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About Wheel Log Loaders

Wheel log loaders are heavy equipment designed to load and unload trees, logs, and other debris. While they are primarily used in forestry operations, wheel log loaders are essential to large landscaping projects, park services, and urban tree services for performing tree removal and clearing debris. They use a hydraulic boom and grapple to lift logs, wood waste, and whole trees and load them onto trucks or drop them off at a landing area.

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Wheel log loaders vary in size and load capacity and come with varying grapple styles that may make one model better at handling certain functions than another. For example, stump grinders and mulcher attachments for your wheel log loader allow it to grind down and recycle brush into mulch.

Some loaders are paired with lifts and can be used for aerial tasks like pruning and trimming, while one of the main use-cases for wheel log loaders is picking up multiple tree-length logs to make piles or moving delimbed and cut logs after transport.

Comparing Log Loader Types For Tree Service

Here is a rundown of how wheel log loaders compare to other types of log loaders.

• Stationary models and log loader trailers - Unlike stationary or trailer-mounted log loaders that must be hauled to a landing and set up in place, a wheeled log loader is self-propelled and can reposition itself quickly around a landing/yard or between nearby work areas (though it still typically needs a lowboy/transport for longer moves between tracts).
• Tracked log loaders - Compared with track (crawler) log loaders, wheeled models generally travel faster on firm surfaces and are often easier to maneuver around a landing or busy, space-constrained site; tracked machines trade speed for stability and traction in rougher or softer ground.
• Truck-mounted log loaders are most practical when loading near roadways or where a log truck can access the landing, while wheeled log loaders are best thought of as mobile landing/yard loaders that can move around the site—rather than as machines intended to travel deep into the woods like dedicated in-stand forestry equipment.

Benefits Of Using Wheel Log Loaders For Your Tree Service Operations

Superior maneuverability is just one of several benefits these versatile machines provide. Others include: 

• High load capacity - The Sennebogen 728 E, for example, has a 1.87-ton (1.7-metric-ton) load capacity at its 59-foot (18-meter) maximum reach.
• Adaptability - Wheel log loaders are at home on rough terrain as well as on dirt or paved roads, and they can move in tighter spaces than other log loaders.
• Fuel efficiency - These machines’ efficiency will vary according to the terrain and the size and weight of the logs they’re moving. Newer log loaders are equipped with high-pressure common-rail fuel delivery systems, cooled exhaust gas recirculation, a diesel oxidation catalyst, selective catalyst reduction, and other features to be Tier 4-compliant.
• Mission flexibility - Operators can adapt log loaders to do multiple jobs by swapping attachments, such as buckets, clamps, grapple saws, rootstock cutters, felling grapples, mulchers, cutting units, trimmers, and more.

Where To Buy & Finance Log Loaders

Explore TreeTrader.com to find new and used wheel log loaders for sale from industry-leading manufacturers such as Barko, Caterpillar, Liebherr, Sennebogen, Volvo, and others.

Once you find the right machine, explore your wheel log loader financing options. CurrencyFinance helps professionals get the funding they need for big-ticket assets in the landscaping, forestry, construction, and other industries.