Abstract: An apparatus for delimbing felled trees is described, wherein the trees are pulled individually or, in some cases, in bundles through the delimber. The delimber is provided with a base; a lower impact shear blade which is a notched steel plate supported upon the base, the notch bounding the under half circumference of a tree in the delimber; upper impact shear blades which are a pair of arcuate arms pivoted on the base, designed and arranged such that a tree resting in the notched plate is bound substantially about its upper half circumference by the arcuate arms pivoted into contact with the tree; and an activating plate, pivoted upon the base, interconnected with the arcuate arms such that the weight and force of a tree pulled through the delimber in contact with the notched plate, acts upon the activating plate causing it to pivot thereby pulling the arms into contact with the tree.