Chain saws are now obsolete!

txhawg · Feb 8, 2005

Check it out:

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

johnk · Feb 8, 2005

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 · Feb 9, 2005

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

Egon

JimR · Feb 9, 2005

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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 · Feb 9, 2005

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 · Feb 9, 2005

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

CTyler · Feb 9, 2005

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 · Feb 9, 2005

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 · Feb 9, 2005

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 · Feb 9, 2005

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