Poplar carnage

[rowan lee]

A mate sent me some pictures and videos of a recent job, which include a beasty old forestry spec County (poss. an 1164/74?) with roof mount grab and winch some of you machinery heads should appreciate. using the 3 ton excavator to feed the chipper might be a little over-kill but I'm sure it saves plenty of sore backs, plus the boss man never gets wet.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyD1Lm7ZaC4]Poplar site clearance - video 1 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agae8qnJbV4]Poplar site clearance - video 2 - YouTube[/ame]

[s o c]

county 1174 i,d say.looks like they floored everything first, made life a bit hard on themselves. where in ireland ?

[rowan lee]

Co. Meath, just outside Navan I'm told. Apparently all the trees were winched over for safety reasons given the proximity to a main road, just the other side of that fence, so it probably saved time in the long run having the county stationed in a central location and pulling everything over first. I'd say that silage trailer was filled up a few times, and they will be able to set up a 'Cara' match stick factory on site.

[s o c]

dont know how our irish poplar would work out. i used to have a 764 with cabmount crane and trailer. spent a winter in the forests around Coolaney and Acare extracting thinnings with it once. had a good time there , nice place/people