Crazy piece of gear in this link. Good ol' R.G LeTourneau. http://www.mackenziechamber.bc.ca/tree_crusher.htm
I wonder how hard it would be to get a permit for that......
whoa whoa we wow!
Looks like a mauler! I would hate to sink it in the muskegs, Might have been a permanent home for it. I wonder if there was only 1 ever made?
VERY impressive
Nah, it was one-off deal. I still wonder how well it actually worked...anybody know that one? :beatsme
Cheese and Rice that's one way to clear. Wonder what it leaves for cleanup. Shreds?
That's HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Probably shreds, yes
I have actually gotten to walk around behind one of the LeTOurneau tree crushers. A timber company had one barrowed on a prep job it just shredded the stuff. I have some pics of an old 518Feller buncher we converted to a landfill compactor on here somewhere. I had to removes a section of 4inch by 10 foot pines into a new cell. I just ran them over and walked them in, chopped it up into 6 inch lengths and dried fast.
Holy Moly! I'd hate to get that fuel bill! Visibility must stink, too.
Must be a bitch to get permits to haul it to the job!