This summer in Fairlee,Vt the railroad was triming back the limbs,and the setup they had to me was /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif
One train engine pushing a flat bed very slowly with a rotary cutter on each side of the flat bed.
The operator's were enclosed cab and these guys were good, {dang never have the camera when I should} and I would all most say the boom reached 15+ feet or so.
What a path of destruction they left,pieces of chopped wood in trees and scatter thru out the woods,also
I must say the trees they prune look in sad shape./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif
Talk about a noise...wonder those guys are deaf by now./w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif
The genltman that uses a rotary cutter along our roads is a old timer...now wait second..I'm not calling anyone over 60 a old timer /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif that he been w/ the highway department over 40 years... and he always used a tractor w/ a sickle bar to trim the roads until 10 years ago.
He said "the biggest problem w/ this cutters are getting tangle up in the old fence lines"
I don't think he ever will admit it but he enjoys the new setup compare to yesterday's mowing.
Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif