The Hoeflon C10

oceans said:
You’re singing my somg to the T! I ised to run an Alaskan to slab material out of back yards, but now it’s the Spider Crane for the win. Once the C10 came, I knew I had to convert my Peterbilt 330 from carrying the Spider Lift to a log truck. Then the modded WoodMizer LT40 came, set to widen out to a full 57” throat. Then a 5 ton class mini excavator to bolster the 2.5 ton we already had. One day I’ll make an equipment thread. I truly think they have to be complementary to each other as possible and I’m finally dialing that in with all smaller, under CDL kit.
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Yes it is hard to see those nice logs go to waste, but the equipment side of the milling can be quite a money pit. Although it feels good to be utilizing the wood, it can be awhile before it is profitable. My experience at least. We have set up another completely separate sawmill business that runs independent of the tree service, but about 75% of the stock is from the tree service. We are focusing on custom milling and live edge slabs. Its been a huge learning curve!
 
OasisTree said:
Yes it is hard to see those nice logs go to waste, but the equipment side of the milling can be quite a money pit. Although it feels good to be utilizing the wood, it can be awhile before it is profitable. My experience at least. We have set up another completely separate sawmill business that runs independent of the tree service, but about 75% of the stock is from the tree service. We are focusing on custom milling and live edge slabs. Its been a huge learning curve!
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Kinda where I’m at. A local mill closed down and sold everything off, so I perhaps I can take a small piece of that pie. Another local bandmill guy is retiring, so there may be a bit more there. Even if I didn’t sell lumber, my mill would be worth more than its own weight for all the building material I am making for myself. Between house and shop projects, it’s a valuable tool.
 
I’m bumping this for anyone that saw the machine at St. Louis Expo and wanted to know more about it on their own time and place. Happy to know there is now a good handful of C10 owners throughout the States using it for tree care. We’ll see what that number looks like in another year or two.
 
Just want to say that I enjoyed your showing at the expo in st. Louis. I talked to you for about an hour showing me the c10. Did you look at any other mini cranes before making your choice?. I am serious about buying one for our business, wondering if the c10 is the Cadillac of mini cranes?
 
Isaw4u said:
Just want to say that I enjoyed your showing at the expo in st. Louis. I talked to you for about an hour showing me the c10. Did you look at any other mini cranes before making your choice?. I am serious about buying one for our business, wondering if the c10 is the Cadillac of mini cranes?
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Thanks for the kind words. Yes, I did look at other models, but the C10 is really in a class alll its own when you look closely at the specs. Nothing else that weighs as little has as much capability. The next closest offering from Jekko is much more expensive and weighs thousands more. The secret sauce has much to do with the adjustable counterweight design. Absolutely genius.

Before making my decision to buy it, I thought about it for almost two years. I studied the chart very, very closely. I would walk around estimates and jobs with a rangefinder to determine what kind of picks would be in reach and capacity. Having a bit of a niche in my area for lesser accessible back yard type of work, and thinking of ways to further bolster the spider lift, the C10 became an obvious choice.

I think the C10 is super well engineered and has been a rock solid performer for me. I can move it under CDL with a pickup truck and trailer, or on the hooklift set up which you may have seen in the photo library I had set up on the iPad. Pound for pound, I don’t see a better option at this point in time.

The dealership has also been great in many respects. We have also bought a spider lift from them as well with the same great support when you may need it.
 
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chiselbit said:
Hey @oceans , in this photo it appears you have “line up” “line down” capabilities? Can you lower a pick like a stick crane?
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Yessir. Use it like a K-Boom or a Stick Crane. You can see the cable running through the sheaves just above the chains on the main boom. Great for tight LZs to reduce ext/retract cycles. Takes about 3 minutes to deploy and thread along the boom, and another 3 to stow all the cable back onto the winch drum, locking it tight with the swaged cable end on a peg and snugged up.

In that photo, you can also obviously see that it can be threaded through the fly-jib. It can be set up with just the main alone while the job is stowed aside the main. All boom sections can be adjusted in length and angle while the cable is in use.

The cable can be run in single part through the fly, but also single, double or quadruple part off the main. The pill has an adjustable plate width, allowing the addition of one or two sheaves between the plates, allowing the same pill to be used in any number of line-part configs.
 
Brando CalPankian BCMA said:
Are there any licencing requirements to run this style of crane? I'm in love. Way more versatile than other options I've looked in to. It's a lot more compact than a Spyder crane. Pm'd you @oceans .
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Check your state requirements. I hold a HE1B in Massachusetts, so I can work any type of hoisting there. I am grandfathered in for tree work only in Rhode Island, so I will be testing soon for the RI license That would allow me to work outside of tree care in RI.
 
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