Hedge Removal / Milling / Fencing

[liamjordan]

A great job we have been doing recently!

 

Had to remove a big Leylandii hedge, and then put up a panel board fence in its place

 

Stems were straight felled or winched over, we had a MF35 with Fransgaurd winch in the garden, which winched the trees up to a Green Mech Chipper, chips blown into a agricultural trailer. You may think it made a hell of a mess of the garden, yeah it made a bit of a mess but the customers were happy

 

After all this was cleaned up, we decided to mill the 4x4 posts and some of the boards, seen as though we had some large logs kicking about in the yard which would only have gone to firewood or just left to rott lol, they were then tanalised, still waiting for some of the boards so fence is not complete yet lol but you can see the on going process

 

The last few pics are the milling, showing the crane moving some large logs down to the mill

[tommer9]

Absoloutely love the mill set uup and matador. What did timber were you milling?

[liamjordan]

Absoloutely love the mill set uup and matador. What did timber were you milling?

That mills working great! We also have extensions for it so it can cut up to 20ft, and is towable

 

It isnt actually a matador, its an austin with a different engine in it, runs well thoo

 

and it was larch

[tommer9]

I have been milling larch all morning- making 33x45mm batons.

What sort of austin is it? I have been using this:

[liamjordan]

I have been milling larch all morning- making 33x45mm batons.

What sort of austin is it? I have been using this:

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Ah right niceee! I wouldnt have a clue what austin it is, i'll ask my granddad tomorow and let you know

 

We have been thinking about in the not too distant future getting a bedford tm or similar and mounting the whole crane and winch unit on that, soo many times have been been somewhere and this would be a handy unit to have, as you can see this one doesnt travel much out of our yard lol

 

Ooo thats a nicee deere! Having fun in the mud?

 

When we were milling this we used the crane to move the logs down through our muddy yard to the mill, then loaded them onto the mill with the fordson major

[tommer9]

The mud is over the front axle of that tractor all round that area of the farm....getting a bit depressing now to say the least....

[liamjordan]

The mud is over the front axle of that tractor all round that area of the farm....getting a bit depressing now to say the least....

at least your in a tidy tractor, is it yours? we have to work in the conditions with vintage kit

[tommer9]

No, the tractor belongs to my neighbour but i can borrow his gear when i want. Thats his yard tractor- he has 4 john deeres- that 60hp 1950, a 6400, a 6920 and a 6930!! Tops.

[liamjordan]

No, the tractor belongs to my neighbour but i can borrow his gear when i want. Thats his yard tractor- he has 4 john deeres- that 60hp 1950, a 6400, a 6920 and a 6930!! Tops.

ooo thats pretty sweet! Our neighbors let us borrow kit to They are concreting contractors and have loads of dumpers, loaders, mini diggers and bigger excavators and 2 big tractors that we have borrowed in the past, its good to have nice neighbors

[Peter]

When I saw the title of the thread I thought you were going to mill the leylandii stems into the new fence posts. Now that would be sweet!