Which Tree shear for a 3.5 ton excavator

[njtimber]

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[njtimber]

Just now, njtimber said:

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Not sure if i posted this properly??

I'm looking for advice on a shear for a 3.5 ton excavator. Makes/models etc

[Paul Cleaver]

You mean 30 ton 360 excavator ?

[njtimber]

 A tree shear for a 3.5ton mini digger. To deal with small scrubby birch and gorse. Ideally 150mm to 200mm ?  Anything bigger i will fell it.

[s o c]

Not sure a shear will be any more effective in that kind of stuff than a sawman with digger and grab keeping the stuff cleared away.

[s o c]

Not sure a shear will be any more effective in that kind of stuff than a sawman with digger and grab keeping the stuff cleared away.

[woody paul]

NCD equipment is how you need to talk to about a demo. My cousin has a TMK on a 8 ton 360 and is think of get one to fit a 3 ton 360. 

[njtimber]

Ok thank you for the replies 

The tmk 200 has a fixed blade , jb cougar do a similar head with a bolt on blade.....any good ?

Does anyone on here run a shear on a 3.5t machine ? 

 

 

 

 

[Stephen Blair]

I used to run a Nisula felling shear, purchased from AC Price engineering.  Turns your digger into a giant pair of loppers.  Pros of that were I could shear at all angles, all directions even towards myself, so I could reach over fences and shear hedges etc, removeable blade so it was a timber grab too and no electrics needed either, just 1 2 way function and 1 standard return,   cons I lost a lot of height because the shear, rotator and dampener were about 3’ in length. The rotator wasn’t fixed to I had limited height and cut and hold capabilities.  

  A fixed shear I’d go TMK, they seem to have the biggest diameter cut and very simple.  If I had a big budget I’d go Jake from Jas P Wilson, full fixed rotator and removeable blade and will cut 200mm, you’ve pretty much got a robot arm shearing machine.  Wilson’s are great to deal with.

[AHPP]

5 hours ago, Stephen Blair said:

I used to run a Nisula felling shear, purchased from AC Price engineering.  Turns your digger into a giant pair of loppers.  Pros of that were I could shear at all angles, all directions even towards myself, so I could reach over fences and shear hedges etc, removeable blade so it was a timber grab too and no electrics needed either, just 1 2 way function and 1 standard return,   cons I lost a lot of height because the shear, rotator and dampener were about 3’ in length. The rotator wasn’t fixed to I had limited height and cut and hold capabilities.  

  A fixed shear I’d go TMK, they seem to have the biggest diameter cut and very simple.  If I had a big budget I’d go Jake from Jas P Wilson, full fixed rotator and removeable blade and will cut 200mm, you’ve pretty much got a robot arm shearing machine.  Wilson’s are great to deal with.

Any pictures and/or model numbers?