Watching this machine tear trees down with grace and ease is strangely satisfying.

The metal monster you just saw is the EcoLog 590D, and we know very little about it other than it might give me nightmares.

Could you imagine if this type of thing were available to the public? I wonder what type of training you'd have to go through to get a license to operate this heavy duty tree destroyer. It looks like something out of a futuristic movie, and is a bit frightening to know we have the technology to do this to our forests.

We can only hope this scorpion/tractor/woodchipper doesn't become sentient and try to take over the world.

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