Groundies device...

[Hedge hunter]

You sound like my boss, take the GPRS (still doesn't know what it's called) you be able to go twice as fast and twice as big.

 

It's not a device that automatically makes you go bigger and faster, but it allows you to approach some situations where a standard rigging device without winching ability would be slower. Often it's not quicker it just allows you to do the job safe and efficiently.

 

You also have to be careful so often I see crews massively pre tensioning lines that branches jump after being cut! The grcs should being reducing shock not introducing it. Or winching laterals off that come swing back in and crash into the stem above the GRCS operator.

run a redirect from the GCRS so the operator is out the way,yes it does seem able to overload stuff but used nicely i dont see how it can be not worth haveing,

 

the bit i like best is getting the brash or log to the ground and cutting it up before it lands,the reduction on damage to lawns etc when chogging down is 100%

[Marc]

run a redirect from the GCRS so the operator is out the way,yes it does seem able to overload stuff but used nicely i dont see how it can be not worth haveing,

 

the bit i like best is getting the brash or log to the ground and cutting it up before it lands,the reduction on damage to lawns etc when chogging down is 100%

 

I love our GPS, and used appropriately its a life saver, I just do not look at it as something that will make me go bigger or quicker, it just opens up other safer more efficient ways of carrying out the job.

[Matt McAulay]

I'd like to have one but I'll stick with the flying capstan, when they're a bit more affordable I might switch.

[TREE-SURGEON-ESSEX]

Nice bit of kit next on the list, they are silly expensive but yada yada ce marked drop tested etc you want it you pay for it i guess.

[Marc]

I'd like to have one but I'll stick with the flying capstan, when they're a bit more affordable I might switch.

 

I doubt they will ever get more affordable, it's the Harken winch that makes the bulk of the price, it's a specialty product that is produced in low numbers. There are other devices built around the Harken winch that are rip offs of Gregg Goods device but dare I say it worth looking at and if I remember maybe a few hundred less. Check out Drayer or Freeworker websites in Germany to see them.

[alex_m]

My favourite bit about the GRCS is getting a winch up the tree after lunch!

[BenR]

That GCRS really is great