TREE SHEARS

[Johny Walker]

TREE SHEARS

,so which 1.

just checking the inter web didnt realise there was so many on the market & differant versions.

so whats good & whats not

JUST TO ADD FOR A 2,5T MACHINE

tia

[Steve Bullman]

I'd recommend talking to @justinkingwell about the TMK range.

 

No personal experience with tree shears but I do know Justin only sells what he has first hand experience with.

 

TMK Tree Shear - KHL Plant & Machinery

KHLPLANT.COM

 

[Conor Wright]

Jak 200 would be my choice. Can also be used as a brash grab with the blade removed
Omef make solid kit, dedicated shear though, the jak may be more versatile.

[roseyweb]

Got OMf 

works for us. Thinks it’s a TMk copy, bought them for a one of Job and thought never going to use these again, 

use them all the time now, great for brambley thorny ditch clearance where you can’t get in with flail 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Do you want cut & hold or just cut, rotator head or fixed?

 

EXAC1 have good kit: 

Tree Lopper – Exac-One Ltd

WWW.EXAC-ONE.CO.UK

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Tree Lopper A CUT ABOVE THE CONCEPT Tree Lopper is a range of tree shears designed to suit excavators from...

 

 

Ive got the tree shear variant - useful piece of kit. 

[Johny Walker]

47 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Do you want cut & hold or just cut, rotator head or fixed?

 

EXAC1 have good kit: 

Tree Lopper – Exac-One Ltd

WWW.EXAC-ONE.CO.UK

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Tree Lopper A CUT ABOVE THE CONCEPT Tree Lopper is a range of tree shears designed to suit excavators from...

 

 

Ive got the tree shear variant - useful piece of kit. 

Cut & hold would be better

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

33 minutes ago, Johny Walker said:

Cut & hold would be better

I didn’t want cut & hold.
 

On a lightweight, narrow base machine, I didn’t want the potential to topple it. Plus, the cut only function came with a rotator which is useful for higher topping cuts. Appreciate it’s horses for courses and you know what best suits your needs. ??

[s o c]

We got  Farma 180 shear grab about a year ago. Use it on Valtra/botex or 3ton digger.

For what it cost it justifies itself mostly as a ‘tiltable’ grab for grabbing standing stems, holding/sectioning down stems,holding/easing down small to medium trees. Great for taking tangled Leylandi hedges apart .

pretty good for feeding chipper ( not as good as brash grab but better than log grab) great at crushing forks.

Have only used a couple of times with  blade on. Takes a bit of practice to get a feel for what it can and can’t cut.

has exceeded expectations really but will probably go for Jak 200 or similar at some stage

 

[Johny Walker]

Tilt grab seems to be best alround just need to decide which would be better fixed or hydraulic blade  kinda like the hold and cut 

[Gray git]

AC price sell the nisula tilt grabs and think they have one reduced at moment, only problem with these is they are very long when tilted so a 2.5 struggles to lift high enough to work close in
This is a jak 250 on a 8t bobcat and you can see how long from end of dipper to blade it is, yes it's very manovarable and excellent at stacking but got to be out a bit or drags on ground, few mods I have in mind to help with this eventually.