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Trees trimmed ruthlessly along Tri-Rail tracks - what equipment does this?

Started by tpackert, May 12, 2015, 11:29:16 AM

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tpackert

Hello,

I ride the South Florida Tri-Rail - today I noticed a lot of trees over the course of miles that had been trimmed ruthlessly by some heavy equipment.

Does anyone know what equipment the railroad maintenance crews use to trim trees along the tracks?

The photos are not great from a moving train, but you can see the effect on the trees.

Tom


 

 


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The RR uses a huge rotary cutter that whacks the limbs off. Looks particularly bad at first, but does the job of keeping the branches free of their right-of-way for moving trains and clearing snow. Likely they have the most efficient method short of having a crew do it by hand.

But it is butt-ugly right after it is done. Sometimes there are some huge chunks of wood tossed out of the ROW onto adjacent property.

Sample of the type of equipment used by the RR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQGPdVPqQU

Another video of what it looks like if nothing is bushwhacked (at the beginning showing brush encroaching on the tracks).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1lBQPdyqVY
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The RR around here has a gmail mower on a boom that has a pretty good reach. About fifteen years ago they ate some snow mobiles that were parked too close to the track. :o
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tpackert


mesquite buckeye

A lot of rural roads in Missouri are done the same way. It is cheap. That's why they do it that way.
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Welcome to the Forestry Forum, tpackert. 

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