Best way to get rid of brash and stumps after clear fell

[Ted_165]

what is the best way to get rid of brash and stumps after clear fell?

[PhilBeech]

A forestry mulcher working with an excavator to windrow the material.

[NI Tree]

have you concidered stump and brash harvesting as it would provide you with a nother product that you could sell.

[Ted_165]

thats just given me and idea! thank you i could shred the brash with my shredder, but still the problem with the stumps. What is 'stump harvesting'?

[Charleton Chips]

tilhill do stuff with the stumps

[NI Tree]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoVul0Xx_oc]Stump Harvesting in Finland - YouTube[/ame]

 

 

then they are used for boimass

[Ted_165]

looks expensive! and i dont think there will be an attachment for my 1.5 ton digger!!!

[Chris Sheppard]

Why do you want the stumps out? If it's been felled by hand they should be low enough not to get in the way anyway and by the time you want to be in thinning the new crop they should be fairly soft anyway.

 

Big 360 with a brash rake or grapple to row up brash or pile up for burning.

 

We looked into mulching on one site and bloke said his mulcher wouldn't handle the pine tops as they were too much for it That was a supposed big machine too.

[NI Tree]

you not to far from lockerbie and steve crofts and they use a lot of biomass. but a bigger digger would cost probaly the same due to a far higher work rate, and your are left free to do other work. it cost me the less to get a 13 tonne to do the ditches on our place than as use the 3cx.

[Ted_165]

it was felled by a harvester and some are quite high