Crane truck or bucket truck

One big advantage of a crane over a bucket truck is now you can go into the crane business when you are not doing tree work. I got my first little 10 ton boom truck for my renewable energy and construction businesses, the next thing I knew I was a crane guy (3 trucks later. Its beats bending nails and setting wind turbines, though I still do a little of both the crane biz is the money maker, and oh yeah way easy!
 
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Any who... Why can't we use a crane for trimming? We would be able to have a killer T.I.P.
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trimmed back some silver maples from a neighbor's property this week. actaully a forest of silver maples. (i didn't take any pictures, now i wish i did. customer was taking a lot though, i didn't ask him for any.)

pulled the k-boom in on plastic mats, tied into the end of the boom and went for a ride. would have been a very tiring job if i had to ascend and/or swing over to that many trees.

trimmed one, moved the boom, trimmed back another, moved the boom, trimmed back another.

thought i was going to have to resort to climbing after that, then saw that if i retracted all the way back to the truck, and got on the other side of another maple with the boom, i had a window of space though the forest of silver maple trunks to get to most of the others.

telescoped through that little window and did two or three more trees, all from the same truck location. my basket would have never made it through those tight places. good thing i'm the opporator too because you needed to be right there to guide the boom through it.

most buckets can't telescope.

with telescoping, you can shoot it right through a hole. not like a bucket truck that has to use it's fixed lengths and use it's elbows for height and length adjustments.

i think i only tied into the two last trees, but never had to come down, i was able to swing over and tie in.

i haven't used my expensive basket in over a year now. much more manuverable on a rope and much smaller too.
 
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I've used mine for pruning. We used the crane to remove a wateroak in the backyard. About 50 feet from the wateroak was a liveoak to be pruned. I rode the ball above the tree and started from the top and worked my way down.
 
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Any who... Why can't we use a crane for trimming? We would be able to have a killer T.I.P.
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95% of the work we do are removals,but the crane goes to the pruning jobs to.It most definitly is a killer t.i.p.If your gonna make the payment why not use it?



















And that was my 2700th post!
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i used a crane for pruning once at arbor art in nashvegas. it was the bomb. it turned a 2.5 hour hackberry 70' with multiple leaders and a lot of dead tips and no central tip into a 45 min no sweat prune out. it was sweet. go down a leader tie in, lower the ball to you get lifted to the top of the next leader. it was sweet. i'm very jealous of you guys that can do that all the time.
 
yea a crane is great

if a tree has a bunch of tip death or just hazard wood above any decent T.I.P. it seams safer to tie into the crane for a T.I.P. that is the beez kneez. then swing over to the next tree and keep on rockin in the free world.

if we can ride in a man basket on the boom what is wrong with being suspended by rope underneath? am I wrong fellas?

add a remote to that and you dont have a body on the other end of the stick no delayed reaction to make happen what you need sounds safer. i need a remote. maybe for christmas.
 
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