sotc
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$25k ish
Lil' helper cart
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TreeHouser
Money well spent!!!
SouthSoundTree-
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Money well spent. Especially if it can also feed your chipper or forward material to a grapple truck.
HolmenTree
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
Haha, man those are some beautiful yards 
HolmenTree
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They question me if my little 285 lb powerbarrow will hurt their yards
MasterBlaster
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HolmenTree
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Still winter here I'll take more pics when everything greens up.
Sound advice from these guys, we love our mini... Great ROI, better work environment. We only put plywood down after in springtime or where we turn, we do a lot of low impact work.
These pieces were too wide to grab with the BMG. So we moved them with forks.
These pieces were too wide to grab with the BMG. So we moved them with forks.
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TreeHouser
How much money spent fixing a customer's lawn? ........
Here's the majority of high paying customers yards I do work in. Low impact all the way
Here's the caliber of my high paying custys houses.
Around $6.5 mill 24,000 square feet under roof with an additional 22,000 square feet planned for the next year ground breaking in a week. We just did a seventeen spruce removal there 0 damage. Then again when we did four massive sugar maple removals 0 damage and they did not want the stump holes filled with dirt they just resodded their entire yard all 3 acres.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
I'm telling yah Willard the only reason you think a mini is high impact is because you've never used one. Or you used it poorly. I feared no yard/lawn with my mini.
It's the same reason why you could possibly think that the powerbarrow is as efficient as a mini skid. You keep lifting properly and telling yourself that as much as you'd like.
Page those logs I had to move with the mini to the trailer by moving one end and then the other. I could almost drag something like that but then would've done damage. I loaded them with a strap as they were to heavy for the grapple. Normally I'd use a grapple near all the time. BMG. Hard to see in those other pics but if you look closely those logs needed a lot of fanangling and there's very little impact even right where I was loading.
It's the same reason why you could possibly think that the powerbarrow is as efficient as a mini skid. You keep lifting properly and telling yourself that as much as you'd like.
Page those logs I had to move with the mini to the trailer by moving one end and then the other. I could almost drag something like that but then would've done damage. I loaded them with a strap as they were to heavy for the grapple. Normally I'd use a grapple near all the time. BMG. Hard to see in those other pics but if you look closely those logs needed a lot of fanangling and there's very little impact even right where I was loading.
HolmenTree
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Ah come on guys .....I think your all just a bunch of soft woosies who are either scared to pull a muscle or don't have any muscles.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Lmao. Right on the chin eh. I like that Willard, rounded shoulders look good on you.
It sounds to me like Page is consistently moving big wood, I'd be looking to to get into some kind of a mechanical lifting device asap. It was a game changer for me, I felt.
My little ramrod with turf tires on it, same as a lawn tractor was very low impact.
It sounds to me like Page is consistently moving big wood, I'd be looking to to get into some kind of a mechanical lifting device asap. It was a game changer for me, I felt.
My little ramrod with turf tires on it, same as a lawn tractor was very low impact.
sotc
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Ah come on guys .....I think your all just a bunch of soft woosies who are either scared to pull a muscle or don't have any muscles.
yep, no muscles left here! I had them replaced with hydraulic cylinders!
HolmenTree
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Pfffffft.
The only bigger piece of equipment that I need is a nice little skidder like a Clarke 664 or 665 in either cable or forwarder/picker.
Stick a detachable grapple on the blade if I don't go the forwarder route.
Now that's a real piece of equipment for the big jobs.
Thor's Hammer
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LOL. Little Clarke my arse. Thats not a real piece of equipment.
SouthSoundTree-
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We moved my mini with chipper to chip all the brush from a 5' dbh cottonwood across plywood. We would have had to move thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of pounds of brush to the chipper, then needed to haul the chips, rather than broadcast into the woods.
I have moved my chipper to the brush lots of times. I hardly haul chips any more.
How many pounds of brush can you fit per load in a power-barrow, high enough off the ground to not smash shrubs along the way?
Your power-barrow seemed to be the niche tool for your old, soggy location, maybe.
Hydraulics are for lifting.
I have moved my chipper to the brush lots of times. I hardly haul chips any more.
How many pounds of brush can you fit per load in a power-barrow, high enough off the ground to not smash shrubs along the way?
Your power-barrow seemed to be the niche tool for your old, soggy location, maybe.
Hydraulics are for lifting.
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
I move my chipper to the brush too
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HolmenTree
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Stick an operator on it who knows what he's doing and you got a real piece of equipment.
HolmenTree
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I've moved my loaded 10K lb trailer unit with my powerbarrow too..
MasterBlaster
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That is one cool chipper, Ed!
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
MasterBlaster
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HolmenTree
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Back in the 1980's , late '70s when I was skidding 60 cords (160 cubic meters) of conifer treelength in a 7 hour day with a Clarke 664 cable skidder.......
You guys over in Europe were logging with farm tractors.
Thor's Hammer
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And you're point is? You were claiming that a power barrow is better than a mini loader. Now you want to boast about some piece of shit skidder as better?
You really have no idea how to engage in a rational discussion. Always the boasting about your power barrow or your 70s logging
You really have no idea how to engage in a rational discussion. Always the boasting about your power barrow or your 70s logging
