Harvesting Christmas trees!!!

[cessna]

 

Amazing skill!!!

Edited December 14, 2014 by cessna

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Quite cool but surely ££££££££££££££££££££ ?!

 

Beautiful way to work tho Perfect day in those conditions.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Unless the helo is the toy of the plantation owner and he's happy messing around (and who wouldn't be?) can't be economically viable?? No second / third truck waiting for load? Helo take off / landing fuel consumption and down time.... Must be millionaires hobby?

 

TCD - did you see PM ref Beech stem??

[Daniël Bos]

I've been harvesting Christmas trees for a few seasons now, just doing manual labor though and there's serious money to be made.

I got near half my annual income last month...

 

Christmas trees are not optional for most people, its a completely captive market with any changes being apparent years in advance.

 

Spending on Christmas seems to only ever increase and this trend is moving eastwards though to eastern Europe.

 

The company I work for loaded over 30 artics a day with compressed palletised trees for over 5 weeks non-stop.

There was one morning when 64 of Mr stobarts finest were loaded and left the yard by lunchtime!

[cessna]

Unless the helo is the toy of the plantation owner and he's happy messing around (and who wouldn't be?) can't be economically viable?? No second / third truck waiting for load? Helo take off / landing fuel consumption and down time.... Must be millionaires hobby?

 

TCD - did you see PM ref Beech stem??

 

 

There is another video which shows three trucks waiting but I can not seem to find it.

If you look down the comments on the Video there are some christmas tree prices. I guess fuel is cheaper in the states but even so ££££ ??

Never the less great pilotage and coordination.

[woodworm]

Elveden Estate in Norfolk cut trees in Kielder forest and extract them with a helicopter for the UK market. They say its cheaper to cut and prepare the trees and then get a heli in for one or two days and get the whole lot out at once than to try and weave the felled trees among the remaining standing ones cos thats when the standing ones get damaged.

[Tree Man Tom]

Local Xmas tree farm sells 11000 trees locally in 4 weeks at average £30. Sure they obviously need management etc throughout the year but not a bad bit of cash!

[Mortimer Firewood]

Local Xmas tree farm sells 11000 trees locally in 4 weeks at average £30. Sure they obviously need management etc throughout the year but not a bad bit of cash!

 

I'm giving up logs where do I get an Xmas tree plantation

[Daniël Bos]

Farm I work for is over 2000 acres currently and about to buy another 1000-odd acres...

 

Supply tescos, asda, homebase, IKEA, waitrose, a whole host of others and garden centers etc.

I think this year they sell 350.000 cut trees and probably another 50.000 potted ones.

 

Trees spaced at 1m, first harvest 6/7 years after planting out, then 3/4 years of cutting before the remaining dross gets mulched under and the cycle starts again.

 

Its a long term investment, with a very short time window in which to earn your money back.

[Jake Andrews]

I love the Esky in the footwell (not sure what it's called for a copter) as if he's guna eat a sandwich whilst on a break.haha