Vehicle with feller for tree limb removal in residential, commercial, municipal, utility, and line clearance applications
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
A01G-023/097
A01G-023/081
B27B-017/00
출원번호
US-0132845
(2016-04-19)
등록번호
US-9603314
(2017-03-28)
발명자
/ 주소
Voss, Daniel D.
출원인 / 주소
Voss, Daniel D.
대리인 / 주소
Quarles & Brady LLP
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8
초록▼
A truck for tree limb removal is disclosed in residential, commercial, municipal, utility, and line clearance applications. The truck includes a vehicle chassis supporting a plurality of wheels. A boom is supported by the vehicle chassis. This boom has an attachment end attached to the vehicle chass
A truck for tree limb removal is disclosed in residential, commercial, municipal, utility, and line clearance applications. The truck includes a vehicle chassis supporting a plurality of wheels. A boom is supported by the vehicle chassis. This boom has an attachment end attached to the vehicle chassis at an attachment joint and a tool-supporting end rotatable and extendable relative to the attachment joint. A feller buncher tool is attached to the tool-supporting end of the boom.
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1. A truck for tree limb removal in residential, commercial, municipal, utility, and line clearance applications, the truck comprising: a vehicle chassis supporting a plurality of wheels;a boom supported by the vehicle chassis having an attachment end attached to the vehicle chassis at an attachment
1. A truck for tree limb removal in residential, commercial, municipal, utility, and line clearance applications, the truck comprising: a vehicle chassis supporting a plurality of wheels;a boom supported by the vehicle chassis having an attachment end attached to the vehicle chassis at an attachment joint and a tool-supporting end rotatable and extendable relative to the attachment joint;a feller tool attached to the tool-supporting end of the boom having hydraulic lines extending up the boom to the feller tool in which the hydraulic lines provide power to the feller tool; anda spool mechanism receiving at least a portion of the hydraulic lines, the spool mechanism being configured to permit the hydraulic lines to be extended or retracted therefrom as the boom is actuated. 2. The truck of claim 1, wherein the feller tool includes at least a pair of opposing clamping arms configured to grasp a portion of a tree and a moveable cutting element extendable to cut a grasped portion of a tree wherein a portion of the feller tool including the at least the pair of opposing clamping arms is pivotable about a pivoting axis about another portion of the feller tool supporting the movable cutting element thereby accommodating a portion of a tree which is being grasped by the at least a pair of opposing clamping arms, when cut, to continue to be grasped by the at least the pair of opposing clamping arms as the portion of the tree is severed and removed from the tree under control as the portion of the feller tool supporting the pair of opposing arms pivots relative to the other portion of the feller tool supporting the movable cutting element. 3. The truck of claim 2, wherein the moveable cutting element is a chainsaw. 4. The truck of claim 1, further comprising a truck bed attached to the vehicle chassis for the storage of logs. 5. The truck of claim 1, wherein the boom includes multiple segments. 6. The truck of claim 5, wherein the multiple segments include at least one extendable segment that can be varied in length by telescoping extension of the plurality of section of the at least one extendable segment. 7. The truck of claim 5, wherein at least some of the multiple segments are hinged with respect to one another and a hydraulic element can alter an angle of the multiple segments with respect to one another. 8. The truck of claim 1, wherein the boom is rotatable about a vertical axis to position the feller tool with respect to the truck. 9. The truck of claim 8, wherein the boom is rotatable about a vertical axis in excess of 360 degrees. 10. The truck of claim 1, further comprising a remote control device operable to control the boom and the feller tool. 11. The truck of claim 1, wherein truck is adapted for use in residential, commercial, municipal, utility, and line clearance applications. 12. A method of removing a tree, the method comprising: grasping a portion of the tree using a feller tool attached to a tool-supporting end of a boom attached to a truck for tree removal in residential, commercial, municipal, utility, and line clearance applications;cutting the tree using the feller tool to sever the portion of the tree that is grasped by the feller tool from a remainder of the tree;wherein the feller tool attached to the tool-supporting end of the boom has hydraulic lines extending up the boom to the feller tool in which the hydraulic lines provide power to the feller tool and wherein a spool mechanism receives at least a portion of the hydraulic lines and is configured to permit the hydraulic lines to be extended or retracted therefrom as the boom is actuated. 13. The method of claim 12, wherein the feller tool includes at least a pair of opposing clamping arms and a moveable cutting element, wherein the step of grasping the portion of the tree using the feller tool involves grasping the portion of the tree using the pair of opposing clamping arms, and wherein the step of cutting the tree using the feller tool involves extending the cutting element to cut the grasped portion of the tree. 14. The method of claim 13, wherein at least a portion of the feller tool including the at least the pair of opposing clamping arms is pivotable about a pivoting axis about another portion of the feller tool thereby accommodating the portion of the tree which is being grasped by the at least a pair of opposing clamping arms being cut to continue to be grasped by the at least a pair of opposing clamping arms as the portion of the tree that is severed from the tree. 15. The method of claim 12, wherein the boom is supported by a vehicle chassis supporting a plurality of wheels, the boom having an attachment end being attached to the vehicle chassis at an attachment joint and wherein the tool-supporting end is rotatable and extendable relative to the attachment joint. 16. The method of claim 12, further comprising the steps of transporting the portion of the tree that has been severed from the remainder of the tree to a chipper and chipping the portion of the tree. 17. A vehicle for tree limb removal in residential, commercial, municipal, utility, and line clearance applications, the vehicle comprising: a vehicle chassis;a boom supported by the vehicle chassis having an attachment end attached to the vehicle chassis at an attachment joint and a tool-supporting end rotatable and extendable relative to the attachment joint; anda feller tool attached to the tool-supporting end of the boom, the feller tool having hydraulic lines extending up the boom to the feller tool; anda spool mechanism receiving at least a portion of the hydraulic lines, the spool mechanism being configured to permit the hydraulic lines to be extended or retracted therefrom as the boom is actuated. 18. The truck of claim 1, wherein the truck is in a weight range of 26,000 pounds to 46,000 pounds. 19. The truck of claim 5, wherein the opposing arms of the feller tool provide a grapple for grasping a portion of a tree. 20. The truck of claim 1, wherein the truck further comprises an connection joint at the tool-supporting end of the boom that permits free rotation of the feller tool and a rotator in which the connection joint and the rotator are disposed in series with one another to connect the feller tool to the boom and wherein the connection joint includes a first bracket and a second bracket that are hingedly connected at a first hinged connection, wherein the first bracket is hingedly connected to a bracket connecting end positioned at the tool-supporting end of the boom at a second hinged connection, and the second bracket is hingedly connected to the rotator at a third hinged connection, and wherein an axis of the first hinged connection is perpendicular to and spaced from an axis of the second hinged connection and the axis of the first hinged connection is perpendicular to and spaced from an axis of the third hinged connection.
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