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

[slack ma girdle]

it was felled by a harvester and some are quite high

 

Best get your chainsaw out.

[butler]

Set fire to the brash on the stump:thumbup:

[Chris Sheppard]

Best get your chainsaw out.

 

beat me to it

 

Seriously though, unless you really need the stumps out for a specific reason, I'd leave them in and plant between them. Riving them out is only going to make big holes.

[luftwaffe]

Yes leave them there, more hassle than its worth, especially now in the wet weather, you'll have ruts everywhere, and a total mudbath.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

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'?

 

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.

 

Agree. Forget chipping brash, you'll be there for decades. Likewise the stumps - let time erase them at no cost to you. What area you talking about?

[ecodao]

Hi guys ,

 

interesting topic,

 

Here in Portugal there is tons of brash left over from all the forestry, Pine and mainly the vast Eucalyptus plantations.

 

the brash used to be left, but because of the fires , it has to be collected up now.

but a few clever folks have set up companies with a few trucks with grabs on the back , they go around areas and gather it all up to a central point in that area, then large trucks come in and take it off to the power stations and also the factory's that make fuel pellets.

 

they must be making good money as in only 2 years they all now have brand new trucks, and are able to pay you the forest owner / contractor €15 Euro a ton.

 

as for the Eucalyptus stumps they are usually grubbed up and buried in trenches after a few harvest cycles, and the pines are cut low and left.

 

Steve

Central Portugal

[treedave]

If you just want to cut a track through I know a man with a stump grinder mounted on a digger. Took about 10 mins to do a 30" ash stump for me the other day.

Otherwise cut them low or leave them, there must be better uses for your time/money?

[ben lightfoot]

Would an ahwi go in over top of brash and stumps and mulch it up?

[jltree]

put a forestry mulcher through it to clear the site. Depending how much you have it could be worth getting a brash baler in.You can then sell the bales to jenkies to fuel his power plant.

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

Why does it need to be removed? Planting undertaken on site and let it degrade to provide for the next generation of trees.