Posted by Billy NY on April 23, 2008 at 13:32:38 from (205.188.117.74):
In Reply to: Brush Grapple posted by CB in central NY on April 23, 2008 at 12:23:23:
Trying to think of rental outfits you can call, Admar, Abele Tractor, Sunbelt (was nations rent ?), United Rental, Syracuse Supply or (whatever they are now) Tracy Road Equipment, (theres a couple of rental houses in Syracuse),locally here north and west of Albany, Park East Sales ( RifenBurg const Eq. Div.) an Earthworm - who rents CAT. Someone should have one of those.
Did you think of an exavator with a thumb or is there a lot of travel to load it out ?
The town here loads it out onto dumptrucks with truck mounted grapple, a small one like for logs, on an old 1900 series international truck, probably the oldest in their fleet too, also use it like a grade-all for ditches. It looks like a real handy thing to own, might have to keep an eye on it when it is retired or sold at auction.
I was cleaning hedgrows yesterday and stacking the brush onto my bucket forks, I use a rope to cinch it so it does not roll off, cleaning those kind of areas makes a huge pile in no time, I can hand load and carry a big pile in reasonable time on the forks, makes it easy to stack if you can lay them out in one direction when cutting, one of those jobs everyone hates doing, all scratched up, gnats and no see ums out already.
I've had similar trouble finding attachments for equipment at rental houses to, rember it was hard to find a small dozer with a ripper, scarifier or root rake.
Take a look at the Asplundh website, they have all this forestry equipment, might give you some ideas and something to show the rental houses, thay alsos surplus equipment.
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