Motor vehicle for cutting, loading and transporting trees

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR CUTTING, LOADING AND TRANSPORTING TREES COMPRISING A MOTOR VEHICLE, A HEAD CONSISTING OF A BEAM PROVIDED WITH AT LEAST TWO PAIRS OF JAWS SPACED FROM EACH OTHER ALONG SAID BEAM, JAWS OF EACH PAIR BEING PIVOTED FOR OPENING AND CLOSING MOVEMENT IN ORDER TO ENCIRCLE AND CLAMP THE TRUNK OF A STANDING TREE AT TWO SPACED ZONES OF SAID TREE TRUNK, TREE TRUNK CUTTING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID BEAM BELOW THE LOWER PAIR OF JAWS FOR CUTTING THE TREE, FIRST MOTOR MEANS FOR ACTUATING SAID PIVOTABLE JAWS, UNIVERSAL PIVOTAL MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTING SAID HEAD TO SAID VEHICLE FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT OF SAID HEAD IN A VERTICAL PLANE LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID VEHICLE BETWEEN A SUBSTANTIALLY UPRIGHT POSITION IN FRONT OF SAID VEHICLE AND A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL POSITION OVER SAID VEHICLE, AND FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT OF SAID HEAD TRANSVERSELY OF SAID VEHICLE, SECOND MOTOR MEANS FOR PIVOTING SAID HEAD IN A VERTICAL PLANE REARWARDLY OVER THE VEHICLE TO THEREBY TILT THE TREE OVER SAID VEHICLE, WITH THE TOP OF THE TREE PROJECTING REARWARDLY OF THE VEHICLE, THIRD MOTOR MEANS FOR PIVOTING SAID HEAD TRANSVERSELY OF SAID VEHICLE, TREE SUPPORT MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID VEHICLE, AT THE BACK OF SAID HEAD, FOR RECEIVING AND SUPPORTING THE TRUNK OF THE THUS INCLINED TREE TRUNK AND MEANS FOR DISENGAGING THE TREE TRUNK FROM SAID HEAD AFTER OPENING OF SAID JAWS WHEREBY THE HEAD CAN BE PIVOTED TOWARDS THE FRONT OF THE VEHICLE FOR ENCIRCLING AND CUTTING ANOTHER TREE.