Author Topic: Tech Farmers (Read 185 times)

Sandman · « **on:** June 23, 2002, 06:54:43 PM »

The folks at John Deere come up with some really wild stuff.

Check out this site about a prototype forest machine. Hell, it even has a simulator.

john9001 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 23, 2002, 07:55:25 PM »

lumber companys have been using machines like that for years, only on wheels/tracks, to cut down trees.

one of them machines can do the work of 10 lumberjacks

easymo · « **Reply #2 on:** June 23, 2002, 10:56:17 PM »

Ya. But can they sing the lumberjack song.

Saintaw · « **Reply #3 on:** June 23, 2002, 11:28:16 PM »

A-Tree STree ?

capt. apathy · « **Reply #4 on:** June 23, 2002, 11:41:20 PM »

I've never seen the walker model but even the one with the six big balloon tires is pretty awsome to watch. the arm grabs the trunk then saws it off below the grab. pickts the tree up and runs it back and forth between the wheels on the grab arm debarking and removing the limbs, then stacks it off to the side.

in a matter of a minute or so it's changed from a tree to a log.

sure glad I'm not a logger. those guys never had it easy, and it only seems to be getting worse for them every year.