River bank job

[WorcsWuss]

Personally I'd go with what I knew, felt more comfortable with and had access to.

 

So for me that's land based machinery.

We don't have a fancy logging winch either so it's a just a couple of long heavy ropes & slings, a tractor to pull the limbs up the bank and a telehandler to lift them from there....

 

Hell, I make it sound so easy!

[ben-jammin]

Ok here's what I don't get about the barge, how the hell do you control it in a flowing river, plus is there not alot of handling and awkwardness trying to get branches off the barge

 

We were re-pollarding a bunch of willows along the stretch of river which wasn't all that fast flowing but was tidal which meant we had to think about how tight or slack we tied it off which was normally to a tree or something else fixed on the bank.

 

To get as much in to the bare as we could we milled/crashed it up with the saw and stacked all the timber at the opposite end.

 

Unloading he had a telehandler with a claw which literally clawed it all out and onto the burn pile, quick sweep out of the last bits and presto, time to go again!