Cutting to the Core ‘Turbo Saw’ provides solutions to landowners
The “Turbo Saw” cuts trees off an inch below the ground ensuring they will rot out in about five years. Photos by Jocelyn Pedersen
By Jocelyn Pedersen A
solution born of a problem has made a Hinton, Okla., business very popular among landowners around the county, state and even internationally. Family owned and operated, Dougherty Forestry Manufacturing helps land- owners clear their property of pesky, prolific red cedars and other trees with
their Turbo Saw, which cuts them off an inch below the ground ensuring they will rot out in about five years. “We use a skill saw blade that gives a good, clean cut,” Patrick Dougherty, owner and designer says, explaining that the cuts are smooth so horses and other livestock don’t trip over them. The saw has become popular with a broad range of customers from small and large landowners to commercial operations. Russell McLain, owner of R&M Cedar Tree Services and Northwestern Electric
Cooperative member says he owns four Turbo Saws. “It’s the fastest saw on the market—the best built,” McLain says. “We clear lots of acres,
thousands of acres. It’s well thought out and well designed. It’s incredible to me what he’s built to go on those machines.” The idea and design for the unique saw came from within the Dougherty family, mem-
bers of Caddo Electric Cooperative. Patrick’s brother Peter was doing custom hay baling with their grandfather. Clearing trees and baling hay go hand-in-hand, so when the pair saw someone using a homemade, rudimentary horizontal saw, they talked to Patrick who said he could build a better device. He came up with the idea of attaching a saw to either a tractor or a skid loader.
“It took a lot longer than the story sounds,” Dougherty says. “It took a couple of years as a side project to perfect the idea. We are proud that we stuck with it long enough to make a real dependable product.” Dougherty says his background is in “farm kid engineering” and after tinkering with the
idea and various prototypes as a hobby for two years he came up with a design that works like a charm. “We had a problem to solve,” he says. “Too many people have a solution for a problem nobody has. Our problem is we have cedar trees and when we worked toward that goal, it was self fulfilling to make the product goal.”
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