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Hi all, me AGAIN !!!!!! :blushing:

 

Just been given a 4 Acre wood to manage, not huge, but a fair bit of wood to come out as its not been touched (hardly) in the last 20 years.

 

A local guy started it 2 years ago, but gave up as he got snowed under with wood. He's actually left about 30 ton cut to length on the wood floor.

 

The main problem with the wood is extraction. There will be access available in Autumn through a farmers field. Other than that, there is limited access (4' width) through the clients garden.

 

Thought about buying a quad for skidding and getting the wood already felled out, but round here the ASBO's pinch them for fun. They recently dismantled the complete rear wall of a brick built garage to get one.

 

Could get hold of a compact tractor, but feel it'd destroy the guys manicured lawns.

 

Then i thought of using one of the old ride on's. Take the deck off and it'd have halfway decent ground clearance. The only problem would be its ability to tow a small trailer. If i could get it to pull 3/400kg's it'd be a go'er

 

Anyone have experience of a similar situation ?

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We use a compact in the woods then lead it to woodside in long lengths so its not nickable, then at harvest we grab it and take it home to process in september, Logs are ready for december.

 

Stack them off the floor in heaps in the wood and its suprising how they dry out in time.

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How bigs the compact tractor you can get hold of? A way to get round the lawn damage is boards - ply or HDPE depending on how you feel on the costs v's investment. Then if you can get a bigger sheep trailer behind the tractor you should be onto a winner.

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How bigs the compact tractor you can get hold of? A way to get round the lawn damage is boards - ply or HDPE depending on how you feel on the costs v's investment.

 

The wood is approx 700mts accross his lawns, thought about the ply route but would need about 200 of em !!!!!

 

We've got a little 4 x 3 trailer that will just fit through the gap (on a stairway)

we've used it behind a quad for transporting aggregates up a garden before.

 

It'd be an ideal excuse for the firm to buy a quad ( been wanting one for a while), but i'm a very light sleeper atm due to our local travelling community 'wandering' through my back garden on a monthly basis (last visit, last thursday evening 03:30am). if i had a quad in the container, or garage, i'd never sleep :lol:

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