Grapple designs?
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Sedgewood
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Encouraged by Tuesday,s showing off, Wednesday I went off to a paying job cleaning up a neighbor's winter debris. Well, now lemme tell ya, I was a grabbing and a hauling and a piling broken branches, brush, rotting fallen poples like no tomorrow, that invincible feeling building all the way. Then I got into the 8 inch fallen poples which i couldn't just grab and run with 'cause they were down between other trees. So in tugging them sidways, I managed to twist the bucket a bit. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif I grabbed the next one and tugged the other way and straightened it right out. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Now I'm cocky and I'm on a roll. I reach high and with a few good nudges I push over a live 8 incher. Then come around to the side and start worrying at the butt to break the stump free of the ground. I lift and pull and push and grunt and finally it breaks free. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif But my boom doesn't lift so good anymore - its got this big kink right at the quick attach plate. In fact the cylinder is keeping it from breaking right off! /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif That's one tough thumb. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Wonder what I could break if only I had a better boom.
Sedgewood
Wonder what I could break if only I had a better boom.
Sedgewood
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Sedgewood,
Very impressive, can we get some detail shots of construction?
Is this mini hoe from PowerTrac?
PJ
Very impressive, can we get some detail shots of construction?
Is this mini hoe from PowerTrac?
PJ
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Nice shots! Very impressive. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
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<font color="red"> But my boom doesn't lift so good anymore - its got this big kink right at the quick attach plate. </font>
It Power Trac paying you extra for engineering limits testing?
It Power Trac paying you extra for engineering limits testing?
Sedgewood
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Charlie: <font color="red"> It Power Trac paying you extra for engineering limits testing? </font>
No - but with some practice maybe I can make King Bubenberg nervous on his mountain. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
No - but with some practice maybe I can make King Bubenberg nervous on his mountain. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
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pajoube: <font color="green">Sedgewood, Very impressive, can we get some detail shots of construction?
Is this mini hoe from PowerTrac? </font>
PJ
Yeah, sorry about the delay here, I've had, shall we say, an "eventful" past couple of days. More on that later.
Yes, this is the PowerTrac minihoe. Attached is a side view of the hoe with its bent boom and my thumb attached. The kink at the butt end of the boom doesn't show in this shot. I've roughly straightened it and am working on some temporary braces down from the top of the quick attach to the boom about where my thumb bolts on as a way to make it useable until I decide how to do a permanent fix. Next pic...
Sedgewood
Is this mini hoe from PowerTrac? </font>
PJ
Yeah, sorry about the delay here, I've had, shall we say, an "eventful" past couple of days. More on that later.
Yes, this is the PowerTrac minihoe. Attached is a side view of the hoe with its bent boom and my thumb attached. The kink at the butt end of the boom doesn't show in this shot. I've roughly straightened it and am working on some temporary braces down from the top of the quick attach to the boom about where my thumb bolts on as a way to make it useable until I decide how to do a permanent fix. Next pic...
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Here's a picture of the kink in the boom. That, sadly, is 3 inch square tubing with a 1/8 inch wall. It's clearly not up to the job and while the attachment to the quick attach held ok those little 3 inch gussets seem a bit on the small side. I kinked the tube while rocking back and forth and lifting that ol' 8 inch pople stump. My guess is the force generated by lifting while pushing was the culprit here. This thing just wasn't designed for such heavy duty. I want to upgrade it for just this kind of thing though - the productivity is awesome.
The guilty tree was an 8 inch by about 30 foot pople growing right against the corner of a house. In ten minutes I had pushed it over (Not to overstate it the pople is a weak tree with a compact root ball), grabbed the stump and wrestled it free of the ground, then dragged it butt first 500 feet and set it atop the burn pile (had the boom held I would have grabbed it in the middle and carried it like I had with the one that preceeded it).
The guilty tree was an 8 inch by about 30 foot pople growing right against the corner of a house. In ten minutes I had pushed it over (Not to overstate it the pople is a weak tree with a compact root ball), grabbed the stump and wrestled it free of the ground, then dragged it butt first 500 feet and set it atop the burn pile (had the boom held I would have grabbed it in the middle and carried it like I had with the one that preceeded it).
