Harvesters gathering slash for chipping at the same time as stripping branches?

[forestfan]

I just saw videos of modern Harvester machines and was blown away by how they can pull down whole tree trunks and then strip the branches off all in a matter of seconds.

Has anyone heard of these types of machines being modified so that they gather the leftover slash in the same operation and store them for feeding directly to a chipping machine? Does that already exist?

In this scenario, I could imagine the chipping machine being attached to the harvester, and spewing chips into a separate holding tank, or I could imagine the slash being stored in a vessel and later fed to a chipping machine, though the former scenario sounds easier in my mind.

[Riwaka]

Many typees of machines have been developed over the years. In forest chipping has the disadvantage of using diesel compared to a mill yard chipper that might have an electric chipper powered by nuclear, hydro-dam, natural gas etc derived electricity. Pine can wait to be debarked at the mill but there is a cost of trucking bark on the logs to the mill. Mills usually have a lab handy to test chips so adjustments can be made to chipping equipment.
Koehring Shortwood Harvester 1970

Australian Bluegum in forest chipping. Flail debarker. Chipping everything.
https://vimeo.com/87053577

logging sort, Montrose, USA. Flat ground, saw log sort? and chipping some of the logs.
https://youtu.be/UA9vee_GZck

Sweden (2017) forwarder with chipper and tip bin. Probably closest to the chip and carry machine. I need to check up on some of  the claims that some of these Swedish methods remove too many nutrients/ bio-material and hamper the establishment of the next generation of trees.
https://youtu.be/KBn4e_5otYA?si=aNRdgk5rFP-YwxlG

Tigercat H845D - gum tree roadside debarking with processors, Tasmania, Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwRY

JD self propelled forage harvester taking on the poplar trees. Normally associated with chopping corn silage, pasture/ alfalfa silage, oatlage etc the self propelled forage harvester gets another use chipping the trees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7qVhY-Mzx0&t=203s

[Log-it-up]

Gotta leave some food for the forest 

[NewYankeeSawmill]

Thanks for sharing the links @Riwaka !
Fascinating to watch. Like a ballet...

[Riwaka]

The video that faulted above is the Orana Enterprises youtube channel ( Tasmania, Australia)

Tigercat H845D machines processing Eucalyptus roadside (no audio)   (two track Tigercat H845D side by side debarking/ processing)

Tigercat H855E processing with Waratah 623C in 4K  (flat bottm 855 felling 28 inch stump cut hardwood Gum and debarking)