Ebay log grab

[Pedrod316]

When you say Riko grabs do you mean Uniforest or their own?

I think uniforest? This is the grab i was looking at? Some photos have uniforest & other none, are uniforest any good?

 

[Breezeblock]

the uniforest grab does look okay heres the one we've got when it was new

[aspenarb]

Price and application come to mind here. Some of these cheap grabs/rotators would probably last a lifetime if only used occasionally and on a small crane. The ones I have been looking at recently at shows just dont look heavy duty enough in construction to poke up with prolonged use at their advertised capacity. If on a budget I would go for a quality rusty second hand grab over a Chinese shiny new one.That big uniforest grab looks the biz

 

Bob

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

We got the Uni 1300 on a 5 tonne excavator; it's slightly bent now but done a lot of work.

 

None of these are upto the Cranab / Hultdins standards but neither do they cost their money.

[Pedrod316]

Trouble is how do you know what is chinese rubbish & not untill it arrives on your door step!?

What do you think of the uniforest grab? Or what other brand do you use/reccomend

 

Cheers

[aspenarb]

Trouble is how do you know what is chinese rubbish & not untill it arrives on your door step!?

What do you think of the uniforest grab? Or what other brand do you use/reccomend

 

Cheers

 

I think it comes back to intended use, cheap chinese will serve you well if you are not beating it to death on a daily basis, if your are then you need to step up to a quality unit.

 

Edit, the grab on our artic trailer is Jonsered with a rotorex rotator, it opens up to about 2.5mts. That has been abused for over fifteen years now and never had any repairs in that time. From memory that was about £750 from ebay.

 

Bob

Edited August 16, 2015 by aspenarb

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Trouble is how do you know what is chinese rubbish & not untill it arrives on your door step!?

What do you think of the uniforest grab? Or what other brand do you use/reccomend

 

Cheers

 

What ya gonna use it for?... Uniforest is darn good value for money no doubt But I wouldn't put one on a forwarder...

 

For instance tapping the logs in flush to a timber stack will muller a Uniforest.

[Pedrod316]

Just general site use , picking up pipes/odd stones etc snd some log dutys, but nothing like on industrial scale in the woods/forwarder stuff etc

 

But at same time something that you can use with out having to worry it is going to snap/bend when it looks at something if you get my drift!

[Pedrod316]

We got the Uni 1300 on a 5 tonne excavator; it's slightly bent now but done a lot of work.

 

None of these are upto the Cranab / Hultdins standards but neither do they cost their money.

 

Does the 1300 come with the hardox steel?

Has the ram got good clamping power?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Does the 1300 come with the hardox steel?

Has the ram got good clamping power?

 

Not when we got ours and

Yes