My mini was 2200lbs on an old f350. I'd be pretty hesitant to do it with my current mini. A bigger truck it'd probably be fine. With that angle of a ramp, a wheeled machine is steadier on the breakover than a tracked machine.
An equipment trailer or dump trailer? If it's an equipment trailer you can ramp from the trailer to the truck bed, allowing for smaller ramps. This would require that the trailer be unloaded at every job. Depending on what is being towed, it may need unloaded for use at most jobs anyways...
If your still trying to get work in that area. Park your chip truck there in evenings or weekends and do paperwork. Especially if the truck is lettered. This allows them to come up to you if they are looking to get some work done.
It sounds like you've already got a solution, but I learned a trick that you can take the top off of these cans and push air back in them with an air blow gun. Set it over the stem and pull the trigger for about 10 seconds and it is repressurized.
My kids love getting pulled behind the 4 wheeler on their sleds. What's the best sled that you've found that can handle the abuse of being pulled? The regular ones that we get at the store only last a season, which is normally only a day or two.
We have a metal round sled that is still...
I've only ridden a couple of times but they sure are fun.
We are just starting to get snow here and I've had the 4 wheeler out sliding around. The kids (and me too) really like drifting around on it. They are predicting 10-14", I'm guessing I'll barely get around at that point, definitely...
It may not be the best demonstration, but I had a video I uploaded to YouTube to post it here. It's pretty long and unedited, but it shows the titan grapple from the 1st post and the BMG rake. I'm running a bobcat mt100 in the video.
Same setup here with my 201, and it can handle having the full bar buried in Oak. Although typically when you get to that size your better off switching out saws unless it's just 1 or 2 cuts
Gotcha. I've seen similar designs for attaching to an excavator grapple. I could see how he would need a kickstand for that design, unless it had a wide enough base to support itself vertically.
It's a learned skill. Assuming it's a bmg grapple and rake. Have him loosely grab it on the ground and lift for it to align itself with the bristles facing down. Then lift the arms and tilt the grapple back to line up the post before closing the grapple firmly.
Often lining up that post is...
This is the bmg rake as well.
If you didn't know, you can order replacement wood and tines that bolt into the frame. I needed to replace mine after about 5 years. It was stored outside for that period, so weather probably contributed to it beginning to fall apart.
Reviving an old thread, but it seemed like the best one to show this video under.
Branch Manager grapple rake cleaning up after an Oak removal. The grapple truck does not run the rake as effiently as the miniskid does, but running it like this avoids a lot of trips up and down the ladder...