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Name this dozer
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mdgibbs31085
Member
Lash was right. Used to prune tree roots in young orchards.
RTSmith
Senior Member
Looking at the trailer behind it in the recent pic- can you imagine driving that creature up the ramps to load it?? About as much fun as a steel drum roller on wet steel ramps- on a sloping roadside....
DPete
Senior Member
There may be other uses but around here they are used to harvest year old orchard nursery stock, the curved knife lowers to uproot the seedlings which are then picked up for dormant bare root planting in orchards
stumpjumper83
Senior Member
I'm voting orchard tool. Just because it looks like it would tip over if you ran over a golf ball, and pipelines are not flat land operation, at least not here in potter co.
Auctioneerhere
Well-Known Member
Just when you think you have seen everything...
jrm1504
Member
It is a nursery tree digger. I know several people that have them here in Wa State and have seen them in operation. They straddle the nursery tree that has been grown for one season (here it is apple, pear or cherry). Then there is an under cutter that cuts through any roots and pulls the tree up. Then some times there is a sort of beater to knock loose soil off.
The fanciest one I have seen is actually pulled by a 200hp wheel tractor at Willow Drive Nursery in Ephrata, Wa. I wish I would have taken a video. There gizmo dug trees on the right and then used gripping belts to pluck it from the ground, and a series of beaters knocked dirt from the roots as it traveled to the left side of the tractor. There it was tossed into the waiting hands of someone to load the trees onto a wagon. They have three diggers and dig something like a million trees in a week.
Come to think of it, I think we to be in partners with someone on one about 25-30 years ago. I wasn't very old then.
The fanciest one I have seen is actually pulled by a 200hp wheel tractor at Willow Drive Nursery in Ephrata, Wa. I wish I would have taken a video. There gizmo dug trees on the right and then used gripping belts to pluck it from the ground, and a series of beaters knocked dirt from the roots as it traveled to the left side of the tractor. There it was tossed into the waiting hands of someone to load the trees onto a wagon. They have three diggers and dig something like a million trees in a week.
Come to think of it, I think we to be in partners with someone on one about 25-30 years ago. I wasn't very old then.
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mc1082
New Member
Would love to run that!
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