Thread: This is just plain wrong

At first I was wondering why you posted a video about luggage being stored in a loft. Fortunately, I was a bit slow in hitting the return button, after the advert I saw the most amazing tree destroyer on the planet. Crikey, talk abiut an efficent way of converting a perfectly good tree into mulch in a matter of seconds. Can't say that I would rush out and buy one of the machines, but a real eye opener into the way modern technology is used, although not necessarily for the better.

Thanks for posting,

Alan...

And its not just how it does it but the speed that it does it.

Bloody hell!!!
What a machine!!!! Over the road from us is a corridor for high voltage power lines. A couple of years back for a couple of days I could hear in the distance a chainsaw and another high revving machine noise in the same place. It turned out to be a gang of contractors armed with chainsaws, chipper and 5 ton truck, and blokes on foot with wipper stippers. They were clearing the growth away from the corridor to lessen the fire risk. If that gang had a similar machine more than half of the personal in that crew would be looking for another job

What a waste

Where I was living in Mississauga would have loved this. The developers flatten everything, then build their 3 models of cookie cutter houses (in a row, repeat) and sell the houses before they're actually done. First thing people do when the move in? Plant trees. I won't post any pictures. It'd make any good builders especially brick workers cry.

The most heartbreaking instance was a giant old oak in a paddock across from work. They were leveling the area to build more industrial estate. Now this tree would have been on the corner of the lot, probably the parking lot. Nope. Leveled and chipped. No attempt to slab what was probably 2/3 of a meter across and 2 stories tall.

I did cry. All the birds that I used to watch and listen to while waiting for the bus disappeared.

So the Onceler does exist!!

That's just plain disgusting Would love to strap some railway line to one of those saplings just for a laugh

As seen in the video one could say they are plain disgusting however…
Going back about 6 years i worked along side this exact machine on a development that was to become a residential land release in a certain location.
There was good Tuart, jarrah and sheoak spread over around 500 acres. The nature corridors and park lands were pegged out and in we went.
Excavator1 had the mulching head on it as seen in the video above. Excavator2 had a harvester on it. If you haven't seen one it basically has 2 clamps that wrap around the tree to hold it and then out comes a 42 inch chainsaw bar and cuts the log off close to the ground. So….
Excavator1 would mulch the canopy of the tree down to the crown, excavator2 would then take the log off at ground level to be picked up by a loader. Excavator1 would then mulch the stump down to well below ground level.
So all waste product is dealt with by one man, one machine. And the logs ended up on my woodmizer.
So when used the right way they are a super efficient machine.

Nifty

my front lawn is getting a bit long. Can you hire one from Bunnings for the weekend?

Had a machine similar to this working next door demolishing an old church hall,
wasnt a thing they didn't reclaim, bricks the lot chomped them up into 25mm pieces was wishing him to bug...y after a couple of days the noise was terrible ,he just changed the workhead on the machine hooked up the hoses and away he went.

I'm just thinking of the possibilities for dealing with the flea ridden, unwashed rent a greenies we are infested with in Tasmania.
I would love to see the looks on their faces when an excavator with one of those mulching heads walks up to their picket line and kicks the head into gear, I suspect they may decide they have a very urgent engagement elsewhere.
Seriously though, they are a brilliant tool for their correct application. You can get them for loaders and skid steers too.

waste alright and disturbing, even though practical to the bloke who has to do the clearing.

chipping always annoys me. And the go ahead is always an annoying time based thing. And not the tree lopers fault. Seems as though they will loose the job unless the tree is removed in such a small amount of time, which means chipping. Which means theres no room for removal to use the tree for timber.

So disturbing that efficiency has got to the point where someone has taken the effort to design and make a machine like that.

It maybe good for trees that can't be used for timber, but the problem I think with efficiency…where it gets out of hand….is good timber trees end up being cut up anyway to keep the money flow going.

Fortunately, its good though that theres some tree lopers that do their best to call woodworkers first, who will make use of the tree , despite the financial constraints.

Too obvious really to mention but will say anyway for the dirt searchers -> its just an opinion….I'm not an expert tree loping expert…..2 cents worth.