New JD tree harvester, AKA: scary spider

[voodoo]

Found this posted as news on a gadget site today.
Totally awesome. A subsiduary company of JD, hence posted in this forum.

Are wheels becoming a thing of the past? Spider harvester

 

[Cliff_Johns]

Thanks for posting that. That is one cool machine.

Cliff

 

[slowzuki]

That thing was in my pop mechanics mags in the 80's.

 

[L3650]

Those are already being used in northern Europe. I saw one in operation on a promotional video for a forest products company.

To bad the value of stumpage has not gone up as fast as the price of the machines used to harvest it. That's another whole discussion.