Step aside Paul Bunyan…
I went down the rabbit hole reading about how harvester heads work and now I'm glad they're not controlled by AI. pic.twitter.com/lloZSGzk1x
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) June 19, 2022
Nice find by Lex Fridman.
Lumber prices have fallen substantially in the past 6 months…
Was just wondering if this could be considered a wood chipper? Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Does it work on Democrats?
This is exactly what should be happening in California’s forests to create fire-breaks and this dense fuel.
A magnificent tool. Should also be used in our national parks to manage the forests. A few areas never touched. Most areas on a regular, posted cycle to minimize large fires, maximize wildlife that thrives with varied levels of tree growth. In the mid-west trees are a crop, just like corn but on a 20 -30 year cycle. With lots of water and CO2 (the essential nutrient) its hard to keep up with the tree growth. I have a pathetic little 3 1/2 acres with lots of trees and cannot keep up with clearing the dead trees and managing the growth of the the new ones. I cannot cut anymore out until I have a nice drizzly day to burn up the current brush pile. 6 ft high x 20 ft long.
The trees are growing a lot faster than that. That is only a little brush, one vine strangled pine and half of a split cottonwood that fell into my yard. There is still a dozen dead trees and never ending nuicencs brush to keep at.
That thing could take out a whole forest in a day
I love this post. If I win the lottery, I’m getting one.
Wow! I’m impressed!
DO NOT LET BOSTON DYNAMICS SEE THIS.
SERIOUSLY.
I have a friend who owns and uses his old track TimberJack feller bunch machine with a Hot Saw head to log with. Also has two old track Processor machines for his small logging business. Sadly, I think Biden’s fuel prices, economic wreck and ruin are going to shut my friend down this logging season in Idaho. Finding help is so difficult, he is now a one man operation reliant on these machines for felling over chainsaw gangs.
Right out of, “I, Robot.”
DAAAAMN!!!!
Kinda awesome…same time kinda horrifying.
that’s awesome.
Now get them to use in the national forests cutting down the standing dead and thinning the healthy stands so we don’t burn up.
But first it needs to be used on all the arsonist Pantifa actors who set fires.
In Calif. huge swaths of forest burnt leaving behind dead standing trees that did not completely burn. Time to cut them down and re forest our mountains.
Good luck with that! It’s commiefornia!
Now that’s automation that can help the world.
handles those heavy shafts like toothpicks
Thin out the forests with these machines and we won’t have the raging fires that consume towns, and dependence on Canada for lumber. Dying trees produce methane 40 % more harmful than Co2
Doesn’t anyone care about all the homeless squirrels and birds??
The only thing more beautiful than a tree is what you can turn it into after its been harvested.
Truth!
we turn it into winter warmth.
I miss Rush.
Does it work on politicians?
I think there should be a trial run on Pantifa buttheads.
Fascinating to watch. I would get tired of the noise pretty quick though.
That thing’s got some serious AOC-style teeth on it.
Pretty amazing way to harvest conifers…
Damn!
Does great on straight trees with no huge branches.
Yup..trees used for lumber..which are straight and have no huge branches..duh!
No shit Sherlock…where do you think lumber comes from, crooked trees?
Southern Yellow Pine…they grow 100’s of square miles of it in North Florida…tall and straight
Ferngully is in big trouble now. (insert evil laugh here)
That thing is extremely efficient.
Truly one of Tim Curry’s best films.
Isn’t that the same medical procedure of how a boy gets turned into a girl?
Naw…that only takes a couple of cuts….
yeah, but you can’t turn a boy into a girl. They get turned into eunuchs with fake boobs.
….:.. Wow, just, wow ………..
Amazing technology.
Engineering is a beautiful thing
Only a dork like Lex Fridman could be so dramatic about harvester heads.
If you’ve never seen one in action before, it’s damn impressive and a bit intimidating.
Handy for removing the eco-terrorists whenever they block roads.
I want one.
I want my MTV.
Sorry tree huggers. Sorry climate change lunies. That marvel does not run on 4 D batteries.
The leftists will probably try to ban them.
Good thing the girls billy cliton forced himself on didn’t have one of these machines to trim him over active log.
That was super cool.
Is a modern-day slaughterhouse kind of like this, only with cows and steaks?
Holy cow! I had no idea.
Before I watched this I honestly thought men in flannel shirts still chopped trees down in the forest with big two-man saws 😂
They still do in some places that are hard to get to.
On hills, they do
Beautiful for this size range and type of tree, but you ain’t taking down an 80 yo. silver maple or white oak using this machine.
Nice big Diesel engine running a high flow hydraulic pump gets a lot of work done quickly
The Tesla 2000.
Stuff of horror films …