Tree shear head assembly
OwnerRobert Lachanceinventor
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A tree shear head assembly is comprised of a connecting frame which provides connecting sections, one of which is angulated at a specific angle to connect to a boom of a motorized vehicle. The connecting frame has a shear structure secured to a lower connecting wall thereof and additional connecting sections for attachment of at least one of a clamping grapple and a tree trunk support fork secured to a support column. The shear structure has a blade which co-acts with a channel formed between gripping plates to immovably arrest a tree trunk being cut by the blade with a slicing action to prevent shattering of the trunk and damage to the tree fibers thereby achieving a clean cut. Different combinations of the shear head assembly with the clamping grapple and/or the tree support fork are easily adapted in combination with the tree shear head assembly.
A tree shear head assembly comprising a shear structure, a connecting frame having a boom connecting section to connect to a boom of a motorized vehicle, said connecting frame further having one or more connecting sections for attachment of at least one of a clamping grapple and a tree trunk support fork secured to a support column, said shear structure having a stationary jaw member and an inwardly curved displaceable jaw member secured in a common plane with said stationary jaw member and defining a mouth opening there between for receiving a tree trunk there across, said stationary jaw member having an elongated channel formed between a pair of straight parallel spaced members, each said spaced members having a forward gripping edge adjacent an entrance end of said elongated channel, said curved displaceable jaw member having a pivot connection at a rear end of said mouth opening and a free forward end, a flat blade secured to said curved displaceable jaw member and defining a straight blade edge extending between said pivot rear end and said free forward end, a cylinder secured to said curved displaceable jaw member to progressively displace said straight blade edge of said blade towards and into said elongated channel from a rear to a front end of said channel to impart a slicing motion of said blade into a tree trunk extending across said mouth opening and gripped by said forward gripping edge on opposed sides of said elongated channel as said jaw member is progressively displaced to effect a clean cut across said tree trunk.
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