TreeDreamer
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I'm covered up in bush honeysuckle, especially along the creeks, roads, and edges of fields. It dominates the understory and doesn't let new trees grow through it. I've sprayed, cut, pulled by hand, even bought a Fransgard V5000 logging winch to pull them out. But everything is a lot of work. Some of them are big enough it is a hard pull with the logging winch or they just break off. Some clumps of 5 or 6 2" stems from a common root wad that are 20' high. Plus there's all that walking back and forth and crawling under in the briars to hook chokers.
So I've been daydreaming at work about some kind of hydraulic grabber, like a tree puller, to mount on the loader. Since most are along roads and fields, I'm hoping I could just reach in, grab it and lift/curl it out. I could rock and and forth but would likely get a facefull of tops. I know all of the bigger ones won't come out with the loader lift alone. So I considered a diverter on the 3rd function to put a cylinder on it to push against the ground for 15 or 20 tons of lift (similiar to a log splitter), one function of the 3rd function to clamp, one to push up.
Today I started wondering if instead of augmenting my miniscule lift, maybe 1500# at waist high after the weight of the device, it would be easier if I put a vibrator, like a truck bed or bin vibrator or better like a vibratory post driver/puller vibrator. If I could get a vibrator to vibrate the tree I'm guessing it'd be a huge help. If...
So a couple of questions, I have mid- and rear PTOs so I could rig a generator or additional pump to run a vibrator but I don't know what kind, air, electric, or hydraulic. Are there vibrators that just vibrate up and down instead of around a plane like the truck bed type? I'm guessing that a vibrator vibrating a honeysuckle parallel to the ground would be of little help, I think I need it vibrating up and down the trunk to do much good. Also, best way to mount it so it doesn't unduly vibrate the device/loader but instead puts much of its energy into the honeysuckle. And finally, do I vibrate where I grip it, and hopefully grip it low, or do I vibrate against the stump or root wad regardless of where I grip it?
Thanks,
Mark
So I've been daydreaming at work about some kind of hydraulic grabber, like a tree puller, to mount on the loader. Since most are along roads and fields, I'm hoping I could just reach in, grab it and lift/curl it out. I could rock and and forth but would likely get a facefull of tops. I know all of the bigger ones won't come out with the loader lift alone. So I considered a diverter on the 3rd function to put a cylinder on it to push against the ground for 15 or 20 tons of lift (similiar to a log splitter), one function of the 3rd function to clamp, one to push up.
Today I started wondering if instead of augmenting my miniscule lift, maybe 1500# at waist high after the weight of the device, it would be easier if I put a vibrator, like a truck bed or bin vibrator or better like a vibratory post driver/puller vibrator. If I could get a vibrator to vibrate the tree I'm guessing it'd be a huge help. If...
So a couple of questions, I have mid- and rear PTOs so I could rig a generator or additional pump to run a vibrator but I don't know what kind, air, electric, or hydraulic. Are there vibrators that just vibrate up and down instead of around a plane like the truck bed type? I'm guessing that a vibrator vibrating a honeysuckle parallel to the ground would be of little help, I think I need it vibrating up and down the trunk to do much good. Also, best way to mount it so it doesn't unduly vibrate the device/loader but instead puts much of its energy into the honeysuckle. And finally, do I vibrate where I grip it, and hopefully grip it low, or do I vibrate against the stump or root wad regardless of where I grip it?
Thanks,
Mark