Mini digger or compact loader

[Stephen Blair]

If you can get your chipper and truck next to the tree, then the loader is only there to load the timber on the truck and forks are better than a small grab imo unless you were doing hedge clippings.

Having the machine onsite and having it operated is a different thing altogether.

[Al Cormack]

Theres a bit of a knack/skill to grabbing and moving brash with the muck grab efficiently, having it flat on the ground and driving in is useless. i find it best to boom out half way, grab open, tines pointing down between horizontal and vertical, almost scratching the floor, then as you drive side on into the branches you kind of roll them up, up with the boom a little, pointing the tines down as you drive until they're all the way back which is actually down and a little towards the undercarriage. then pretty much stop, push down with the boom to crunch things up and grab. maybe a little more of a brash roll up if you can.

 

If that pine stem on the deck was snedded out and not moved i reckon id have taken 2 grabs to get the main brash out, unsure on grabs on the timber, then boom out, tines down, and backed over the remaining mess to rake up the worst of the small stuff

 

+1 that's how I was doing it the other day. Or the groundie was cutting and piling it up and then grabbing it. I was limited in the width of the pile as had to get through a narrowish gap with a conifer on one side and empty swimming pool in the other!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

If you were having a bonfire it would of been good.

 

 

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We are having a bonny! But not yet, maybe next weekend, a big Bstard!! D7 EA exemption in place, mate I haven't seen for ages coming down from Portsmouth so it's camper van, beers BBQ and an overnight on site! That's 1 limb from 5 Mont pine (planted 1912) to be felled on that site. They're all TPOd but consent received to fell 4, now this one has exploded so another 1 to add under 5 day exception. Had it not been a Sunday, and had it not been so bloody hot, I might have stacked it ready to burn but to be honest, I'd had enough by 16:00!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Theres a bit of a knack/skill to grabbing and moving brash with the muck grab efficiently, having it flat on the ground and driving in is useless. i find it best to boom out half way, grab open, tines pointing down between horizontal and vertical, almost scratching the floor, then as you drive side on into the branches you kind of roll them up, up with the boom a little, pointing the tines down as you drive until they're all the way back which is actually down and a little towards the undercarriage. then pretty much stop, push down with the boom to crunch things up and grab. maybe a little more of a brash roll up if you can.

 

If that pine stem on the deck was snedded out and not moved i reckon id have taken 2 grabs to get the main brash out, unsure on grabs on the timber, then boom out, tines down, and backed over the remaining mess to rake up the worst of the small stuff

 

 

I can see that.... It all just got too late on a Sunday, it'll keep!!

[Stephen Blair]

The loaders meant to be there so when you are tired you can buzz about on it.

You need a digger and a grab, I don't want to come home when I've got trees to throw about:)

Keep us posted!

 

 

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[kimtree]

these small loaders are better off with a branch manager grapple or similar.

All of the wood and brash in the picture could have been easily and quickly handled with a BMG

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

these small loaders are better off with a branch manager grapple or similar.

 

All of the wood and brash in the picture could have been easily and quickly handled with a BMG

 

 

Something like this:

 

Or is there a better example or vid you might know of Kim???

[kimtree]

Something like this:

 

Or is there a better example or vid you might know of Kim???

 

thats the dealers page plenty of examples on there

 

ive run one for 6 years on a schaffer 2026. a great tool

 

i have my own version of the rake its a bit brutal not really suited to delicate lawns but excellent for debris piling prior to hand raking]

 

i take the BMG and a 4 in 1 bucket to most sites that's all that is needed

 

and of course the chipper

[shillo]

Which model is that Shillo?? I've got a 528 on demo at mo, pretty impressive what I've been able to do so far, more testing today, pics to follow!

 

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Mine is the 420, the smaller version of the one you have on demo, I went for this one simply because it was a bit smaller and lighter, easier for me to tow. it fits in my brian james tipper with the grab on, just hangs out the back a little. i would have had to got a new trailer for the 528 i think.

 

The grab is good for brash but not for wood, i bent tines in no time at all. if you can get chipper close to brash there is no use for the grab. Pallet forks with the log grab is great as tines are much longer so can stack on much more cord or rings.

 

I don't think the 528 will lift a 800kg dumpy bag either

[Peter]

Something like this:

 

Or is there a better example or vid you might know of Kim???

 

I bought a Farma G2 grapple and made up a bracket to fit my machine

Edited August 3, 2014 by Peter