timber grab prices

[elfinwood saws]

Im after a grab and rotator, ebay prices seems very high!!! for secondhand. How much do new grabs and rotators cost??? buying new will mean i,m not buying someone elses rubbish, just can,t find any prices on the tinternet! So what sort of money did you pay?

[Stephen Blair]

you will be £1500-£2k mate

[Chris Sheppard]

They aren't cheap at all - new, a decent rotator will be at least £500 and that'll only be a fairly small one, and the grab at least a grand

 

How big do you need? If it's reasonably small, Jonathan Latham had some left over from a load he bought in off those little Jussi Vahva trailers and cranes and they were very cheap- can't remember off top of my head but it was loads less than anywhere else at the time - think it was even a Baltrotors rotator on it too.

[elfinwood saws]

last s/h i saw on ebay went for £980!!!!! what,s that about! anyone use a grab with a swivel instead of a rotator?

[elfinwood saws]

They aren't cheap at all - new, a decent rotator will be at least £500 and that'll only be a fairly small one, and the grab at least a grand

 

How big do you need? If it's reasonably small, Jonathan Latham had some left over from a load he bought in off those little Jussi Vahva trailers and cranes and they were very cheap- can't remember off top of my head but it was loads less than anywhere else at the time - think it was even a Baltrotors rotator on it too.

 

I,l give them a ring tomorrow i,m after a smallish to midsized one.

[Chris Sheppard]

last s/h i saw on ebay went for £980!!!!! what,s that about! anyone use a grab with a swivel instead of a rotator?

 

If you were going to use a swivel instead of a rotator, you might be as well even just considerign using a decent set of lifting tongs on the end of the crane as you'd have to steer the log by hand anyway. Seen a few people do this on an hiab type crane but it's gonna be slow.

 

Never looked into it, but maybe a 180 degree rotator might help bring the cost down rather than a continuous one? We did have a 180 degree one on a very old Botex on one estate and it was a right PITA, though I was used to contionuous so it might have just been me being stubborn.