Grove GMK3050

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The jib, counterweights, pads, two new tires, and a crate of spare parts showed up this afternoon at the shop. Crane is supposed to be here tomorrow. I'm like a kid at Christmas. I dont know if I'll be able to sleep tonight!

 

[oceans]

The jib, counterweights, pads, two new tires, and a crate of spare parts showed up this afternoon at the shop. Crane is supposed to be here tomorrow. I'm like a kid at Christmas. I dont know if I'll be able to sleep tonight!

Just close your eyes…breathe…and then imagine huge heavy things arching through the sky!

 

[Sfoppema]

Where are the action shots at??

 

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I finally calmed down enough that I can sleep through the night.

Here's how it showed up to our lot.


Soon as we got it unloaded, my guys jumped in it to check it out.

 

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Our first job with it was taking down a 58 dbh oak tree.

 

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The tilt cab is a really nice feature. Takes a lot of the neck strain away especially on tall stuff close up.

The height adjustable suspension is great. Helps setup on slopes like this easily. We also were able to drive in through the ditch coming off the road.

 

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Shes a bit wide in the rear end.

 

[Reach]

The tilt cab is a really nice feature. Takes a lot of the neck strain away especially on tall stuff close up.
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Interesting, the one crane we work with that has it doesn’t like it, he says it changes his perspective too much. I’ve never run one, so I can’t speak to it myself. Seems handy to save the neck though, for sure.

 

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Interesting, the one crane we work with that has it doesn’t like it, he says it changes his perspective too much. I’ve never run one, so I can’t speak to it myself. Seems handy to save the neck though, for sure.

It does take some getting used to. The boom goes almost straight up. 125 ft and 12 ft working radius.

 

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[Reach]

It does take some getting used to. The boom goes almost straight up. 125 ft and 12 ft working radius.

Wow, that is impressive!

 

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Pick is a bit bigger looking close up.

 

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Another top.

 

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Its second job was an emergency removal of an oak with bad root rot problems before it fell on a house.

 

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Log from the above tree.

 

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We have an upcoming job that we have to pick apart some 28 in dbh pines 75 ft away. We have a slight problem with a proximity sensor on the counterweight loading setup. We got it figured out which one was bad and managed to load the rest of our counterweights. It has 6.6 t of fixed counterweight but will load another 5 t of removable weight. Iirc it has 4k lbs at 90 ft radius with 125 ft of stick with a full load.

 

[Treeline]

Awesome set up. 12’ radius with 125’ of boom is impressive, our 40 ton doesn’t like anything closer than 25’ with 105’ of boom. Most people always think about how far they can reach but occasionally there are jobs where it’s tricky to get far enough away from the tree. Especially on big live oaks where your first pick might be at 20’ and your last brush pick at 90’

 

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Awesome set up. 12’ radius with 125’ of boom is impressive, our 40 ton doesn’t like anything closer than 25’ with 105’ of boom. Most people always think about how far they can reach but occasionally there are jobs where it’s tricky to get far enough away from the tree. Especially on big live oaks where your first pick might be at 20’ and your last brush pick at 90’

Our 35 ton Grove is that way too. 25 ft with 104 ft of boom.

 

[cory]

Nice pics, keep them coming.

I thought those had 140 or 150' booms

 

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Nice pics, keep them comi
I thought those had 140 or 150' booms

Gmk3050s have a 125 ft boom. The gmk3055 and 3060s have 142 ft IIRC. The 142 has a pinning system that can be problematic and very expensive to repair. I was told by several folks including a good drove tech to stay away from them. We still have a 2 piece jib if we need higher than 125 ft. The 3050 has a fully live boom.