I would disagree, I prefer boards though if I'm stuck and I always have a few 2x6' and 2x8's in my ghetto rig for whatever we might need them for.
You must get stuck really bad!
But a sheet of plywood will get you unstuck just as easily as alturna mats. And remember Skwerl's trick in a pinch. You can lift front and rear tires on a forestry unit without moving just by using the outriggers and the boom.
Heh if I could walk into a store here and buy them, or get free shipping on a few or something. I'd consider it. I do prefer to only work with the best rigging.
Not even a consideration here. $5 at the used building material store for sheets of plywood I'm sure the shipping alone per mat would be ten times that for me up here.
Yah six seems like you'd be stopping/flipping alot. We use whatever we need as my plywood stack rides on my truck that pulls the dump trailer with the mini and there's got to be atleast 15-20 sheets on there. When I work graveyards I flipping plywood everything within a 'oops' distance.
For walking in the bucket it has to be really worth using the bucket over climbing, but if that's the case than 10 sheets will do ya. Usually it will happen by 'leapfrogging' the sheets in front of each other so eight would do in theory, but in actual practice an extra couple are always handy...
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