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Operational Safety and Technique for Standing Trees

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Excavator forestry mulcher on Caterpillar 320 with a fecon head running a supertrack 350 powerpack

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What happens here

The video reiterates the importance of safety during mulching operations, especially when mulching trees from the top down. This method ensures debris is pushed downwards, away from the operator, and provides a safer working environment. It also shows the mulcher clearing out a stump from the ground, leaving a clean, level surface. The operator skillfully navigates around existing trees while clearing the ground.

Goal: Reinforce safety best practices and effective mulching techniques for standing trees.

Tools and materials

  • Caterpillar 320 Excavator Caterpillar — Operating the mulching head
  • Fecon DCR Mulching Head Fecon — Mulching standing trees and stumps

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and you need this much protection because you're gonna be right in the line of fire so as we're doing this [Music] and we're gonna be going from the top down on these things we don't chew of them from the bottom up we go in as high as we can we're gonna grab this tree and we're gonna go straight down and you guys are gonna see that where's the granddaddy pine out here granddaddy pine is right here that's gonna be a fun one yeah granddaddy that's gonna be a nice one we're gonna save that one for the end yeah I'll probably run out of footage so you guys won't get to see it [Music]

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