Mini lifting arm/hiab

[ShooTa]

am wondering if there is such a thing for a small tractor as a mini hiab type crane.

basically would attach to the 3point linkage maybe?

small enough to operate off the 30hp hydraulics and be able to lift up to say 30 in 8 ft lengths of hardwood.

 

any suggestions

 

other options are of course a trailer mounted affair - which sadly are £5000-7000 or some form of bucket front mounted thing with a grapple/rake type grabber

 

thanks in advance.

[Billy68]

Try riko

[Woodworks]

Yes I am sure Riko make one or can Mod one to fit a 3 point linkage as I enquired about one a year back.

[Chris Sheppard]

3pl mounting a small crane on an compact's definitely doable, but handling 30" by 8ft poles is going to be more than what you'd handle with that set up. Even if you had the hydralic power for it, the tractor's unlikely to have the weight to cope with it.

 

Even with a front loader and grab, based on what we've moved, I'd be fairly sure you'd struggle with a lump that size.

[Woodworks]

You may well be right Chris but the Riko one had extending legs to add support.

[Chris Sheppard]

You may well be right Chris but the Riko one had extending legs to add support.

 

They all will have legs, but they still need a good amount of weight to keep them stable, especially when on the three point linkage,

 

Some extra bars from the top link bracket of the tractor to the end of the lower link arms helps take some movement out but it's still never going to be as solid/strong as a permamnently mounted (either roof or Jake frame) crane like on a bigger machine.

 

Even trailer mounted - 30"x8' is a big stick for a compact tractor sized crane.

 

Not saying it's impossible to move that size stick with small kit, but it's not going to do it much good doing it very often.

Edited January 28, 2014 by Chris Sheppard

[Boy English]

what about making one from an old back actor / digging arm, if you don't want legs try a flail mower arm???

[ShooTa]

ill look into all these wonderful suggestions -

rather gutting as we sold a perfect logging tractor which was the pair of the one i use currently - and it had a bucked and rear actor ...so annoying!

 

riko - have their catalogue - and seriously tempted by the smaller 3 tonne trailer. with arm

and will look again at their tractor mounted arms.

 

thanks all.

[ShooTa]

i forgot to edit that by 30in log i was talking circumference not diameter which obviously changes things - probably a more accurate way would be a foot diameter and under

[Stephen Blair]

Cranes on linkages are ok for directly behind the tractor, but off to the side the legs just lift off the ground. Even if you stiffen up the linkage it will happen.

I made 1 for behind my Mog, the foot plate was over a ton in weight, the arms on a Mog have down pressure and even then, it just tipped and that was with 250kg out to the side.