Pulp cutter on wheels 10/27
Next door our neighbor is having his property cleared, out with the bad keeping the good. He’s hired a small firm ( two guys) to take out the scrub trees. These being poplar, birch and many of the oaks that got nail by the Japanese beetles that wiped out many a tree four years ago.

Logging has come a long ways especially in the equipment they use. In the old days they had two guys on a band saw. Huff and puff. Then came the gas powered chain saw, which was used up until twenty years ago.

Then some engineer decided there had to be a better way…. So he took a large crawler hack hoe removed the bucket and added gripper disc’s which hold the tree truck then the operator hits a button and a chain saw cut the base. Then he hit another button and side blade trim off all the branches.

A third button is hit and the truck of the tree is then sawed in 8" sections, the right length for the paper mill. The unit is on tank tread and can crawl over anything, there’s even a push blade in the front allowing the unit to travel over all terrain.

Then these logs are trucked to the paper mill leaving behind a mess of branches which is for wild life. I was spell bound while they cut next door and are now cutting our back property. This sure beats having my younger brother pretend he’s the Texas Chain Saw horror movie main character and having the place look like the Normandy beach head.