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It all depends on your service are and trees you have. I have a Thomas 25gt mini skid and a 66hp Mustang trac loader, same as the Takeuchi's. The mini comes along on 90% of my jobs and the full sized loader comes out 5% of the time.
 
My loader makes a mini look like a toy... 5' wide works in my area... not always of course but almost always.. Lifting 1500 lbs vs the mini what 900??? huge difference.. (actually the machine is rated to lift 1900 lbs. but the bucket weighs 4-500, so I genrally guess the machine can lift and carry around 1500 lbs.... and ground speed is much faster than the minis too
 
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Daniel said:
My loader makes a mini look like a toy... 5' wide works in my area... not always of course but almost always.. Lifting 1500 lbs vs the mini what 900??? huge difference..
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Plus double the lifting height is huge! One of the differences to me is the amount of lawn damage. Most of my jobs I can get the skid loader in. Strait shots are ok but even the slightest of turns tears up lawns bad. The time I save by not matting in makes up for the extra drags I have to make. But the biggest difference is I can put the mini on the trailer with quite a few logs but the skid loader takes up the whole trailer. Every market is different and I know you get good use out of your skid loader but it might not be the game changer for others that it is for you. I love having mine but could manage without it if I had to. If I was working with trees as big as the ones @August Hunicke is working in most of his videos I'd definitely have a full size skid loader, but maybe he has an alternative way of moving and removing big wood.
 
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Ya, I've batted it around for a long time now. Rarely have room for the wider than gate ones actually.
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Hey August, Dan Carsten here. I met you at the arborfest. I bought one of the branch manager edition Giants and I'm loving it. I moved that tree you did the rigging demonstration in after the show and it was just fine. The instructors ended up taking it down and bucking it into approx. 16"(inch) lengths and I carried them all out of that area. It's a game changer for sure.
 
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Hey August, Dan Carsten here. I met you at the arborfest. I bought one of the branch manager edition Giants and I'm loving it. I moved that tree you did the rigging demonstration in after the show and it was just fine. The instructors ended up taking it down and bucking it into approx. 16"(inch) lengths and I carried them all out of that area. It's a game changer for sure.
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Yeah we felled it and bucked it up. They told me it had to be cut into 16's. Kind of sprung it on us actually… : /
Anyway can you send me a Picture of what you bought?
 
chiselbit said:
Hey August, Dan Carsten here. I met you at the arborfest. I bought one of the branch manager edition Giants and I'm loving it. I moved that tree you did the rigging demonstration in after the show and it was just fine. The instructors ended up taking it down and bucking it into approx. 16"(inch) lengths and I carried them all out of that area. It's a game changer for sure.
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Which one?


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That was a good length down by the butt. Water was pouring out of them. Machine was able to pick up the weight just fine but we had to cut some notches on the large diameter rounds to give the grapples something to bite on. We didn't cut the limbs/spars. Dragged them to the chip area in 30' lengths or whatever they were.
 
Hey @August Hunicke, if you want to come down and check out this loader, catch a flight into Sacramento. I'll come down and pick you up at the airport and bring you back to my house. You can move some logs around the yard, chase the neighbors cat, whatever. See if you like it. You're welcome to crash on my couch or check into the local motel. I'll even give you a ride back to the airport, being the expansive, friendly guy that I am.
 
The vermeer's are nice machines. As far as the grapples go, the ability to grab vertical logs is nice, but (imo) the branch manager is a better choice. ..at least for us it is. I REALLY like having a bollard on it, quick rigging and speed-line setting, not to mention the ability to move your anchor point on a speed-line or slack it immediately is awesome. I also found it very difficult if not impossible to feed the chipper with the vermeer grapple. Just a bit of insight. ..hope this helps. -Steve
 
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