Valtra/botex and chipper

[Gray git]

I took the guarding off mine, the visibility is night and day, my eyes would go wonky trying to focus past the mesh.

 

What he said:thumbup:

 

If you hit the back window feeding this chipper you shouldn't be driving it!

Side Windows now that's another matter!? Easy for a timber stack to tip 1off into the side

[Brushcutter]

I took the guarding off mine, the visibility is night and day, my eyes would go wonky trying to focus past the mesh.

 

I also don't have guarding. Although i'd like it, having managed to smash the rear window getting whipped by branch and then glass going everywhere. Followed by a trip to A+E to have some fine glass removed.

[Stephen Blair]

I only ever gave the tractor a slap on the roofmount, I would loose the crane in the dark and on the 8950 it was huge, 10m I think !

Then all of a sudden, wham skinny beech whacking the cab!!

[arbwork]

I took the guarding off mine, the visibility is night and day, my eyes would go wonky trying to focus past the mesh.

 

wot he said x2 ! rear glass ok but have both sides broke on my 8000 at the mo ! thankfully T190 safe so far, have guarding for both, gives quite an explosion when they do let go ! worst 1 was rear glass on alpine going bang, a bit to near, is guarded by Perspex but still let go under pressure

[Gray git]

Arbwork, Is it harder to fit guards to yours with the crane being Jake plate mounted?

Stephen how could you loos that crane, it was huge! Surely you could tell where it was by which direction the tractor was tilting . Would have liked a go with that rig though! It is easy to suddenly not know where your grab is on the dark, worst was on another roof mount I drove when unloading the big grain trailer at night as the lights only just reached the top of the headboard, hated it!

[Stephen Blair]

Believe me, you knew it was up there somewhere!

On that tractor the controls were on the armrests, joysticks so you just sat back compared to levers on the back where you are crouched at the back window.

[Tom D]

I put the grapple through the door on mine the other day, likely just the wee window. I was trying to ease it past a tree that was very close, working at full revs as I was chipping at the time, makes the crane a little twitchy. I've smashed the back lights too when holding really big stuff close in….

[N1ck]

I've done the side window up-ending a grab load to level it out then when I picked it up it swung in and just kissed the glass!

 

Has anyone tried mounting lights on the crane? The work lights on the tractor don't let me see the second bay of the trailer so I end up doing Jedi unloading - "use the force."

[arbwork]

Arbwork, Is it harder to fit guards to yours with the crane being Jake plate mounted?

 

I think not our T190 guarding by Mark Osborne A T Osborne Limited - Home with weld mesh type panel and our 8000 with rebar by Jim Watt at caledonian forestry - High Quality forestry machinery

Tom I have also experienced the problem of pto speed making the crane a bit lively whilst chipping !

[Stephen Blair]

I bought a camera with built in spots lights to fit to the underside of the dipper but I never got round to fitting it. The tractor already had a tv screen and camera for chipping.

Maybe the new owner fitted it.