All terrain cranes and their limitations?

[Billy]

One large excavator should be able to pick them up and put them on a trailer I should think. Anything that can do the job this time of year will be more or less on that budget or over it though.

[Gray git]

Side load it onto the trailer with a large winch

1st you need loading ramps, say 4 at 6-8"thick similar to railway sleepers, position your trailer next to the log and ramps off the side down to the log.

Now position your winch tractor on the op side about 10m away and run the cable over the top of both trailer and log then back under both and fix the end back to the winch or tractor.

When you start pulling it will cause the log to role up the ramps onto the trailer but make sure you have some chocks so it stops central once on and can also use them on the ramps to slow 1 end so turning the log a little.

It's how we have loaded some monster oaks the crane couldn't pick up when I was an apprentice.

Also used it to load decent lumps onto the ifor.

[skyhuck]

Side load it onto the trailer with a large winch

1st you need loading ramps, say 4 at 6-8"thick similar to railway sleepers, position your trailer next to the log and ramps off the side down to the log.

Now position your winch tractor on the op side about 10m away and run the cable over the top of both trailer and log then back under both and fix the end back to the winch or tractor.

When you start pulling it will cause the log to role up the ramps onto the trailer but make sure you have some chocks so it stops central once on and can also use them on the ramps to slow 1 end so turning the log a little.

It's how we have loaded some monster oaks the crane couldn't pick up when I was an apprentice.

Also used it to load decent lumps onto the ifor.

 

Over a wall???

[Gray git]

What wall, nobody mentioned a wall or did I zone out somewhere, it has been a strange day...

[LGP Eddie]

I was coming to it from worst case scenario, where in reality the trailers being suggested especially on twin wheels will do as much damage as the crane?

 

Eddie.

[woody paul]

Roll it with big loader were it can be lifted with crane here's one I did a couple of years ago through a church yard.

 

[Breezeblock]

loading shovel ab2000 or sweeney should have something big enough

[testcricket01]

They have there limits we took this 40tonner on some real boggy ground (a filled in lake) we had sheets of plyboard with the proper plastic type boards ontop crane had no issues at all, the 2nd day he desided he didnt need the boards and sank in the mud, no big issue just raised the outriggers lift the crane, boards under the tyres and away you go.

[biggarlogs]

you are on east coast big j are you?how about one of those low loader trailers you move diggers on which go flat to the ground,rol log on with big forklift etc .lift trailer and off you go .a couple of machines at 35 quid an hour for a couple of hours and within budget?jake:thumbup:

[monkeybusiness]

We got a 4x4 40 tonne city crane properly stuck on what I considered to be a pretty solid field.

I thought much the same as you Big J - it's got big grippy tyres and 4wd so should be OK! It really wasn't - I now know that wheeled cranes are hopeless on anything other than paved surfaces. That was a very expensive day for me and ended up involving a monster of a winch just to get the crane out! Use diggers or winches if you are venturing across fields would be my (now expert) advice!