Yeah I could point a finger at you but I'd have three pointing back at me. In Maine there phasing out plastic for the more reusable bring your own dirty bags solution.
Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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Yeah I could point a finger at you but I'd have three pointing back at me. In Maine there phasing out plastic for the more reusable bring your own dirty bags solution.
Is that every year?
Anyone here familiar with these tree harvesters? Seems to me that rotary blade shouldn't slow down like it does on 15" wood.
How NOT To Cut Trees With The Tigercat 718E Buncher - YouTube
How NOT To Cut Trees With The Tigercat 718E Buncher - YouTube
Sawyer Rob
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They are hydraulic powered, and it takes HUGE power to turn that big blade through a tree!
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I like the poison ivy growing around that third tree. But that machine should be cutting through those trees like butter. It could be that the machine isn't big enough to power the head.
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Guess I should've went down further on the comments on that video, didn't see his, and I'm thinking the same thing, theres something wrong with that tree harvester. A big machine like that should slice right though pine, good thing they'r not cutting oak. 40 years ago I ran one of them 3 wheel shears, they would have no trouble shearing off a 15" pine.
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He posted that just one minute before I stole it, so it wasn't there when you posted the link. I've always wondered; how well did those little tricycles like having a great big tree on the front end? It seems like they might be a bit top heavy.
He posted that just one minute before I stole it, so it wasn't there when you posted the link. I've always wondered; how well did those little tricycles like having a great big tree on the front end? It seems like they might be a bit top heavy.
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Not too familiar with this machine. But I operated a tigercat 845 harvestor for several years in the late 1990s. The harvestor cuts, limbs, cuts to length and piles the pulp wood . It used a chainsaw. Just on a larger scale. The bar was maybe 30 inches or so. It ran off a small hydraulic motor. It took a lot of power when sawing. The tigercat had tandem pumps so you could drive the tracks while cutting wood. But before we had the tigercat, we used john Deere 690 excavators with larger higher tracks and a fab tech forestry head. When pressing the saw button the tracks would neatly stall and a good load on the engine. So I’d imagine it takes a lot of power to run the feller buncher. Another guy operating near us at times had feller bunchers. They would grab two and three trees at a time with it and lay them down while the harvestor followed behind to limb it. One buncher could keep two harvestor a going. They have slightly shorter booms. The tigercat shad a single boom cylinder as opposed to two the excavators had which made them smoother and faster. And much better track power. We have smaller wood here and short. And we could cut a couple tractor trailer loads of wood during a 12 hour shift. We ran 24/7
This is how they're supposed to work...Feller Buncher Tigercat L87 C on Steep Terrain - YouTube
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Yeah looks very similar to the 845. But I operated a harvestor vs the buncher. We were on hills even steeper but we didn’t have the self leveling cab. Not sure I’d be struck on the leveling cab. I’d feel I couldn’t judge what the machine is on as much is if it was a regular cab. Also, when we used the excavator with the solid head similar to a feller Bunche Head, just with a chainsaw bar instead, you could pull yourself up hills or catch yourself as you went down hills. But the attachment we had on the tigercat was a dangling head. You couldn’t pull the machine around or catch yourself if it tipped too fast. It had much better track power with the first two feet tapered slightly to ride up on the ground better. But with the increased track power and tapered tracks the machine could climb it felt until it would turn over. And no way to catch yourself. So I didn’t like it as much on the mountain sides as much as the 690 with the “high walker “ forestry package undercarriage. We’d go down hills with that until the hydraulics cut out. One time the guy on shift before me threw his bean can behind the seat, when I was going down over the side of the mountain the can slid from under the seat and lodge itself under the foot pedal and spun the undercarriage sideways on the hillside.