somebody up there doesnt like me....

[agrimog]

as it says in the title, oppo and I have just spent 3 days selectivly thinning a small plantation of larch and sitka of around 25-30 year old trees,(never been done before), and apart from 3 or 4 , every one has hung up and had to be winched down, most of them with a manual winch as its to tight to get even the mini tractor in, and we've got another week of this, I had almost forgotten how much I hate thinning:thumbdown:

[daltontrees]

Hideous, it's so exhausting. Sometimes we just use a 4:1 pulley system instead of a winch as it's easier to move around and weighs very little and is quick. Trick is to anchor it off a tree at about head height and it helps lift the butt instead of ploughing the forest floor.

Good luck with that, rather you than me.

[agrimog]

have been using a lightweight 4 ton winch, the tajfun on the tractor and a rope with 2 pulleys, even at that my shoulders are goosed, there just isnt an easy way that covers all the problems....oh for some open spaces....lol

[Essex arborist]

We've got a petrol powered capstan winch which is easy to carry and anchor to a tree then choker the butts and winch with little effort. Great piece of kit, you can get a nose cone which stops the butts digging in the ground to. On a job like yours be well worth a look.

 

 

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[dadio]

If you just need to get them down, without preserving limber value, you might try this cut.

 

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[difflock]

Doh!

I taught dat was a dumb bodge:001_rolleyes: of farmers son cut.

So I can actually call mesel an "advanced" sawer/feller:001_tt2:

Wow

better give mesel a payrise for that.

[Marc Lewis]

I like a lot of your techniques Dadio and I liked the demonstration you gave several months ago to get a hung up tree down (which you got a lot of flak for). I am not so sure about this one though! Maybe I will watch it again.

[Roylance1988]

That looked so dodgy!

[agrimog]

I'd like to see him try that in a sitka plantation....the tree drops 4 feet and stays hung up...why do all these guys demonstrate on big open areas, they need a go where the trees are all about 3 feet apart....and covered in short spiky branches whos one aim in life is to jag you......not cost effective to bring in a harvester, so joe blogs and co. get to do it

[renewablejohn]

Ever thought of an excavator and a shear head. My little 3 tonne gets into tight spots with my Kesla head but take a double bite. ie first cut maximum height of excavator boom 2nd cut at ground level.