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Chambers DeLimbinator Setup Setting up your DeLimbinator is an integral factor in achieving the highest production possible. There is no right or wrong way to set up your landing when using a DeLimbinator. Preferences vary with timber type, space constraints or the need to sort more than one product from harvested trees. The one common thread in 99% of our customers’ operations is that when trees are brought to the landing, they are moved counterclockwise to be delimbed and loaded onto waiting trucks. The diagram below shows the basic setup used by most DeLimbinator owners who delimb and load with one loader.
Trees are brought to the landing and dropped by the skidder at Point 1 of the diagram. They should be placed near the tongue of the DeLimbinator in a manner that is most convenient for the loader operator so that he has to do the least amount of work possible to guide them into the flail area.
The loader operator uses the DeLimbinator’s patented feed arm as a pivot point to guide the trees through the front opening of the flail area at Point 2. Once the trees are in the flail area, the loader operator continues to swing to his left, adjusting his speed to allow the DeLimbinator to remove limbs from the trees.
Once the trees are pulled completely through the DeLimbinator, they can then be piled at Point 3 or loaded on to a waiting truck at Point 4.
As long as the landing is set up so that wood flows in a counterclockwise direction, trees can be delimbed and loaded onto a truck without having to be heeled. This saves valuable time when you are getting paid based on your production. Using a Chambers DeLimbinator is a very simple process and is the most stress free way for your loader to handle the task of delimbing.
The distance between the DeLimbinator and the truck can vary greatly from one operation to the next. Different operations have different needs and typically the learning curve is very short in finding the best setup for you. The farther the DeLimbinator is from the truck, the more room there is available for piling and sorting wood. Crews that use set-out trailers have less need to stack wood and therefore tend to move the machine closer to the truck. Crews with one skidder typically need less room at Point 1 for dropping wood at the loader where a two-skidder crew may need more room.
Some of our customers opt to use two loaders in their thinning operation. In this case, one loader will delimb trees and the other will load them onto the trucks. With the two-loader setup, there are many ways your equipment can be arranged on the landing. One popular variation is shown below. The most important thing to remember when setting up with two loaders is to place your equipment in such a manner that the loaders are not in each other’s way in picking up and dropping wood between them.
The two-loader configuration is certainly not limited to the above setup. There are a number of ways the delimbing and loading functions can be accomplished and operator preferences vary accordingly.
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