7" Tree Shear Attachment from Avant

tnttree

tnttree

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Got this lazy man attachment from Finland, Actually Avant is Importing them.
(I am the first Avant dealer in the US)
Tried her out in my pasture on some fence line trees, I was impressed mostly with the 420's ability to pull the 7"stem out of a cluster and hold it no problem (the telescopic boom is sweet!), I wonder what leaves and a strong wind would have done to me though. Boxelder is the species - not the hardest but it snipped a full 7". I need to try it on an invasive Buckthorn stand here in MN, they are Hard. Sent one to Carl hes got a small pine thinning job might be just the ticket for that also.

 
tnttree said:
Got this lazy man attachment from Finland, Actually Avant is Importing them.
(I am the first Avant dealer in the US)
Tried her out in my pasture on some fence line trees, I was impressed mostly with the 420's ability to pull the 7"stem out of a cluster and hold it no problem (the telescopic boom is sweet!), I wonder what leaves and a strong wind would have done to me though. Boxelder is the species - not the hardest but it snipped a full 7". I need to try it on an invasive Buckthorn stand here in MN, they are Hard. Sent one to Carl hes got a small pine thinning job might be just the ticket for that also.

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The more I see those the more I want to get rid of my Vermeer mini skid!!
 
Feeding a chipper should be doable, although my first impression was the same, I wanted rotation.

The shear lists for ~$6k we've heard. There was a pricing error they say and we got a couple a better price. The price of the one coming down here to me will reflect our savings ~$4.5k.
 
So would this work on a mini (Vermeer or Ditch)?

Obviously the mount and connections are different, but wondering about power etc. I am just thinking that it would be better then a brush mower in lot clearing...when it is more small trees then brush. Plus less debris flying everywhere.
 
Lumberjack said:
It could be adapted to a mini no problem. It's attached to the Avant plate with two pins.

Here's a video I made today.
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Very cool. It should have a fixed powered rotary so on could feed a chipper too.

Definitely makes short work of small to medium trees...especially if working by oneself. But in reality is it faster than a guy with a saw, and the BMG?
 
You could put a rigid rotator between the grapple and the mounting plate. You would lose the ability to hold a piece upright, although you could make a pinning system to take the torque load off the rotator.


On those trees a BMG and saw would have been faster.

On these trees (cut near flush), the shear wins.



The grapple shear isn't an amazing thing, but it's certainly worth consideration. I have a $25k grapple saw coming for my excavator and track loader. That should be an amazing thing. (~5x the cost!) I'm a dealer for the grapple saw as well.
 
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