Bluestone Tree, knuckle boom grapple saw truck

Tree mek, MECANIL Grapple Saw

[@garydavis9691]

Very nice set up & someone spent a tremendous amount of money on building up this company!!!! Looks like overkill.

[@randywilson6869]

With a track crane sitting down the street

[@brucehackett296]

Nice to have lots of money

[@brucehackett296]

Your boom has no positive como after cut, no good near power lines

[@joerainwater7360]

Cool video! Thanks!

[@timmystreeservice1422]

Painful to watch the cold syrup pour out of this bottle...hopefully just purchased and getting used to the capabilities.

[@ktimber7273]

LOVE the equipment, but man! 700k in machinery for a 3k job?!? Def gotta keep those things going at that rate. Those Mecanil saws and that Carlton grinder are great though!

[@jaccokarelse]

They work in an area with many large trees. They almost never drive further than 20 minutes. And if you do two jobs per day. Then.........

[@michaelcapannelli4216]

Or 3 a day..😉

[@randywilson6869]

Looks they all parked in the others way

[@randywilson6869]

I say more than 2 million

[@trentdawkins8699]

Without breaking a sweat.. day in and day out. Crazy

[@cleancutstrees]

doesnt seen any faster than using a stick crane and groud crew....

[@JoeCornerNetwork]

I’ll bet that thing needs constant upkeep. I can’t imagine what it would be like after 2k - 3k hours on it.

[@Therianpawz4ever]

I’m the owner of the Bluestone tree

[@jaccokarelse]

I know Tiffany. I'm Jacco, a friend of Joe. We met 3 years ago. Give my regards to Jerad and Grayden. And of course to the rest of the boys

[@Harleyhunter203]

Somebodys got a rich daddy

[@jaccokarelse]

Or a good business plan. Perhaps not directly in Europe, but this is the future in America.

[@garydavis9691]

Amen !!!!

[@danieltreeworkernordin9624]

Is that a SG220 or SG280?

[@rogerl8488]

I would love to do this in my area no one has this kind of equipment meaning to big crane thing.... the tree guys in my area stay busy I believe I could keep it busy.... so let's say I get one job a day what should I charge for the least to make money? 1500? Thank you.

[@louskunt9798]

$1500 per tree minimum. More for higher risk trees. $3k minimum just to show up. Simple formula.

[@a-plustreeservice1326]

Looks like you got this down to a science. Is the reason you don’t chip because you have a dump close by?

[@jaccokarelse]

I live and work in the Netherlands myself. On a few jobs I worked with Bluestonetree in Bloomington Indiana. Joe who operates the crane is a friend. They don’t have a market for chips but for mulch. That's why they take everything and mulch it at home. I chip everything for the biomass. my place is 8 minutes from a biocentrale

[@a-plustreeservice1326]

Jacco Karelse cool thanks for the response!

[@brucehackett296]

My boom with cutoff saw would remove the tree in less time and make up to 40 inch cut s without outside help

[@jaccokarelse]

I am interested. let's see some pictures

[@TheAussilab]

that' a 10k Job at least

[@lumberjaketreeservicellc4002]

Painfully slow. I wouldn't make a dollar at that place. Especially with over a million dollars worth of equipment to make it go faster...

[@Sp19536]

You would have to charge $6K for this job just to make money.

[@garydavis9691]

Looks like a big show for such a simple job!!!!!

[@nickrobinson519]

Each crew does 2-5 jobs a day. We have two cranes now, two track lifts, bucket truck, 4 log trucks like in the video, sennebogan, ditch witches, stump grinders, etc. This video is from before I was hired and the 110 seems to be moving slower than normal, it IS slower than our newer crane but it also looks cold in this video, hydraulics need to warm up. It also seems like they’re just taking their time. Now this tree would be maybe 2 hours and then on to the next.

[@dak009power]

No concern for underground utilities I see. Come on gas line!

[@jaccokarelse]

De meeste utilities horen dieper dan 75 cm te liggen. Vroeger waren ze gevoelig. Nu zijn ze van staal en kunststof. Ik zie geen probleem 😉

[@APlusBrandon]

Nice setup. Take that grapple saw off of the other truck and pay a guy to cut the branches and use regular grapple. Such a waste of time, I get nobody wants to do physical work but this is a bit much, and slow!

[@zirzmokealot4600]

This is extremely painful to watch. . Talk about inefficient.

[@JoeCornerNetwork]

And it is definitely not the future in America. No way. I’m a third generation arborist, there is no substitute for a talented climber and rigger with a crane when necessary.

[@nickrobinson519]

We have several talented climbers and riggers, plus cranes and lifts. There’s a reason we get up to ten jobs a day done sometimes. Jobs that would take most companies several days take us a few hours.

[@JoeCornerNetwork]

@@nickrobinson519 ten jobs a day with one crew?

[@JoeCornerNetwork]

@@nickrobinson519 I ask because it takes time to travel, set up, break down..