Sunday funday
Coffee time
I have a good friend who has a dump body on back for his kboom truck cause that works for them. He’s crane is mounted behind cab of truck. This is how my first crane was set up , but I didn’t like dumping with it because then it wasn’t doing crane work busy unloading and it wasn’t large enough to accommodate most full sized jobs we did in the crane or truck body ..
I require lots of tool and parts storage space . Power inverter a must to charge saw head batteries and other power tools. That’s where you have to know your business and style and say this is or isn’t good for us. I had to get it to find out .. my friends rig is built by the best around Westminster hydraulics good and stable for size of truck and crane mounted he gets 360 degrees of full chart bringing me to that point.
Beware you don’t get into a rig that doesn’t certify the crane for 360 chart it will limit you to many times throughout truck’s existence for how and where you can work there’s already going to be many factors and times over course of use your already going to be limited environmentally in some way. I need reach more than capacity , but would love more of both and everyone runs out of both in certain jobsites no matter what! What I found was for my area a super compact rig gets me into places a larger crane rig will not go based on weight and size limitations. I can get that compact rig closer to the work sometimes, so reach and capacity aren’t as big an issue too often for me ..If you are grapplesawing a tree , capacity shouldn’t really concern you too often. It’s when your off the saw and into slings, working under 45 degrees as your lower on the tree s smaller crane your taking an extra pick or two vs. the larger crane’s capacity. Don’t have a place to put that large pick or does it require a cut again before it fits it the truck? More often than not I have capacity to cut more than I have space to land the piece I took beyond wood. More later !
