heli logging Scotland

[atree]

Any body know about this?

 

Is this the first time its been done in the UK?

Have never seen or heard about it in the UK.

 

Edited March 3, 2010 by atree

[Stephen Blair]

good find mate, that would of ben good to see, its just over the water, i was round there the othe day aswell with a call out.

[Yve_Clark]

It's not new in the UK Adam, we've got a chopper pilot friend who's been involved in aerial timber extraction up and down the country

[Charlieh]

i would have said pdg were the ones with the expertise? not landmarc in that vid, but hey ho

 

 

whats with waiting for the heli to get back with the chains, why not have several sets on site, so those guys that are stood about waiting for the heli to come back could be setting up for the next lift then the heli isnt hovering waiting to be connect for so long, running up huge wasted time costs. Sorry looks a bit to relaxed compared to the airlifts i have been involved in,

Edited March 3, 2010 by Charlieh

[woodfaller]

The company i started my timber career with were extracting with helicopter in that area in 1974/5.so no not new

[Stephen Blair]

where are you based now mate, still local?

[woodfaller]

No, they werent a local company, but they brought an awful lot of timber-- big timber off Inverary Castle. The heli. was used alongside other means of extraction.

[Stephen Blair]

cool, so you dont stay close by then

[woodfaller]

Nah,have just always worked all over the place.Followed the big timber around in those days.

They had some cracking timber off that job.Iremember the fallers saying they had Silvers with around 1800 hoppus in them, thats almost 60 tonnes.A lot of big hardwood too.I was a measurer in those days, only 17.

[Stephen Blair]

inverary has still got some monster silvers, must be some you guys never got lol. argyll has some amazing trees, they grow them very big indeed, good soil and the gulf stream oh and plenty of glens and valleys so they really stretch for the sky. Did you do any work in the Loch Awe aea?