Crane down

Daniel said:
I was thinking the same thing.. Wide open over the lawn and street, at least strip the side over the lawn and street... bomb it all then pull the crane in closer... I never worked with a 17 ton crane, and think the bucket truck or a good climber is just about as quick, as long as you can handle the brush on the ground quickly...

With the skid steer, I recently did a similar beech, open yard one side and busy street with primaries on the other. Stripped out the open side over the lawn, little rigging limbs over neighbor's drive and service lines,, blew out a 20' top into the open lawn, and then pulled everything from the back side (limbs out over the wires) over with the wood... Skid steer provides 100% guarantee there is enough power to take the pieces over against their lean. Got 12 seconds? check it out...
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That's well and good but some times people want 0 damage. Don't get me wrong, we operate mostly just as you. If it's grass and its big wood, we often accept a little yard damage to keep costs down.
Cranes cannot always be replaced by a bucket or a good climber.
 
I know. However 17 tons isn't much of a crane. With a 75' bucket it wouldn't be hard to lower every branch and enough wood to drop the stick onto enough padding as to do no damage. Of course the lawn would have to take some wear and tear moving the material, so on a big tree you're right.

And that didn't look like a zero damage situation. I know a couple companies that use cranes cause they don't rig well. Seems more likely the case here
 
Silly to say you can out do a 17 ton (usually 77') crane with rigging and a 70' bucket like you have. The crane puts the pick where you want it. Can't do that with rigging, it goes where the crotch is.
 
I took down a 100'+ dead tulip today, lowered everything except a couple small limbs and bombed 30' of top onto some mats covered with logs.. Total air time in the 75' bucket around 50-55 minutes.. dropped the 75' stick and had logs stacked by the street, and the mess cleaned up in under 2 additional hours.... 4 men and a skid steer loader.. less than 12 man hours total... I was taking big pieces and tying and cutting as soon as the rope came back... would have been hard to match that speed with a 17 ton crane, though as you point out the clean up would have been much faster. The lawn made out pretty well considering, though had some wear and tear. With the skid steer there was no processing on the ground between pieces... We just lowered one right over the other.....

Took a lot of stills and video.. kept a video camera on tripod running in real time for the rigging work... the splash turned out real pretty..
 
While all the conjecture is nice it doesn't help in the analysis of this incident and how, given the choice of tools this could've worked out without incident.

With the limitations of that crane, move it in closer after sheeting the lawn and they'd be well within the capacity of that crane. The git'r dun syndrome strikes again.
 
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