Patent ID: 7237584
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: A01G,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A felling head for a feller buncher, comprising: a housing; a disc saw blade having a disc and teeth at an outer perimeter of the disc; a motor, mounted in the housing that drives the disc saw blade with teeth of the blade being exposed in a severance area at the front of the housing, the housing including a butt plate that is mounted over the disc saw blade that has a severance area portion behind the severance area at the teeth and is generally parallel to the blade and an accumulation portion including an accumulation area that is angled upward relative to the severance area, the accumulation area sloping over the teeth of the blade to an outer edge of the butt plate; and at least one arm moveably coupled over the butt plate to move a tree severed by the disc saw onto the accumulation area and to maintain the severed tree on the accumulation area, wherein the severed trees held on the accumulation area are each supported from an outer edge of a butt end of each tree.