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How do you handle your timber?  

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  1. 1. How do you handle your timber?

    • Ring it up and hand load
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    • Own timber truck/ trailer
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    • Get someone in
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Having just invested in a crane truck, I am interested to know what the rest of you do with your timber.

 

Do you ring it all up and load it by hand, do you have your own truck or timber trailer, or do you use a subcontractor to shift it for you?

 

Personally, I have ringed up and hand loaded enough trees to last me a lifetime!

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Personally, I have ringed up and hand loaded enough trees to last me a lifetime!

 

 

Too true Peter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Also once its rung up it takes up so much room and is hard to re-handle for selling on.

 

I have several hundred tons, in lengths, that I have kept in case things went quiet, so I could start doing firewood. I have decided that things ain't going to go quiet, so I'm selling it on by the arctic load, if it had been rung up this would not have been an option.

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Avant/mini loader to extract/move or load the timber where space is tight, where space is even tighter ring it up use a log trolley only lifting is with 1/2 guys to get the rings from trolley onto the truck or through chipper.

Where space is good hiab and trailer.

 

Other outfits i work for get the big timber removed but getting someone in with a tractor/hiab/trailer combo, usually for free or for a small cost.

Or just ring and lift it out, i won't do that anymore unless they use/provide a log trolley i need my back to last.

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I used to have this climber come in with his log truck. Logs could be loaded at any time of the day - keeping the site clear, making it easier for brash clearing. And as soon as we were ready to load we could, instead of waiting on some builder`s grab truck that may or may not show up.

 

 

We do have a 3pt linkage crane which goes on the mog.

 

Tree Man Tom, could you show us some pictures of that in action and in transit?

 

cheers. nick.

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In as big a piece as possible for milling, and hire/borrow something with hydraulics! If its not suitable for milling then rings or handleable chunks.

[ATTACH]15119[/ATTACH]poor old landy.

 

What do you mean poor old Landy those things love it! So how did you get the lump on the trailer?

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I used to have this climber come in with his log truck. Logs could be loaded at any time of the day - keeping the site clear, making it easier for brash clearing. And as soon as we were ready to load we could, instead of waiting on some builder`s grab truck that may or may not show up.

 

Thats sounds awesome!

 

I can still come up for a few days if you have the jobs for it, I have had enquiries from other clients in the NW, so if I can put a few days work together it would be worthwhile.

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Problem is with domestic work, it's nearly always inaccessible round the back of the house etc. We do very few where you could utilise a crane.

 

Even with a skidsteer/mini loader? I have done back garden jobs with it where we took a fence panel out and ran all the timber out in 5 foot lengths through next door's garden.

 

My truck will go nearly anywhere a 7.5 tonner will, as its only marginally wider and longer than a Cargo. Getting down most driveways is not a problem, and with the crane on the back you normally get pretty good reach. I can crane out over the length of a standard single garage too.

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