Machinery talk thread

[Nova.]

Noticed a fair bit of talk of machinery and what not lately, so instead of cluttering up other threads I though I would make this.
if you don't like these kind of things, well you are no real man! so move on...
feel free to post anything machine related, try to avoid posting motorbikes lol...

This has been my beast for the last 4 months, a 2011 ZX160 hitachi

[DrunkenMistake]

Is it a work tool on the end of the boom, or is it sitting on a bit of wood? Cant tell haha

[unstuck]

Poofter, should of run the ute over, that would of been a good pic.

This thing here was the most fun I have had for years, big steep hills, 470hp, big gullys to slide into, fucken loved it.

[pzkpfw]

Lasers and hydraulically driven chainsaws. Grrr!

I want to put the cutting head on the front of my car.

(And yes, the machine with the lasers runs Windows...)

[DrunkenMistake]

The Toyota Feller buncher..
Could work,
Hybrid maybe?

[pzkpfw]

Hybrid maybe?

No, but I'd use it to eat Priuses!

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Lasers and hydraulically driven chainsaws. Grrr!

I want to put the cutting head on the front of my car.

(And yes, the machine with the lasers runs Windows...)

Looks like a good size digger. You guys must sleep all day, thats a tidy looking site.

[pzkpfw]

Looks like a good size digger. You guys must sleep all day, thats a tidy looking site.

I'm a programmer and mostly work from home, I don't often visit that site (just one client of mine). I've not yet personally driven the cool chainsaw wielding machine, just the laser scanning booth.

It's a very well run site, and it always looks like that when I visit.

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I'm a programmer and mostly work from home, I don't often visit that site (just one client of mine). I've not yet personally driven the cool chainsaw wielding machine, just the laser scanning booth.

It's a very well run site, and it always looks like that when I visit.

There are not many sites that tidy, that I have been to anyway. Is the laser for the head rig?

[Nova.]

Is it a work tool on the end of the boom, or is it sitting on a bit of wood? Cant tell haha

Its attached, we call it a beam (because its pretty much an I beam) , use it for leveling and smoothing soil etc, basically a grader blade.

[Nova.]

Oh and for those who haven't seen it, a cool video of a demolition in Christchurch i dun'did

[pzkpfw]

There are not many sites that tidy, that I have been to anyway. Is the laser for the head rig?

The machine on the left has 3 (soon 4) lasers, and that whole cab moves over a stem (chopped down tree), you can see the metal track it runs on.

Using the lasers a 3D data model of the stem is built. Software then uses rules - such as the current market values of different kinds of timber - to figure out the be$t way to cut up the stem.

The stems get stacked up. Later, the machine on the right picks up the stems, and downloads the decisions made by the earlier software. Using those wheels and the chainsaw, it cuts the stems into logs, that then go to the sawmill for finishing.

(The machine in the middle gets me there when I have lasers to carry. Otherwise I take my bike.)

The system's been proven to add significant value to the trees. Out in the forests, the experienced guys run the big machines, it's often the juniors who end up cutting the stems into logs. The software makes better, consistent decisions.

(I took this over, and can't claim to be the original developer.)

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The machine on the left has 3 (soon 4) lasers, and that whole cab moves over a stem (chopped down tree), you can see the metal track it runs on.

Using the lasers a 3D data model of the stem is built. Software then uses rules - such as the current market values of different kinds of timber - to figure out the be$t way to cut up the stem.

The stems get stacked up. Later, the machine on the right picks up the stems, and downloads the decisions made by the earlier software. Using those wheels and the chainsaw, it cuts the stems into logs, that then go to the sawmill for finishing.

(The machine in the middle gets me there when I have lasers to carry. Otherwise I take my bike.)

The system's been proven to add significant value to the trees. Out in the forests, the experienced guys run the big machines, it's often the juniors who end up cutting the stems into logs. The software makes better, consistent decisions.

(I took this over, and can't claim to be the original developer.)

Sweet, sounds like an interesting setup.

[Nova.]

Sweet, sounds like an interesting setup.

an expensive one

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This was one of my more embarrasing moments. Would of been a piece of piss to get it out too, but the damn council didnt want me pulling myself out onto the road for some reason.