Small Scale Forestry Demo

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

  areleywood said:

believe me i run a alstor 821 and it more than pays for itself and does the tonnages day in day out without compaction or need for racks or access tracks into woodlands ,

take a look at my website Home « Woodland Ways and look at my facebook page to see what can be achieved with small scale machinery.

 

How much did the Alstor cost (ignoring any grant input*)?

[areleywood]

bought the new Alstor for £53,000 but that was with all the add ons i.e bigger crane , reverse drive , extenion back , joy stick controls and double pumped . no grant funding

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

  areleywood said:

bought the new Alstor for £53,000 but that was with all the add ons i.e bigger crane , reverse drive , extenion back , joy stick controls and double pumped . no grant funding

 

Guess you're on very different rates for that machine than for mainstream gear then if it's paid for itself already

[areleywood]

i fell and forward with the machine clearing as i go and also contract for extraction as well done this season just over 2000 tons , hire out the machine with operator for 350 a day plus vat .

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

  areleywood said:

i fell and forward with the machine clearing as i go and also contract for extraction as well done this season just over 2000 tons , hire out the machine with operator for 350 a day plus vat .

 

Good coin that, fair one

[slack ma girdle]

  areleywood said:

believe me i run a alstor 821 and it more than pays for itself and does the tonnages day in day out without compaction or need for racks or access tracks into woodlands ,

take a look at my website Home « Woodland Ways and look at my facebook page to see what can be achieved with small scale machinery.

 

I like the video of your Alstor being unloaded by the timber lorry.

[areleywood]

thanks that was my old Alstor petrol version which is still being used in Scotland

[rovers90]

The guy with the Vimek charged £350 per day as well. Reckoned if it was straight softwood he could move 70 ton a day (that would be about 35 loads!) or about 50 ton for hardwoods.

[areleywood]

how long is a piece of string. outputs depend on how the wood is presented and the terrain and how far to roadside .

we tend to get the jobs where big kit can't get or make to much damage or the job don't justify haulage of the bigger machines our outputs just forwarding are between 25 to 40 tons a day . The good thing about having a smaller machine is when you are felling and forwarding , clearing as you go and also using the remote control winch to aid felling it makes it easy so you are not climbing over brash etc and everyday the site is clear so is especially good when working on foot paths or any high volume public area.

[timberluver]

In what way would you say the Falcon forwarder or malwa are better than the Vimek?

 

 

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk