Branch logger on brash

[Stere]

Think the one above might be made in ukraine

 

 

[GarethM]

Ukraine, but it's not listed on their website.

The more you look you just see different names, slapping a sticker on other products.

 

Watch a few videos and see the different company names, stickers as it takes you down the YouTube rabbit hole.

 

So it'll be Chinese, imported and bought via Alibaba or alike. Ukraine, Poland etc might be low wage countries but they can't compete with a Alibaba special at say £500

Edited August 29 by GarethM

[peds]

1 hour ago, Stere said:

I like the look of this  little one with its own tracked dumper would be ideal for hazel:

 

 

There are  so may makers & sizes performace must be variable as to blockages?

 

That looks so cool.

[spandit]

Well I've bitten the bullet and ordered a Remet R120.

[Alan Smith]

Looks good. Would be interested to know how you get on with this machine thanks.

[spandit]

1 hour ago, Alan Smith said:

Looks good. Would be interested to know how you get on with this machine thanks.

 

Will do. My logic is that I have quite a lot of willow and birch that needs removing and dealing with all the brash is a pain. To get someone in with a chipper would cost a few hundred pounds a day and with this, I'll get a bit of firewood or stuff to make charcoal with. At worst, it'll mean no huge piles of springy brash getting in the way.

 

Time will tell

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Alan Smith said:

Looks good. Would be interested to know how you get on with this machine thanks.

Yes. I have not seen one working in the flesh. I wonder about the quality of small logs from whole thicket stage trees.I did  try some slabwood logs that had been bagged from one. It's obviously a big labour saving to not cut side branches first.

[spandit]

Just now, openspaceman said:

Yes. I have not seen one working in the flesh. I wonder about the quality of small logs from whole thicket stage trees.I did  try some slabwood logs that had been bagged from one. It's obviously a big labour saving to not cut side branches first.

 

If I feed snedded trunks through it, the stuff coming out should be useful

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, spandit said:

 

If I feed snedded trunks through it, the stuff coming out should be useful

Yes but it would be an interesting comparison to see how much the yield of usable loggettes differed between whole tree and snedded poles.

 

@Woodworks made charcoal in his retorts from the output of his branch logger but I don't know if he sorted any of the arisings for logs.

[spandit]

I use willow for cooking with in my BBQs and it's a pain to cut the small bits (broom handle thickness) so this should make it quicker. We'll see how usable the stuff is. My accountant reckons I can form a partnership with my wife to try and sell the product - not ordering my helicopter just yet