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Perfect setup Looks great. I've been talking with my crew for a few years that if they ever developed a combination grapple, crane, and bucket truck that it would be the perfect setup. I didn't realize they had done it until this thread. Do you mind if I ask if the cab/chassis was brand new...

Thanks for your response. I'm having a used Gyro Trac head 500HF shipped to be run on a new PT-100. The guy selling in to me claims that it will cut faster and cut larger trees than a Fecon, and I found the same information comparing the two manufacturers' websites. I'm also saving about...

Hey everybody, Looking for input on which is the best mulching head between Gyro Trac and Fecon. The head will be run on a Terex (ASV) 100 hp compact track loader. Based on 1) Production 2) Maintenance issues 3) Service/parts Thanks for any knowledge you may have.

I'm demo-ing the machine right now, and it is incredible what it can do! Chipped 30 foot Green Ash limbs yesterday with 15 foot breadth without making any cuts. The double feed wheels have enough power to crush and pull some serious forks through. I'm super pumped about this machine. Having...

Anybody? By the way, it turned out to be a 2003 model with only 467 hrs, and still the same price. :cheers:

I've got a chance to buy a 2001 Vermeer BC 1400 with 600 hours for a decent price, and I was wondering if anybody had some insight into this machine. I have two BC 1000's, and I need to trade one for a bigger chipper. I was looking at the BC 1800's, but their awfully big and would put my...

All right, I'm working on my order. At Sherrill they are $133 for the 2x8's. I swear they were $199 before. That helps a bunch.:) Is it worth the extra money, weight, and space to get the 3x8's? I need them for my big bucket truck and my RC-60. Oh yeah, smooth or treaded?

Yeah, I'm sure ya'll are right about the stall mats being too flexible. They are meant to be used on a hard surface, not soft ground, and I fully expect they will just curl up around the tire of a heavy truck. They might work fine for my ASV track machine, but I want something I can use for...

I'll go to Atwoods (ranch and home), get one of those mats, and drive the front tire on my big bucket (GMC Topkick) back and forth over it (leaving the other 3 tires on the parking lot) on wet ground and see what happens. Like someone said, the psi applied by a Clydesdale's hoof is way more than...

I'm on the verge of breaking down and ordering 8 Alturnamats for 1600 plus tax since the ground hasn't dried up here in 5 months, and one of my employees suggested trying stall mats like he uses in his horse trailers. I know they aren't designed for vehicles, but I am wondering if they might...

If you expect something, I believe it can no longer be defined as unexpected . . . are they not, by definition, mutually exclusive? Perhaps "Be prepared for unlikely events that may reduce productivity" is a more realistic strategy. Bottom line, storms are unpredictable. I lived through a...

I can't believe there are still so many companies milling around Lawton. We left there over two weeks ago. The last job we did was for a former employee's grandfather. He waited a week for us and had 35 other tree-company business cards on his coffee table when we did the job. That's...

I did not know about the use of Tordon in Vietnam. Sounds more than a little scary--kind of makes me not want to use it at all. The label does have a very disturbing list of precautions. I've gotten that stuff on my fingers many times because of leaks and being in too much of a hurry to mess...

I have tried about 62 million spray bottles, small pump hand sprayers, the bottle Tordon comes in (a leaking travesty), and every other container option I can think of for this toxic crap. Every container has leaked Tordon like a sieve or otherwise stopped working within weeks. I always wind...

Thanks for the input, ASD. Can you feed the 1890 with a grapple bucket on your Bobcat, or do you need an attachment like the Branch Manager? Also, how do you avoid getting rocks fed into the chipper? There's a lot of sandstone around here, and its hard to keep it out of the piles sometimes...

large chippers w/grapple Thought I'd rekindle this thread because I'm getting into some right-of-way clearance work, and only having two BC1000's is really slowing down the chipping process. The great thing about this work is that all chips can be scattered in the right-of-way (no need for a...

I'm looking at a 1998 Vermeer BC1800 chipper with 1400 hrs. Does anyone have experience with this machine and know the positives and negatives of it? One of my concerns is that it has only the 115 hp John Deere engine. Will it handle the big stuff with that low of hp? And how much more...

Duffer, I appreciate your response, and I don't doubt that your trailer does handle that well. What I can't understand is that your trailer looks a lot like mine, the axles seem to be in approximately the same position, etc, and yet my trailer, with 4 ft sidewalls, weighs only about 2800...

How do those JMS grapple trailers contend with all that extra tongue weight while driving? I don't see how the 3/4 ton truck in the picture can handle the extra 2500? lbs of grapple and power unit. I'm very interested in either buying one or probably buying just the grapple and power unit and...

Thanks for the responses. The "38 special" looks pretty cool. What is the visibility of the grinding process like for the operator? In the video, it looks like it would be difficult to see what's going on, but it I'm sure it's different when you're running it. I'd like to know more about it...