Device and method for clearing trees/bushes and tilling soil
AssigneeSuokone Oy
InventorTuomo Merilainen
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Abstract
A cutter, device and cutting method utilizing the same including cutter blades which work soil and wood material and which are arranged on a cutter drum to rotate and by-pass a counter blade. The device includes a tamping drum which is displaceable in relation to a frame of the cutter device by an actuator.
Claims18
Cutter device including a frame and a cutter drum coupled to said frame and having cutter blades which work soil and wood material, comprising
- a displaceable tamping drum,
- a tamping drum frame on which said tamping drum is mounted for rotation,
- first displacement means for displacing said tamping drum frame and therefore said tamping drum rotatably mounted thereto relative to said frame of the cutter device,
- a felling arm arranged above said tamping drum and coupled to said frame of the cutter device, and
- second displacement means for displacing said felling arm, said second displacement means comprising an actuator coupled to said felling arm and displacing said felling arm outward from said frame of the cutter device to tilt wood material in a path of the cutter device to a suitable angle of inlet into engagement with said tamping drum, said tamping drum pressing the wood material against a ground surface such that the wood material enters into contact with said cutter blades of said cutter drum.
In a method for clearing trees/bushes and tilling soil in which a cutter device is displaced by a tractor or other power unit and comprises a cutter drum and cutter blades mounted on the cutter drum, the improvement comprising the steps of:
- arranging a felling arm and a tamping drum on the cutter device,
- displacing the felling arm in a direction away from the cutter device to push wood material toward the ground,
- pressing the wood material against the ground by means of a tamping drum, and
- passing the pressed wood material into contact with the cutter blades on the cutter drum.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.