A company I do a lot of work for has an altec k crane. It's to small for big stuff, but it has a million uses. Last week were removing wind damaged trees all over the place. One job, a pine blow over, rootball and all in a back yard. There was a bridle path behind the house. We picked up the pine in 3 picks over a blockwall fence and then the rootball in another. Some big Euc's that had blown over in a front yard, we limbed them, then in a few picks, put the logs, in a woodcutters trailer whole. Whole job took an half hour$$$. That same day we remove 6 massive pampus grass clumps, I put a chocker on them and we pulled them out with the crane, and sat them in the truck.
If you had to hire a crane non of those jobs would be worth it, but if you own it the possibly are end less A real labor and time saver when used for day in day out work. We lift the bobcat into the back of the truck with it. We lift chippers, stump grinders, bobcats, etc. over fences some times into backyards.
It works great for medium size removals if you can get close. He does boulder work too. Pick them up for free, and sell them and place them for$$$
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