How often do you use a mewp?

[Philip Anderson]

7 hours ago, benedmonds said:

You don't need to know how to climb to do tree work from a MEWP.  There are plenty of MEWP users who will have never or rarely climbed.  

You do in my firm! 

Also and more importantly you need to be an experienced arborist so you know what and why your pruning and what your hoping to achieve.

Mewp Climbing are only ways methods of getting the person to the cut point.

[Mick Dempsey]

Here's a nice bit of cherry picker stuff. An homage to the original "coffee break" tv ad.

[Philip Anderson]

14 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Here's a nice bit of cherry picker stuff. An homage to the original "coffee break" tv ad.

I like his style very civilised 

[roseyweb]

10 hours ago, SWORDSTA said:

 

Good going, very good thinking. How was that cheaper than a truck mounted 70m articulated platform though? What do they hire for in your area? Also didn't that swing around every time it was manoeuvred into a new position?

That was £600 on a Saturday at short notice on the understanding it was job knock, we use that crane company quite often as we get to know the drivers.  I find small company crane drivers are a lot more helpful than mewp drivers who seem. Ire concerned about there next tea break. 

Yer it spins all over shop when cutting to I used a bit of throw line and two carbeiners to attach the basket to the stem which will break if the worst happens. 

[roseyweb]

11 hours ago, SWORDSTA said:

These make for a very comfortable and smooth day.

What whopper how big is that 

[silky fox]

What a great Platform...propper Sky Balcony!

[Marula]

What whopper how big is that 

They're 70m platforms, they use them down under quite a bit.

[Marula]

What a great Platform...propper Sky Balcony!

 

Yip, room for saws, fuel and rigging equipment, you can setup and pretty much get the job done without moving it.

[Gray git]

We use mewp's lots as now we have a lot of experience with them getting positions right is fairly easy and owning 1 makes a big difference especially when it comes to the end of the day and chogging down stems.
Climbing definitely has its place but being compatent enough to use both is like knowing when to cut and chuck and when to rig stuff when climbing, sometimes 1 is more effective than the other.

Our picker which can also tow 3.5 ton so shift stuff away from site or fetch grinder.
34m tracked we had for a week which really speeded up deadwooding these massive limes.

Large 38m wagon mount we use when a lot of outreach is needed

We do get a lot of nasty trees to do and just find making use of these means I'm not knackered for the weekend with the kids. And after quite a few injuries hopefully prolonged my working life.

[kimtree]

Bearing in mind that i am in North Australia and it fairly hot and sweaty here and am just about 50 i have not climbed full time since 2006 when we acquired a 17 metre nifty trailer lift.That is now been replaced by a Cela DT24 tracked lift (an excellent lift when it works)

Unfortunately it did spend  3 months this year waiting for a sodding part from Italy .

Basically every job now is done with a MEWP as it is far more efficient than a climber ever could be (here)