Tree Monkey!!!

[rahtreelimbs]

I saw a pic of a machine called "The Tree Monkey".

This machine would rotate up a tree trunk and remove the limbs.

Does anyone have any info on this? Also What would they be worth?

How do you get down out of the top of the tree???

 

[MasterBlaster]

Har! I would love to see that! :Eye: :Eye:

 

[jokers]

Hi Rich,

I don`t recall all that I`d been told about the tree monkey but I`ve actually had my hands on one at Dan Hudon`s in Barneveld, NY. It is a pretty cool machine that is still in use for removing understory growth from plantation softwoods from what I was told.

Come on up and I`ll take you over there. They`ve got some other pretty cool saws like a diesel Jonsered and a Sally saw.

Russ

 

[rahtreelimbs]

Har! I would love to see that! :Eye: :Eye:

I am sure the machine would be much to see in operation!

 

[a_lopa]

yes i hear it only works weekends thou

 

[Ax-man]

I'm pretty sure I saw it on tv, Modern Marvels on the History channel, it has been awhile since I seen it. but it has got to be the same machine. I think it is manufactured in Sweden.

Larry

 

[tree monkey]

lets see. i'm worth more then you think. falling out of the top is faster then climing down. jokers should keep his hands to himself. why do i have to work on weakends? and my parents made me right here in the usa.

 

[woodshop]

They had a couple of these machines out at Penn State school of Forestry in late 70's. As Russ said, they used them in pine plantations where there were nice neat rows of white pine. Purpose was to limb the lower stuff for better sawlogs when the trees matured. In my opinion though, seemed like a guy with a chainsaw could walk through the plantation limbing and achieve faster results because it took time to hook and unhook the thing, carry from tree to tree, and once in a while one would get hung up and need fussing with. As for getting them down, the ones I saw had a mechanism you set that would only let it go so many feet up before it would reverse itself and come back down and then has a switch that stopped the think when it hit the ground.

Dave