Bossman's New Crane

Recon Freak

This is the bosses new toy at work 23 1/2 ton crane. It has 110' main boom height(142' with the jib) and 7700lb weight limit. Our old 14.4 ton crane maxxed out at 96' with the jib. This thing made quick work of the big Oak in the pics.

Eric Frei

You guys are set up well.

The tower part of the outfit too?

Now with all that he'd have to have a decent chipper nearby too wouldn't he ... need a bunch of guys to drive all his stuff around.

Nice pics, thanks

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Recon Freak

Yeah the boss is pretty proud about his business and equipment. We have a vermeer bc1400 chipper hooked to a 14 yard chipper truck, a gmc 65 series dump truck and 16 ft dump trailer for wood, and tractor to move the wood. We have 7 full time guys and have work out 2 or 3 months year round. We work our butts of to pay for all these toys.

Steve Tipton

Most of the pics from the American guys show huge yards with plenty of access. We don't often have that in Australia.

TrevMcRev

Noticed that too. If we worked in yards like that it would be soooo much easier. I dont even see why you need a bucket or crane over there, most the time a quick climber would bomb it out just as quick when theres no obstacles.

But if ya busy enough and ya get through more quicker fair enough!

gk1024

Just curious, but how much did he pay for that bad boy?

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Lee Winger

I can't understand why , I mean we Brits live on a tiny island with no space to swing a cat, yet you aussies live in a country almost the size of a small continent..

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Steve Tipton

In the cities, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, the building blocks are getting smaller and the houses are getting bigger. Most back yards don't have access for a car, let alone a truck. Outer suburbs and rural areas have more room, but tend not to spend as much on tree maint or PHC.
The average suburban block was 1000 sq metres (1/4 acre), but most of these have been sub divided with a house at the rear or demolished and 5 or 6 villa homes built on the same site.
Also, many Sydney coastal areas are very steep which impedes access for machinery.

Eric Frei

There's an effort to curb urban sprawl ... solution is so called medium and high density housing.

I have worked on some house blocks a small as 280m2

The average these days is probably 500m2, no room for trees that's for sure.

Problem is as the city spreads and people work in the CBD traffic etc gets bad.

In this day and age I dont know why businesses want to pay such a premium to be in the city when a lot of their services are online, phone etc.

Also dont forget that once you leave the coastal regions it can get a little inhospitable out there. We also dont have a massive population so infrastructure is costly per head.

I love it when working fringe/rural areas and having hordes of room and decent dinki di Aussies who are like I remember them when I was growing up...

... Not this road rage, give you the bird aggro city crap where I have even had azzhole neighbours requesting vaccuming up the saw dust from their gardens ... city people are slowly degrading to some psuedo New Yorker as portrayed in movies by Eddie Murphy. The change here in Brisbane over the last 10 years has been very noticable ... in that period perhaps 750,000 southeners have moved here and the attitude STINKS frankly, they bring their big city SydneyMelbourne attitudes here. They are also more accepting of smaller housing blocks and traffic jams and looking out for themselves.

Oh, hello Mexicans.

Now kindly please return to your home city or calm down and fit in.

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shaggs

We like most, us a crane occasionally. But does anyone know of a tree operator in Australia that owns a knuckboom/ crane soley for tree work.
I think the regs in the US are a bit more relaxed regarding the use of them.

Recon Freak

I think around $200k US. We use it all types of situations. Big trees in tight spots and high risk dead trees where shatter from rigging would create a greater risk. Yes we do have quite a few large yards with ample room but bombing out a $2000 tree would cause $20,000 in lawn and lanscape damage. A majority of our crane jobs are climbed. The crane gives us the ability to combine speed with a greater margin of safety. We can also set the brush right in behind chipper.Yay, less dragging.