What’s this crane?

[Mr. Ed]

I wonder what that would have been . . . no teasing . . .

[openspaceman]

49 minutes ago, Mr. Ed said:

I wonder what that would have been . . . no teasing . . .

It would have depended on what you intend to extract.

 

The thing is I have kept several bits of kit from when I was a contractor 20 years ago because I still enjoy playing with them occasionally. They are pretty tatty and some have been vandalised with the glass having been smashed but they work. They are far too old school for production forestry.

 

It would be nice to have them on an estate a bit nearer home.

 

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[spuddog0507]

i tend to think that trailer was off ebay 10 12 yrs ago as back then ebay was flooded with cheap Chinese and eastern European ATV trailers, i bought a small crane off a guy in Huddersfield who was importing them from eastern Europe, crane has been worked to death but still going and got a few hundred tonne to extract with it this summer,, the trailer in the photo i thing just came in a big wooden box and you assembled it yourself, if memory serves me right i think they was about £3800 delivered, the crane i bought complete with spool, grab, rotator, legs and a 6hp petrol power pack was £2200 and when i collected it i did look at a complete trailer but the trailer was not up to much and i thought i could build a far better stronger trailer for about half the cost,,   

[slack ma girdle]

This one is for sale.

Its a 5 tonne farma, new slew rams and king post.

4k

And i am not far from the ferry at Pembroke Dock.

Edited Sunday at 08:22 by slack ma girdle

[Mr. Ed]

Thanks for the insight on the likely provenance - sounds convincing to me. Your Farma trailer would be a grand thing, but I fear that my wee AGT might only (just) be able to pull it up the hill as long as it didn't have any wood in it! I've got a bigger Ford, but I don't dare take it into the woods - I've already had to pull it out with the AGT once!