jgibbens
Bronze Member
I have a bunch of 1" diameter mullberry trees that I want to transplant for a firewood plot. Mullberry is a taproot tree so I need to get a root ball that's deeper that it is wide.
Is there any engineering related reason you don't see hydraulic tree spades with only two spades? I undertand that the top of the root ball would be more of a football wedge shape than round cone if the scoops are cut from large diameter pipe.
I don't have a drawing worked up yet but it would be an H shaped frame similar to a tree toad frame (heavier and with more gussets) and chained to a front end loader bucket the same way a quick spade is mounted.
Since the FEL bucket shouldn't need to change pitch, I'd replace those two cylinders with fixed links and use them to power the spades.
see anything wrong with the concept?
Is there any engineering related reason you don't see hydraulic tree spades with only two spades? I undertand that the top of the root ball would be more of a football wedge shape than round cone if the scoops are cut from large diameter pipe.
I don't have a drawing worked up yet but it would be an H shaped frame similar to a tree toad frame (heavier and with more gussets) and chained to a front end loader bucket the same way a quick spade is mounted.
Since the FEL bucket shouldn't need to change pitch, I'd replace those two cylinders with fixed links and use them to power the spades.
see anything wrong with the concept?