Playing (training) with an Alstor

[digga]

seem to remember they do the joystick controls on the optional extras list would love to have 1 of these for my coppicing work but there so expensive can but dream

[Stephen Blair]

excellent bit of kit, they are a lot of pennies but built to do the job.

I have seen 1 work , it was somewhere i never thought you would get 1 and it lifted a bit of wood i never thought it would lift and also feed a chipper:thumbup1:

[Matthew Arnold]

Where abouts were you doing the thinning? It looks like a wood about 10 minutes away from me that was thinned by about 60%.

[harvey b davison]

looks like a kiddies pedal car with you sat on it, I reckon if you roll it your head will be higher than the roll bar. LOL

 

LOL, beat me to it.

 

I was going to say J looks like something out of land of the giants sat on that, or Honey i blew up the kids, lol:thumbup:

[Big J]

Not being paid to train on it, but simultaneously not paying!

 

As has been mentioned, the dual controls are an option (£2000 if memory serves) but actually the 5 levers are starting to become fairly natural.

 

They are a lot of money, but they seem to have their own market. There isn't really another forwarder that can fit on a 14ft trailer, extract 40 tonnes a day for £15 of petrol up insane slopes without doing damage to the ground.

 

The base price is around £35,000 at present exchange rates.

 

These woods are on an estate just west of Edinburgh. It's mostly sycamore around 40 years old. Nice stuff to work with, and some good trees left standing. We were quite heavy on the thinning, probably taking out 50% or so. Just working to the prescribed specification though.

[rowan lee]

Is there an option to get one with a small diesel engine then as well? Would be really cheap to run then, and more powerful one would assume. What hp in that models engine

and I assume it's liquid cooled?

[Big J]

Yep, liquid cooled. That model is 16hp, and I've used the 18hp model too. There is a 15.6hp diesel, but it's only available with a cab, which pretty much precludes my use of it.

 

I don't know how much cheaper it could get though - in fuel costs in the hands of a good operator, you are taking about 37 pence a tonne.

 

Jonathan

[rowan lee]

Yeah fair enough - 10litres of petrol a day is pretty economical considering the work involved in a similar quad/trailer setup, + no sore back.

[Big Bolt]

35,000 bloody hell talk about inflation I went for a days demo and test drive about 8 years ago some where in the west country and it was only 18,000,

[Big J]

35,000 bloody hell talk about inflation I went for a days demo and test drive about 8 years ago some where in the west country and it was only 18,000,

 

I think that a lot of it comes down to the exchange rates