About
About Yoder’s Grapple Service
A grapple truck, an owner who runs it himself, and a background on the cutting side of the job rather than the hauling side.
We started on your end of the job
The same family runs Yoder’s Tree and Land Services, a tree company working this same stretch of the Gulf Coast. Every load we haul now is a load we used to have to deal with ourselves.
That is the whole reason this business exists. We knew exactly how much a slow haul-off costs a tree crew — a four-person crew standing in a yard waiting on a truck is the most expensive thing on a job site — and we knew how rarely a hauler shows up understanding that. So we bought the truck and started doing it properly.
What that means for you
- We do not need the job explained twice. Tell us it is a takedown with the wood stacked at the curb and we already know what we are walking into.
- We know what your client’s lawn looks like after the wrong truck drives across it, and we plan the approach before we commit the tires.
- We know your schedule is the real constraint, so we give you an honest window instead of an optimistic one.
- We are the ones on site. There is no gap between what you were told on the phone and what shows up.
- USDOT 4409405
- Fully insured — COI on request
- Open 24 hours, Monday–Saturday
- Five counties — Sarasota, Manatee, Hillsborough, Charlotte, DeSoto
- Owner-operated — the owner runs the truck
Straight answers to the things contractors actually ask
Do we rent the truck out?
No. Nobody drives it but us. You are hiring the service — truck, grapple and operator together. That keeps the insurance clean and it means the person on the controls has done it a few thousand times.
Are you insured?
Yes, and we will send a certificate of insurance before we come out. Most of the general contractors we work for need one on file, so we are used to the request. See insurance and compliance.
How much can you take in one trip?
A 70-yard grapple truck with an 80-yard trailer. Most single-tree takedowns and typical brush piles are one trip. See equipment and capacity for how to judge your own pile.
Do you work weekends?
We run 24 hours a day, Monday through Saturday. We are closed Sundays. Storm weeks are the exception to nothing — that is when the phone should ring.
Need a load gone?
Call and talk to the person who will actually be driving the truck. Tell us the city, what is on the ground and roughly how much of it, and we will tell you when we can be there.