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The systems that hold and strip the limbs off would work, but like Murf said $$$.
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Jeff, I haven't had an email form you in a while, certainly don't remember one about the courses.
All but one job a long way from you are still on hold, politics and $$ fighting at it's best.
I have a lead on another kind of grapple though, I will send you and email a little later today, watch for it. An acquaintance in your old neck of the woods has something for sale which might be just the ticket.
Best of luck.
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EW,
I don't know if they can offer you want you need or not. I tried looking at the site and it was slow for me.
Take care,
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if you could get someone to make you a side to side grapple instead of a up and down grapple. You could pick the post staight up drop it in the hole and use the bobcat to keep it staight.
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Dropping it in the hole and holding isn't the issue so much as getting it aligned to the string line and perfectly plumb. I'm leaning (no pun intended) to a centering pin (piece of 6" x 1" rerod) imbedded in the concrete pad that would index the post to a drilled hole in the post. Even this will take some precision in getting the pin in the right spot. But I'm working on it. Any ideas on this is appreciated. Or maybe there is another avenue I haven't considered. But keep in mind all the posts which like I said are very heavy and cumbersome have to be perfectly aligned as a 2-story modular home will be sitting on them therefore the perimeter rim joist have to be aligned to suit the home when it is craned on top of them.
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EW, did you get my email?
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Murf: I got one recently about the golf courses were all done. That one? Or the one about the grapple on a lumbering web site?
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What about a steel welded template that has the exact size hole as the post 8x8 or 10x10. have it so it is bolted together for easy removal once the post is set. then have four long arms welded to it that would lay flat on the ground that you could run re-bar or stakes to pin it fast to the ground and eliminate movement.
What you would do is line up the template with you string line pin it down. Drop you post down through it level and brace it with what should be very little effort. Once braced pull you stakes and unbolt it and move in the the next on.
I am talking about 1" steel plate and heavy arms. The design I have in my head you woulw need to move it with the SSL.
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Tony---you have been picking my brain long-distance I see. The template idea is one I have been thinking about which is basically the rail system I mentioned before. I thouight about pinning it to the ground too but they sometimes use sand here to build up the pad area so pinning won't work; it might work in clay though. The template could be light-weight too versus heavy (read: e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e). Somewhere someone has come up with an easy solution to this. Also the timbers can vary as much as 3/4" over or under size
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have you tried gps and helicopter, just kidding someone out there must have a simple and cheap idea.
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