Some Pictures from Sweden

[liamjordan]

Alright guys, some of you know that im studying up at Barony College at the moment doing Forestry Engineering, its going great!

 

Well at the moment im in sweden! Been sent over here for three weeks to a partner college in Varnamo, to do some machinery opertaion and a bit of engineering, so this is my holiday for 2012

 

Been out here 2 weeks so far and already done so much and seen so much its awesome!

 

Heres a load of pictures I have been taking.

[Mozza]

Good stuff Ace

[Brushcutter]

Nice.

 

810D is a great machine. You driven the harvester yet? That a 10 or 1270 E. Hate them with a passion.

[slack ma girdle]

So many toys, so little time.

[liamjordan]

Nice.

 

810D is a great machine. You driven the harvester yet?

yeah it lovely to use, yeah been driving the 1070e for a good few hours, starting to get the hang of it, slowly...

[Brushcutter]

yeah it lovely to use, yeah been driving the 1070e for a good few hours, starting to get the hang of it, slowly...

 

Trust me it will take you a long time to get hang of it. If you can go upto the 1270 it's much more stable. I hate the 10 12 70 and i'd imagin i'd hate the 1470 too.

 

Where is all the snow?

[Brushcutter]

Is Fozzy there?

Going to do your harvester/forwarder tickets there.

[liamjordan]

Trust me it will take you a long time to get hang of it. If you can go upto the 1270 it's much more stable. I hate the 10 12 70 and i'd imagin i'd hate the 1470 too.

 

Where is all the snow?

yeah i thought it would, the is thats making it harder, well i think it is, is the fact its a big thinning site, i love using the forwarder on this as it is really improving my crane skills, but just finding it tricky to select trees from in the cab of the harvester, as im used to wondering about with the saw and having a good look.

 

But i do think its a lovely machine to drive, self leveling cab and cab slew is very helpfull, and the head seems very robust and feeds really fast on this small stuff.

 

Snows gone, well there winter pretty much has, had a few inches last night but that had melted by 3 o'clock, its strange weather at the moment always changing

[liamjordan]

Is Fozzy there?

Going to do your harvester/forwarder tickets there.

yeah he came out with me and the other lad for the first week, hes gone back now, ah yeah you on his course in the summer?

[Brushcutter]

yeah i thought it would, the is thats making it harder, well i think it is, is the fact its a big thinning site, i love using the forwarder on this as it is really improving my crane skills, but just finding it tricky to select trees from in the cab of the harvester, as im used to wondering about with the saw and having a good look.

 

But i do think its a lovely machine to drive, self leveling cab and cab slew is very helpfull, and the head seems very robust and feeds really fast on this small stuff.

 

Snows gone, well there winter pretty much has, had a few inches last night but that had melted by 3 o'clock, its strange weather at the moment always changing

 

 

A good forwarder driver will make a good harvester driver as you get great crane control. I still dislike doing thining in the harvester for exactly the same reason as you.

 

Have you had the thing at near full lift off the ground where your picking the engine up off the ground too? Frame lock to the max...i did it last week in a bog in Finland it was not a plesent experence. The Ponnse harvesters are so much better in terms of design. Assissting the feed is so easy in ponnse in JD is at pain.

 

Had snow this week in Finland.

 

I'm not doing the course. Too much money and i've got the UK & Finnish tickets so other than learning some UK techniques seemed silly to do it.