Collector’s been our most popular attachment worldwide for years! It was time for some improvements, so we designed the Collector Gen2.
The simple operation of the Collector enables quick and easy operation, for example when thinning a young forest. With the Collector, you can cut and collect thin trunks without having to lift the boom after each cut, turn the machine and drop a small trunk into a pile individually. This means you can minimize functions that consume fuel, and instead use the full capacity of the shear to make a bundle of trees. Thanks to TMK Tree Shear’s innovative valve packages, you don’t need separate hydraulics for the Collector. All functions of the shear work with just one double acting hydraulic line.
All the mechanical parts have been reinforced and the forest working conditions have been considered while developing the improvements. Collector spring and arms bronze bearings are now more easily accessible and faster to replace, with the addition of easier access to the grease points.
Due to the geometry improvements the Collector will now open with a deeper motion. This will make it more efficient even with larger diameter and branchier trees, improving the accumulating capabilities.
Along with the new mechanical parts, we’ve also produced two alternative control methods for the Collector. Easy & Full Control.
Easy Control:
The Collector works automatically alongside the cutting motion of the Tree Shear. This means that every time the grapple is closed to cut a tree, once the grapple is fully in, the Collector opens automatically to collect the tree, hence the “easy control”. Through controlling the Collector this way