What the Bleep do we know about crane work?

Good eye, X. I agree about the response factor in many regards. It can be tough when the threads get long...
 
I just read this thread and didn't get the droid reference until X's post....
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This makes me think of a line from an 'Airplane' movie, years ago...I NEVER got it until recently, when my brother quoted it at work. Ted Striker says, "We're gonna have to come in pretty low to land this thing, Elaine." Suddenly, it struck me so funny that I could hardly move for a couple minutes...
 
I looked at these years ago. People in Scandinavia tell me they slow compared to making lg picks with a climber. (due to small sized picks) But great for smaller trees that are to dead to climb. They said the saw alone is fast for cut and drop situations. (liked the classic star wars reference :)
 
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This could really change things for urban tree removals.

Can anyone read the description? I'd like to know more about that thing.

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Diese Platanen auf der Augusta-Anlage hatten 100 Jahre Zeit zum Wachsen. Nun sterben sie jede in 2 1/2 Minuten, allerdings sind sie größtenteil durch die sog. "Massaria-Krankheit" befallen, die durch einen Pilz ausgelöst wird. Dadurch ist angeblich die Standfestigkeit gefährdet und somit die Sicherheit der Passanten und Autofahrer.

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This plane at the Augusta plant had 100 years to grow. Now they all die in 2 1 / 2 minutes, but they are for the most part by the so-called "Massaria Disease" attack that is triggered by a fungus. This is allegedly jeopardized the stability and thus the safety of pedestrians and motorists.
 
Thanks but no thanks for this. I know it's a cool contraption but it'll never find a place in MY world of arboriculture. I spent my 20s running feller bunchers and whole tree processors so I've already seen the mechanized side of things. These machines suck diesel, blow hoses, have a huge monthly payment, require a VERY skilled operator, and replace 2 - 4 men (good if you're doing payroll but sucky for the guys outta work.) And they're always hungry for more wood to cut- "Feed me Seymor".

Maybe it's just the purist in me, but now I make a decent living by climbing trees in places machines cannot get to. Like those streetside floppers in the first vid? Gimme a break.

The one great redeeming quality of this is safety. I can see this as being a specialty tool owned by only a few companies and used on the deadest nastiest removals (if it reaches).
 
Equipmpent can be more dependable and easier to fix... Of course there is also excellent personell out there that is dependable without the need of repair.
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It's getting harder and harder to get good help. Harsh disipline right from the first minute seems to smooth the road later.

I'll be needing a chipper for their cell phones, a crane to get them out of bed, and a bucket to reach their inflated egos.

It seems like a sure bet petro will be getting a lot more expensive in the next few years. Could be a tortoise and hare race to remove the last tree of the apocalypse. That being said I check the classifieds once a week, window shopping for a dream machine.
 
Mangoes how are Ya'? Didn't you tell us a few years ago that they had a few major accidents with that. Kinshoffer made a tilting grapple saw about 8-9 yrs ago and had to pull it from the market after lots of accidents.
 
I've been thinking of a grapple mounted on a Kboom for years now. Not a conventional grapple, which hangs with gravity, but one that sticking out (inline) with the boom. However, it could rotate to accomodate different angled limbs.

Therefore, the climber would fly into the tree the initally, then the climber would only have to navigate to the next cut. A groundsman could move the boom into position while the climber is getting ready.

I pieced out two photos to grossly illustrate what I'm saying. I think it is easy to understand.

Here is where the Kboom owners could spike my idea (since they have hands on experience with a Kboom. I'm merely dreaming of scenarios).

***With the help of a jib, couldn't the loads be placed into a horizontal position, to the ground? Would this create torsion to the boom? Would this fixed grapple create added leverage on the boom?

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Let's use a photo from Mike. Remember I'm picturing a fixed grapple head that can only rotate. If we're really confused as to what I'm saying... place a beer in front of you, on the table. Reach out and grab it. Pour beer into glass without flaring out your elbow. That is the motion I'd be describing.

So, in the photo below, after the cut is made the boom will rotate towards the chipper. In order for the but end of the tree to face the chipper the load would have to rotate 180°. Main boom extend quite a bit and the jib down 90°.

If the chipper were being in tow by the Kboom, the load would not need to be rotated 180°. It would simply be placed horizontally behind the chipper. Heck, it could stuff the limb into the chipper!

IMO, if this set up could work, it would change the way we know tree removals... At least with Kboom accessible tree removals.

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Jamin The grapple would need to be able to knuckleto make it most versatile. The angles and bend of trees would most likely make it sifficult to line up at times. you would definately need the fly jib.

I tried the beer thing with my good arm
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For the sake of the conversation. That's not truly a feller buncher head. It's a single grip harvester head, too small to actually bunch trees together. These types of heads are usually found in the cut-to-length type of logging operation.

Buncher heads are a lot bigger than that and around here have a large circular saw head. They have a accumulator arm that holds the cut trees in place while they cut another one. Once the capacity of the head is reached, the machine place the "bunched" wood on the ground for forwarding to the processing site, hence the name "feller buncher".

Pretty cool application of unit.
 
Yeah we could use something like that. Funny when my son was 6 he said "When I grow up my truck is gonna have 2 nuck-o-booms.....one with a grapple...and one with a saw!"
 
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