Small Cherry Picker/Scissor
Discussion
We have a 20ft Leylandii hedge at the back of our garden which is about 200ft long and has limited width access where it goes behind the Garage.
I cut it only once a year and to date have used a small tower which I bought, this is a pain to move and alter and I'm not too comfortable working from it.
Has anyone any experience in hiring a small (narrow) cherry picker or Scissor lift that would work from grass on a slope of about 20 degrees?
I have a long reach petrol cutter so its quite a quick job if I can move easily.
Not many sites have prices and the ones that do seem to be about £350 for a weekend, this would be too much so I may revert back to the dodgy tower!
Nick
I cut it only once a year and to date have used a small tower which I bought, this is a pain to move and alter and I'm not too comfortable working from it.
Has anyone any experience in hiring a small (narrow) cherry picker or Scissor lift that would work from grass on a slope of about 20 degrees?
I have a long reach petrol cutter so its quite a quick job if I can move easily.
Not many sites have prices and the ones that do seem to be about £350 for a weekend, this would be too much so I may revert back to the dodgy tower!
Nick
A spider boom will be the easiest option to use. The downside with a scissor lift is that it only goes up and down so you'll forever be shifting it along much like the tower you used previously.
The advantage of a spider boom is that they go any which way, up, down, side to side, forwards and backwards meaning you can access a large area without having to move it making the job much quicker.
As for accessing behind the garage you should be able to manoeuvre the boom over the garage so you don't have to put the base between the garage and hedge.
The only thing to be aware of is that when assembled the feet do spread out quite far (hence the name 'spider') but this is easy to work around.
We hired one for a week to paint the outside of our house and replace the soffits and guttering. It was much cheaper and far easier to use than scaffolding as you could easily manoeuvre the boom meaning that you never had to stretch or crouch to asses the areas you wanted to work on.
The advantage of a spider boom is that they go any which way, up, down, side to side, forwards and backwards meaning you can access a large area without having to move it making the job much quicker.
As for accessing behind the garage you should be able to manoeuvre the boom over the garage so you don't have to put the base between the garage and hedge.
The only thing to be aware of is that when assembled the feet do spread out quite far (hence the name 'spider') but this is easy to work around.
We hired one for a week to paint the outside of our house and replace the soffits and guttering. It was much cheaper and far easier to use than scaffolding as you could easily manoeuvre the boom meaning that you never had to stretch or crouch to asses the areas you wanted to work on.
Another vote for the spiders.
My mate has his own access company and these are his speciality. They really are clever bits of kit. I help him out between my normal job, and offloading one of his tracked spiders off the lorry is quite entertaining usung the remote controlled box.
He has just ordered a brand new 1 from a company in Denmark, max height=34m
My mate has his own access company and these are his speciality. They really are clever bits of kit. I help him out between my normal job, and offloading one of his tracked spiders off the lorry is quite entertaining usung the remote controlled box.
He has just ordered a brand new 1 from a company in Denmark, max height=34m
chilistrucker said:
Another vote for the spiders.
My mate has his own access company and these are his speciality. They really are clever bits of kit. I help him out between my normal job, and offloading one of his tracked spiders off the lorry is quite entertaining usung the remote controlled box.
He has just ordered a brand new 1 from a company in Denmark, max height=34m
We had a 21m spider hired in for a particularly difficult job, with access limited to about 1" either side, guiding it through at an angle so,it wouldn't it a wall was great fun...not!!My mate has his own access company and these are his speciality. They really are clever bits of kit. I help him out between my normal job, and offloading one of his tracked spiders off the lorry is quite entertaining usung the remote controlled box.
He has just ordered a brand new 1 from a company in Denmark, max height=34m
When it was up it was terrifying. No weight behind these things at all in comparison with a regular boom. Even the hire company questioned our sanity, as these things just aren't stable at max reach,
You couldn't pay me to go up 34m in one of these.
rufmeister said:
chilistrucker said:
Another vote for the spiders.
My mate has his own access company and these are his speciality. They really are clever bits of kit. I help him out between my normal job, and offloading one of his tracked spiders off the lorry is quite entertaining usung the remote controlled box.
He has just ordered a brand new 1 from a company in Denmark, max height=34m
We had a 21m spider hired in for a particularly difficult job, with access limited to about 1" either side, guiding it through at an angle so,it wouldn't it a wall was great fun...not!!My mate has his own access company and these are his speciality. They really are clever bits of kit. I help him out between my normal job, and offloading one of his tracked spiders off the lorry is quite entertaining usung the remote controlled box.
He has just ordered a brand new 1 from a company in Denmark, max height=34m
When it was up it was terrifying. No weight behind these things at all in comparison with a regular boom. Even the hire company questioned our sanity, as these things just aren't stable at max reach,
You couldn't pay me to go up 34m in one of these.
At the time the company had just bought a new truck mount, made by Bronto and at full stick it went up 62m!!!!! Once up in that was enough for me.
The modern day spiders are much better than the old Italien things back then but even so i'm not interested despite my mate trying to convince me otherwise.
I think on youtube there is a clip of one that Bronto built on a truckmount, max height 112m
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