Giraffe in my yard

[sprucebunny]

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 !

[barbender]

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😊

[SwampDonkey]

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

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.   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. 

[JD Guy]

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

[Resonator]

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

[sprucebunny]

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.