Truck Spades

Truck Spades

When you need to move trees, you turn to the pros. When the pros need a Truck Spade, they turn to Dutchman. It’s rugged. It’s compact. It’s powerful. It’s quality that can’t be beat!

Dutchman Industries has a line of truck spades ready to tackle the largest or smallest tree transplanting jobs. For years, people have asked us to design larger spades for a tree spade truck with the same durability you have come to trust in Dutchman Tree Spades.

 

 

The goal of the 3rd generation of truck spades was to design units that could not only last but be compact enough to get in and out of tasks easily. Our focus was not on the cheapest method of building a unit, but creating a design that will meet all conditions all the time. At Dutchman, we are forever striving to build a better, more refined tree spade. Common issues such as tall towers, small frames and weak blades all had to be addressed. These concerns were shared by many within the tree moving industry. State-of-the-art technology, computerized sketches, and stress analysis all played a part in building a sleek, compact, reliable unit that makes for a solid and sound investment.

We developed methods to cold form blades making them stronger than the original AR450 material used. We designed new placement for support ribs, and added scraper plates to keep the soil from sticking. Now there are no obstruction on the outside of the blades, making baskets easy and fast to use.

After the blades were strengthened, we focused on shortening the overall height of the spade. Many have complained that their conventional spades cannot get under the canopy of the tree due to tall towers. In order to combat this issue, we had to first redesign the way a cylinder operates. The end result was a new patented, multistage cylinder that does not have any oil displacement issues or side load concerns. The speed is consistent through out its stroke and has the power to drive the blades into the ground. These cylinders are much shorter retraced, allowing for shorter towers.

 

Dutchman Truck Spade

 

We also wanted to address how the blade is supported on the tower. Rather than guiding the blades on narrow tracks like the competition, we use the face of the tower itself: the surface area of the slider is many times greater than small interior rails. The interior support ribs are also used to mount the blades to the slider housing. The width of these ribs is more than double the competition, holding the blade at a much wider position. The blades are pulled down the tower by the trunnion mounted cylinder in the center of the slider box; the best position as it is directly in line with the the tracking system.

 

Truck Spade Comparison

 

Lastly, we wanted to address the constant concern of too little operating space within the frame of the spade. We created a completely circular frame that has plenty of room inside to accommodate wide, low branching trees. These frames are much stronger than ones that are pieced together using hollow tubes and flat bar. The gates were made taller and have replaceable hardened steel bushings. Finally, the frame has a hydraulic locking mechanism to ensure a stable connection while digging.

All of these features and innovations make Dutchman Truck Spades the easiest to use, strongest, best truck spade on the market.

 

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