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kimtree

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  1. I am not selling it.search 'lowering device" there are some pictures there
  2. i have a harken 46 with a custom made carrier. When i was climbing we used it alot for lifting branches etc. however i then made a bollard to slide into the carrier and the harken is now sat on a shelf getting bored. I doubt its been used in 5 years
  3. yeah thats my truck.. Purchased from Walkabout services in Queensland. If you want to see crane porn lookup their facebook page. I dont use that grab on there anymore we set it up on a 8 ton Volvo loader instead ,to make a somewhat larger version of a BMG. The mecanil grab saw rotator and manual extension was supplied by Cam and we fitted a Cejn quick attach ourselves and got a local engineering shop to make a 45 degree jib. Cost close to 50k when finished
  4. That is a salty the bloke doing the talking is Matt Wright a professional croc catcher i imagine its one of his pets
  5. Small world. That truck came from Broome just a little bit down the road from me. We have a Progress effer 305 with a grab saw but originally set it up with just a grapple. It was already piped for the jib but also required an addon electrical box to be plugged into the electrical socket where the jib would normally go and also had to be fiddled with from Italy via TeamViewer. Lots of mucking about. It may depend on what electronic control system you have as well, progress is more complicated than DMU .You are best talking to your local Effer dealer but you may encounter some disinterest if they did not set up the crane originally.
  6. the quoted price at the time (2013) was 50k less than anything available in Oz on the market then. i thought at the time the dealer had made a mistake with the price so i locked it in by giving them a 5k deposit. It took 6 months or so to arrive from Italy
  7. i have owned the first Cela DT24 to be brought into Oz for quite a few years now.Has now 900 hrs on it We had a lot of mystery faults in the early years with it and had to replace the main board in the basket and all the rubber cable connections at the basket as well. Apparently there was some form of a recall for the connection parts but i had to find out about them myself and pay for the parts as well. Backup was non existent and really not helped either that the dealer was over 3000 klms away. it still has random fault codes appearing now and then but i have a work around them (very simple but im sure loler would not like it). I would think Cela have sorted all the faults by now and when it works it is a great lift and i doubt there would be another lift that could match the speed at which you can move the boom plus the 14 metre up and over is great. What ever lift you go for make sure all parts are available Price wise it was really cheap in comparison to a similar sized lift (CTE ,Platform Basket)
  8. Change the wheel to Rhino. My experience with the original wheel was not good.Bolts would shear alot
  9. the only mistake i can see is that the reach is too short .I hope you are getting a manual section as part of the package .It is definitely required to keep the expensive stuff from getting squashed
  10. Yep its the high speed that i like on mine and the safety aspect as well
  11. you would be better off with a cnc router. Lots of good kits in USA available. much cheaper Look up CNC router parts
  12. Cant go past Schaffer quality .Got over 3500 hours on my 2026 now
  13. dont know about in the uk but here in Oz i can get that sort of stuff from the local tractor /engineering shop.
  14. I would not be able to get rid of the machine in good conciseness and also i live in a remote area. My manual has my model number on the inside cover page but the whole book itself is generic and mostly covers other models, is yours the same? Mine also has the 'crane' hook but only 230kg on it. We have a proper crane so i have never used it
  15. very. Cela now do a 40 metre light truck mount with 17 metre outreach and up and of height of 20 metres. Don't know if I would like being up at 40 with a small canter truck as the base though
  16. Does your operating manual look generic or is it a dedicated one? Also did you manage to source a parts manual. I could never get a parts book from the Oz dealer
  17. assuming it the same as mine 100kg at 12 metres , 200kg at 10 and 14 metres up and over
  18. Great.Must have done 50 jobs with it since those last pictures.Absolute game changer.I have bought my own farm off the back of it
  19. you should be alright in chilly UK . Turns out the can bus system can't handle the heat levels we get here.Also some of the rubber wiring connections absorbed water/rain from the air but they have been changed on the later machines i believe. I have put a cooling fan setup in the processor box and that fixed most of the random codes appearing on the screen.We have also replaced various wiring loom parts and the top box electronics. Cela did a retrofit wiring fix but i had to find out about it myself. As in they knew there was an issue but didn't do a recall. To the machines capability's. When it works its fantastic great working envelope good speed and there is nothing else out there similar. Really good for tree work. Now to parts supply. In Europe you should be ok but in OZ if i didn't have a backup machine i would have gone broke waiting for parts . The first part that broke was a track adjuster that split the side of the piston barrell? that took three weeks to get here. We got that welded up to get the machine out of the property we were working in at the time but then decided not to trust it and waited for the new part .Some of the electronic parts was 3 months. I am pretty sure this machine is jinxed as every time it performs flawlessly and i then tell my worker 'gee isn't this great 40 trouble free hours" it immediately cracks the shits and stops working!
  20. i remember a bloke saying he had never broke a thermos while sitting in a nissen hut at West Dean. only to have the hut take off in a high wind while we was planting trees later and only his thermos broke
  21. crane grab saw is absolute game changer for me. Trees that used to take the whole day or longer to put on the ground with a crew can now be done in a couple of hours on my own. Have a look at the treemek instagram page to see how far the Americans are taking the concept
  22. Finally someone else in the tree world has bought one. Better just hope yours wasn't made on a Friday like mine turned out to be.Mines a DT24 which is an earlier model but is basically the same except for a different basket attachment arrangement. We have had a lot of electronic problems
  23. Yes its pure murder, funnily i did not mind when i was younger
  24. Oh for a bit of rain. its been 45 c all bloody week here but no rain
  25. 21 c hot laughed my head off we have just had a week of over 44 c. Wear chaps over shorts

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