Witch one mini digger, small tractor or forklift

[doobin]

Your problem is that no one machine will do all.

 

Only a digger can be towed to site to dig the root plates out, and a towable 2.7t would struggle with larger roots anyway.

 

An Avant would lift a fair weight and be towable, but very expensive. No good for digging out roots.

 

If your yard is relatively hardstanding, then you won't get bigger bang for your buck than a counterbalance forklift. It does one thing and it does it very well. If the yard is not totally paved then a rough terrain would be a good bet, at the expense of manouverability. Secondhand forklifts are peanuts compared to diggers. I picked an old Kalmar up for £1200, and a mint 600 hour 2012 Hyundai for 4.5k plus VAT- see what kind of secondhand digger or loader that buys you!

 

 

[Stephen Blair]

Totally agree, if you have a clean hard standing yard, forklift all the way!

[woody paul]

If you want to lift big timber forklift is the way to go, even some of the small ones will out lift the average loader tractor 

[Graham w]

9 hours ago, Stephen Blair said:

Totally agree, if you have a clean hard standing yard, forklift all the way!

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[AJGard]

JCB 30D works well

 

 

[Forest2Furniture]

On 03/10/2020 at 08:33, Rough Hewn said:

Get a decent cant hook.
That’s all we’ve got.

And disposable staff!

[Justme]

Even at 1 tonne a 3t digger is going to struggle at any more extension than just under bugger all.

 

I have a 3500kg one & have just moved a 1200kg battery bank.

It had to be lifted from part way along the boom (where the grab has its mount) & then only with the main arm straight up & it was doing a back wheely on the balance point the whole time. To get it to a lift able position I have to put lots of strain into it & then use the blade down to actually get it off the ground so I could get it closer to the digger to actually lift it.

 

Oh & I took off the bucket too to lower weight. No grab either.

[Mrblue5000]

On 02/10/2020 at 23:31, spuddog0507 said:

Atlas or Hiab crane on 3 point linkage or on its own chasis behind a decent tractor, a guy i know had a Hiab on the 3 point linkage behind a MF 390 ? would lift about 3 tonne ,

You say you have access to big tractor. Does it have a loader? Fork lift mast on a tractor 3 pt linkage should handle up to 2 ton. What's your budget?