Building My New Crane

allmarktree

Here is the process of building my crane

Jeff Darby

Hey Allmark,
Cool bananas, reminds me of when I was in heavy industry, Ive built trucks,rock breaking excavator buckets so big you could park a car in,and special one off's for the mines around Australia,but that was a life time ago,now my passion is Arboriculture.

We used to build trucks to car standards (finnish) All by elect arc, stick, I couldn't tell you how many times I blisstered my knuckles laying down welds over 450 amps..Now I weld for me and mine

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Steve Tipton

Very impressive! Makes my 3 ton Hiab 550 look like a toy.

Eric Frei

Very nice, lots of welding and steel in that.

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Drouin Tree Service

Awesome!

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Lee Winger

One pretty truck! Allmark how comes you never went with an ''off the shelf'' crane such as a Hi-ab, Atlas, Palfinger, Fassi etc?

Great soundtrack by the way..

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allmarktree

Effer has a better power to weight ratio for where my lifts are. The boom is built from 1 piece of steel w/ 1 weld full length inside and out. I liked the design of the knuckles and other components. I felt they are stronger aand more durable. The manufactureing plant was impressive too.
They have a proven track record w/ the remote(available on the others too).
Past customers of Smith crane gave good reccommedations and history w/them. I worked with a couple tree companies that had them and tried a couple others out.

treefeller

cool. How much did that set you back

mdvaden

Great job on the video.

What kind of pin or piece was it, that looked gold or brass color?

allmarktree

There are brasswear plates around the boom.

Treefeller yourlooking at 300k+ depending on options for everything.

Eric Frei

Bargain, Treefeller, get one for the Mrs too!

My house aint worth that in USD! But my house cant do TD's like that thing either. It would be the end of climbing for me ... if that didnt reach I'd go elsewhere.

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Lee Winger

Allmark dumb question sorry, but is the body a dump/tipper..............I just got the kids to take a look, they love it..

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allmarktree

Ekka My house isnt either.
Roller it does dump and I dontneed to move thecrane just back up and move the lever in the cab.

Mike Poor

Mine cost 4 TIMES what i paid for my house (11 yrs. ago)!!! My first knuckleboom cost 115000! That was 10 yrs ago. After i bought i went through "buyers remorse" until i took it onto it's first job! Then i remembered why i was looking for something that could the stuff it does. Congrat's Allmark you're gonna' love it. I looked at many different brands and the Effer brand had the most experience w/ lg cranes & by far, the best: power to weight to reach ratio! Effer makes a 220 t/m that will pick 1800 lbs at 160 feet radius!!!

Eric Frei

Holy Crikey's and caterpillars! That is huge, that is one heck of a unit, that would cover every suburban block this side of the black stump!

That's it, one of them R/C and a big azzed chipper, ya done!

Hey, houses are cheap in USA, over here, last few years has killed it, the great Aussie dream of buying/owning ya own house has vanished for many, rent has gone through the roof too, just crazy what has happened here, doesn't make sense.

Problem is tighter budgets mean less tree work.

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soutz

how cool is that crane. man you would want some work lined up for that baby.great fishing rod aswell for those take downs next to the coast.

TrevMcRev

Did the crane co do all the truck mods and mounting as well or was that all seperate?

$300k for the crane alone or the whole shebang?

I drool a bit everytime i look at that thing.

$300k sounds a lot but it will outperform and outlast a lot of climbers wage $ hours and never call in sick or show up hungover.

allmarktree

Trev. That was everything. International moved the axles. Smith Cranes built the body installed the lift axle and mounted the crane which was built in Italy.
A truck that size alone is worth 100K plus. There is a 12%federal tax on new trucks that size + sales tax(8% where I am).

Eric Frei

Go on Trev, you can afford it, just sell ya race car and re-mortgage ya house. Aussie Dollar is a record high, now is the time. LOL

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shaggs

allmark,
truely appreciate the video of your crane. lots of work earlier will hopefully create less work later. raw steel is nearly as much of a passion as raw timber to alot of us!
best of luck with the new toy, stay safe and look forward to some more working videos!

TrevMcRev

I asked the bank for $500k for a knuckleboom and they said all they'd give was enough for a knucklesandwich

"tell him hes dreamin"

Too many overhead powerlines round here i reckon to get the best out of it.

I'd need to be doing so much more big removal work to justify the cost of something like that, especially the time you got it to Oz.

Maybe Taylors will buy one

allmarktree

once you rip them down its easy the rest of the day.