Koa Man
Kahuna giganticus
There is no way any type of self propelled or tow behind manlift will match the speed of a bucket truck as far as the movement of the bucket is concerned. That is not the reason you would buy one of these machines. The reason you would buy one is to get a lift where a bucket truck cannot go. If all or even 75% of my trees were in areas where I could use a bucket truck, I would not buy any other kind of lift. But my situation is the reverse, 75% of the trees I do cannot be accessed by a bucket truck....that is why I sold the Altec that I had.
We have a tree company here that does most of the coconut trees at the beach parks. They have a 90 ft. bucket but can only get to about 40% of the trees because the 10 wheeler sinks and gets stuck in the sand. Forget about laying mats....can you imagine moving mats all around a park??? I have driven my tracked spider lift in sand that requires a 4x4 and have made 360s and gone the other way with no problem.
Teupen's service has been very good to me. The factory sent a tech from Hungary to Hawaii to fix a controller problem on my lift [15GT]and replace the electric motor at their expense. This was in May of last year and the lift has worked flawlessly since then. This April will be 2 years since I've had it and am almost 100% satisfied. What I am not satisfied with is that I wish it had more height. I am planning on selling it within the next year and get the 23GT. I will ask the couple of big customers I have that the 23GT will not be able to get to to put in wider gates. I'll even offer to pay for it. These are simple fence type gates that shouldn't cost more than $500 to change.
We have a tree company here that does most of the coconut trees at the beach parks. They have a 90 ft. bucket but can only get to about 40% of the trees because the 10 wheeler sinks and gets stuck in the sand. Forget about laying mats....can you imagine moving mats all around a park??? I have driven my tracked spider lift in sand that requires a 4x4 and have made 360s and gone the other way with no problem.
Teupen's service has been very good to me. The factory sent a tech from Hungary to Hawaii to fix a controller problem on my lift [15GT]and replace the electric motor at their expense. This was in May of last year and the lift has worked flawlessly since then. This April will be 2 years since I've had it and am almost 100% satisfied. What I am not satisfied with is that I wish it had more height. I am planning on selling it within the next year and get the 23GT. I will ask the couple of big customers I have that the 23GT will not be able to get to to put in wider gates. I'll even offer to pay for it. These are simple fence type gates that shouldn't cost more than $500 to change.