commercial tree production machine

[Mr Ed]

Its all read out on the computer, and I have gone down to 2" tops when cutting fencing stakes with a Keto 100. It depends on wht the deal on the timber is, they might have been told to just harvest the Logs and the Bars.

[Mark Bolam]

2 mins seems like a long time! Mate Rocky driving a Timberjack 3 years ago was more like 20 secs on 60ft Sitka. Easy stand, mind.

 

He was getting £16/tonne roadside. Which was exactly what my mates dad was getting in 1963! (with chainsaw/tape/tongs etc.) Is that progress?!!!!

[Mr Ed]

He was getting £16/tonne roadside. Which was exactly what my mates dad was getting in 1963! (with chainsaw/tape/tongs etc.) Is that progress?!!!!

 

Was he getting that for just the harvesting, or had he bought the timber too? I know of guys that were working for £4.90 / tonne roadside:ohmy:

[Mark Bolam]

I'm sure that was his take Ed, but it was a s***y bit of Kielder, and I don't know the crack with the forwarders and their money.

 

I'll ask him this week. I know he was on top money when his machine was running sweet. But with Rocky, that was never for very long.....

[Mr Ed]

I would never run a purpose built. Excavator based machine is always the best.

[Mark Bolam]

I'll let you know when I talk to him. That Timberjack had more computing power than a NASA mission. And it was was the computer that was paying him...

[Mark Bolam]

Sorry Ed, I've got it completely wrong (I was boozy when I talked to him!).

 

£16/tonne roadside was offered to a hand-cutter on a nigh on impossible stand. He did it, but made sod all.

 

Rocky was getting £1.40/tonne purely for everything he cut, measured by the on board computer.

 

He jacked in the end because he reckoned the machine was too tempermental, but did earn well when going ok.