Patent ID: 7681608

Claim:
In a front cut felling head for a feller buncher having a cutter and at least two accumulator arms for holding a bundle of one or more cut trees and at least two harvesting arms for moving a cut tree into an accumulation area to be held by the accumulator arms, each of the accumulator arms including an outer arm pivotally connected to an inner arm, the accumulator arms being pivotally mounted to a frame of the felling head on opposite sides of a forward longitudinal axis of the felling head, the forward longitudinal axis being directed in the direction of forward movement of the feller buncher and located centrally relative to the cutter of the head such that the cutter is fed through a tree to be cut parallel to the forward longitudinal axis, the improvement wherein a pivot point of one of said accumulator arms to the frame is further rearwardly than a pivot point of the other accumulator arm to the frame relative to the forward longitudinal axis of the head, such that a line drawn between the pivot axes of the two accumulator arms intersects the forward longitudinal axis of the felling head at an angle other than 90°.