we have been on many portable sawing jobs over the years , ok only 3 yrs but seems like a lot of cutting in that time , and we have always winched up our logs up the ramps of our lt-25 , well today was awesome at our site we had a guy loading the logs with a brand new bobcat skidsteer with a grapple bucket ,,, it was great , did i say that already ,,, my partner is on vacation so i had to bring a friend to help who never helped before , and i let him mill after a while , well after ruining a couple of blades he finally got it , i hope ,, we milled about 1300 bd ft today of ash, elm and oak ,in 7 hrs , very productive with the grapple bucket ,the logs averaged about 10- 15 inch so lots of loading and unloading , we get to go back and mill more next sat , very good day,,,
jim
Congrats on a very good day. Hydraulics are good no matter what they are hooked to. ;D
yes magicman hydraulics are very good
What mill are you running?
Yes grapple is nice. My business partner was using forklift and a skid steer with forks. I brought my grapple when I moved my stuff over. It sat unused for a few weeks and I finally stuck it on the skid steer cause it was a real pain using forks.
Well they pretty much haven't been off the machine since. :D
I have these one:
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Have a few hundred hrs on it, has worked great other than blowing the hoses a few times. Either from getting hung on something or one just blew apart a couple weeks ago. I put 4000psi hoses and that seems to be the ticket.