Best way to move big wood?

[islandarb]

Are you serious, swearing Macintosh....that is very very bad....BTW I don't know about the best way but I lift wood the old way using three or four strong people.....works quite well if they are well fed and paid....lol

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Moving wood is an art form. We do it the old fashioned way only when necessary (and not without complaints). We use the boxer 320, 322, and 532. They work great! Would not work with out them. We have four with TNT grapples that work every day. We have Kubotas and we have a Terex pt80 with a Ryans grapple. And then the log trucks. Oh, and one log dolly.

 

[TreeLogic]

You can swear on the buzz now chewy, it's a whole new world now....


Fu@# ....


Sorry

Funny, but uncalled for.

 

[BRT]

Moving wood is an art form. We do it the old fashioned way only when necessary (and not without complaints). We use the boxer 320, 322, and 532. They work great! Would not work with out them. We have four with TNT grapples that work every day. We have Kubotas and we have a Terex pt80 with a Ryans grapple. And then the log trucks. Oh, and one log dolly.

Mark,
I've been looking at Kubotas--which ones do you guys have, and what are some of the pros/cons?
Thanks in advance.

 

[macswan]

Funny, but uncalled for.

Totally

 

[marlinspiker]

its alright to curse. don't let the naysayers keep you down with quips about IQ and what not. Gosh Darnit!

 

[marlinspiker]

We have a ditch witch 755 Mini skid with the BMG grapel and it blows the competition away.

 

[Crimsonking]

Any tips on uploading photos from mobile? It says it's too large to post

 

[Oroboros]

Any tips on uploading photos from mobile? It says it's too large to post

Go to http://www.picresize.com and resize it.

 

[TreeLogic]

Or try the free app Reduce Photo Size

 

[frashdog]

Let some one else do it for you for free...or even compensate you for it!

My heavy truck shop guy heats his house and shop with out door boiler wood. Burns anything! Takes Any size!I got him to buy a kboom for wrecker salvage work off one of his 24' roll down flat beds with 20,000 winch. He can pick 8k in tight and 800lbs 40'.

We can bid half what some bid on large removals due to we don't have to deal with that trunk on a 90' cotton wood.

 

[tnttree]

Wait a second, they make skid steers with articulating wheels?! Where the H.E.Double Hockey Sticks have I been? I gotta get out more.

The A300 is not an articulating machine it is an all wheel steer machine, there is a big difference,
weight (i think) 10~11000lbs, 60 to $70K pricetag, and terrible visibility compared to the Gehl 540
which weighs ~ 7400lbs with a $42K ~50K price tag

 

[chewbacca]

Right.....I get it. I misspoke.

 

[Jeff_Cochran]

I have been renting a hell of a large Volvo articulated loader (10klbs) for about $500 a day. I don't need or want it everyday. But go do three or four removals and clean up everything but the logs, then load up the rental on the trailer on the back of the log truck and away we go. If I can sell the wood for anything it is usually a wash on the overhead. It is amazingly soft on lawns and makes a t300 look stupid.

 

[Lumberjack]

The A300 is not an articulating machine it is an all wheel steer machine, there is a big difference,
weight (i think) 10~11000lbs, 60 to $70K pricetag, and terrible visibility compared to the Gehl 540
which weighs ~ 7400lbs with a $42K ~50K price tagView attachment 27809

And that's just a 340!


Great machines!

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Mark,
I've been looking at Kubotas--which ones do you guys have, and what are some of the pros/cons?
Thanks in advance.

We have two smaller ones. Both were purchased before we owned a mini. They work way better than doing thinks by hand, but less efficient than a good mini with a grapple. Not horrible on a lawn but they do make small ruts. The pros are that they work for a long time with few problems. They just aren't made for what we do.

 

[frashdog]

Not much beats a mini and a grapple for everyday jobs. Especially since it can fit in the bed of our one ton's. If we can get the dump trailer upto the logs, most 12' wood upto 20+" diameter can get loaded. When the same big log would have to be cut into 3 pieces for the mini to not skid the wood across the lawn.

 

[Dutch295]

I 100% agree on the "art form" thing. I use a large version of the arbor trolley (with a boxer) and the nice thing the tires serve as spares for my chipper. I've managed to get a 30" pine 17' 6" but it's like watching a monkey have his way with a football. I need to modify it to where I straddle the log instead of putting the log on top. We get $200 per mbf in this area for pine and unfortunately I'm sitting here waiting on my competition to call me so he can get about $400 worth of logs ... arrrrgh. But hey, I get to watch my kids swim in a meet that I otherwise wouldn't have been able to get to. Short of buying a grapple truck there's got to be a better way to get them loaded just a little faster.

 

[Lumberjack]

Sounds like you need a log arch.

 

[BRT]

Not much beats a mini and a grapple for everyday jobs. Especially since it can fit in the bed of our one ton's. If we can get the dump trailer upto the logs, most 12' wood upto 20+" diameter can get loaded. When the same big log would have to be cut into 3 pieces for the mini to not skid the wood across the lawn.

Sorry--just wanted to be sure I understand: you use a mini to load 12', 20"+ logs? I guess I need to see one of these load a piece that big into a trailer.

My next question is--can you get more than one into the trailer in this manner, or do you have to make one trip per log? I suppose efficiency is my concern with that setup.