Timber Stacking Area / Lorry Access

[cornish wood burner]

The ground looks fairly solid in your pictures. Difficult to say for certain but I would think a wood lorry would travel on far worse than that, certainly as we are coming into the summer. Ridged and drag might be an option but as others have said you will need some width at the road entrance.

Why not have a word with the haulier and get his opinion. Lot of work to make a stoned track for 150 tonnes. It will make your wood expensive. Even if you have to select a dry period no stone has to be your best and cheapest option. Additionally would you have to tidy up after you?

 

Also make sure you pick a haulier that goes in the woods. They will have double drive, difflocks, better tyres and the know how to travel off road

[LGP Eddie]

Is this for yourself, and if so how far would the Haulage be?

 

 

Eddie.

[Billy]

Would be alright in the summer, if it's pretty flat. As has been mentioned you will need a wider gate or a wide road too.

[mendiplogs]

Ah, found a picture.

 

Hi COD THAT lorry from were we are mate what's it up to up your way thanks Jon

[codlasher]

Hey Jon. A thinning job and this was the haulier for the time the timber was being shifted. A fantastic driver! I made sure the wagons could get in and out as easy as possible without taking half the forest floor onto the public highway. The loading bays only needed minor attention this time as I had spent time and effort five years previously and the main base layer had been put in ten years before then! The main thing was making sure the drivers could see the edges as they came in to turn. I'd probably use glyphosate in future ops to mark these edges but orange marker paint on sticks worked too.

Some of the bays were set up to allow the forwarder to load returns, hence their width, as this enabled the wagon to be on the hard and then a gap big enough for the forwarder to get between this and the timber stack. This also meant that the mud was kept on mud and not the hard......Some of the un-made extraction routes were from the 'modernisation' in the 60's and soon became gloopy! These were tidied at the end of each op using a 360 and soon became dry enough for walkers. They were permissive paths when not being used so didn't often cause complaints.

 

Being in the home counties folk went from air-con house to air-con car to air-con office and never considered the road conditions be they wet, muddy of freezing as they drove the lanes so I tried to keep the skid-on-mud type accident on the low end of the risk sheet. We hid the firewood stacks deep in the woods to stop the faeries!

One farm had a nasty corner which could be taken at 70mph and contractors had left a little mud one rainy day. On the apex was a fine oak tree. A BMW hit this seven feet up the trunk!(The scab is still there) We only discovered it was a BMW by looking at the makers stamp on the plastic debris:cursing:

codlasher

Edited May 10, 2015 by codlasher

[Dorset Treeman]

Thanks for your thoughts. Unfortunately the timber is being extracted in 11 days time and I don't think the land owner has the time or money to put any stone down. You have put enough doubt in my mind to suggest that a stacking area much further away is used which has a proper hardcore track running next to it.

 

Thanks again for your input.