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11/26/2015 12:30:43 PM EDT
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Kind of a cool device

11/26/2015 12:38:41 PM EDT
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I don't understand the virality of this video. Or is this just such a foreign concept to people?

Cut-to-length logging isn't new, and I haven't seen anything particularly interesting or different in this video, but I have seen this video posted on Facebook a dozen or so times by people with their minds blown.

http://www.ponsse.com/products/harvesters

http://www.deere.com/en_US/products/equipment/harvesters/harvesters.page?

http://www.komatsuforest.com/default.aspx?id=1453&productId=&rootID=1475

http://timberpro.com/photos.html

11/26/2015 12:40:24 PM EDT
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I don't understand the virality of this video. Or is this just such a foreign concept to people?

Cut-to-length logging isn't new, and I haven't seen anything particularly interesting or different in this video, but I have seen this video posted on Facebook a dozen or so times by people with their minds blown.

http://www.ponsse.com/products/harvesters

http://www.deere.com/en_US/products/equipment/harvesters/harvesters.page?

http://www.komatsuforest.com/default.aspx?id=1453&productId=&rootID=1475

http://timberpro.com/photos.html

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I had never seen such a device before, I think it would be a great time saver for clearing a field.
However it looks like it would be limited to small trees
11/26/2015 2:01:22 PM EDT
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Forty years ago I lived in northern Canada. I guided a lot, but at times I would work logging jobs, setting chokers or felling. They had these things back then, called them feller-bunchers.
11/26/2015 2:08:50 PM EDT
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Its a pretty cool video. I never seen it before, then again I live in a basement.
11/26/2015 2:42:27 PM EDT
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I agree that they are nothing new.  Still a very cool machine though.
11/26/2015 2:45:39 PM EDT
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Can we deploy some of these to Calais?
11/26/2015 2:52:53 PM EDT
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I don't understand the virality of this video. Or is this just such a foreign concept to people?

Cut-to-length logging isn't new, and I haven't seen anything particularly interesting or different in this video, but I have seen this video posted on Facebook a dozen or so times by people with their minds blown.

http://www.ponsse.com/products/harvesters

http://www.deere.com/en_US/products/equipment/harvesters/harvesters.page?

http://www.komatsuforest.com/default.aspx?id=1453&productId=&rootID=1475

http://timberpro.com/photos.html

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11/26/2015 2:54:22 PM EDT
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I had never seen such a device before, I think it would be a great time saver for clearing a field.
However it looks like it would be limited to small trees
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I don't understand the virality of this video. Or is this just such a foreign concept to people?

Cut-to-length logging isn't new, and I haven't seen anything particularly interesting or different in this video, but I have seen this video posted on Facebook a dozen or so times by people with their minds blown.

http://www.ponsse.com/products/harvesters

http://www.deere.com/en_US/products/equipment/harvesters/harvesters.page?

http://www.komatsuforest.com/default.aspx?id=1453&productId=&rootID=1475

http://timberpro.com/photos.html



I had never seen such a device before, I think it would be a great time saver for clearing a field.
However it looks like it would be limited to small trees


Most of the old growth is gone. Most lumber and paper wood is planted and harvested when the trees are mature enough and are limited (by their age) to a certain size, so a machine like that works perfectly for them. Obviously it wouldn't work for a 200-year-old white pine, but there aren't many of those left.
11/26/2015 2:55:04 PM EDT
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Those things are pretty cool. I think the computer even keeps track of how many board-feet it cuts
11/26/2015 2:56:17 PM EDT
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11/26/2015 3:03:45 PM EDT
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If you keep your eyes peeled, you'll those thing all over the place, like along roadway projects, clearing new lots for development.  There's also a grinder that just grinds to chips the whole tree from top to bottom in a few seconds.
11/26/2015 5:55:01 PM EDT
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I'd like to save that blonde girl in the pink shorts.
11/26/2015 5:57:41 PM EDT
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I know someone who owns a couple of those big grinders. They are used for junk wood like pallets, cottonwoods, or branches. Good wood is never wasted like that, around here.
11/26/2015 6:00:52 PM EDT
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I know someone who owns a couple of those big grinders. They are used for junk wood like pallets, cottonwoods, or branches. Good wood is never wasted like that, around here.
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If you keep your eyes peeled, you'll those thing all over the place, like along roadway projects, clearing new lots for development.  There's also a grinder that just grinds to chips the whole tree from top to bottom in a few seconds.


I know someone who owns a couple of those big grinders. They are used for junk wood like pallets, cottonwoods, or branches. Good wood is never wasted like that, around here.


I think he's talking about one of these

11/26/2015 6:07:00 PM EDT
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I think he's talking about one of these

http://youtu.be/x2ZppzDcjBc
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If you keep your eyes peeled, you'll those thing all over the place, like along roadway projects, clearing new lots for development.  There's also a grinder that just grinds to chips the whole tree from top to bottom in a few seconds.


I know someone who owns a couple of those big grinders. They are used for junk wood like pallets, cottonwoods, or branches. Good wood is never wasted like that, around here.


I think he's talking about one of these

http://youtu.be/x2ZppzDcjBc


Oh, I thought he meant the type that recovers the chips.
11/26/2015 6:11:48 PM EDT
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Me too.
11/26/2015 7:02:57 PM EDT
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I'd wager the short fat troll to her right is her mother and she would look like her in just a few years.  You'd have to use her up pretty quickly and then dump her.
11/26/2015 9:52:47 PM EDT
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They're nice for flat land logging, not so much here in the PNW.

Too steep, too rough and too wet for those things.
11/27/2015 12:31:58 PM EDT
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This one is limited to a 28" tree:



This one, 32":



Not particularly small trees.