A few pics of the last two days removing christmas trees

Charlieh · December 2, 2011

would that view be from the other side of bradnap? looking over not so sunny bleek leek? the friendleist town in the world!!!! i remember it well as i used to go to West wood high,do you like that.

Its not a million miles from there, its just above Thorncliffe, near the view area.

What makes the site SSSI, Charlieh ?

Fine set of shots, sums up your work there nicely

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Its a moorland/blanket bog SSSI so should be open ground with heather and sphagnum type vegetation not christmas trees, what the photos don't show is some of the slopes, between where i was taking the photo and the harvester working is a deep gully with 50+degree slopes on it, so it was fun bouncing the trees down the side of there :thumbup:

TRADITIONAL LOGGERS · December 2, 2011

Is the woodchip being removed from site? Natural England do have some odd conditions some times on SSSI's

Charlieh · December 2, 2011

yep all the brash etc to be removed, so its going to be windrowed on site to brown off a bit, then crane fed chipper blowing it into a tracked dumper to remove from the site, I will try and get back up there for some more pics as the chipper is a new one in the uk its a farmi with conveyor floor in it so it will feed brash etc in easier

Jesse · December 3, 2011

You must know my sister, she is the landlady at the Red Lion, i think its not open at the mo, dont know whats going on, boozing runs in me family

Charlieh · December 3, 2011

You must know my sister, she is the landlady at the Red Lion, i think its not open at the mo, dont know whats going on, boozing runs in me family

No idea, Im not from Leek was just up there working, furthest out I usually venture is the Jervis arms at Onecote that way on

Jesse · December 3, 2011

No idea, Im not from Leek was just up there working, furthest out I usually venture is the Jervis arms at Onecote that way on

Jarvis arms is another great little pub with a lovelly beer garden and stream, iv wet me lips there a few times, its good ale, ideal place to be if you get snowed in:thumbup:

LGP Eddie · January 16, 2012

I'm certain Charlieh won't mind me posting this here as it follows on from the Harvesting.

We finally got the break in the weather and have taken full advantage of this frosty spell to remove all the material from the site up onto the neighbouring field. This will allow the access to be reinstated and any Chipping/Shredding can take place at our leisure.

Charlieh had kindly looked after things for us whilst the Harvester was on site and felled the trees on the opposite slope which is basically stupid steep!

The pics show the huge volume of brash to be removed and as the machine has to go off site each night for security I opted to take my new Low Ground Pressure 5 tonne Kubota as the 8 tonner is 3 metre wide and needs a bit of care to move.

The 5 tonner has the Engcon tiltrotator and grab setup, which made light work of cleaning up.

The Kubota tracked dumper followed the torturous route to cross the valley and and windrowed the brash.

All is going well and the that's the last grab of timber going on in the dark!

Hope to finish the brash tomorrow and start covering the access road back over.

One things for certain I was pleased not to be on that dumper without a cab!

Eddie.