Saw one of these going down the road today, on a landscaping company's trailer. Doubt it would be much good for logging purposes, but I thought it looked cool as H.E. double hockey sticks! http://www.toro.com/en-us/professional-contractor/compact-utility/dingo/pages/default.aspx
It's too bad the machine wouldn't accept other attachments. Imagine a small grapple or a chain with prongs would be cool
It looks like it could handle a round that was 200+ pds. and it's mobile which is a plus too. Cranes that move large rounds have a limited range and the rounds need to be within it's swing area.
We used them for irrigation installation. It was a jack of all trades but mastered none. Many times my buddy and I would have to push it to keep it moving when pulling pipe.
There was a fellow on Another Site who ran a small lawn service and had one. He was generally ridiculed about it, but I think it was more because of his personality than the machine.
I could see them handy if they could lift heavy things with a grapple up and onto a trailer or tailgate of your truck. Moving around 200 lbs between things and to your desired location would save a ton of work. Multiple attachments. If the lift height or weight capacity was too low then it would not be worth the money. A local building supply place has started to rent one out. I don't know what they rent for or if they have the wheeled or tracked model. I'll ask them.
I have seen them used in many situations, usually where larger will not fit or will damage the turf. One of the best I saw was in a parking lot of a shopping complex. A landscape crew had a big pile of mulch dumped and they were loading it into UTVs with the dingo and running mulch out to all the many small beds and one long large bed. They would dump it and spread by hand. They were making really good time.
I know the bobcat mt55 ( about the same) will lift 550lbs and has more attachments than you think really fun to use
Maybe you've seen em... remote controlled super HD stump grinders on rubber tracks. Unreal. The operator can stand anywhere needed to see what's going on.
Everything like that has a purpose. Kind of like our alley cats at work. Picture a small crane on tracks with an auger and bucket. No action pics.
Sounds like a tank. Kinda gotta have em... some of the terrain you guys get into with the poles is nuts.
I have a TX420 on tracks. Cats azz for what I need to do. Any attachment for a skidsteer you can get for a Dingo. Gets into places my large loader can't . Highly mobile. I can load it on my 5'x8' or my 20 ton pup trailer right off the dock with some pallets of whatever and deliver to our warehouse dock and unload. Handy is an understatement Have the hole auger too. Fences and light poles are cake now .
A local fence company around here has one for fence posts, thats all they do though. Like Jetjr said, everything has a purpose… It beats digging holes by hand when you gotta put in a few thousand a year
