how about this machine to save work when coni bashing

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3D4FN5cdZk&NR=1]YouTube - Mean Hedgecutter 2[/ame]

[twistedhicap]

seen that a while back ! good bit of kit the Kiwis have ago at most things lol !

[Highland Forestry]

is that a butchered helicopter???

[scottythepinetree]

Wouldn't fancy trying to get that through the chipper. Big Pile, Load of petrol!!!

 

Another mean machine:

 

Jarraff Video Viewer

[Stephen Blair]

awesome find, i have always wanted to see one of those in action, that would put a lot of climbers out of a job over here lol

[RobRainford]

i could have done with one of those on that epic hedge job i did. would have been done in about half an hour!

[jrose]

for the first twenty seconds or so I was watching it, thinking it was some sort of flail going along the top similar to what farmers have but larger. When that blade started spinning you could have knocked me down with a feather!

 

do you think H+S would allow that machine here though?

[lendahand]

Went on holiday last year with Cyprus Airways: I thought there was a lot of turbulence.

[Lorry thompson]

for the first twenty seconds or so I was watching it, thinking it was some sort of flail going along the top similar to what farmers have but larger. When that blade started spinning you could have knocked me down with a feather!

 

do you think H+S would allow that machine here though?

 

Same here I thought this is a bit boring until the blade started spinning then I couldn't stop laughing

[Goaty]

Hmmmh. Typical "Kiwi ingenuity" saw similar contraptions operating at the top of the south Island about 5 years ago in the fruit growing regions. Many orchards grow very tall boundary hedges/shelterbelts, often on the roadside probably a metre wide 15 metre plus tall maintained by this kind of thing as a flail wont reach the heights. Most resemble armoured vehicles with a swinging saw blade or such, the passing motorist just hopes they pass. They are very proud of their solutions. I spoke to a guy that proudly described how he n 'is mate tied a chainsaw to a ladder and concocted ropes on the ladder to operate the throttle and take a few limbs off a Japanese Walnut. I was Jealous of their absence of Hinderance and safety, But they are catching up with that kind of thing now.