The Forestry Forum

Jarraff in my yard. Another machine I'd like to get my hands on for a few weeks though it seems pretty bouncy out at the end of the stick. The operator said it required finesse !

One of my friends works for a tree company, and he was always referring to their, "giraffe". I just nodded like I understood, until I finally saw one and understood😊

I've never seen one I guess. I have now. ffsmiley 

Farmer here has been mulching small trees along his fields this spring with mulcher on a Cat excavator. I think actually it was most of the winter because I could hear a machine back in the winter that sounded like it was a machine in wood. They use mulchers here also in power lines, but usually a crew tops out the trees ahead on roadside jobs. It would be a bit unwieldy mulching in the wires.  ffcheesy ffcheesy The main lines are already cut back, so they are just mulching small trees every 5-10 years. There are roadside lines here that have never been brushed in 30 years. I see the same in some rural Maine roads as well. So we are not alone.  ffcheesy

These "Giraffes" are used frequently around here to clear power line  ROW limbs. Another crew finishes the tree take down if required.

Looks like a fiberglass boom, would make sense working around a power line.

Yes, it is fiberglass. Extends to 75' ! Blade rotates 180 degrees. He says he has cut 11" with the 24" blade but doesn't do that much on roadside cutting, only in big ROWs.