Kronos Forwarding Trailers

[Highland Forestry]

Has anyone had any experience with the Kronos Trailer sold by A C Price ??

 

I'm quite interested in the Kronos 160 driven trailer, Kronos

 

They appear to be a much heavier construction than most forwarding trailer and look more suited to forestry work.

 

Shall be contacting A C Price this week for pricing..

 

 

 

 

Any thoughts most welcome,

 

 

Matt

[arbwork]

Looked good at APF the other day, solid , I think the one at the show was sold so there may be some one to ask, there was one thing I thought was a bit? But can’t remember what it was now, if it springs to mind I’ll let you know. Good luck with decision! Cheers J

[Brushcutter]

I saw these at A C Price at the APF and had a good talk to one of the guys about them.

 

The do look most robust close up and have some nice features like adjustable headboards and steering drawbars. I have unfortuantly taken the price list and brosure to work so i can't tell you how much they are. From what i remember there were expensive, more than a botex at least.

 

You do get some nice option on the crane though upto 9m reach. Its one of the 4 trailers i'm considering. the others are a botex, Kesla and the Riko ones.

[Brushcutter]

Looked good at APF the other day, solid , I think the one at the show was sold so there may be some one to ask, there was one thing I thought was a bit? But can’t remember what it was now, if it springs to mind I’ll let you know. Good luck with decision! Cheers J

 

I'm sure it was sold too and the 200hp valtra for it too. They put it together in two days or something to take it to the show.

[Highland Forestry]

I'm just wondering how much volume we can fit on the trailer and what weight that realistically equates to..

 

I have a Logbus 110D trailer and crane combo at the moment, which is supposedly a 10t trailer, but in normal thinnings, firewood thinnings etc I would rekon when she's full to the gunnels she's still only taking out roughly 4t at a time.

 

I'll give Alex a shout this week and see what he's saying price wise..

[Brushcutter]

I'm just wondering how much volume we can fit on the trailer and what weight that realistically equates to..

 

I have a Logbus 110D trailer and crane combo at the moment, which is supposedly a 10t trailer, but in normal thinnings, firewood thinnings etc I would rekon when she's full to the gunnels she's still only taking out roughly 4t at a time.

 

I'll give Alex a shout this week and see what he's saying price wise..

 

As little as that i'd think 6-8 would be around the right figure. I've found with firewood you only need a few crooked bendy bits to waste a whole load of space in the trailer. We get a good load of 4.2m larch saw longs on our trailer about 25. But fill it with 8' firewood and its nowhere nears as much.

[Chris Sheppard]

I'm just wondering how much volume we can fit on the trailer and what weight that realistically equates to..

 

I have a Logbus 110D trailer and crane combo at the moment, which is supposedly a 10t trailer,

 

Generally speaking, the weight quoted by a manufacturer is the gross weight of the trailer, including the weight of the trailer, the crane and the load - but on a 10 tonne trailer I'd have said you'd want to be able to squeeze a good 7 tonne of straight sawlogs on - as mentioned the post above - a few crooked stems will soon knock the weight down.

[Highland Forestry]

Generally speaking, the weight quoted by a manufacturer is the gross weight of the trailer, including the weight of the trailer, the crane and the load - but on a 10 tonne trailer I'd have said you'd want to be able to squeeze a good 7 tonne of straight sawlogs on - as mentioned the post above - a few crooked stems will soon knock the weight down.

 

We must be down to somewhere in the region of 4t taking out firewood and somewhere around 6t maybe in sawlogs..

[renewablejohn]

When I priced up I got a better deal on a Kesla trailer and crane from Caledonian then the equivalent Kronos from A C Price. The difference paid for a felling grapple

[Doug Blease]

We must be down to somewhere in the region of 4t taking out firewood and somewhere around 6t maybe in sawlogs..

 

Matt, you can only take out a load at a time no matter what the weight is. If you were working in Oak then the tonnage would increase but the cubic metreage would be the similar.

 

Hope you're well

 

Doug