Lifting Tracked Chippers

[fen01]

I'm about to buy a tracked chipper (Jensen 540) and was wondering what the best way to lift them with a hiab is? I'm assuming that lifting eyes are for component parts not lifting the whole machine. I have been advised to five the chipper over a couple of slings then lift it, but there's no means of stopping the chipper sloping either forwards out backwards.

 

Any thoughts or experience?

 

Cheers

 

Mark

[simonm]

Not familiar with Jensen but my Tw & forst both have a lifting eye on top of the machine, they just need an appropriate lifting shackle.

[fen01]

So both the tw and first can be lifted from a single point on the top ? I thought that was for moving the posts during manufacture, of would be great if I'm wrong😁😁, so much easier than mucking about slinging under the tracks.

[JaySmith]

Our timber wolf has a lifting eye on the top which says the max lift on the eye which is slightly less than the machine weight if I remember correctly. A previous place I worked at had a wolf 190 which we lifted with a tractor and shackle and lifting on the eye lifted it centrally

[fen01]

I guess I'll have to see what Redwood say. I don't to do the thing!

[karl]

We have lifted tw190 plenty of times and not just lifted it but had it carried by rrv along rail tracks some distance on the cetral lifting eye. Also lifted g/mech 19-28 safetrack over walls and fences using the 4 eyes along the bittom of thd machine.