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Ben Heller

  • February 1, 2021

    Knuckleboom Best Practices, Part 2: Grapple Saws

    By Ben Heller

    This is the second part of a two-part series. Part 1, “Knuckleboom Crane Best Practices in Tree Care,” also by Ben Heller, ran in the February 2020 issue of TCI. Click here to read Part 1. Over the past half [...]

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    February 1, 2020

    Knuckleboom Crane Best Practices in Tree Care

    By Ben Heller

    Photo 1: Knuckleboom cranes, or K-booms, were designed for use in environments with very limited space such as is common in Europe, so they are intended to be versatile and fl exible both in set-up requirements and operations capabilities. All [...]

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