whadja do today?

[jefflovstrom]

My chute is pretty small compaired to my friends 200 series chipper and to a new one. When i get brush with wide branch unions, the chipper is very finicky. I welded on new feed roller teeth, and that made a huge difference but I thought it would be cheaper to make a new chute rather then buy a new $40,000 chipper.

That little thing is a disc chipper, the MR14 in front of it is a drum chipper. Big difference.
Jeff

 

[2treeornot2tree]

That little thing is a disc chipper, the MR14 in front of it is a drum chipper. Big difference.
Jeff

yeah I know.

 

[treeclimber101]

Morbark model 290 is one of the most reliable machines ever built !

 

[smokey01]

Nearly rolled mine off the trailer today... Heading to the job this morning and a 77 year old lady ran a red light and tried to turn into the casino right in front of me.... No stopping an f250 with a 16' trailer and stump grinder. T-boned her. She was at fault. Thankfully she was insured. My truck will probably be totalled.....

I am glad no one was seriously hurt.
4 years ago I was pulling my Bobcat on a 16' flat bed trailer behind my F250, doing about 60 mph and got cut off by a lane change when I was in front of a tandem, fully loaded dump truck. My truck and trailer jack knifed if front of the dumb truck, next thing I know is that I am sliding sideways and looking out the passenger window at my trailer and Bobcat which is just feet in front of the dump truck. I know this is not going to be good and I look out my side window as I am sliding sideways, still doing around 60 and I see the drainage ditch that I am heading for. It is about 10' deep and I'm going in. Short story, the dump truck just missed me, I went into the ditch hard upside down, totaled the truck, crushed the cab, me hanging upside down by the seat belt, the trailer took out a 30' pine tree and my Bobcat flew over me and the truck, did a complete 360 roll about 20' in the air, landed on all four tires and to my amazement only blew out the tires on one side. You could see dirt on the top of the cage as it lightly touched the ground going airborne. No other damage to the Bobcat, fixed the trailer and got a new F350 and a goose neck 16' dump trailer. I only had a scratch on my finger. That is one tough Bobcat.

 

[Toddppm]

I spent a lot of time behind one of those. You can tell why they changed the table, we used to push branches in with our feet all the time. Makes me cringe just thinking about it.

 

[no tree to big]

Where's yours ?

i meant the in feed

mine is just about as wide but half as deep...

 

[mattfr12]

I bought this 10 years ago put 3600hrs on it since , can't kill and it still looks good no hiding how ####ty it is with a coat of paint it is the original paint too !

I had a 1250bc for a long time paid 5500.00 for it and it was indestructible. we abused it for years and it always ran, wish they still made them like that. i would still have that machine if a lady didn't t-bone it.

 

[treeman82]

View attachment 254296View attachment 254295I'll add mine to the mix I guess. View attachment 254295 Used it today on a small clearing job... packed the truck full in short order. Fed it with my friend's tractor, it worked out quite well. He ran the tractor, and I cut the trees, fed the chipper with the tractor and all was well.

 

[mattfr12]

Some pictures of clearing from today for a new home to go in. Almost got close to an acre down to dirt in 4 days.

 

[H 2 H]

Were I've been cutting the last number of week the neighbor had a tree service come in and take out some trees

The tree service cut the trees down but never buck them up and cleared them; they called me tonight to take them away :msp_biggrin:

I'll get some pic's in the am

See cleaning up the area your cutting at pays off in the long run :msp_biggrin:

Nice huge Alders by the way looks like the MS 390 with 24 3/4" b/c will get a work out

 

[superjunior]

Had 2 removals in a yard we did the original clearing for a new landscape. Left about 6 nice mature trees and 2 of them died. The new landscape was very busy.. perenials everywhere, could hardly walk in the yard. Everything had to be lowered on these 2 trees, couldn't drop anything.. I had some time to kill and decided I'd work with these guys for a half day, wanted to show my new climber that this old dog could still out climb him lol.. So I let him pick his tree and rigged down the other one. Felt good to be back in the saddle again, real good!

 

[mattfr12]

Just ordered me some new hooks for my slings. no more unscrewing and re screwing in a shackle all day. these things should make life much easier. pretty expensive tho around 100$ a pop, but i guess if they where cheap that might make me a little nervous using them.

 

[dbl612]

Just ordered me some new hooks for my slings. no more unscrewing and re screwing in a shackle all day. these things should make life much easier. pretty expensive tho around 100$ a pop, but i guess if they where cheap that might make me a little nervous using them.

these are handy items for sling terminations where you are constantly hooking to lift points. (they were developed for manufacturing use). they don't tolerate side loading and they are a poor choice for choke-type applications. not a positive connection, and my .02 says not acceptable for tree operations where side loading is prevalent and your always choking the load.

 

[tree MDS]

Had 2 removals in a yard we did the original clearing for a new landscape. Left about 6 nice mature trees and 2 of them died. The new landscape was very busy.. perenials everywhere, could hardly walk in the yard. Everything had to be lowered on these 2 trees, couldn't drop anything.. I had some time to kill and decided I'd work with these guys for a half day, wanted to show my new climber that this old dog could still out climb him lol.. So I let him pick his tree and rigged down the other one. Felt good to be back in the saddle again, real good!

I've been digging doing some climbing again lately myself. Got one 200 razored up with 16" composite bar and chain, the other freshly rebuilt one running the stock 14' (rakers down perfectly).. Wraptor, slingshot, gecko's.. makes bucket work seem kinda boring, actually!! Me likey!

 

[Blakesmaster]

Just ordered me some new hooks for my slings. no more unscrewing and re screwing in a shackle all day. these things should make life much easier. pretty expensive tho around 100$ a pop, but i guess if they where cheap that might make me a little nervous using them.

What brand are those? Think mine cost me $250 a piece.

 

[tree MDS]

What brand are those? Think mine cost me $250 a piece.

At that rate those things should hook themselves.. then we'd be talking!! :msp_tongue:

 

[sgreanbeans]

They killed Opie, WTF.

 

[sgreanbeans]

What brand are those? Think mine cost me $250 a piece.

Those for your crane?

 

[jandh@amtelecom]

For trees?

these are handy items for sling terminations where you are constantly hooking to lift points. (they were developed for manufacturing use). they don't tolerate side loading and they are a poor choice for choke-type applications. not a positive connection, and my .02 says not acceptable for tree operations where side loading is prevalent and your always choking the load.

Around here, I'm sure they're not legal for that application. Are they double safety catch designed?:msp_scared:

 

[treemandan]

Just ordered me some new hooks for my slings. no more unscrewing and re screwing in a shackle all day. these things should make life much easier. pretty expensive tho around 100$ a pop, but i guess if they where cheap that might make me a little nervous using them.

I don't see the point to have these or a shackle.