Forwarding on sensitive sites

[Wood wasp]

Brilliant piece of kit. We are cutting a swage through this woodland at the moment , its only about 50mts wide and it runs for about half a mile. The client does not want the place churned up or the fragile tarmac road damaged , I cant put our kit in there because it will trash the place. The wood needs to end up roadside which is about a mile away. One of these mini forwarders would be ideal. There is nothing big in there, I think the biggest is only about 600mm diameter and it will all be in 3mtr lengths, possibly 3or4 artic loads Anyone in Surrey with this set up? There are no time constraints so it can stay there for a while but I would like to get it cleared.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For circa 100t could tractor and winch do the job? Cut it slightly longer to 3.7m/4.9m or maybe even pole length?

 

What market is there for softwood down your way?

[luftwaffe]

How did you work that out? Maybe I'm used to flotation tracks, not skinny rock climbing ones. Tracks on spruce brash = proper tidy.

 

On wet sites once the brash has been trodden in after numerous passes with the forwarder the soft peat underneath comes to the surface especially in wniter which makes the ground even more soft, then the bandtracks rip the ground to shreds, picking up mud and dropping it off on the roadside as going to unload, keep doing this repeatedly and the travelling rack turns into a qwagmire pretty quickly

To try to eliminate this you can try and thatch the rack by bringing brash from another part of the site.

[luftwaffe]

[Wood wasp]

To be fair you're always going to get mess like that when running on wet soil with no brash, without the band tracks it would struggle to get through

 

Edit: looks a mess at moment but within few months will be totally overgrown

[codlasher]

Likey likey like!

codlasher

[slack ma girdle]

Brilliant piece of kit. We are cutting a swage through this woodland at the moment , its only about 50mts wide and it runs for about half a mile. The client does not want the place churned up or the fragile tarmac road damaged , I cant put our kit in there because it will trash the place. The wood needs to end up roadside which is about a mile away. One of these mini forwarders would be ideal. There is nothing big in there, I think the biggest is only about 600mm diameter and it will all be in 3mtr lengths, possibly 3or4 artic loads Anyone in Surrey with this set up? There are no time constraints so it can stay there for a while but I would like to get it cleared.

 

 

 

Shame you are so far from me, as the mighty Nuffield Zetor combo would be ideal for extracting your wood.

[Brushcutter]

Looks ideal for a Valtra 6400 and Botex trailer.

[kav]

Thanks for all the info. Will definately get some wieght on, i held off on water in the tyres as i trying to balance keeping it lighter for mowing and towing about. I really rate the kilworth but only have used that and a botex.

We have 3.5t winch on it to which is super handy on slopes.

[farmer_ben]

That day I only shifted about 10 ton there was a lot of talking and showing of the machine and all that but depending on how far away the stack is from where the timber is and how easy it is to pick up the timber I can shift round about 20ton a day but would be more if the stack was closer

 

Seems a common trait of grahams wood that chris, when ever i go there i get sucked into an odd time loosing zone where lots of talking happens.

[CHC]

I will say it was me talking more really about the tractor and all, got to explain every thing in detail as you know Ben