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Title: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: 1manband on October 04, 2014, 11:35:23 am
backround.... never saw or knew of these. 

was told: they were used in managed growing forests.  would self climb to a desired height, which was set by a dial wheel.  trim branches to promote a taller/higher canopy tree.

these were/are now replaced by very high priced computer type climbing pruners.

not mine, the kid is though.
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: aclarke on October 04, 2014, 11:12:04 pm
Joe, have you or your son. seen it in use?  Similar machine was marketed for shaving Phoenix Palm trunks a few years back...
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: 1manband on October 05, 2014, 09:01:32 am
Joe, have you or your son. seen it in use?  Similar machine was marketed for shaving Phoenix Palm trunks a few years back...

have not seen it in use.  was told that it was primarily used on conifers.  to grow longer "board wood".  believe it was branded sachs?  (not 100% sure on that).

the distance away from the bar to the trunk of the tree could also be adjusted.

if i could get a hold of Tom, and invite him here, you would get much better answers.

-joe
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: aclarke on October 05, 2014, 10:13:27 am
Neat machine!
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: aclarke on October 05, 2014, 10:21:40 am
Video of a similar machine called the Clouston Tree Pruner on youtube.  Pretty slick...
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: aclarke on October 05, 2014, 10:25:23 am
SACHS PUUAPINA  (SACHS KS-31) there's a demo video online of the Sachs machine too. 
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: pete on October 06, 2014, 12:55:41 am
Often called a tree monkey some good you tubes there
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: sharkey on October 06, 2014, 06:46:12 am
Amazing!  Have never seen one.  Looked at the vids and it seemed like the one example was radio controlled?   
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJVz8N_PJ2E
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: 660magnum on October 06, 2014, 07:25:21 am
It has a settable dial for height.

I don't know if it is time based or counts turns?
Title: Re: self climbing tree pruner
Post by: jmester on October 06, 2014, 08:44:11 pm
http://www.ruralite.org/archive/2002/08/c-17%20pp%204-5%20August_2002.pdf

Found this article thought I would share.