Kranman Bison micro forwarder

[josharb87]

Thought id share some pictures of the past few days job, 2 days felling and chipping 25 trees at one adress, and today using the Kranman to extract about 100 logs in 4 hours, then another adress of 15 trees/50 logs, think its easier to answer questions if anyone has any about the machine than ramble on  

 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Overall empty weight? 

 

sweet machine btw.

[josharb87]

About 1,4 ton i believe, max load of 1,9, no damage to the grass although we are in a drought here at the moment.

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Surprisingly light then, although it's configuration means a lot of nose weight on the trailer.

[josharb87]

Thats a bad photo i think, and on that trailer it could go back at least another meter. Towed lovely, easy to forget it was there

[MattyF]

What's the cost new?? 

[Pete Mctree]

Looks an impressive compact machine - perfect for such jobs. What is it like on steep terrain?

[josharb87]

13 hours ago, Pete Mctree said:

Looks an impressive compact machine - perfect for such jobs. What is it like on steep terrain?

Not sure pete, only had it in gardens, drove out via a quite flat woodland to the side. needed the rear drive when loaded to get over relatively small obstacles or driving over wood chip loaded. Not as stable as an alstor

14 hours ago, MattyF said:

What's the cost new?? 

I think they start around 20k +vat, but once you've added the extending boom on the crane, radio controlled winch on the crane, plastic cab, heated seats, joystick controls, work lights, etc etc its over 30k

 

Certainly interesting to use, and perfect for these jobs

[josharb87]

Had it out again today, and tomorrow too.

 

get more and more impressed each time I use it! 

 

This is was this afternoons work, 4hours, 100-400m extraction route 

 

 

 

 

 

[Big J]

Great piece of kit but so expensive now. It's like they've just looked at the price of Alstor and jacked their prices up by 50%. Really frustrating as I'm in the market for a micro forwarder but they are asking too much for them now.