Tree Cutting

rusty6 · Mar 21, 2017

The municipality has been planning to do a little tree trimming along the edge of some of our property since last year. Today it finally started. Some type of rotary flail on the front of a crawler tractor and it can render poplar trees into sawdust if they really need to. I took a few pictures and video with the drone while they were working. Looks like another day or so of work ahead of them.

rusty6 · Mar 21, 2017

Closer view of the machine doing the cutting.

Ivan in Mich · Mar 21, 2017

You should see what a 2 inch pipe does to that machine. I had my property line marked
with the pipe and it was painted orange. They hit it. Mangled the pipe but the
machine sat there for a couple of days. It sheared the shaft on the hyd pump off.When
they did the lines here after they took down the trees and brush they lowered the
head about 2 to 4 inches in the ground and chewed everything up. I can now brush hog
it as before it was to rough

rusty6 · Mar 21, 2017

They must be a pretty tough machine. Most of the fence lines here have rocks piled there from years ago and partially overgrown with grass and trees. They are chewing up the fence as well. We looked at taking it up but after an hour so fighting my way through snow and trees I decided the fence wasn't worth it.

RBoots · Mar 21, 2017

It can be pretty hard to see stuff in there if the dust is flying or sun in your eyes with dust on the windshield. I got our Tiger mower wound up in a guy wire for an electric pole last year mowing back roadsides. Windows were dusty, the guy wire had no marker or bright cover in it in a stand of trees covered in grape vines. Never saw it until it spun my tractor sideways and was hopelessly stuck in everything underneath. Power company put a bright yellow cover on it now.

kcm.MN · Mar 21, 2017

If that's the attachment I think it is, here's a REAL NICE video of it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQ3RizvZAQ

JayinNY · Mar 21, 2017

Did you have to bring up poplar again? Lol!!
If it's what I think it is, those things really turn trees
into nothing. Please notice, I took pain staking
efforts fighting the phone all the way to make sure I
came out on top with the correct spelling, ya, it was
alot of work, took minutes, phone almost got me!!!!

Part Time Pete · Mar 22, 2017

The pasture at the family farm has been neglected for a lot of years, so I looked in to renting a smaller one. They want $1,200 a day for it - that's a lot of money, but I'm guessing it's an expensive machine to buy and keep up.
Pete

mozark · Mar 22, 2017

The state of Mo is cleaning up a lot of highway right of way in this area that has not been mowed in years. They are cutting most of the larger cedar trees and hauling them off. The rest they are using a skid steer with a heavy rotary cutter of some sort on the front, just chewing everything up. I chuckle every time I go by this one place, completely bare except for this lone stump sticking up that looks to be about 8" in dia and a foot tall all frayed up, and imagine the surprise of the operator when he hit that. I think it was last year I saw they used what looked to be a large self powered unit mounted to the front of a road grader. I know it all will eventually heal, but for now, both sure leave a mess.

rusty6 · Mar 22, 2017

(quoted from post at 04:47:38 03/22/17) The pasture at the family farm has been neglected for a lot of years, so I looked in to renting a smaller one. They want $1,200 a day for it - that's a lot of money, but I'm guessing it's an expensive machine to buy and keep up.
Pete

This machine they are using on this job will cost me $225 per hour if I want any work done for myself. No doubt it is expensive to keep one of these going so they have to charge enough.

ArleninOr · Mar 22, 2017

Have a friend that works for a company that does right of ways in several states. They use skid steers on steroids to do that. Chews everything up. County parked one here for a week and said if we use it, park it like it was. So we used it to clean up a pasture that was way overgrown. Not now.

Ellis Kinney · Mar 22, 2017

Called a hydro-axe. I have power line right of ways across my farm. It can be a Cat dozer with a solid steel shaft instead of a blade, with an entire row of
stump grinder blades about 2 inches apart. Leaves a complete mess as it knocks stuff down but doesn't grind up what hits the ground. Ellis

kcm.MN · Mar 22, 2017

I've seen several different designs on such mulching beasts; like above, a heavy disc with teeth on the bottom, and single or dual drums with teeth. I think the dual drums (much smaller than the above) is probably safest, but those spinning disc designs sure to some quick work!

Mark - IN. · Mar 22, 2017

Them things sure don't play around. Those blades can go vertical, horizontal, and some place in between from near the ground until as long as the boom can go tall. Sure wish I had stock in the companies that make them because they sure are popular.

Mark

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