Patent ID: 8347784

Claim:
A standing tree baling apparatus, comprising: a main frame; at least two wheels affixed to said main frame rollably supporting said frame and being located at an extreme trailing end of said main frame; a boom pivotably connected to said main frame adjacent a leading end of said main frame; a boom lifter connected between said main frame and said boom for raising and lowering said boom about a pivot joint at a first end of said boom; a rotation arm pivotably connected to a second end of said boom at a first end of said arm; drive means for pivoting said arm relative to said boom; and a compression ring sized for loosely encircling a trunk of a standing tree and adapted for forcibly moving a succession of branches of said tree non-destructively inward toward the trunk of said tree as said ring is raised about said tree to facilitate baling of said tree with rope line, said ring being rotatably connected to a second end of said arm, said arm including drive means for independently rotating said ring in a vertical plane relative to said arm.