clear felling valley, what to charge?

[andy26]

As well as break you it could make you.

 

Here's how I'd approach it;

 

500 acres is a lot, double check that is the correct area.

Are you keeping the timber? Just felling it? Or felling and forwarding to roadside?

From the OP it sounds like your felling and forwarding to roadside.

 

Split the area into compartments, as Henry Ford said "Nothing is impossible if you break it up into small enough parts"

Identify which areas are suitable for mechanised harvesting- Remember there are various types a conventional harvester with processing head wheeled+Chains or tracked.

Or a processing head on a 360 Excavator or a Dymax tree shear on a 360 Excavator.

I'd be amazed if you couldn't use an Excavator on a large part, unless this is on a steep mountainside.

Identify which are only suitable for hand felling and simply break it down, using the tree density, trees felled/hr with a percentage efficiency factor.

 

The best tool in your box is not your Husky or Stihl its your mobile and a list of phone numbers.

 

Just for Fun, I think you'd be looking at around the £400k mark.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

As well as break you it could make you.

 

Here's how I'd approach it;

 

500 acres is a lot, double check that is the correct area.

Are you keeping the timber? Just felling it? Or felling and forwarding to roadside?

From the OP it sounds like your felling and forwarding to roadside.

 

Split the area into compartments, as Henry Ford said "Nothing is impossible if you break it up into small enough parts"

Identify which areas are suitable for mechanised harvesting- Remember there are various types a conventional harvester with processing head wheeled+Chains or tracked.

Or a processing head on a 360 Excavator or a Dymax tree shear on a 360 Excavator.

I'd be amazed if you couldn't use an Excavator on a large part, unless this is on a steep mountainside.

Identify which are only suitable for hand felling and simply break it down, using the tree density, trees felled/hr with a percentage efficiency factor.

 

The best tool in your box is not your Husky or Stihl its your mobile and a list of phone numbers.

 

Just for Fun, I think you'd be looking at around the £400k mark.

 

Darn it, what's the TIMBER VOLUME?????????!!! Area is irrelevent. Got to get the standing volume before ANYTHING else.

Edited June 20, 2011 by TimberCutterDartmoor

[andy26]

Darn it, what's the TIMBER VOLUME! Area is irrelevent. Got to get the standing volume before ANYTHING else.

 

I think you're taking it far too seriously...

 

We've not been embellished with enough facts by the OP, therefore we have to draw some wild assumptions...

[Chris Sheppard]

I think you're taking it far too seriously...

 

We've not been embellished with enough facts by the OP, therefore we have to draw some wild assumptions...

 

yep, it could be uncleaned first thinnings on a proper slope like we have round here - too steep for machines

 

Reckon we all need to sit quietly until jack comes back

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I think you're taking it far too seriously...

 

We've not been embellished with enough facts by the OP, therefore we have to draw some wild assumptions...

 

I think the potential volumes are very serious!

[andy26]

Having looked through Jack's previous posts, panic not!

 

Suspect this is perhaps more a hypothetical situation, still fun all the same...

[Joy Yeomans]

Having looked through Jack's previous posts, panic not!

 

Suspect this is perhaps more a hypothetical situation, still fun all the same...

 

yes , i suspect you will be too out of your depth on this xjack, unless theres only 1 larch tree per 100 acres:blushing:

still got us all thinking

[andy26]

This is a self levelling Tigercat operating in Scotland:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRUwkKYql-s]YouTube - ‪Harvester Tigercat LH845C - Steep Slope Harvesting‬‏[/ame]

 

Jack does the ground look steeper than this?

[Stephen Blair]

Thats a slope Andy, not even a hill:laugh1: True mountain goat country up here is exactly that, sheer rock faces and boulders. A lot of trees were planted by Canon back in the Day:thumbup:

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

best way to quote a job like that....is to over quote it!