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  • buschmaster
    I think I need DSL...
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  • texaswildman
    That is some hot deck! I taught logging and sawmilling when i was in graduate school, and we didn't have one of those - of course that was almost 30 years ago....
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  • CHEVELLE427
    that is a tree eater. looks like a replacement for the pulp wood crew
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  • Mort4570
    Saw it on tv a few nights ago,and the trees-per-hour rate would make a Dillon 650 onwer envious.!
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  • Cubslover
    That thing is incredible.
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  • Jacob2008
    Hmmm.

    Intrestinggg.
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  • sarge_3ad
    That is one sweet outfit, but I wonder how it would work on this knarled and bent hedge, (osage orange) I have around here?
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  • shoff14
    Add that onto the timberjack machine, and you have something that can go anywhere.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2V8GFqk_Y&feature=related
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  • Colt Super
    WOW !!

    Doug
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  • Nwcid
    I am not too sure what is so new about that. They have been around for years and there are a couple different kinds. The ones like this are for taking down smaller planted type trees and then delimbing and cutting them to length. Then a fowarder (log truck on tracks) comes and picks them up and takes them to a road log truck.

    Then there are Hot Saws which are a very larger Skill saw. The head on these is not loose and the just cut down the tree and then lay them in a pile that makes it easy for a skidder to bring them up to a landing. This system can cut down some pretty good sized trees.
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
    I think I need DSL...
    I KNOW i do!!!![:(!]
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  • frog21
    Now, if we could just make trees grow that fast.
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  • TooBig
    Cool I wonder how many tooth picks it could make[:D][}:)]
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  • laughton2
    I own some acreage with veneer quality red oak on it. About 10 years ago I hired a forester to advise me on the timber. He recommended a limited sale to thin the trees a little.

    The loggers used a machine like that. They took down some very big trees with it. Much bigger than the pulp in this video.

    The saw on the machine I saw was a large chain saw - maybe a 3/8 file size.

    These guys even processed the tree tops for cardboard.
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  • elkoholic
    Holy Mary Mother of renewable natural resource utilization!! Earth First!! We'll mine the other planets later!!
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  • Nwcid
    quote:Originally posted by laughton2

    The saw on the machine I saw was a large chain saw - maybe a 3/8 file size.




    Some of the smaller ones run a .404 pitch chain like on older large chain saws. Some of the larger ones run a 3/4" pitch chain and they have huge links.
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  • LesWVa
    Catrod
    Hamer Lumber Company here in the southern part of WV has a large walking harvester. I think the one they have is a Vermeer thou. Hamer owns a 1500 acre tract near my house that they timbered on for almost a year.
    Had one sweet little honey who was about 25 or so operating it. She was tied into the family someway and if she wanted part of the business when she finished college. She had to work in the field with the men to see what they went through.

    Sad part is they destroyed some of the best deer hunting land that I have ever been on in this state.
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  • lts
    started working for deere c&f a few years ago. did a tour of 2 of their plants, these machines are awesome!
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  • gbeggrow
    Tree huggers.....beware![}:)]
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  • Cutiegirlracing
    I don't know if anyone is interested, but JD will stop making chainsaws this year. I think JD saws are just recolor Efco saws anyway. They are recommending that JD dealers replace the saws with Stihls.
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  • Jim Rau
    Damn, that takes all the fun, work, and danger out of it![;)]
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  • jimdeere
    Dang, Marcelle Ledbetter never had it so good!
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