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    Grapple truck questions

    It never fails, I always forget to grab that one thing out of the other truck that would make the job easier.
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    Buying my first Crane today

    Congratulations! Be very careful at first until you get a good handle on how heavy picks are. You are only supposed to use 60 percent of your net to allow for oops moments where the pick is heavier than you though or calculated.
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    Today....

    Yeah it definitely doesnt make it easy having the overhead of comp vs most of the others that don't. Certainly not a level playing field. Theres basically no enforcement here of even having general liability. We have a bunch of folks stacking brush on the curb. On thing that really helps us is...
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    Today....

    Dan and I are both in Alabama. Work comp is not required here until 5 or more employees are employed at a business. We are one of 3 in a city with 112 tree services listed. I bet theres less than two dozen in our whole state with comp. We don't legally have to have it but we have comp for doing...
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    Frustrating things people do on a job......

    People wandering around with vape pens constantly having to set them down somewhere before doing any task they are asked to do.
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    Credit Cards/PayPal payments.

    We charge the 3 percent surcharge to take cards. No reason to build it in on all our bids when 98 percent give us a check.
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    Tub grinder

    I definitely haven't convinced myself. Tub or horizontal grinders are expensive. Seem to be possibly in need of constant maintenance or repair. Need some support equipment we dont have like a bigger excavator, 40 yard cans, a coloring setup, road tractor, etc. I also dont know a whole lot...
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    Tub grinder

    I didn't mention, we have a screw splitter for our mini ex already. It works well for breaking down large stuff. Even surprising how well it goes thru stumps like in the second pic. Probably help before feeding into a tub or horizontal. We can always buy a bigger one later to go on a larger...
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    Tub grinder

    This is a large part of my hesitation. More the maintenance than fire.
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    Tub grinder

    I should have mentioned, theres a mulch shortage in our area. Commercial landscapers we already do tree work for are having problems getting larger quantity orders filled. They are having to truck it in from 5 to 8 hours away. We also have a great long relationship with a large nursery that...
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    Tub grinder

    I guess I should have included a bit more about our operation. We chip just about everything that will fit thru a bandit 990xp. We use chip drop and have other chip dump sites. We specialize in doing lots of crane work. We have several cranes of our own. We can generate a lot of debris. We also...
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    Tub grinder

    Anyone here run a tub grinder or horizontal grinder? We have considered doing something else due to the volume of wood we produce. We used to be allowed to burn here as long as conditions are right. The county we are in is limiting that down now or restricting it completely by changing the...
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    Current market for firewood?

    We had been selling for $250 for a full cord delivered and dumped but havent gone up in 5 or so years. It's time to go up I think. We have sold out completely with more requests coming in at $250 per cord. We run out of time to process.
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    Anyone working Hurricane Ian?

    Be safe down there.
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    Tree guys who do non tree crane work.

    I too have looked at this. We get several calls a month from folks wanting other crane work. So far we have only stuck to trees. We are planning to get nccco certs towards the end of this year. I'm not sure I want to venture into other crane work just because we stay so busy already. On the...
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    Grove GMK3050

    Gmk3050s have a 125 ft boom. The gmk3055 and 3060s have 142 ft IIRC. The 142 has a pinning system that can be problematic and very expensive to repair. I was told by several folks including a good drove tech to stay away from them. We still have a 2 piece jib if we need higher than 125 ft. The...
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    Grove GMK3050

    Our 35 ton Grove is that way too. 25 ft with 104 ft of boom.
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    Grove GMK3050

    We have an upcoming job that we have to pick apart some 28 in dbh pines 75 ft away. We have a slight problem with a proximity sensor on the counterweight loading setup. We got it figured out which one was bad and managed to load the rest of our counterweights. It has 6.6 t of fixed counterweight...
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    Grove GMK3050

    Log from the above tree.
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    Grove GMK3050

    Its second job was an emergency removal of an oak with bad root rot problems before it fell on a house.

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