Don't Need a Chainsaw IF You Have One of These...

[MountainDon]

I wish I had photos or a video of this in action, but I never got over to where the forest was being thinned when this machine was in action. I had noticed the circular tooth pattern on the ends of logs he was saving. Yep, this is the same outfit that has the grinder I posted earlier.

From what I figure he drives up to a tree, the clamp arms grasp it and the blade saws it off. Then he takes it to where he stacks it with others. Later another machine loads them onto a tree hauler. Then the tress are hauled to his mill for lumber. Smaller trees may be sold for firewood or posts.

[Whitlock]

That might even have a limber on it. Hard to tell from this angle. but after the tree is cut down it is held sideways and striped of it limbs. They will make a forest disappear in no time.

Whitlock

[desdawg]

Stihl or Husky don?

[MountainDon]

That might even have a limber on it.

I was wondering about that.    It MTL does. Sure wish I'd been there to see it in operation. It's being taken off to another area now.

[glenn kangiser]

Bet that thing could give one heck of a bear hug...

[Daddymem]

Similar to what I've seen in action doing the logging in NNY.  A friend operated one of those contraptions but instead of the grinder like teeth at the bottom it had a massive circular saw blade.  It would hug the tree and the blade would saw it off.  I forget how it was limbed but then it would be placed on the ground for a skid steer to take down the trail to the pile (probably what they do with that one too, tracks are pretty slow).  One by one the trees were plucked from the pile by a crane and dropped into a chipper that spit the chips out into tractor trailers.

I remember watching it and imagining it was going to be like the cartoons where one tree gets ground down to produce a single tooth pick. 

[NM_Shooter]

How's about this one!  (was this the video you posted?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9LlLLZwAU

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

My husband built a test stand for those...

[MountainDon]

My husband built a test stand for those...

We still have thousands of test acres near by... 

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

I remember him talking about when they ran the tests on it, everyone had to clear out per safety requirements.  After they cut and strip the tree, they toss it over into the trailer behind.  He thought it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen.  Wanted to borrow it to remove a few problem trees in our yard in WI. 

[glenn kangiser]

That is a cool machine.