Best way to move big wood?

treevet · Sep 17, 2014

dislike your comment as well. life is tough around here son. town infested with heroin....section 8 and crime epidemic. Police just fill out reports. You have to fend for yourself.

chewbacca · Sep 17, 2014

No I get it. I dislike that you had a scare like that involving a family member. Glad you identified your target first.

chewbacca · Sep 17, 2014

I'm from Cincinnati by the way. Emphasis on the word "from".

treevet · Sep 17, 2014

Sorry, I misunderstood. That was a real hard night for me.

Tr33Climb3r · Sep 19, 2014

This is my thought on the BMG, people that like it can multitask
People that look at it and panic/ don't like it are of non multitasking.

I really think it is a personality thing and the way your brain works.

Call me crazy. Just my opinion

treevet · Sep 19, 2014

multi task mean get off the machine alot (to arrange logs) instead of uni task and staying on it and just grabbing em?

Lumberjack · Sep 19, 2014

To me it's easier to pick a specific log from a jumble with a BMG than with a bucket grapple.

We use a root grapple on our track loader for clearing land and separating wood from dirt for burning. For doing tree work, a dangle grapple is much better.

treevet · Sep 19, 2014

I don't have a bucket grapple,,.,,but don't agree with you anyway. Try and get a BMG inbetween 2 logs that aren't even touching. You cannot do ANYTHING to seperate them with a bmg to get the spinning half of the grapple to go down and hook up,,,cept climb off the machine and move wood. I have had em both.

Gorman · Sep 19, 2014

Gonna be honest. I'm feeling like trading in my asv for a gehl 540 after watching that sweet sweet action. I didn't know that an under class a machine could lift like that and not leave lawn marks.

treesandsurf · Oct 4, 2014

We love ours....

Lumberjack · Oct 4, 2014

And your dealer rep!

Gorman · Oct 4, 2014

I gotta stop perving out on this gehl porn. Seems like such a cool machine but my wife has now asserted that "we" need a budget. Ugh. "We" aren't buying dresses and brickerbrack on etsy all the time.

FJR · Oct 5, 2014

I couldn't ask for a better dealer rep than Carl. I hope to be doing business with him for a long long time.

We have had the 540 for over a year now and I think we have used the mini less than six times in that span. In a six day work week the 540 is coming with 4-5 days a week. The bmg clam shells are invaluable for stump chip clean up.

treevet · Oct 5, 2014

any vid on clam shell chip clean up?

treevet · Oct 5, 2014

treesandsurf said:
machine could lift like that and not leave lawn marks.

the lawns in those picts...fine, but no way you could take that big dog on the Country Club fairway like lawns we have around here. My mini skid you can, but you have to put down plywood to turn on.

Gorman · Oct 5, 2014

treevet said:
any vid on clam shell chip clean up?

There's one on youtube with the 540. Rutherford contractors I think.

Lumberjack · Oct 5, 2014

Yeah there's a couple on Rutherford Contracting's channel.

www.youtube.com/RutherfordConLLC

PS, thats my channel.

I can link them in a bit, tough to embed from a phone.