what spec. for logging truck access over deep peat

[difflock]

Well floating the trees out upright does sound like quite the plan  .  .  .

Edited November 17, 2020 by difflock

[Mrblue5000]

Just now, difflock said:

Well floating the trees out upright does sound like quite the plan  .  .  .

Just need a few lights and a bit of tinsel and they're ready for the road.

Seriously though, leave it till summer, I've 12 acres of spruce on peat and plan is to cut them in winter and skid them out in the summer. I reckon what happened in Donegal is they went too deep and concentrated the ground water ahead of the road. Tyre mats have been used here under a motorway but it still moves. When do you have to get the trees out?

[Khriss]

Would give that job a miss mate, thought peat bog was habitat now,  K

[ESS]

7 hours ago, difflock said:

As above, I only need about 150m in off the hard, but where the truck will sit to self-load, is alongside a deep sheaugh, and the only practical arrangement is to stockpile on the far side of the sheaugh.

It is all rank moss, albeit with an undisturbed scraw of 25 year old grass and weeds.

Since I will be on the hook for these costs, any wrong decision will eat into my returns, and disproportinately so, with the limited area to be harvested.

Thinking of about 500mm deep of crushed stone over Terram and possibly incorprating the plastic weldmesh type stuff where the truck will be loading.

 

The key will be paving it well enough to prevent irreversible damage occuring, without overdoing it and burying any useful profit in the ground.

Thoughts please,

Marcus

Do you have room for a landing on the hard road side? Normally it would be easier to thatch for a forwarder than lorries.

 

[difflock]

I was approached by SWL, since the mills over here are mad keen for timber, and yes IF I had sold them 12 month ago, before that ferocoiusly  dry March through to May in the spring of this year,

I ud ha bin laughing all the way to the bank.

Though I could cross my finger and stall until mid Feb, hoping for the usual? bitterly cold/dry spell we get when things are driest.

I am actually concerned about the damage likely to be caused to the many volunteer Oak, and moreso to the precious few volunteer Beech,

which I have been nuturing this past 25 years, and which I suspect would likely be tramped undertrack,

despite the glib assurances proffered.

But the 40 year old Sitka has already  started to blowdown  .  .  .

mth

 

Edited November 17, 2020 by difflock

[difflock]

6 minutes ago, ESS said:

Do you have room for a landing on the hard road side? Normally it would be easier to thatch for a forwarder than lorries.

 

Simply no. not a runner. at all.

[difflock]

5 hours ago, doobin said:

Might be cheaper to bung the other landowners a drink?

No point, one neighbour is "a twisted gate/git", tother is trying to sell his place this 2 years past.

[ESS]

2 minutes ago, difflock said:

Simply no. not a runner. at all.

Thats a shame. 

[Will C]

Can the forwarder run out to the road and load straight on to the wagon that’s parked on the road?

[scbk]

Difflock did you ever look in to tyre bales?