Compact grapple truck build thread

[Thor's Hammer]

So after reading the other thread, it motivated me to build another grapple truck. This will be my fourth, and hopefully last.

Today I rushed off and bought the crane. Not my first choice, it's not a forestry loader with guarded pipework or upper mount rams. But it was in extremely nice condition, and a bargain in exchange for folding type money.

Next on the list is a decent chassis to mount it on.

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[MasterBlaster]

 

[woodworkingboy]

English made? Good luck with the build.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

English made? Good luck with the build.

Atlas Terex. German built I think.

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[cory]

Cool thread. Good luck with the project.

 

[Bodean]

Oh Mang! #hashtag 'eating popcorn'

 

[PCTREE]

Ed all I can ask is where do you get the motivation?? I could never even begin to accept such an undertaking.

On another note what are the specs of that boom??

 

[flushcut]

Cool! Lots of pictures required please!

 

[dstimber]

Going to keep a close eye on this thread. I have been throwing around the idea of a trailer similar to what baileys sells. Looking forward to seeing this thing take shape!


Denver

 

[Levi]

So.... Any updates???

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Goodness. Life has been extremely busy of late... With several projects taking precedence over grapple trucks. I did a deal for a broken Safetrak chipper. Bunch of new parts and a bit of fabbing work later and its like brand new.

Then came a house in town. We bought a bit of a wreck in a great part of town, mostly student rentals. I'm busy stripping it out, re roofing etc. It will provide us with a very tidy monthly income, and property is a good pension.

Then came a large food trailer for doing concerts and festivals. Rachaels dream is to work with food. So I bought a beat up fairground trailer, stripped the whole thing out, re-painted and refitted the interior, and shes started doing events. She's quit her high powered corporate job in the defence industry, and is loving being her own boss.

Then I realised I wanted a chip / arb truck. So a nice little Iveco 6500kgs truck was bought 2 weeks ago. I need to bulid a nice aluminium chip box and tool lockers for that.

So the grapple truck will come.... Give me a quiet weekend

 

[Thor's Hammer]

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[MasterBlaster]

The way that safety bar wraps around the chute looks like it can be a royal PITA.

Cool kitchen!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Must be Welsh on the bottom panel?

Thats awesome Ed.

Congrats and good luck to your girl friend. Takes a lot of guts to do what she did.

 

[Raj]

Awesomenesses!!




I bought a new toothbrush.....

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I've always wanted a tracked chipper. Nice stuff. Tell Racheal congrats on her business. Happy for how it is working out for the both of you Ed.

 

[flushcut]

Busy is good.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Took me ages to find this thread. Whilst mostly putting on parties being a superstar djand dressing like an expensive whore, I also occasionally do a bit of work.

I finally managed to find exactly the right chassis for my compact grapple truck, a '99 model Iveco in 4x4 rated to pull a 11k kgs trailer. It's a bit of a beast.

Sadly I sold the black crane as I was offered money for it and I'm easily bought.

Have just bought a really nice Loglift forestry spec crane to go on it so this project is finally go!

 

[cory]

It looks like a beast.

What was that truck used for in the past?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Cool! I was wondering when you might get this going on Ed.

 

[cory]

You should post works in progress pics.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

I'll try. Life is kind of busy right now. Thankfully not much to do with this one apart from mounting the crane and body

 

[Thor's Hammer]

It looks like a beast.

What was that truck used for in the past?

Power company pole erecting truck.

 

[Jomo]

Very nice rig Ed!

Jomo

 

[cory]

You are obviously quite a fabricator, did you have much training in it or pretty much seat of the pants/self taught? Either way, impressive.