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24th March 2007, 08:39 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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|  How I drag brush and log to feed the chipper
2.24 mins and 12.3mb WMV featuring some Aussie fauna having a laugh and a fight. www.palmtreeservices.com.au/video/tnt2.wmv
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24th March 2007, 09:02 PM
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| Monument Status  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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What a slave driver you are, making those poor groundies push the fronds and logs into the rollers  Sean |
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25th March 2007, 01:51 AM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Urbana, IL,usa
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Great vid' Ekka, gotta love the OLD ac/dc too! Those branch manager grapples are sweet huh?
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25th March 2007, 05:12 AM
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Good vid!!!! reminds of when i cleared a orange grove..Had the guys cuttin em down in front and i would grab entire trees and cramm them in the chipper.Just needed one guy to hold the safety bar....G00D Times!!!! |
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25th March 2007, 08:35 AM
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Bloody good piece of equipment, I couldn't imagine doing the job without it now. Come the tail end of the job where you got most busted now it's just a breeze.
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25th March 2007, 03:27 PM
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Watching that clip I felt like old,Homer you know when he thinks about food,grueling and dribling down the side of his cheek,man I want a 18" chipper ohwell it will come,nice clip Ekka.  we still drag the brush,after we get our gear as close to the job thats practical.
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25th March 2007, 06:11 PM
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I hire that chipper in, and that truck holds 25m3, it was filled chock a block and Andrew had to climb in the back and shovel round some to make it fit.
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22nd August 2007, 10:08 AM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Suffolk UK
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I've got my compact tractor , but to tell the truth I wish I had bought a mini skid instead, IMO they are much more versatile, my tractor weighs over 2.5 tons its 5' odd foot wide and needs a 16' trailer to cart it about. Tractors and min-skids are totally different animals IMO
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22nd August 2007, 11:28 AM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia
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who manufactures the grapple hook attach? my boss' got a little thomas 25g mini loader, same deal as your kanga, and he has a 4in1 bucket and a stump grinder attach for it but nothing beats that grapple hook in dragging rubbish. we use a chain and bundle piles up and snig them out, no way near as effective as the grapple tho.
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22nd August 2007, 06:41 PM
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Ive emailed him to see if he'll join. Comes from the States made by a tree guy. Runs in around $2k depending on freight. Only 2 in Aussie I know of at this stage. I bought it off him maybe around 18months ago now, leaves buckets for dead but is heavier so cuts down lift capacity a little bit. We'll see if he chimes in.
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22nd August 2007, 10:07 PM
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| Mature Tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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I'd seriourly look at getting a mini loader if i could get my hands on one of these grapples.
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23rd August 2007, 08:48 AM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Suffolk UK
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It wouldn't be hard to get an engineer downunder to make something close to Ekkas grapple, and I'm sure, with various differences it wouldn't be classed as copying. Maybe if you guys got together and bought say half a container load, you'd save a lot of doller!
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23rd August 2007, 04:26 PM
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Hey Eric, thanks for sharing the video with me, very nice. Trying to break an addiction to the 'blogs', so purposely staying away. Besides havn't had much of anything new to talk about, built a mini stump puller .. a little funky.. I'll post some media when I get out and test it more. Oh yeah grapples are always in stock  |
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23rd August 2007, 07:23 PM
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27th August 2007, 08:57 PM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia
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ahhh. good times. talked to the boss and hes really interested. showed him the pics of you lifting those logs over the fence and he was convinced. his wife's just had a baby tho so hes not really thinking about business and purchases, speaking of which im up in brissy as of tomorrow arvo to see some mates on my week off, if you need someone to film, im around til fri. i wouldnt mind seeing you operate anyway if you dont mind the intrusion, ekka.
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27th August 2007, 10:36 PM
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I got no work!  Where abouts ya staying suburb wise?
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28th August 2007, 11:08 AM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia
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sunnybank. got some uni mates that live out that way. no work eh? i guess you guys have got some pretty serious competition up your way. weve only got 7 or so guys in our local rag and half of them are hacks so were nearly always busy. anyways im coming up this morning so if you need a hand filming, ill be available during the next couple of days. i know thats why we dont film and take pics mostly, because there isnt an extra set of hands and theres work to be done!
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28th August 2007, 09:10 PM
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On wednesday, the local rag gets delivered, have a look how many in there. I used to be in that paper but pulled the ad due to poor performance and a predominant demographic which always insists "yooo doooo cheaperrrr" "disss yooooo best prise" 
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31st August 2007, 09:47 PM
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nothing like slaying a heap of palms.
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3rd September 2007, 11:48 PM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: May 2007 Location: sydney
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| Re: How I drag brush and log to feed the chipper
g'day ekka great videos mate. just wondering how the chipper guys feel about putting cocos thru the chipper. alot of guys down here (sydney) dont throw them through 'cause of what they do to saws and chippers. others throw thru some "real" timber before putting the chipper to bed. any thoughts guys??? |
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3rd September 2007, 11:59 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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Yeah, most wont chip them but some do. We did 6 cuban royal palms today, and after the rain we had a couple of weeks ago they were extremely wet inside ... shute blockers. The cocos seem to go through alright as they're a bit denser. They do dull the knives, however up here there lots of palms and to not chip them when there's volume can become a PITA. Washingtonia frons block the shute easy too, and travellers palms, bad shute blockers. Yep, palms suck! And Welcome.
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4th September 2007, 12:34 AM
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| Sappling Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Brisbane
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I do contract chipping up in brisbane and allow palms through, I just try to make sure chipper doesn't have a new set of blades on cause as soon as a palm goes through is just takes the edge off. I figure the chipper will fall apart befor the drum rots out. Good gum tree is all the chipper needs to clean the whole drum out, which happens quite often so I don't worry about it. Pointsianna ?? are bad to for caking the drum. Can get upto half an inch of resin build up which doesn't wash off. |
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4th September 2007, 04:07 PM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia
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yeah we've got a 15'' woodsman chipper. it doesnt like palms. it'll chew the fronds if you occasionally put a piece of 'real wood' through, but if you dont she gets mighty blocked up. it isnt that much of a big deal tho, on the feed chute the underside is hinged and you just open it up and pull all the muck out. takes all of 3 secs. however as its been stated, takes an edge off the blades and leaves that POS palm juice all over the show. we rarely bother, the tip's just around the corner most of the time. as for poinsiana, we've never noticed a significant build up but i suppose it could happen, if that was all you were chipping for a couple of days. |
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4th September 2007, 04:25 PM
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| Sappling Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Brisbane
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YES, one of my grips with the vermeer is that the bottom of chute is not hinged, so unblocking can be a real nuisance. Have contemplated cutting bottom of chute out and hinging.
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4th September 2007, 07:01 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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I think you need to make a special poker/prodder like when loading cannon balls ... slide it down the shute and all the crap comes out the hole.
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3rd October 2007, 04:55 PM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: new zealand
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mate the groundies have it made. just got a dingo and moding out a forestery bunching grapple to do same job. at the moment we use a four in one or snig chain. i am constantly amazed at what these little machines can do. nice vid, but mate that looks dry, we have just had bout 100mm of rain in the last 2 days.
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3rd October 2007, 07:52 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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Dry az a bone! It's so dry that today I ran 10 ton of log out of a lawned yard and didn't leave tracks on the corner I was turning. Pool evaporation rate is now 20mm a week, no rain by this weekend I have to pump it up again or the filter sucks air. I think 3 weeks since some rain, and then it was only like 20mm. I love getting that kanga into jobs ... real back saver!
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