Fankin forwarder :)

[treedweller]

Check this out it's propper smart!!

FORESTRY KUBOTA TIMBER TRACT FORWARDER | eBay

 

Bet it belongs to someone on here lol

[woodland]

Check this out it's propper smart!!

FORESTRY KUBOTA TIMBER TRACT FORWARDER | eBay

 

Bet it belongs to someone on here lol

 

Mad looking thing unusual grab on it too

[treedweller]

Nice little fast tow low impact machine. Get away with towing it on a 3.5t trailer. Even has a little winch on it for skidding. Bet it'll get places an alpine and trailer wont go too.

[doobin]

Very slow (12HP 2 cyl), and you will get fed up of the lack of visibility (mechanical drive so not easy to turn seat and controls round)

 

If the undercarriage is OK then it's viable. The sprockets don't look the best and the tracks are clearly not tensioned properly. Hard to get spares for. It's based upon a Kuboto RC20, and I can't find much information about them on the net.

 

However, with the value of the crane and the fact that it looks to be a half decent conversion I'd say it was worth at least 3k and would not be surprised to see it fetch more.

[treedweller]

I just finished a job for Truck on here and i would have killed to have this thing for the week!! It was a woodland covering a victorian water treatment works. A big reed bed on the side of a hill, mega soft!! He's gonna have to wait till the height of summer to get the timber out. Get it bought Laurie :)

[doobin]

I just finished a job for Truck on here and i would have killed to have this thing for the week!! It was a woodland covering a victorian water treatment works. A big reed bed on the side of a hill, mega soft!! He's gonna have to wait till the height of summer to get the timber out. Get it bought Laurie :)

 

Unless you have a lot of ongoing works for such a specialist vehicle then I would say you'd be more cost efective to hire a tracked dumper and a little digger with a grab to load- you can always unload by tipping, which is what I do with my setup.

 

Don't underestimate how slow these things are- when loaded unless it's downhill or perfectly flat and not soft underfoot you'll be in 2nd all the time, which is less than walking speed.

[Coletti]

Looks like a converted tracked dumper to me, we had a couple with post knockers on the back

[treedweller]

Unless you have a lot of ongoing works for such a specialist vehicle then I would say you'd be more cost efective to hire a tracked dumper and a little digger with a grab to load- you can always unload by tipping, which is what I do with my setup.

 

Don't underestimate how slow these things are- when loaded unless it's downhill or perfectly flat and not soft underfoot you'll be in 2nd all the time, which is less than walking speed.

 

Yeah point taken, it's never going to meet any acceptable levels of production but it is still very cool:001_smile:

[doobin]

£5.1k!!!!

 

The dumper bit is worth approx 1.5k judging from the running gear. That values the crane and conversion at 3.6k.

 

Seems steep to me?

[treedweller]

Thats what i thought!! I've been watching it too lol Your right though there was a newer dumper with controls the right way round,4 speed box and a honda diesel engine and that fetched just over 2k.