boom lifts or bucket truck

While I'm no expert Arborist, I would think theres advantages and disadvantages to both. I do know about Boom lifts though.

Boom lift your going to have to trailer it everywhere, the truck just drive it.

Boom lifts with reach capabilities under 128 feet usually don't have out riggers. This is a pro and a con. Pro: you can be 128 feet in the air and drive the machine around if its not quite in the right place. CON: you have to operate with in a certain grade slope.

Boom lift: your not going to rig anything for lowering of the boom. Most booms, like Genie, JLG and Snorkel have limits of 500 pounds, theres a few with ratings of 750 pounds.

Then you get the choice of either a straight boom or an articulated boom.
Straight booms 80 feet and under you can extend out the whole way and swing up, where as a articulated boom like a Genie 60/34only has 34 feet of outreach, but you can wiggle a Z boom into places you can't get a straight boom and operate in much tighter confines.

If you do buy a Boom stick with the big 3. Genie, JLG, and Snorkel.
Whatever you do, DON"T buy a Condor. COndor used to make production changes as they where rolling down the assembly line. They where the most miserable thing to work on.

Markklift isn't too bad

IF you want the best customer support buy Genie and be one with it. It's also the Caddy of booms but worth every penny

For more information, please visit our website.

wildcat

Posted 3/9/ 19:40 (#)
Subject: Manlift advice

C IL

Looks like I'm going to need a manlift. Any good sources? Anything to stay away from? I would need about a 35-40 reach, and would hope to haul on a 10,000 lb roll back trailer. Don't need new, don't want junk. What brands/models, how much and where? TIA garvo

Posted 3/9/ 21:03 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: Re: Manlift advice

western iowa,by Denison

just bought a glj or is it a jlg anyhow it has 46 ft of lift,gas powered and 4wd-gas or lp-rented one last year ,could have it 1/2 paid for in rent-could post pictures Friday,love the thing-my son Adam is a lot faster with that then a ladder,plus I dont have to worry about him falling off the ladder-go to tractohouse- construction and look under lifts,this one is a boom lift with a jib450 I think is the model Sodbustr

Posted 3/9/ 21:14 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: RE: Manlift advice

Western Iowa

Garvo, what you have is a JLG450AJ if what you told me on the is correct. Articulated boom with jib. Wieghs about 15,000 lbs

Wildcat- stay with a newer machine ( or newer), only thing that old that only wieghs 10,000 is a Genie 34/22ic. Most common sizes are 40ft stick booms (about 12,000 lbs) and 45ft articulating (15,000 lbs). Snorkel does make a TB37 boom lift that only wieghs about lbs. They are a decent lift.

Never buy a grove, other brands are mostly ok, genie is best, jlg 2nd

Send me an [ protected] I can send my number if you want to discuss further and I can point you in the right direction I am in Iowa

Edited by Sodbustr 3/9/ 21:15

Ernie

Posted 3/9/ 21:46 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: RE: Manlift advice

North End I-15

North End I-15

my Good Neighbor Don and I bought a 38' Grove a couple years back . Cost was $ , Onan Gas motor , 2wd . I used it to insulate , sheet and paint the inside of my new shop addition.
4X4 would be better for rough work , but for the price it was a good deal. We bought it from a local hutterite colony that wanted a 4x4 .
So far it has worked for pruning trees , painting flag poles, and what ever else we need it to do.
4x4 would be a plus but so far the 2wd has been ok .
The deck extends from 8' to 12 foot in length.

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Posted 3/9/ 22:16 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: Re: Manlift advice

LeRoy IL

Ironplanet.com is a web auction that has several. 6.7ram

Posted 3/9/ 22:59 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: Re: Manlift advice

For more information, please visit Fast Heavy Industry.

north east mo.

i have a friend with a genie that is going to be forsale ! he quit carpenter work . wildcat

Posted 3/9/ 23:08 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: Re: Manlift advice

C IL

Thanks, all! Looks like several choices. Maybe a lb rig will work on my 10,000 lb trailer for farm to farm jobs.?? Need to decide about the larger gas/diesel versus the smaller electric ones. Gonna be near a building most of the time. Not in the mud. (yeah, right). Ram - what size is your buddy's Genie? Clay-All-Over

Posted 3/9/ 23:36 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: RE: Manlift advice

Eastern Ontario

Eastern Ontario

I'm gonna be the odd guy here and say that the Genie's are not so good. We rented a scissorlift to do our shop this winter. Got a 36' SkyJack. Love that thing. 4x4, extend a deck, stabilizer jacks,etc.  Thent he remote crapped out and we got a replacement. This one was a genie, eiterh 32 or 36' model. Didn't like that one at all. Way to unstable. Teh scissors were too narrow and the platform was swaying too much for my liking. The drive joystick was also very jerky.

Whatever you are getting, look at how wide the scissors are. Wider the better. Tests drive it. make sure it isn't too jerky. Get 4x4 if you're gonna use it outside. RunFlat tires are also a must.  The Skyjack diesel always started good and you could go to work right away. Teh genie gas model had to be choked and left running for quite some time to be able to use it without turning off.  Diesel was always fine to go when you want.

In a closed building you are gonna want to go witha  model capable of running Propane as a fuel source. 

Hotwire

Posted 3/10/ 06:53 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: RE: Manlift advice

WC Ohio

Personal experience-stay away from all Terex platform and boom lifts. My company was given a good deal on a few of these lifts(new) a few years ago. Everything was ok until we needed repair parts-most, if not all parts have to come from oversea. It normally takes 6-10 weeks to get parts.
Brian garvo

Posted 3/10/ 08:21 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: Re: Manlift advice

western iowa,by Denison

damm should have bought a genie-oh well Jane will have to do! 6.7ram

Posted 3/10/ 11:12 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: Re: Manlift advice

north east mo.

wildcat it's a Z45/25 J year'approx hrs 4x4 diesel he wants obo . if you want to talk to him 660 216 wildcat

Posted 3/10/ 16:35 (# - in reply to #)
Subject: Re: Manlift advice

C IL

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