Small scale timber extraction

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

Most woodlands were planted in areas not suitable for growing food crops and often wet and steep. (Horse drawn era) So now often a problem to access with modern machines and extract. There are some good ideas around but often expensive and not all areas can have those nice funding sources to help with purchase.

 

Seen some people using a basic diesel "Grey Fergie" with a linkage drum winch and long cable for good results.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Stuff that, don't like fish, wine, or guitar's for that matter,

 

Get that timber out as fast as you can, thats the name of the game,

 

Its with this very attitude in the story above, that some counties in europe find themselves in need of the odd bailout here and there,

 

Luftwaffe........ wiping the sweat from his brow!!!

 

Oh my goodness. Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse eh?!

[corylus]

Luftwaffe and boys.......................whats the title of the thread about?

[timberbear]

I regularly use a portable winch on the back of my compact or attached to a tree. It might be a balls ache skidding timber out all day. Constantly changing points and redirects but it's a good way of getting good timber out of steep sided woodlands which out causing a lot of damage. One winch operator and a good choker can easily shift 25t in a day.

[timberbear]

Winching in progress

[MATTMOSS]

Ive have never really done much with timber extraction until recently.

We have been having a struggle getting the logs out to somewhere that is accesable by the hiab waggon.

A friend had seen a log dragging device and decided to have a go at making one for the back of a quad.

We tried it for the first time the other day, it works well!!

Just thought id share some pics.

[northumbriaforestry]

On occasion we also use a similar rig for moving anything big from sensitive areas. We've moved some HUGE timber with this. It's also great to use for loading long timber onto the mill.

[Arborjesus]

Has anyone had any experience of a Goldoni Quad 20 for thinning extraction?

Seems like it might be a good yolk. I think it's just a Goldoni Base 20 with flotation tyres. It's an articulated alpine with a 22hp Lombadini diesel.

[Chris Sheppard]

Has anyone had any experience of a Goldoni Quad 20 for thinning extraction?

Seems like it might be a good yolk. I think it's just a Goldoni Base 20 with flotation tyres. It's an articulated alpine with a 22hp Lombadini diesel.

 

Very small/light so bit limited for skidding. Might work quite well with an ATV type trailer though.

 

No good if you've got big feet either as it's quite a small cockpit

[Arborjesus]

Very small/light so bit limited for skidding. Might work quite well with an ATV type trailer though.

 

No good if you've got big feet either as it's quite a small cockpit

 

Do you think a bigger compact would be better?

Row spacing is often 1.5m here.

Hard to decide between quad and compact tractor.

Quad = speed but design tow on a diesel arctic cat is 1/2 tonne

Compact tractor would pull more and could run the log splitter off it, wouldn't need a donkey for a forwarding trailer.