Mini Loaders in Tree Work

[benedmonds]

I know there have been a few threads in the past but nothing for a while. I am talking really mini.

The walk behinds, kanga, skidster, boxter, etc..

 

Are they any good for domestic tree work..  The avant etc are too big to get into most domestic gardens and we have a proper  tractor we use if access is good, these smaller walk behinds look like they could be helpful but who uses one and are they worth the hefty price tag..

[tree-fancier123]

looking at his pics in today's job thread Ian Flatters is still using his Vermeer, carries about 50 sheets of ply around so as not to damage the lawn, those with hiab just lift the avants over the hedge or wall

[Coletti]

From my experience of using them (I hire a kanga 835) they are fantastic back and time saving tools. Obviously with the smaller ones you are limited with lift capacity/height but that being said...every bit the machine lifts, you don't have to so even only a 100kg capacity loaded would be good if you know what I mean. The only real down side to the mini skids is that they chew up the ground (unless you use boards as suggested above). Personally I feel there is a gap in the market at present for an artic steer loader that will lift between 300-500kg to a height of around 2m. If someone were to make one I feel, for tree surgeons at least, they would dominate the market

[simonm]

I have a vermeer skidder and can honestly say its been the best thing I have ever bought, worth 20 men on site, true you cannot use it on every job but you can normally find a way in for it and on the right job its a real time saver. With a few implements you can use it for all sorts, it moves some really big lumps of wood too, we have felled big shitty messy trees, gone in first to pick the timber out then used it to crane feed the chipper with the brash. 

Probably doesn't go out as much as it should but when it does its very effective.  

[Rhystree]

I use a sherpa wheeled machine, here’s a few shots from this week. It stacked out all the lengths of timber to fell the cedar stick on very easily. And before any one points out the high sink cut there was metal lower down. [emoji2]

[Joe Newton]

what's the width on that mate?

[AHPP]

what's the width on that mate?

Is there a way to be notified by the app if Rhys replies to you? Question open to all of course.

[Steve Bullman]

9 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

Is there a way to be notified by the app if Rhys replies to you? Question open to all of course.

 

If he quotes you

[Mack]

16 hours ago, Rhystree said:

I use a sherpa wheeled machine, here’s a few shots from this week. It stacked out all the lengths of timber to fell the cedar stick on very easily. And before any one points out the high sink cut there was metal lower down.

How high will these things actually lift?

[benedmonds]

We demoed a kanga today, on the sort of domestic job that make up a lot of our work.   Clearing a back garden felling some smallish trees largest 15m tall. probably a 3.5 tonner load of logs and  a 7.5 tonner of chip.. So a fair amount to shift. 

 

The tracks are 800 wide but the grab is 900. The passage way was 890.. 

We get it in the small garden and handball the grab in, and didn't take me long to realise it was going to make a massive mess.. I am sure they have their uses but for the domestic stuff that makes up 90% of my work, I can't see it being much help. On bigger sites maybe but then a bigger machine would be better..

 

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