Woodworking – Special-work machine
Patent
1980-03-05
1981-03-31
Bray, W. D.
Woodworking
Special-work machine
144309AC, A01G 2302
Patent
active
042587620
ABSTRACT:
A tree delimber including a frame having a track for guidably supporting a carriage having a boom and grapple assembly thereon, the carriage being driven for movement on the track between the ends of the frame with a tree delimbing assembly at one end of the frame having an articulated chain with blades and an articulated arm with blades which completely surround the peripheral surface of a tree trunk positioned in the tree delimbing assembly by the boom and grapple assembly. The carriage is provided with jaws for gripping the butt end of a tree trunk so that when the carriage is driven along the track, the tree trunk is pulled along the frame through the tree delimber assembly permitting the blades to remove the limbs from the peripheral surface of the tree trunk.
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