Maintaining green spaces

Firewood strapping cradle

A log strapping cradle carried by a farm loader in a farmyard; logs stacked in the cradle are held by a strap, and a finished bundle waits on the ground. — The cradle holds the logs during strapping; the bundle leaves on the loader.
Synthetic image.

A cradle that attaches to a loader.
The logs are stacked in it, strapped, then the whole bundle
is picked up, carried and set down with the loader.

Other names for this tool: log bundler, bundling cradle, strapping frame.

The essentials

Family: Maintaining green spaces
Hitch: Farm loader, wheeled or telehandler
Drive: None, a tool without hydraulics
Carrier machine: A front loader or a telehandler, not an excavator

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01 Use

What it is for

On the left, the logs stacked in the cradle are strapped into a single bundle. On the right, the loader picks up the strapped bundle in a single lift and takes it to the trailer. Computer-generated image. — **Left:** the logs stacked in the cradle are strapped into a single bundle.
**Right:** the loader picks up the strapped bundle in a single lift and takes it to the trailer.
What sets it apart:
it turns a heap of logs into a load that is picked up in a single lift.
Computer-generated image.

**Left:** the logs stacked in the cradle are strapped into a single bundle.
**Right:** the loader picks up the strapped bundle in a single lift and takes it to the trailer.
What sets it apart:
it turns a heap of logs into a load that is picked up in a single lift.
Computer-generated image.

The cradle is carried on the loader and set down on the ground. The logs are stacked in it against the end stop plate, the strap is passed round and tensioned: the bundle holds on its own.
The loader then picks up the whole thing and sets it down on the trailer, for drying or at the customer's.

It is the tool for anyone preparing firewood in quantity: the logs are handled once by hand, then never again.
One person is enough, where stacking by hand needed two.

A strapped bundle is not a slung load. The strap holds the bundle, it does not lift it: it is the cradle or the forks that carry it.
The load capacity depends on the model, not on a generic figure.

02 Key technical data

On which machine?

A strapping cradle fits a farm loader, a wheeled loader or a telehandler, not an excavator.
The loader's lifting capacity, including tool and load: we calculate it with you for your machine.

What the tool does

It is used to strap firewood.
It weighs from 210 to 260 kg depending on the model, to be checked with you.
Its maximum load is 160 kg, to be checked with you.

What is needed on the hydraulic side

It needs no hydraulic connection.

Figures taken from our models on the market.
Your study sets the exact value for your machine.

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03 Your study

Have your equipment checked.

Describe the length of your logs and the loader that will carry the strapping cradle.
Specify the volume prepared per season.

What we need to answer you

Your loader Its hitch: Euro, or another.
Lifting The lifting capacity of the loader.
The 3rd function Present or not.
The work The use.

Without these details, the study still begins: we will ask you for them.

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Written study within 3 working days, once the file is complete.

04 Choice

What determines the choice

01 — Log length The end stop plate is adjustable,
but the cradle is chosen with the most common log length.
02 — The loader available Coupler, lifting capacity:
the strapping cradle is chosen with the machine that carries it, bundle included.
03 — The consumables Strap, fasteners, tensioner:
their supply is part of the choice, not of the after-sales.
04 — What becomes of the bundle Dried on site, delivered, sold by the bundle:
the size of the bundle is decided with its destination.

05 Check

What is checked before ordering

The weight of the bundle It is checked with the actual wood, wet or dry, not with a figure from the catalogue.
The hitch Loader or telehandler coupler:
we check that the machine carries the loaded cradle.
The end stop plate Usable on both sides depending on the model:
its setting is checked with the log lengths actually cut.
The strapping routine Tensioner, fasteners, dispenser:
the workstation is planned so that one person does everything.

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