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Dan, You are 100% right my man, that SS looks like a gem. Since we dont trailer an extra piece of equipment around, nor run anything with tracks on a lawn without plywood, we will stick to do doing the way we have been. But, if we ever start charging drastically less per man hour and need to get...

Thanks for the feedback Daniel, I am glad your setup works well for you. You are absolutely right about how flopping a tree and driving a skid steer onto a lawn to grab the the tree with a grapple bucket and feed it into a chipper is faster and more efficient than what I posted. Taking a tree...

Thanks Larry! You are right about the butt-catch lines for sure.

They have a pretty negative outlook actually.

Thanks everyone. I cant take credit for the technique, it was something that the other guys on the crew showed me. They arent on the forums or anything so while it may not be the first time anyone has used the equipment like this they have been figuring it out as they go. They first introduced...

I have a guy I give firewood too, sometimes the customer elects to keep it, in which case it usually costs more (unless it BIG wood) because we are equipped to take it away better than cut it into 18"s (basically it comes down to hourly rate). I only take wood to my friend though if its a nearby...

The sales guys have no idea how we do anything (self admitted)... They say "turn tree with pink tape into chips, dont break anything, dont get complaints... if the safety guy shows up dont tell him to frack off" For this job most all the larger wood was left so if it wasnt easier to winch it...

There ya go! Here is another one... Unedited from my cell phone and I had to shut it off before we chipped it. Suffice it to say, once its on the tray you attach the winch line to the log mid way and jam it into the rollers hitting the selector switch when its tight and the auto feed takes the...

To buy? 3-6k??? No idea.

The important pieces are the heel block (redirect from the tree to the winch), the hook on the winch line, the figure 8 (and biner), a sling, and something tough and structural on the chipper to attach the sling to. take the figure 8, attach it to the rigging line and hard lock it (generally we...

I shot all that myself Nick with my Contour! JP It is a Bandit 1590. Butch, if you watch closely it just rubs the boom...it doesnt HIT it... the piece was balanced and the brush just kinda skated over top... But yes, I try to avoid that. On the next piece I left a lot more holding wood and...

We use our chipper winch like gangbusters... This is just one of the things we do a lot. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/g9B5_J_5l4o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> We are on a small road contract now, only 50-60 removals but all bucket reachable...