Finnish Forestry

[Brushcutter]

Hi all

 

Just before i left for Finland a month or so ago i said i'd put up pictures. The internet is a long way away here but i've found some. i promiced Mr Blair some pics of big boys toys so here they are.

 

It's a clear fell for development just outside Tampere in Finland about can't remember the cubic meterage well over 2000. Been there 3 weeks the kit went on the low loaders last night to the next thinning job. Night shift is the best woking under the forwarder lights.

 

All the biomass has come off the site too. Had 4 forwarders pulling brash on the last night and one forwarder pulling stumps. I think that that forwarder is still there.

[Brushcutter]

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[Brushcutter]

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[David Humphries]

Great set of shots

 

How did that wee headache get sorted in the end ?

 

Liking the bit in the last shot where the fella looks like he's scratching his head

 

 

 

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[liamjordan]

nice pics brushcutter!

 

what are you actually doing over in finland? on the forwarders or harvesters?

[WoodED]

what happend in the last pic.. loverly pics aswell mate...

[slack ma girdle]

Whats the forwarder fallen into ?

By the look of the tracks the forwarder has been driving thay way before.

 

Probably too busy downloading naughty pictures to his phone !

[rowan lee]

Really enjoyed these pictures, great stuff brushcutter. No sign of any snow yet then?

Looks like that forwarder in the last shot was pulling stumps and fell into one of the holes it had created.

[Brushcutter]

The forwarder fell over a little. Since the site is for development everything is comming off brash stumps the lot. They had a 14 tonne digger with a set of stump sheers pulling the stumps up and piling them up for the forwarder. The 1110 was a little overloaded and when it drove away the nose lifted and its wheel went in a hole of a dug out stump and over it went.

 

They pulled it upright with the stump harvesting digger. left it overnight to for everything to drain back to where it should be checked it and off it went to work again. Another 1110 tipped over last week although that was rather stupidly laying out the band tracks and near full reach of the crane. I'd also like to point out that i wasn't driving either at the time.

 

I've been driving forwarders at the moment. An old Valmet 820 (which is my fave) and a Ponsse Caribou which has a VERY fast crane and very sensitive controls. Next week i'll be taking a shot on the harvesters....well thats if my foot isn't broken. Which i stupidly managed to do after cleaning the harvester yesterday. X rays tomorrow.

 

No snow yet should be some by the end of the month i'm told. Had the first set of Northern Lights though

[josharb87]

Fantastic pics!

Really must make an effort to see the lights this winter!

hope the foots ok, keep the pics comming