more fun with knucklebooms

[Mark Chisholm]

Nice work Mike! I used a truck like yours for the first time a week ago for a crane workshop I did in Norway. It was an 80 ton/meter and the operator did a real nice job. I was impressed with how it worked ot for me.

 

[Gord]

Mike and Tod (and any others) what guidelines would you give for estimating weights of the brushy picks especially?

Oh, and thanks a lot for the pics mike, it's great to see this kind of work!

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Mike. Do you put red or orange flags on the back end of the logs sticking out the rear?

The photos of that machine in action never gets old. Keep 'em commin'! Shoot, if see that thing enough, I'll want to get one.

 

[brushbandit]

I agree. With the truck check points in my area you could never get away with loading a truck like that. They would take a truck loaded like that out of service till it was loaded properly.

 

[MikePoor]

Yeah Jamin, I nail red flags to the ends of the logs any time they stick out 3 feet or more to make it legal. Todd the payload is 16000 lbs so i'm pushing it there. Hey Gord, it all depends on branch &leaf density, species, etc. but on lightly foliaged stems multiply the log weight by 2 or 3. If i have a green ash with dense & sprawling branches (for example) that rule won't work! Hey Mark Chisholm, Tell me more about that K- boom you worked with in Norway! Did it have a fly-jib?,? Reach? Etc.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

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Hey Mark Chisholm, Tell me more about that K- boom you worked with in Norway! Did it have a fly-jib?,? Reach? Etc.

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Sure did. The fly jib worked real well. The vertical reach was 38 meters. I don't remember the horizontal, but it was an 80 t/m. I am waiting to get some photos sent from Norway and then I can post them.

 

[Toparboring]

Great pic of the truck in action keepem coming when I grow up maybe the wife will ley me get one.
Nate

 

[MikePoor]

Hey Jamin, here's a load with the red flags!

 

[MikePoor]

You've gotta' love it when they put up a bldg. then decide tthey should've rmvd several trees!

 

[rangerdanger]

Very nice. Really liking the new chipper truck. At least it seems new?? Am I right??

 

[MikePoor]

Next pick.

 

[MikePoor]

Untying the tagline! The ironworkers were upset the trees didn't come down first, they had to work around them to set the steel. They said it took several extra hours!

 

[MikePoor]

Hey Rangerdanger I bought it used back in august. I still like the old Frieghtliner just as well!

 

[MikePoor]

Tulip trunk.

 

[Rocks_and_Trees]

wow, what do ya do with that wood?

 

[Mangoes]

Did you keep the Freightlliner Mike?

 

[Cameron]

Tulip poplar, they're always so biggggggggggggg!

 

[Cameron]

Flush cut

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Is that a MS660 for the final cut?

 

[Cameron]

That it is with a 32" bar.