KM 634-3Z Harvester – Tree felling works in the USA

Two workers with tiltrotator in front of excavator

Kidron Tree Service is a contractor working in the tress care industry, in northeast Ohio. Tree removal, tree trimming, Stump removal are part of its activities.
Mark Hochstetler, the owner was looking at buying a second-hand telehandler Manitou MRT2540 and wanted to get it with a grapple saw for more flexibility in the tree removal activity.
Mark was looking at buying his telehandler with Pete Maraldo from Fallsway Equipment.

Kinshofer grapple saw KM 634-0,35-3Z was the perfect tool for what Mark was looking at. Fallsway Equipment is the distributor of CAT, Mitsubishi, Jungheinrich, Kalmar, and Manitou manufacturers in Canton, Akron, Youngstown, Mansfield, and Marion, Ohio.
Fallsway is also a truck and warehouse equipment distributor in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky. The company has been a reliable dealer of Kinshofer crane products for many years.

When meeting with Pete in 2017, Sebastien Berche, product manager for crane attachments in North America, made him aware of the Kinshofer range of products, including the grapple saw for telehandlers. So, when the Kidron Tree Service project started back in March 2018, Pete reached out to Kinshofer to get more information on the grapple saw we offer.

As the Manitou telehandler was used, Kinshofer had also to provide the mounting bracket onto the grapple saw to fit the Manitou. The project went through several discussions and was finally done in July 2018 for a delivery in October 2018.

Berche: “On July 11th, I had the chance to attend a job that occurred in the Wooster, OH area. The job was to remove 7 trees from a private property. The trees had to be removed because they were threatening the house of the owner. Kidron Tree Service used the Manitou 2540 equipped with Kinshofer KM 634-0,35-3Z grapple saw to remove the trees. Then, thanks to a small excavator and a woodchipper, his team was getting rid of what was cut.”

The grapple saw has already worked more than 600 hours and shows no sign of weakness.

Kidron Tree Service has only replaced the saw blade a couple of times; “it is a 10-minute job to replace the blade”, said one of the Kidron Tree Service employees.Mark really likes the grapple saw. He says that he can achieve jobs that he would have declined before and he saves a lot of time on daily jobs he is used to work on.

About this project, Pete Maraldo (Fallsway) said that once Kinshofer agreed on providing the grapple saw equipped with all what was needed to mount it onto the telehandler, he was very confident with the deal.
Pete is now advertising the grapple saw in the northeast Ohio area and he is sure he will get more deals done in the next future.

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