tree shear

[nuffield1060]

My boss made one for his loading shovel, fits on the extension bale forks which means you can catch and collect limbs as you cut them

Here it is at work

 

[R J]

 

[Will 1594]

We run a TMK on an 8 tonne machine. It's got a second pair if pins on the bracket at 90 degrees to the others so we can set it up for vertical cuts if we need to. Not too much of a fiddle to swap it for the odd time we need to, but much cheaper and lighter than a rotator. Brilliant machine for coppicing leggy hedges on banks.

What sort of output compared to a man and chainsaw Have a hedge to tidy and some self sets out of a ditch to clear

 

[Penmoel]

What sort of output compared to a man and chainsaw Have a hedge to tidy and some self sets out of a ditch to clear

We bought the same tmk now on an 8 tonne machine, would say the output is 2 to 3 times that of a good man on a good sharp saw, the ability to clear trash and stack the wood is where it wins hands down. Also much safer.

 

[cheggars]

We bought the same tmk now on an 8 tonne machine, would say the output is 2 to 3 times that of a good man on a good sharp saw, the ability to clear trash and stack the wood is where it wins hands down. Also much safer.

How's the Tmk compare to John's set up output wise ?

 

[Penmoel]

John has the full rotator kit which is no doubt an advantage, but really cost big bucks. Ourswill cope with 8 to 10 inch beech which is quite hard up here, I have seen John do 10 to 12 inch oak limbs. One big advantage of the tmk is that it holds onto the branch it cuts, john's machine just drops it.

We did a piece for a neighbour, In about , 5 hours between milking, we need to get into contracting mode? That should and would have been a full 7 or 8 hour job for someone to have gone to?

 

[cheggars]

Does the tmk catch the branches every time, the tiget cut i hired would mis the odd branch, as it bounced out before it caught it.
we got the same as John's easily cuts 12" and larger.But it is slow. Spent a hour chopping logs with it last night.☺ the cutting action split most of them. Spent most of the morning loading the rather large pile into Bags.

 

[Mursal]

Can you hold it over a tonne tote bag while splitting?

 

[cheggars]

yes in theory, but any larger bits that need splitting again need to be retrieved. so did most onto the floor and a few smaller straight into the bag. Dam sight easier than previous .
could do with something to hold the log while cutting logs off it.

 

[Penmoel]

Does the tmk catch the branches every time, the tiget cut i hired would mis the odd branch, as it bounced out before it caught it.
we got the same as John's easily cuts 12" and larger.But it is slow. Spent a hour chopping logs with it last night.☺ the cutting action split most of them. Spent most of the morning loading the rather large pile into Bags.

It holds the one side if you see what I mean? If you cut a tree it holds the part you cut off, with a log it would hold the one side in its cutting action the loose end would drop.

John's is a good machine and the hands of the capable operator he is can cut a lot of stuff, he has done a .lot of work here and for my brother in awkward places on slopes etc. Places no one except a tree climber would be able to touch.
We have most of ours in piles and cut each pile into a tipping trailer rather than bags

 

[Lapwing]

The good thing with the TMK is being able to work over fences and stack it all in the field. It saves all the effort of dragging thorn bushes apart to handle them.

 

[Mursal]

An awful lot of moving parts in some of those heads, going forward, like after a few thousand hours use?
TMK click

 

[Penmoel]

http://www.ncdequipment.com/about
Ours is pretty basic as in the first photo here, one ram with the arm swivelling on one pin, plenty of grease nipples, not complicated at all.

 

[Steiger325]

Hans Habbig not cheap but excellent shear with a swivel

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Hans Habbig not cheap but excellent shear with a swivel

Looks like some piece of kit with the rotator.

http://www.hans-habbig.com/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/hs860.mp4

 

[cheggars]

Looks like some piece of kit with the rotator.

http://www.hans-habbig.com/fileadmin/_migrated/content_uploads/hs860.mp4

Thats the shear working in one of the videos i put up earlier in the thread. One of those is around £9000 i belieave.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

It holds the one side if you see what I mean? If you cut a tree it holds the part you cut off, with a log it would hold the one side in its cutting action the loose end would drop.

John's is a good machine and the hands of the capable operator he is can cut a lot of stuff, he has done a .lot of work here and for my brother in awkward places on slopes etc. Places no one except a tree climber would be able to touch.
We have most of ours in piles and cut each pile into a tipping trailer rather than bags

Is that John Rowbotham with his ZX85 and Engcon tilty with a Hans Habbig shear? That must be some setup and some £££

 

[cheggars]

yes, Still uses the exact 1 for heavy timber, the Habbig is a bit more limited on cutting capacity, But it is garanteed to hold the timber solid before cutting it, which is not quit the case with the simpler Tmk, tiger cut type.
He can also change attachments without leaving the Cab , so can go from Bucket , to Grab , to Shears etc without changeing pipes.

 

[Penmoel]

He gets a lot of work with though

Expensive yes, but a one man set up which can basically work 365 days a year, comes in a lot less than a self propelled forager and gang of followers for a few months weather dependant work

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

yes, Still uses the exact 1 for heavy timber, the Habbig is a bit more limited on cutting capacity, But it is garanteed to hold the timber solid before cutting it, which is not quit the case with the simpler Tmk, tiger cut type.
He can also change attachments without leaving the Cab , so can go from Bucket , to Grab , to Shears etc without changeing pipes.

EC-oil quick attach system on the tilty. Pretty swish stuff.