crane or trailer & crane.

[woody paul]

Hi after advice on weather to buy 3pl crane with long reach or trailer & crane with short reach. Have tractor with loader but got a couple of job to do where space is tight to shunt a loader about so was thinking of moving it by sitting and moving with crane to make less mess.????

[Brushcutter]

What sort of crane lengths we talking. Long cranes even with stabilisers are still quite tippy on small tractors. Are you taking wood out? then crane trailers are the best.

[woody paul]

Hi Brushcutter.Was thinking about 4.8metres reach. And when carting timber use agri-trailer.

[Brushcutter]

4.8 on 3pl would be ok. I guess if you get the 3pl crane it gives you a lot of flexibility. If you can see a use for it for other jobs then it might be the way forward. The Farma 3pl cranes can be mounted onto one of their timber trailers and dismounted too.

 

If you foresee a lot of forwarding type work then a 6/8 tonne s/h timber trailer would be around new 3pl crane money.

[woody paul]

Been looking at a 6 ton Farma with 3.8m crane any one useing one and do's it have enough reach to be practial.

[Stephen Blair]

I have the farma on my dumper, great crane, very fast.

It's ok on the dumper as I am not really restricted with how close I get to timber, on a trailer and if you were doing rd side it wouldn't have the reach.

The farma cranes are great, my favourite is the mowi on my old bogy, the parralel boom thingy is so easy to work with.

[Brushcutter]

I had a 5m crane and it was about the shortest crane you would want for doing short wooding. When i started we had to cut for a short reach forwarder dragging 8' to all the rides just wasn't fun.

 

The truth is that the crane will never be long enough. 5m was always just too short as was 6m then 7m was ok. once you have 11m reach the thing you want is either just a bit far away or too heavy. If you do get a 3.8m cran you just have to plan your work around its reach to make the most of it.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

Mowi make a winch with 30m of cable which fixes on the crane.

[nathan 338]

If you want a farma crane and trailer come and see us at the APF. we can supply everythging from the small 3.5m to the large 8.5m cranes. We will have a new 9tonne trailker with a generation 2 6.3 m crane fitted and also my 14tonne 4wd drive trailer with the 8.5m crane. we will also have a wide selection of new grabs and the BC 18 felling head.

 

crane and trailer size really come down to tractor size weight and power. if you have a light tractor, its best not to go for the largest trailers unless you intend to only work on firm level ground.

 

come and have a look at our stand. Home forestry llp on th demo circuit stand 840-880

 

cheers nathan

[renewablejohn]

My Kesla is the best of both worlds. I use it on a daily basis attached to my forwarding trailer but if access is tight I can attach to the 3 point link by undoing just 6 bolts. Also comes in handy when towing the road trailer as it does not restrict the towing hitch.