small scale timber extraction costs

[openspaceman]

I would be fairly confident of skidding and stacking 50 m3 a day with my standard farm tractor with the skidding arm and grab I made. I haven't had 50m to skid at the one time maybe 20-30 which takes around 4 hours to move them and stack them at roadside with a max distance of 400 metres. I skid out whole trees up to 10m in length then buck them on the landing before stacking.

 

I don't think I got much better than 35m3 in .3m3 clearfell over that sort of distance, 8 chokers add igland dd on a County with bomford blade, 7.5 m sawlogs to 20cm top and about 5 tonne stacked by hand (not by me). I'm sure I could have got treble that with the same county and grapple loader 10 years later.

 

By the time I packed up I was moving 58m3 over 1km of 2.4 pulp, just about competitive with a purpose built over that distance but they kept tracking the same ruts, I used the whole ride but couldn't travel in the forwarder ruts.

[Ryan]

I don't think I got much better than 35m3 in .3m3 clearfell over that sort of distance, 8 chokers add igland dd on a County with bomford blade, 7.5 m sawlogs to 20cm top and about 5 tonne stacked by hand (not by me). I'm sure I could have got treble that with the same county and grapple loader 10 years later.

 

By the time I packed up I was moving 58m3 over 1km of 2.4 pulp, just about competitive with a purpose built over that distance but they kept tracking the same ruts, I used the whole ride but couldn't travel in the forwarder ruts.

 

Mine are only about 20cm dbh with 6 chokers but doubling up logs hauling 12 at a time. Im felling in lines about 7m wide and away from the direction im skidding which makes hooking up the butts of the logs handy and speedy. The wood was never thinned as its only 20 or so years old so you can hook up a lot of logs without moving.

[Chris Sheppard]

I would be fairly confident of skidding and stacking 50 m3 a day with my standard farm tractor with the skidding arm and grab I made. I havn't had 50m to skid at the one time maybe 20-30 which takes around 4 hours to move them and stack them at roadside with a max distance of 400 metres. I skid out whole trees up to 10m in length then buck them on the landing before stacking.

 

There's no doubting that your skidding arm is a handy looking thing, but how many full stems at 20cm dbh do you think it would take to make one cubic metre of timber? I don't know the answer but I think you might be a little out on your maths

[slack ma girdle]

On my own with the mighty Nuffield pulling out trees whole over 100-200m distance, and cutting and stacking, i was averaging 130 12' lengths (11 to the cube)

[LGP Eddie]

I can't help with 'small scale timber extraction costs', but I can tell you what it costs to 'extract small scale timber extraction equipment'?

[Ryan]

There's no doubting that your skidding arm is a handy looking thing, but how many full stems at 20cm dbh do you think it would take to make one cubic metre of timber? I don't know the answer but I think you might be a little out on your maths

 

Maybe I am a little out? I skidded out these over two evenings after work 5pm to 9. They are 5m long. I didnt measure the stack but I reckon its over 2m high and 6m wide. That totals 60m3. Allow for gaps etc ,even it is only 40m3 it still only took 8 hours to skid and stack. Id say theres around 300 logs in that stack so it takes a fair few to make a m3. Skid them out to a nice neat row, buck them at 5m lift with grab and stack. Ill be skidding again next saturday so Ill see how many I can do in a day.

 

 

 

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Maybe I am a little out? I skidded out these over two evenings after work 5pm to 9. They are 5m long. I didnt measure the stack but I reckon its over 2m high and 6m wide. That totals 60m3. Allow for gaps etc ,even it is only 40m3 it still only took 8 hours to skid and stack. Id say theres around 300 logs in that stack so it takes a fair few to make a m3. Skid them out to a nice neat row, buck them at 5m lift with grab and stack. Ill be skidding again next saturday so Ill see how many I can do in a day.

 

 

 

 

nice wee tractor; wish I could find one like that...

[mendiplogs]

nice wee tractor; wish I could find one like that...

 

HI JON what about a mf 390 or a 399 massey there good old tractors mate jon

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

HI JON what about a mf 390 or a 399 massey there good old tractors mate jon

 

My mate just bought #1 of very few genuine MF forestry spec 390's off my old boss in Gloucestershire. Tis a very sweet tractor with roffmount FMV etc. Now earning money as it had sat for some time. Serious wonga tho; don't need anything like that for yard duties...

[mendiplogs]

My mate just bought #1 of very few genuine MF forestry spec 390's off my old boss in Gloucestershire. Tis a very sweet tractor with roffmount FMV etc. Now earning money as it had sat for some time. Serious wonga tho; don't need anything like that for yard duties...

 

HI JON i run a mf 399 with 2ton loader it a good tractor mate thanks jon