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    Today....

    Yeah it is. But we also have a dt466, Mack E7, c10 cat, 855 Cummins, 501la Mercedes, 7.3 powerstroke, etc. Have you looked at the uprate chart? IIRC 250hp to 300 internals are pretty much the same.
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    We have a bunch of 3126s. One 210hp 6 speed Eaton in a bucket truck, 230hp with a mt5 allison in another bucket truck, a 300hp 8ll in a boom truck, and the 300hp 9 speed in the chip truck. There is a big difference between the 210/230 HP and the 300 HP ones.
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    Today....

    We got all the repairs done and got our title and tag stuff situated. Got to try out the new chip truck today. We did chip into it but towed our mini ex and trailer to the job (11k curb weight). It didn't even know it was back there. We like the 300 hp/860 ft lb 3126 and 9 speed. Got to get by...
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    Today....

    More trees on buildings. This hackberry fell on a small barn. Im ready to be back to regular tree work. All of this emergency stuff is wearing us down.
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    Looking for a contract climber in Birmingham, Al

    I'm up in Huntsville, Al. Call Kevan Barton 256-361-1524. He's in Birmingham. He's a very good climber with some serious skills. We have done a good bit of crane work with him. He's also very good with rigging.
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    Yeah its an old crane but its solid. We were just starting to get used to the new gmk when it broke down. Maybe well get used to it again shortly.
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    Heres another one we took care of last week. Sweat gum uprooted and leaned into several other trees. If it fell it would slam down onto this guys shed. It was a pretty good slope. Used all of our cribbing. Started pouring rain on us shortly after getting the crane setup.
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    We have a 42 inch farma grapple on our 35. Its been very good. We use it for feeding the chipper quite a bit. We plan to buy a much larger mini ex at some point as we keep renting an 18k lb size machine. Ive spent $7500 on rental lately so we obviously use one a good bit.
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    We have the control unit shipped off to grove at the moment for further diag on their test stand. Hopefully know something this week. What kinda excavators do you have? We run a yanmar vio35. Been really pleased with it. Its got about 3300 hours on it by now. We have a grapple, eterra screw...
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    Today....

    Its still not fixed yet. Progress has been made at least.
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    Today....

    The trees on houses continue. This is the 6th straight day.
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    Today....

    A lot of these were in good shape. We had a very soaking 3 to 4 inches of rain last Wednesday. Then Friday we had a very strong line of storms. 80mph winds and a saturated soil makes lots of stuff come down.
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    Today....

    We had a significant storm here last Friday. We are still pulling trees off houses. This is the one we dealt with yesterday.
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    Loaded my tractor and sk650 on my 14k trailer for the first time. Had a job spreading a bunch of wood chips.
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    Avant A37500 Screw cone log splitter

    We use the eterra splitting cone on our mini ex. Its holding up so far. We broke the hex out of the atom splitter. The eterra one works better as the taper is straight. The atom splitter would get hung or stop pulling in at the bell out part. We have broken down stuff up to 6 ft in diameter with...
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    New Business Hauling Setup/ Chip v. Chipless

    That's kinda disapointing. My old 7.3 6 speed f550 averages 10 to 12 mpg towing a 12 in diesel bandit chipper or our 8k mini ex on a 14k trailer. Doesnt really entice me to buy a new truck. I have been looking at the f600s as a slight upgrade but still staying under cdl for our small truck.
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    GRCS Storage

    How did you kill a grcs?
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    New Business Hauling Setup/ Chip v. Chipless

    Going to be pretty hard to take a dump trailer, chipper, and mini skid with a 1 ton sized truck. Definitely going to have to go back to pickup equipment after dumping the trailer. F550 sized trucks dont take anything more to drive vs a 350 and are basically the same physical size depending on...
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    New Business Hauling Setup/ Chip v. Chipless

    Roll back? Switch and go? Chipper and mini go on the truck. Dump trailer behind?
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    New Business Hauling Setup/ Chip v. Chipless

    We have a bandit 990xp and a single axle grapple truck. They each can have their place in an operation. We primarily use the chipper. We get rid of a lot of chips with chip drop and other sites to accept chips. No one here takes brush other than the dump. It takes quite a while to go through the...

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