Timber trailer

[Logrover]

Right we have a job clearing some large pine, small birch on a peaty site. We currently have a nice big 160hp valmet and duel wheels as we are all about low ground pressure. Now we also have 2 diggers set up with timber grabs but no trailer.

Looking for a timber trailer with no crane with proper forestry tyres, not the agri types and possibly with bandtracks, anything to reduce the ground pressure.

What do people reccomend.

have considered a hydrostatic 8 ton tracked dumper with a timber tray on the back.

[LGP Eddie]

Hi Logrover,

sounds like you have some interesting kit? What are your excavators?

 

We do a fair bit of this and just laugh at the concept of 'Bandtracks'? They are far more an aid that is designed to provide as much additional bite as floatation in my opinion, and simply no comparison to something like a tracked dumper you may be considering.

 

We generally go where others won't or where clients simply can't have the mess, and having this around now has transformed the work.

 

Eddie.

[muttley9050]

That looks like a lovely machine, what will the grab lift?

[mendiplogs]

Hi Logrover,

sounds like you have some interesting kit? What are your excavators?

 

We do a fair bit of this and just laugh at the concept of 'Bandtracks'? They are far more an aid that is designed to provide as much additional bite as floatation in my opinion, and simply no comparison to something like a tracked dumper you may be considering.

 

We generally go where others won't or where clients simply can't have the mess, and having this around now has transformed the work.

 

Eddie.

 

HI EDDIE is that stephen old mate thanks jon

[LGP Eddie]

Yes it is the very same 'Ultimate Forwarder' and I don't have the time here to heap enough praise on it!!

 

Greg has done a great job of just sorting out a few bits and pieces, and we've had some serious work out of it in a wide range of applications.

 

It actually works best alongside my own 8 tonne excavator that can load it extremely quickly, allowing it to traverse site and then unload at it's own pace.

The resulting time between loads allows me to sort everything out ready for quick loading, and crush/stack brash together also if it's going to the fire.

 

The dumper can deal with brash just as effectively, taking a decent load from the excavator and placing straight onto the fire, plus tidying the fire if required.

 

They can clear a fair area together in a day with hardly a mark and everything tidy.

 

We had a recent application that involved transporting rocks to the excavator for placing, and again it came into it's own.

Rocks were delivered to a suitable pint with a larger dumper and then simply self loaded, before being transported to me with no mess and total safety.

 

The machine seems to get all those 'can you just' jobs like fetching buckets, bog mats, fuel tank etc and once again is brilliant because it can do them all quickly and safely.

 

A top bit of kit.

 

Eddie.

[mendiplogs]

Yes it is the very same 'Ultimate Forwarder' and I don't have the time here to heap enough praise on it!!

 

Greg has done a great job of just sorting out a few bits and pieces, and we've had some serious work out of it in a wide range of applications.

 

It actually works best alongside my own 8 tonne excavator that can load it extremely quickly, allowing it to traverse site and then unload at it's own pace.

The resulting time between loads allows me to sort everything out ready for quick loading, and crush/stack brash together also if it's going to the fire.

 

The dumper can deal with brash just as effectively, taking a decent load from the excavator and placing straight onto the fire, plus tidying the fire if required.

 

They can clear a fair area together in a day with hardly a mark and everything tidy.

 

We had a recent application that involved transporting rocks to the excavator for placing, and again it came into it's own.

Rocks were delivered to a suitable pint with a larger dumper and then simply self loaded, before being transported to me with no mess and total safety.

 

The machine seems to get all those 'can you just' jobs like fetching buckets, bog mats, fuel tank etc and once again is brilliant because it can do them all quickly and safely.

 

A top bit of kit.

 

Eddie.

 

HI EDDIE nice kit there mate i seen it when stephen thanks jon

[Stephen Blair]

Great she's getting used for what she was built for, the least we used it for was shifting timber, the site goffer indeed!!

[mendiplogs]

Great she's getting used for what she was built for, the least we used it for was shifting timber, the site goffer indeed!!

 

Hi Stephen what weight will crane lift then and what was it like on dev thanks jon

[tomtom]

we have just done some 10 and 12 ton trailers[the G2 ONES] simple trailers without cranes but with i think 560/45/22.6 tyres on,they have gone to Finland to work on some marshes/bogs

 

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[tncountryservices]

those tracked dumpers are great bits of kit, I had one that I fitted a 3 point linked too to take a post knocker and other kit for fencing out on the broads.

best low ground pressure kit I ever had, just taken an enquiry from a customer to build them one.