

Since you already have it, I think ya should keep it.

I wondering about the truck hitch. To those who have it, is it a worthwhile investment?

 

[Daniel]

Nice.

Here's a quote from a member when I was contemplating buying mine. " It doesn't come out often but, when it does it's worth it's weight in gold."

Here's a quote from you.

Since you already have it, I think ya should keep it.

I wondering about the truck hitch. To those who have it, is it a worthwhile investment?

Today definitely made me think twice on it..
Back in the day, I had an equipment operator thaty I trusted with my life. If I needed lift, we just tied a block at the base of the tree and put a porta wrap on the loader and waved a finger.. Going up is faster easier, more powerful than the GRCS. BY A LOT.. . Going down no need to worry about losing wraps etc...

I have a rule with the GRCS, the machine is always on the opposite side of the trunk from the lowering point. I;ve see those wraps come off and that's not a chance worth taking, even for the experienced. Everyone has an off day or can get distracted. That little bit of lift is not worth dying over.

To your second point. I never saw the use in putting the GRCS on a truck, when a porty and hitting the gas should do the trick. However if it was mounted to the bucket truck then it might make sense though. I keep a porty shackled to the D rings on the rear bumper of the bucket so it's always there.

Other than that I'd consider fabricating a wratchet strap (per muggs system) and using the base plate with bollard for a lowering device.

 

[Daniel]

I would likely not have tried ths cut without the GRCS to suck up on this lowering line. Just heavily pretensioned, not lifting during the cut.

 

[Stumpsprouts]

I would likely not have tried ths cut without the GRCS to suck up on this lowering line. Just heavily pretensioned, not lifting during the cut.

I miss 2017-2019 when Ash trees around here still had some life to them. It was so much safer and easier to dismantle em. You’re bringing me back!

Thanks for saving that beautiful hickory!

 

[Daniel]

I miss 2017-2019 when Ash trees around here still had some life to them. It was so much safer and easier to dismantle em. You’re bringing me back!

Thanks for saving that beautiful hickory!

It was the other hickory that really got saved. The main contractor wanted to cut it down preemptively to make room to drop the right side of the big ash.

That wasn't going to happen if I could have stopped it. Took 2 sets with the bucket, and carefully positioning to get to both the back leads and close enough to reach the tops

 

[96coal449]

Thanks for saving that beautiful hickory!

It was the other hickory that really got saved. The main contractor wanted to cut it down preemptively to make room to drop the right side of the big ash.

That wasn't going to happen if I could have stopped it. Took 2 sets with the bucket, and carefully positioning to get to both the back leads and close enough to reach the tops

Hickories are my absolute favorite. Especially the shags.
Thanks again Daniel.

 

[Muggs]

I have a rule with the GRCS, the machine is always on the opposite side of the trunk from the lowering point. I;ve see those wraps come off and that's not a chance worth taking, even for the experienced. Everyone has an off day or can get distracted. That little bit of lift is not worth dying over.

If just pre-tensioning, you can always use the Goods exactly like the Hobbs, put a few wraps on and manually tail the line while cranking. This keeps the rope in the pig-tail and bypasses the self-tailing jaws. That way there's no worry about losing your wraps, you go straight from cranking to lowering. Manually tailing the line tight is a lot easier with a 2nd person helping...

 

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Hickories are my absolute favorite. Especially the shags.
Thanks again Daniel.

You’re truly a sick man! Lol With the storms we had I found a new hatred for them trying to cut out folded over tops and the rest of the tree is to stay. Locust is a close second.

 

[96coal449]

You’re truly a sick man! Lol With the storms we had I found a new hatred for them trying to cut out folded over tops and the rest of the tree is to stay. Locust is a close second.

I've yet to be introduced to normal.
Never met anyone.

 

[Roger_Barnett]

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Get a Hobbs..

I had both. Bought the Hobbs from ex ITCC champ Dan Kraus for $700 (He'd won it in a comp), then sold it back to him years later when he started Champion Tree Care--for the same $.. so I used it fo free! The GRCS is very capable of handling the same large loads and has the advantage of being able to employ rapid slack removal during negative rigging, to reduce the free fall distance. I've neg rigged up to perhaps 2500 lb! Yikes.

My GRCS was #343.... cost me $1200 as an arb bud and I shared it.... he ran a slightly larger co, then moved to Bartlett and Arborwell, taking it along.. But I always used it more as I love the tech rigging challenges. Got the longer arborist capstan which allowed for a full 5 wraps with larger lines! Sold it back, as I'm retired..but stand by for pics and vids from a recent job. Even you will be impressed!

By the way, Dan, about to turn 58, is still competing... he came 2nd last weekend, and twice in the top three at a couple NAOM events. HE's amazing. I'm 75, fat lazy and old... but have worked 9 days this year... climbed a few trees but had my buds do the big firs on the log job---we got 6100' on one log truck!.. tall forest grade logs but on a large residential lot. Heck, over 10 years ago, we removed some 160' cottonwoods at another place... that were under 40" dbh!!

I will be sure to do a bit more work, at least into October..as that will mean I've officially worked in the trees for half a danged century!! Actually, I logged in Ak off a floating quarters for three weeks back in 1972... but was a total greenhorn who had started a job for a landscaper a bit before that, and went back to it after getting a slight injury in Ak, 3.5 years later, I started at Washington Tree Seervice--was fired 1.5 years later for screaming at the estimator for 5 crews "why are we topping these trees----in half?!!" Found a slightly better position, still did some tree topping (small tops, shaped the tops and did some thinning) Then, stated Barnett Tree Care in '85, joined the ISA in '89 and started learning better and proper tree care.