My theory was a Effer 655 6S/6S HD (or equivalent) at a minimum. The grapple saw is less than a tenth of the price of the truck/crane, and as mentioned you can take the grapple off and use it as a traditional knuckle boom... no biggy.
My figuring is ~$375-400k.
I had one potential customer...
The Mecanil grapples are larger with longer bars, around the same price as the GMT. Mecanil is better suited I think for the larger knuckle boom cranes with its separate control for each function. The GMT is much faster if your carrier can take advantage of that.
I think it's a great idea. I sell Mecanil as well as GMT. I own a GMT035 and run it on my excavator. It saves a huge amount of labor on the ground, I can reach up about 16' with it and have used it to take out hundreds going on thousands of trees that could essentially be flopped. It's flipping...
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