harvest drivers

[nathan 338]

no reason for high stumps and no need to brash, get the right machine and right operator and the site will be tidier than hand cutters. no good putting clear fell machines in first thinnings, use thinnings harvesters with bottom knives to brash the tree as you lower head onto but and if the sticks are massive use a larger head or base unit. high stumps are a waste of timber and make the job harder next time around. if the rates are that bad on some sites don't bother. your only as good as the last job you leave. all equipment is affordable if you have the right business plan and attitude.

[monster bert]

What are the harvester like for hardwood?

[islesy123]

time = money, more brash now going to biomass ,clear-fell sites look less like apocolipse

[Brushcutter]

What are the harvester like for hardwood?

 

Your better off with a head with tracks rather an rollers for most stuff. If its very straight it flys through. Once you get to branches it gets messy. Case of opening the knives and crushing them with the rollers. Then running it through the knives fast. You get lots of little stubs but you'll be doing 5 tonne+ an hour.

[nathan 338]

we harvest loads of hardwood with the harvester, its obviously not as easy as conifers, but in thinnings its no real problem, shorter heads like viking work well

[eggsarascal]

Farmers seem to be a law unto their own, do as they likeys really, what other industry can employ 17 year olds to drive 24 ton machines on the road running on red diesel and no mot or road tax, and get paid by the government to not grow any crops?. Clearing the road of mud sometimes isn't fesable, the field could well be 20 odd miles away from the farm, some of our fields (who I harvest for) are 35 miles from the farm.

 

I can't argue or understand how the regs on tractors (ag related) work! It really does baffle me how kids can cart massive loads about.

 

I realise that farmers can't clear all the roads that they travel.....Isn't most of the mud thrown off within a couple of hundred yards?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

A tidy job is a slow job if higher rates are paid I'm sure majority drivers would be a lot cleaner with there brash and stumps. The answer is moan at the man paying the tonnage rates not the man trying to earn a living....

 

 

use thinnings harvesters with bottom knives to brash the tree as you lower head onto but and if the sticks are massive use a larger head or base unit. high stumps are a waste of timber and make the job harder next time around.

 

 

we harvest loads of hardwood with the harvester, its obviously not as easy as conifers, but in thinnings its no real problem, shorter heads like viking work well

 

Viking heads rock.

[nathan 338]

anyone interested in seeing loads of rabaud firewood machinery working including the new F80 log splitter we are having an open day this saturday in shropshire. its a bit off thread but will be a good day. forest journal will be on site and loads of new and used equipment.

will also be 1 or 2 used valtras from brassington agri services. we will have great deals on new and used for show goers

[s.varty]

I can't argue or understand how the regs on tractors (ag related) work! It really does baffle me how kids can cart massive loads about.

 

I realise that farmers can't clear all the roads that they travel.....Isn't most of the mud thrown off within a couple of hundred yards?

 

In truth there shouldn't be any mud at all coming off of tractor/trailer wheels in harvest, especially this dry year that we,ve had.

[RobRainford]

Lads with shovels, mite not know what end to hold!

 

 

I've still not figured out where the petrol goes