Forwarders - Valmet or Timberjack

[Timber Man]

The Valmet are more suspect on bogies , particularly on distance work.

Pretty sure there are only about 3 810s actually in England , and JD are always keen to buy them ..

[Wood wasp]

Buy abroad if need be, viewing (though flights are cheap) plus haulage will kill most of the savings but you'll get a larger choice of machines.

 

Osa 250

http://www.nettikone.com/en/fmg/12s/1581728

Edited January 6, 2017 by Wood wasp

[Dodger_36]

Hi

There's a nice Valmet 820 on eBay at present

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Hi

There's a nice Valmet 820 on eBay at present

 

That's the one I'm referring too. My old Bosses. Richard Court knows it well.

[luftwaffe]

Timberjacks are that bit better built, although the valmets are better on diesel, 10 gallon of diesel a day at most, my old 820 did me well, had the odd problem, but on the whole I liked it, as with all forwarders just watch for play in the centre bearing and extend the crane fully out and rock side to side to look for excessive movement in the crane base, tyres are expensive so have a look for the side walls splitting, bogies either work or they don't so no way of way of knowing what they are like inside, if you do buy, these are old machines now, which require a degree of what I call 'nursing', i.e, not over loading and hammering it, nice and steady is the way to go to avoid ordering expensive parts..good luck.

[Tom at Heartwood]

That's the one I'm referring too. My old Bosses. Richard Court knows it well.

Thanks. Anything particular to look out for with that one?

 

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[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Thanks. Anything particular to look out for with that one?

 

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[Dave177]

Realistically any machines of that age are going to need some work, as long as you are handy with the spanners and dont need it working every day of the week they are great machines. In terms of finding the right machine just wait it out, keep and eye out in FJ etc, they do come up

Phil cooper usually has some older machines around so he may be worth a call