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TREE-PUSHER [2 records]

Record 1 2000-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forestry Operations
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
DEF

Rotating motorized apparatus with an arm, mounted at the tree gate, which as it turns pushes the trees one by one into the accumulator bunk.

OBS

According to "Terminology of Forest Science, Technology, Practice and Products", 1971, p. 282 and "Root and Root System Terminology", 1983, p. 115, "tree pushers" may also have a tree uprooting function.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation forestière
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
DEF

Dispositif rotatif motorisé muni d'un bras, situé dans la barrière d'alimentation et qui, en tournant, fait basculer les arbres un à un dans le berceau collecteur.

Spanish

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Record 2 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Site Equipment
  • Earthmoving
CONT

tree dozer: a bulldozer equipped with a tree-pusher (or stinger), i.e. an attachment for uprooting trees by pushing them over.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de chantier
  • Terrassement
CONT

Poutre d'abattage (Tree Pusher). Une poutre, munie en bout d'une griffe de poussée étroite, est montée au sommet d'un triangle [...] L'outil peut être utilisé pour l'extraction des souches.

Spanish

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