Hauling Timber with the Walrus!

[windfall]

I had a great morning today!

 

I was contacted by a narrow gauge railway 'Groudle Railway' last week, they are an enthusiast ran railway that relies on donations etc to keep going. Anyway they had recieved quotes of £2000 - £2500 to remove 4 small sycamores, the chairman asked me if i fancied helping out so i did it for the wood and for the experience!

 

Took me 40 mins last thursday to drop and chop the 4 trees, and this morning we spent 3 hours using the Diesel Engined Walrus to drag the lumps up onto the platform out of the glen. Then hauled them down the track to where id manage to get my pickup.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4NmO60c0R8&feature=g-upl]Walrus - YouTube[/ame]

[bobh]

That's the coolest timber extraction system I've ever seen

 

Just need to fit a hiab now

[slack ma girdle]

That too cool for words.

And i'm very envious, that even cooler than the mighty Nuffield.

 

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[Ben90]

Those people wanted £2500 AND to play with trains? Pfft

[Treemon]

My 7 and 4 year old boys have both asked why i cant do jobs like that:thumbup1:

[windfall]

I had asked, pleaded, begged, for us to use Anny the steam loco but no one apart from us fancied the 6am fire up for a 9am start!

 

Still, the Walrus lived up to his name and showed a lot of power.

 

Riding on the logs behind back up the track was superb fun, all in all it's not a mornings work I will forget in a hurry! Sure beats the **** outta working in an office....

[33bk]

Hope you have your ticket to work on the railways looks fun

[bobh]

I had asked, pleaded, begged, for us to use Anny the steam loco but no one apart from us fancied the 6am fire up for a 9am start!

 

Still, the Walrus lived up to his name and showed a lot of power.

 

Riding on the logs behind back up the track was superb fun, all in all it's not a mornings work I will forget in a hurry! Sure beats the **** outta working in an office....

 

I think I was wrong, it's the second coolest, the steam loco would have been seriously cooler!

[Dave Martin]

How many loads did you get on your pick up from the four trees?

[windfall]

Just what you see in on the train trailer Dave, it wasnt even a full pickup load. 3 cubic meters i recon, so should earn me £360 at some point in the future.