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"SLASHBUSTER"® HD 482 featured on Science Channel's new series "Heavy Metal Taskforce"
The Science Channel's premiere episode of "Heavy Metal Taskforce" features a "SLASHBUSTER"® brush cutter used in a critical flood control project on the Gulf Coast:
"Forget sending in chainsaws, that would take years and the hurricane season is just weeks away. There are over six million residents on the Gulf Coast and there is only one machine that can save them - Slashbuster."
You can no longer view the first three minutes of the 20 minute "SLASHBUSTER"® brush cutter segment at discovery.com, but the full video (episode 1 season 1) can be viewed at amazon.com, free if you have a Prime membership. |
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In Louisiana, the Iberia Parish Public Works Department has been filmed for an upcoming Science Channel program called "Heavy Metal Task Force". The series "will feature some of the most amazing machines on the planet and their specialist crews as they on engineering challenges around the world."
The Iberia Parish uses a newly acquired "SLASHBUSTER"® HD 482 brush cutter to manage encroaching vegetation on 830 miles of drainages as part of their flood control project.
From the The Daily Iberian newspaper:
"If a fallen tree was reported or thick vegetation was obstructing drainage in Iberia Parish three months ago, it would have taken five or six Public Works employees about a week to clear the mess with chainsaws.
That was before the Slashbuster." |
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The Mountain Mail newspaper in New Mexico reports that the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge was successful with their Salt Cedar removal project which used a Slashbuster® brush cutter to remove dense thickets of the invasive Salt Cedar species as part of a revegetation plan.
That same Slashbuster unit was earlier used in the Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge.to clear hundreds of acres of Juniper |
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The Joint Fire Science Program releases results from research on the response of wildland fire to forest fuels treatments. Their conclusion: thinning the forest is not enough to reduce the threat of wildland fire and the leftover slash and surface fuels must be treated.
"...it is critical that the resultant slash from (mechanical thinning) be treated within a year or two. Without slash treatment, mechanical thinning may increase potential wildfire severity." - p. 25 |
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The OSU College of Forestry publishes a fact sheet entitled: Reducing Hazardous Fuels on Woodland Properties: Mechanical Fuels Reduction that details some of the benefits of "SLASHBUSTER"® equipment over other designs:
"The articulating arm allows slashbusters to process material that is higher off the ground than horizontal-shaft machines,
literally grinding standing trees down to stumps. The arm also allows thinning of selected vegetation and trees without damaging adjacent desirable vegetation. " |
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The
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife's Access &
Habitat Board find the "SLASHBUSTER"®
an effective tool for big
game forage restoration in
wildfire dependent ecosystems.
"The
"SLASHBUSTER"®
head chops the decadent ceanothus
right down to the ground and
the operators are skilled
enough to work around small
trees that will eventually
become valuable for both timber
and wildlife" |
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The
Union Democrat publishes an
article on GH
Ranch's 2,600 acre forest
fuels reduction contract.
Located
in the Stanislaus National
Forest's Groveland Ranger
District, the contract is
part of the Granite Stewardship
Project. This five-year pilot
project will perform multiple
resource management activities
for demonstrating enhanced
ecosystem health and water
quality, and will significantly
reduce the risk of catastrophic
wildfire in the Granite Project
Area. |
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The
Emerald People's Utility District's
"SLASHBUSTER"®
XL 480S is featured in Transmission
and Distribution World Magazine,
Jun 04.
"EPUD's annual line clearing budget is $1.5 million, which is $500,000 less than before it purchased the new cutter
machine. Crew sizes are smaller,
overtime is down and EPUD
is ahead of schedule for the
first time in clearing ROW." |
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The
Medford Mail Tribune publishes
an article on the forest
fuels reduction cost-share
work Jack Brown
and Son Contracting is doing
with local land owners and
the Bureau of Land Management
and the Oregon Department
of Forestry. |
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"In
response to President George
W. Bush's forest health
initiative..."<br>GH Ranch
and associates presented
the following brochure at
a recent wildfire conference.
Entitled:
"Slashbusting®
For Forest Fuels Reduction"
(PDF, 250k), the brochure
details methods and costs
of "SLASHBUSTER"®
treatments for thinning,
wildland urban interface
clearing and contingency
fire line building. |
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"SLASHBUSTER"®
brush cutter attachments are
exhibited at the Oregon Logging
Conference in Eugene, Oregon. |
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The
Hometown Press of Winnie,
Texas reports on two new "SLASHBUSTER"® equipment
purchases by the Trinity Bay
Conservation District. The
conservation district is deploying
them for vegetation management
in and around drainages as
a means to increase water
flow rates and thus decrease
the likelihood of flooding.
To
read the article in a new
window,
(PDF format, 270k) |
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Congratulations
to Jack Brown and Son Contracting,
Inc. for their wildfire risk
reduction success story article
in the November/December
2002 issue of Timber West
magazine. |
