Log lifter mounted on excavator boom - has grapple formed as splitting tongs actuated by rams and including wedges on dish sections

摘要

The lifting machine is in the form of a mobile hydraulic excavator, having a derricking jib to which an interchangeable timber grapple is fixed. The grapple is in the form of log-splitting tongs, typically comprising dish sections hinging on a central girder and actuated by rams. The dish sections have pointed splitting wedges. The girder can also have a slewing drive.