the 'todays job' thread

[IronMike]

Few from the last few days. It's a hard life 😁

[Big J]

To contrast mike's utopian forestry scenes, this is what I had to contend with this week. Deep Devon clay, reeling from an extremely wet October. The video of the road is what (in part) caused it - 4 hours of torrential rain on Sunday morning.

 

 

[swinny]

I thought you were low impact Big J?? That's the kind of mess I usually make 😆 

 

You can keep that rain though! Cold and dry up here

[Mike Hill]

3 Big Pines

100 ton hiab out at full stick plus two manual extensions. Right over the outrigger.

Kin horrible.

[Big J]

7 hours ago, swinny said:

I thought you were low impact Big J?? That's the kind of mess I usually make 😆 

 

You can keep that rain though! Cold and dry up here

 

That's usually the plan, but we had just over 5 inches of rain in 13 days at the end of last month. There was fairly widespread flooding in our river valley. With the clay holding the water like a lined pond, there's just nothing you can do but make a mess.

 

I took the view that the ruts I've created are going to be tidied up as that section of the woodland is getting a couple of large ponds and a drainage ditch. The back section of the woodland is much drier and I've barely marked the ground there at all.

 

After October, you really want to be up on Exmoor or Dartmoor away from the clay, but unfortunately, it rarely works out like that.

[slack ma girdle]

Moved out of the woods and onto a SSSI, to reduce the levels of Willow. Everything to stay onsite in habitat piles.

[swinny]

4 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

Moved out of the woods and onto a SSSI, to reduce the levels of Willow. Everything to stay onsite in habitat piles.

Looks good! Have you done owt to site to finish it off as ground looks good? 

 

Just run over it with machine? Or just how it is when left?

 

I've often  looked into how I can leave a site looking good but it comes down to omlet and eggs

[slack ma girdle]

5 hours ago, swinny said:

Looks good! Have you done owt to site to finish it off as ground looks good? 

 

Just run over it with machine? Or just how it is when left?

 

I've often  looked into how I can leave a site looking good but it comes down to omlet and eggs

The open areas have had a robo flail run over and collect the brambles,  but other than that we haven't done anything to hide where we have been. Sometimes i think less is more,  like plastering, the more you fiddle with it the worse it looks.

[John Shutler]

taking out a couple of knackered Ash for a guy i used to do a bit of climbing for 10 - 12 years ago. nice easy couple of hours for a friday morning. roto really coming into its own on these sort of jobs 

[Rich Rule]

Lovely John.

 

You feeling better now  ?