Forest residue reduction and collection vehicle

Details Forest residue reduction and collection vehicle Forest residue reduction and collection vehicle

A - Human Necessities

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144/25

A01G 23/02 (2006.01) A01G 3/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1174145

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An attachment for a mobile vehicle for picking up residue left behind a tree harvesting operation and cutting up the residue into smaller pieces and a mobile, self- propelled vehicle having an attachment of the foregoing mounted thereon. The attachment includes a residue pick-up assembly comprising a plurality of spaced apart arms driven to rotate so as to pick up debris lying on the ground and feed the same to a passage extending through a housing on which the pick-up is mounted. The arms of the pick-up operate in conjunction with knives in the passageway to cut the picked up material into smaller pieces to prevent accu- mulation of cut-up residue in the passage there is provided in one instance a driven impeller for propelling the cut-up residue through the passage and discharge the same through an outlet therefrom, and in another instance additional knives are mounted adjacent the base or root of slots in a base plate through which the arms of the pick-up travel during rotation of the pick-up. The foregoing attachment is mounted on a mobile, self-propelled vehicle of an articulated chassis type having a debris collecting device mounted thereon. The device for collecting the cut-up debris is preferably a container pivotally mounted on the vehicle with power means to move the same so as to be self-dumping.

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