What is the biggest crane?

[nathan marshall]

save the costs of a crane and just go for rigging it down and man handling it out it will then in turn not cost the customer as much as it seems they have already been put off with the price, we did a massive plane take down in central london no crane dragged it all though the house, it took a 5 days, it difficult but not all customers are willing to fork out lots of money if you get my drift. i have not seen the tree so i would not know.

[timtree81]

Get in there with a bug gang of you I would , 2 climbers and 5/6 guys on the ground

[alex_m]

So if it's £8k then that's 8 days for a team of four, but you get to keep all the money, rather than half going to road closure/crane etc...

Do you recon it's do-able in 8 days?

[Swampster]

Speed line and a bit of luck, straight down the drive to Vancouver Ave!

[redmoosefaction]

So if it's £8k then that's 8 days for a team of four, but you get to keep all the money, rather than half going to road closure/crane etc...

Do you recon it's do-able in 8 days?

 

Depends how much you pay your crew for 8 days it could be 3.5-4k, breakages likely (green houses), still have to cut it into man size pieces (time/sawdust) chains to file= time, all that saw dust to clear up (1-2 days). lifting all that timber to walk out 40m+ over walls from neighbours and then into trucks, driving to the tip (time), paying(?) to get rid of it. And of course demoralising for the crew to be on one tree for 8 days, but really exciting for every one to be on it one day (pay them a bonus for doing it in one day)

 

It would probably work out the same costs, just one way would be loads easier.

 

Then you could go and earn some more money elsewhere... so in fact more profitable by the crane route.

Edited January 18, 2013 by redmoosefaction

[alex_m]

Yes good point - i suppose it all comes down to how busy you are. If you have a few months booked up then yeh, bosh it out in a day, move on to the next....

[benedmonds]

I had plan to rig it down but we have been 3 days on it's neighbour which is as tall but only half the size. It would be a PITA to rig as the trunk is so massive and leaning the wrong way. I messed up on the quote and it is the first time in ten years I have gone back to the client and said I'm sorry I can't do it for the price I quoted.... Feel bad about it but not as bad as I would breaking by back at a loss..

[redmoosefaction]

I had plan to rig it down but we have been 3 days on it's neighbour which is as tall but only half the size. It would be a PITA to rig as the trunk is so massive and leaning the wrong way. I messed up on the quote and it is the first time in ten years I have gone back to the client and said I'm sorry I can't do it for the price I quoted.... Feel bad about it but not as bad as I would breaking by back at a loss..

 

Poplars. ... how to quote them. ..

 

Think of the biggest number you can think of then triple it.

 

You know there going to be a beeatch. Unless you can crane them;)

 

Adam

[Tom D]

For the reach that you will need it will be dear, better just rig it down and take a week over it.

[Rich Rule]

King lifting do a mobile tower Crane. We had one come down from Birmingham with a 60m outreach. It would be doable but would need contract lift, banksman etc and would all add up.