You guys will be out of a job!!!

[Ghettoblaster]

WTF is this about?

America has clearly got it covered!

Remote Control Tree Trimmer | Mini-Jarraff Rear Lot Trimmer

[Ghettoblaster]

"Precision cutting operations"!!

[jomoco]

I suppose it's theoretically possible to cut downward fast enough to make bottom cuts unnecessary?

 

Whether a steel blade's capable of the feat?

 

I kinda doubt.

 

Jomoco

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

You could sell sand to the Arabs more easily than you could sell that here. Formative pruning to 3998? I think not. Jobs safe.

[rick k]

It'll never catch on

But if it did, it's still needs an operator

And someone to clear the arisings

No need to panic yet

[Tom_Arb]

:thumbup1:Line clearance companies have put them to test in Australia already however they let it loose in the hands of climbers ( Who's job it was meant to replace ) somehow they all broke down......

[marne]

10m length and 4 tons weight, fits perfect in any situation.

[TGB]

I can't see that replacing a climber or someone with a ladder & bowsaw.. Have you seen the vids? How many people in the UK have that size garden, with nothing more than clipped grass? Need an operator, a long flatbed or long trailer and only has one purpose. Yeah. I'll take three.

[treequip]

I think some people cant see further than their own life experiences

 

That type of machine is most common on ROW works, primarily in the US where that industry is huuuuuge.

[jomoco]

I believe it won't be long until a human controlled robot tree climber's achieved.

 

The controller in body harness hydraulically conforming to the robot's body positions in real time, seeing through the robot's eyes, safely ensconced in an on site or remote control module.

 

Probably faster and more efficient than ever once the danger of eminent death or dismemberment's removed from the equation!

 

Give it another 5 or ten years....

 

Jomoco