Large, dead ash clearance job. Advice appreciated

[Mark Bolam]

Why not make it cost heavy for the landowner and very, very profitable for you?

 

He's a landowner, he's bound to be loaded!

[Big J]

7 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Why not make it cost heavy for the landowner and very, very profitable for you?

 

He's a landowner, he's bound to be loaded!

You don't get a great deal of repeat work on that basis though! 

With the present price of timber, most jobs can be made profitable or cost neutral for land owners. For instance, we've just finished clearing 400t of dying ash from a narrow strip of woodland, alongside a river. The extraction route was very long (1200m), up a steep hill (over 100m vertical climb) and the felling was technical and all timber had to be processed and stacked by the tractor ahead of forwarding due to lack of space. Trees to be winched out of the river, brash all to be mulched, loading bay with 60t of stone put in and tracks dressed at the end. All done as a semi-emergency job and still cost neutral for the landowner, and he'll end up with at least 10t of logs for his little biomass boiler.

[Big J]

 

That's as wide as the track got, and the mud in the second photo got a lot worse than that

[Mark Bolam]

43 minutes ago, Big J said:

You don't get a great deal of repeat work on that basis though! 

With the present price of timber, most jobs can be made profitable or cost neutral for land owners. For instance, we've just finished clearing 400t of dying ash from a narrow strip of woodland, alongside a river. The extraction route was very long (1200m), up a steep hill (over 100m vertical climb) and the felling was technical and all timber had to be processed and stacked by the tractor ahead of forwarding due to lack of space. Trees to be winched out of the river, brash all to be mulched, loading bay with 60t of stone put in and tracks dressed at the end. All done as a semi-emergency job and still cost neutral for the landowner, and he'll end up with at least 10t of logs for his little biomass boiler.

Only joking mate.

Sounds like a win-win all round.

[TIMON]

Love your sense of adventure and willingness to push what is possible. Looking forward to seeing this job documented on here. Hope it works out well for you Big J.