Chain saws are now obsolete!

[txhawg]

Check it out:

http://www.treeterminator.com/grande.htm

 

[johnk]

Sure would hate to sever a 20" 80 foot oak without a notch and it falls backwards on my machine and me. Great for brush but I'd seriously worry about 8 ton trees...

 

[Egon]

Think I'd prefer something like shown in the attachment.

Egon

 

[JimR]

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That was my first thought also. Watch my head being taken off by a 20" tree. No thanks. I do think it would be great for smaller trees and brush that you could push over with the backstop.

Now that next photo would be more like it. I think that rig will also lay the tree down.

 

[AndyMA]

I agree about the danger of the tree falling backwards (or sideways). Let alone what happens if a wind gust comes up at the wrong time. I routinely push over 20 to 24" oaks with my 44,000 lb excavator and there are times pushing 20 feet up that the tree has a mind of its own (or hits another tree or branch on the way down). You don't have much leverage with the bottom 5-6 feet of a 100 foot tree and all the overhung weight is up high. I see the guys sawing trees all the time with the excavator mounted rotary saw and the tree clamps and even then they sometimes have a tree go the wrong way. Just take a look at the steel cages welded over the operators cabs.....

Andy

 

[CTyler]

One of these days they will come out with laser chainsaws and replace the chain.

 

[CTyler]

For larger trees you would have to run a line to pull it where it is supposed to go, otherwise it could get risky.

 

[bellweather]

cute...with that thing there's a real risk of clear-cutting the entire property just for the "shear" fun of it, he-he.

 

[johan3400]

The terminator 2 looks like a good machine to take out brush. I think I would rather use my chain saw for trees and one of these for brush. They do look good though.

 

[rozett]

We had a timber harvest done in 2003. The timber cutter had a Timberjack feller/buncher that weighed over 30 tons. It was on tracks and had 3-dimensional leveling. Quite the machine. I saw them handle 36 diameter oaks and white pines like they were toothpicks. The saw in the feller head had a 3" kerf. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[RalphVa]

That thing would be like having a beaver harnessed to the 3 pt. He wouldn't know which way the tree is going to fall either. They've been known to fall trees on top of each other.

Ralph

 

[Varmintmist]

Hmmmmmm..........

 

[ChuckT]

I'll take one of each. Oh, money - **** I knew there was a hitch!

cvt

 

[PineRidge]

While at the Ohio Power Show I saw several variations of these gadgets. Some were made to trim branches of trees while others were strictly for ground cut-off. All the while I was looking I thought that the idea was sound but they all needed a second set of hydraulically operated clamps to hold the tree or branch before it was cut so that it could then be laid over without fear if the tree coming back on the operator.

I think at least for the time being I'll just stick with my Stihl chainsaw.