Timber forwarding and winching costs

[gdh]

 

Just now, Root and branch sw said:

Training refreshing for them. Make a mess and run. 

Haha, I made the mistake of tidying up after a chainsaw course once, it's really annoying pulling out short lengths, much easier to winch then cut on the track. 

 

I suppose all you can do is work out a day rate and divide by the tons you expect to do which won't be many by the time you've untangled their mess...

[Root and branch sw]

They just felled. Then the chap who called me in cut it all to 5m 3m 2.4 's 

But yeah would be easier to winch tree lengths . 

Couldn't weave the tractor around all the standing timber to pick it up.hence we winched it all to easy access points now.  

Cheers for the info. I will have to just learn the hard way. 

It's the first commercial forestry work we have done.

We have done masses of site clearance work but all we have been in control of price.  

[gdh]

6 minutes ago, Root and branch sw said:

They just felled. Then the chap who called me in cut it all to 5m 3m 2.4 's 

But yeah would be easier to winch tree lengths . 

Couldn't weave the tractor around all the standing timber to pick it up.hence we winched it all to easy access points now.  

Cheers for the info. I will have to just learn the hard way. 

It's the first commercial forestry work we have done.

We have done masses of site clearance work but all we have been in control of price.  

Yeah, I think we're in very similar situations. We've only been doing our own woodland until the last couple of months so it's interesting now to say the least.

[slack ma girdle]

Yeah, I think we're in very similar situations. We've only been doing our own woodland until the last couple of months so it's interesting now to say the least.

School of hard knocks is the best to learn.
No woodland extraction will be the same.