How to move a broke down tracked chipper?

[Vespasian]

I'm fairly sure that when the ancient Egyptians had a tracked machine go down they phoned a hydraulic specialist to bring a portable hydraulic pack to site. Seen it on a documentary.

 

Got to be worth speaking to a local hydraulic firm if you run those machines just in case.

 

The point being, that if you wanted to, you could get it moved and its easier than first imagined..

 

a bit of faffing about but doable...

 

timewise though, I'd suggest a mechanic, unless you already owned a bunch of pullies I'm not dure how cost wise would be...

 

As to the Egyptians, no they didn't have a woodchipper on tracks, but they could shift a thirty ton block at a pinch, how much does the chipper weigh?

[treequip]

As to the Egyptians, no they didn't have a woodchipper on tracks, but they could shift a thirty ton block at a pinch, how much does the chipper weigh?

 

Not a good comparison, in antiquity slaves and time were plentyfull. Every break down I have seen was late afternoon and involved too few people and too little kit.

[tree-fancier123]

Winch and round fence posts, easy

 

 

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can't see why that wouldn't work, especially with a trolley jack to get the posts under to start - best using a vehicle electric or hydraulic winch - would be there a while tirfor, one bloke cranking the handle like mad, the other taking posts from back to front

[Vespasian]

Not a good comparison, in antiquity slaves and time were plentyfull. Every break down I have seen was late afternoon and involved too few people and too little kit.

 

If your chippers broke down, you ain't doin nothin till its moved, so time doesn't much come into it.. you're there till its done...

 

I'm assuming (havin thought on it) that you can't get a trailer in, so you have to either fix it or move it..

 

If fixing isn't an option, then moving it comes next... get yourself some pulleys an make a four to one pulley system..

 

Use fence posts to guide it over the ground till you reach the trailer...

 

Now if you can't fix it, and don't have the wherewithal to drag it out, then I'm afraid the little tracked chipper is just gonna have to live there for the rest of its life..

[treequip]

If your chippers broke down, you ain't doin nothin till its moved, so time doesn't much come into it.. you're there till its done...

 

I'm assuming (havin thought on it) that you can't get a trailer in, so you have to either fix it or move it..

 

If fixing isn't an option, then moving it comes next... get yourself some pulleys an make a four to one pulley system..

 

Use fence posts to guide it over the ground till you reach the trailer...

 

Now if you can't fix it, and don't have the wherewithal to drag it out, then I'm afraid the little tracked chipper is just gonna have to live there for the rest of its life..

 

The point was that's its not just as easy as all that.

 

I have had occasion to move 3 busted chippers and until you have been in that situation don't underestimate the problems involved.

 

I had to recover a chipper off a rail possession by "borrowing" the starter off a mini digger in the middle of a rainy night under the eyes of a newly qualified PICOW who was proper stressed out.

[renewablejohn]

Simple if you have an axle wider then the tracks and an alpine tractor. Lift up one end with 3pt lift of tractor,roll axle as far under tracks as possible. Secure axle to tracks with ratchet straps. Lower 3pt and attach to other end lift up and drive away.

[Vespasian]

The point was that's its not just as easy as all that.

 

I have had occasion to move 3 busted chippers and until you have been in that situation don't underestimate the problems involved.

 

I had to recover a chipper off a rail possession by "borrowing" the starter off a mini digger in the middle of a rainy night under the eyes of a newly qualified PICOW who was proper stressed out.

 

 

 

Not sure what a PICOW is, assuming its someone in charge of safety on a rail line..

 

but anyway, necessity being the mother of invention.. suppose you do what you can with what you got..

[rick k]

Forst dont break down Johnny

 

 

They do

A lot

[dig-dug-dan]

Have had this with a crusher. I jacked it up, slid a scaffold pole under each end and rolled it on them.

[william127]

I once moved a full skip of hardcore like that, jacked up one end, dropped it on poles and towed it 50yards with my defender, the people who lived in the house were amazed to the point that I think I muttered something about the building of the pyramids:lol: