Hooklift tips wanted.

Gorman said:
You won’t be too heavy. My truck is a 33k peterbilt with a 16’ can
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How do you like the setup? Was it worth spending the extra $$$ for the hooklift? Im running two f550s in front of a 19xpc, the constant dumping gets old. Im hoping this truck will be all I need and I can get rid of the Fords.
 
What you’re told and what they weigh in at are two different things.
The hooklift is great for us because I can safely load the can when it’s on the ground with my ditch witch or gehl and then hoist it on the truck.
If we need to, I swap out the wood can for the chip body but I have another truck for chilling 95 percent of the time.
 
A 26 ton hoist on a single axle truck is comical.

I have a 24klb rated hoist on an International 4700. Single drive axle plus a tag axle giving me 49klb of axle capacity. Truck is 18klb alone, 23klb with the container.

I don’t chip, but for me the truck would absolutely suck without the tag axle. I built the truck in early 2018.


The heaviest load I know I’ve picked up was 26.5klb of rock... zero problems with the hoist getting it on or dumping. Here’s goofing off this week with the 13klb excavator in the box and the tag axle raised.

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Sounds like a good setup. I've been interested in something like that for a while as we don't have a full sized skid steer to load wood. I'm still running our old SK650. We also have an 8k mini ex. I just bought a mack RD688S tandem axle roll off truck. It's a 64,000 gvwr truck. We haul a lot of wood with our 33,000 single axle grapple truck now. We try not to overload it so we end up making two trips per job a lot of the time. Our dump spots are 15 to 25 miles away from most of our jobs so it takes quite a while to go dump and come back.

I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do for beds. The truck didn't come with any at all. I plan to get a 20 yard can for wood so I can load over the side of the can with our mini. I also want to be able to chip into the truck as sometimes we do jobs where all we are doing is chipping. We have filled up 7 regular sized chip boxes in a day before. I was thinking about getting a 30 yard (22×8×5.5) can and adding a roof to it for a chip box. I could get a 40 yard (8 high) but didn't figure out chipper would be able to fill it up completely. I'd like to be able to have the roof open up so we could crane logs into it if needed.

I've also thought about buying or building a flat bed. We turn a good bit of wood into lumber so a flat bed is really nice for picking it up from the mill. I also recently bought a cat 931 track loader and have no way to haul it. It weighs 18k.
 
Ringo said:
I seen this thread and wanted to ask you guys some questions. I’m in the process of specifying a new Freightliner 33gvw hooklift with a 16’ chip body from Timberland Truck, the lift will be a 26k capacity. First anyone done business with them? Not much online about them. The truck I’m specifying is a single axle and I’m worried it will be too top heavy, thoughts? I’ve been rolling with a f550 and a19xpc for a year, I need a bigger truck that versatile for wood and loading my mini.
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If I had seen this thread earlier I would have responded to you. Jack at Timberland is excellent to deal with. He builds quality bodies and takes the time to make sure he understands exactly what you want. He is very knowledgeable with hook lift builds. I had him design and install a chip body with a cross box and mat rack for a tandem Freightliner for me and it came out exactly as I wanted it. I wouldn't hesitate to use him.
 
Treeweasel said:
If I had seen this thread earlier I would have responded to you. Jack at Timberland is excellent to deal with. He builds quality bodies and takes the time to make sure he understands exactly what you want. He is very knowledgeable with hook lift builds. I had him design and install a chip body with a cross box and mat rack for a tandem Freightliner for me and it came out exactly as I wanted it. I wouldn't hesitate to use him.
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Thanks Treeweasel! Yeah I'm waiting for my new truck to get finish from the dealer then its off to Jack"s for the build. It won't be finished until March or April. I keep going over the design and wondering if I should go a little shorter on the chip box length and stick a mat rack behind the cab. Its a 16' box now so it have to be a 14' for the mat rack to fit, really not that much difference in chip capacity.
 
Ringo said:
Thanks Treeweasel! Yeah I'm waiting for my new truck to get finish from the dealer then its off to Jack"s for the build. It won't be finished until March or April. I keep going over the design and wondering if I should go a little shorter on the chip box length and stick a mat rack behind the cab. Its a 16' box now so it have to be a 14' for the mat rack to fit, really not that much difference in chip capacity.
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You’ll be good at 16. Mats can be brought with another truck or put in the bin. Sacrificing two feet for mats would be, eh, kinda a bad idea imo.
 
Ringo said:
How do you like the setup? Was it worth spending the extra $$$ for the hooklift? Im running two f550s in front of a 19xpc, the constant dumping gets old. Im hoping this truck will be all I need and I can get rid of the Fords.
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Hooklifts are the real deal. I dunno why more companies don't have them. Totally worth the extra $, they are so versatile
 
I agree Eastsidetimber. I have a 5500 with a hook lift, so I'm on the low end of capacity for hooklifts. But it is still so versatile and helpful to me and my work. I forget exactly how much more it cost for a hook lift over just a dump hoist....maybe $15K

I had two bins made on the strong side to withstand abuse from logs. And they were only about $4K each. Lighter/less steel would cost less.
 
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