spiderlift

[Mr. Sir]

You guys who are so down on two in a bucket, would you feel that way if the set-up was two buckets attached? We have a home-made arrangement that attaches to the crane boom, two drum cans actually, attached together and on a pivoting shaft. We use it when there is no drop zone. One guy usually does most of the cutting, while the other is stuffing the brush into his can. It works well. I'll have to get a photo the next time.

Sounds kinda Red Green-ish, if ya know what I mean.

I'd like to see those pics.

 

[DTW902]

This is a cottonwood we did a while back for the state. We had to go through the timber to get to it. It was a 3 way codom. The leg the state was worried about was leaning out over a old iron bridge. It was a drop and leave piled at the base of the tree, just nothing in the creek or on the bridge. It would have crushed the bridge if it failed, I took pictures of the base. They had good reason to be worried.

 

[DTW902]

Some more. These are getting to the tree.

 

[DTW902]

And these are working on the tree, still had some tree above me, with the spider at 76ft....

 

[sotc]

cool! you couldnt drop in the creek or you just had to clean it back out if you did drop?

 

[DTW902]

Ya we had to get in the creek to pull some way ward limbs and chunks. We just couldn't leave it in the creek. Oh and it was a 15ft drop from the edge down to the water. Thats what the yellow strap is for in the last picture. We had a pulley set there so we could get the wood out of the creek.

 

[sawinredneck]

Should have called Dave, I would have ridden the bucket and helped out

 

[CurSedVoyce]

The spider lift looks amazing. I love the track drive and the reach. Sure could use one around here. Just not enough market to help pay for it.

 

[DTW902]

Dang I forgot to call Andy.... Mabe next time.

 

[sawinredneck]

Dang I forgot to call Andy.... Mabe next time.

Yeah, I'll hold my breath, and white knuckles!!!

 

[DTW902]

Another cottonwood drop and leave grind stump. Windy as hell before we got done. The granddaughter got a little tied up on this job.

 

[Mr. Sir]

Haha, nice pics! "Hey kid, this is a big piece. Better take a few wraps!"

 

[DTW902]

This was a hackberry removal, the customers were worried about it falling on the house. They had a cool old barn. The camera battery went dead so not to many pictures.

 

[SkwerI]

Haha, nice pics! "Hey kid, this is a big piece. Better take a few wraps!"

LMAO!

 

[DTW902]

Haha, nice pics! "Hey kid, this is a big piece. Better take a few wraps!"

That was a good one Brett.

 

[Burnham]

Indeed!

 

[rangerdanger]

Awesome pics!!! Looks like you have a great set-up with the Spider Lift. I've seen them once or twice at the shows and these things look like the perfect tool for tight access work.

 

[DTW902]

These are from a recent trip to Tulsa OK. We had to take out the dead top from this Cottonwood tree. They could noy get a crane to the tree and it was to dead to climb.

 

[DTW902]

This customer's back yard was like a jungle, anyway a pic of the tip going over a few others and the last one is one of several Dawn Redwoods she had back there also. The one pic looking up threw the Magnolia tree's.

 

[squisher]

Looks like a pita job. Nice.

 

[DTW902]

They are adding on an addition and decided that this Hackberry tree had to go. They already had the stem walls up, so we took the heavy stems over the new construction and let the grab truck help make it go the way I wanted. All we had to do was get it on the ground.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Lordy, that looks like an easy climbing job.

Why break out the big guns???

 

[DTW902]

Ha I'm spoiled, why climb when you can ride. That job was on the way to another that day. You have to remember it's very rural were I live, you have to do it all in 1 trip. Can't afford to go back, the nearest decent size town is about 45 miles away.

 

[Koa Man]

Dave,
Looks like you need an 85 ft. wh lift. I find my 23GT about 5 to 7 ft. too short on some of the coconut palms I trim. MLE is coming out with their A87TD, 93 ft. wh in the 3rd qtr of this year. Drawbacks of that lift compared to the Teupen is no multiple outrigger positioning and the bucket cannot go lower than the boom knuckle. I did ask for a price quote a week ago but have not heard back from them.

 

[DTW902]

I hear ya Wesley. Seems like no matter how high your lift is you always would like to have 10ft more at times. The tip on that Cottonwood tree was probably 20 to 25 above me. It shattered when it came over, brittle as hell.