Anyone done helicopter tree work?

[AllTreeNeeds]

Forest Machines based in the UK

 

This is a link to your rudimentary but effective skyline. They are also based in the UK but I don't know who it is and i have no personal links to them.

 

Good luck the with operation

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[kav]

Ya, I can just see someone rubbing their hands together thinking 'man, I might be making £1200 an hour for a week!'

 

Sorry guys

 

Ha yeah but if you can fly out 150t in a day its worth it Apparently on clearfell site heli was about the same as skyline.

[aspenarb]

Ha yeah but if you can fly out 150t in a day its worth it Apparently on clearfell site heli was about the same as skyline.

 

I think the RAMS would weigh the same as the wood

 

Bob

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[Timber Man]

First company I worked for used a heli in Argyll in the mid 70s. A run a minute , £270 an hour back then.

[kav]

 

Nothing to do with me but though i'd stick it on our facebook

[kav]

I think the RAMS would weigh the same as the wood

 

Bob

 

 

To quote my cousin. 'the trouble is we are mixing agriculture with aviation'

[Timber Man]

Ha yeah but if you can fly out 150t in a day its worth it Apparently on clearfell site heli was about the same as skyline.

 

How would it be worth it ? If they only flew 6 hours @ £1200 for 150t its very expensive extraction.

[kav]

How would it be worth it ? If they only flew 6 hours @ £1200 for 150t its very expensive extraction.

 

To be honest i'm only going on what I was told. They said 150T/day at £40/t.

I think it was moorland restoration rather than commercial harvesting. Plus it got it off without making a mark. I can get more info if you are interested.

[Mark Bolam]

To quote my cousin. 'the trouble is we are mixing agriculture with aviation'

 

 

Whoever your cousin is mate, that's a fairly brilliant quote.

 

 

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[Timber Man]

To be honest i'm only going on what I was told. They said 150T/day at £40/t.

I think it was moorland restoration rather than commercial harvesting. Plus it got it off without making a mark. I can get more info if you are interested.

 

No worries,i can understand it on a site like that, but certainly on a production site £40 t wouldn't stack up for extraction alone.

The one I mentioned above in the 70s was averaging over 50t an hour flying time and that was way more expensive than any other method. It was only used for mopping up a site , all the timber that was not economical to get by winch.

Skyline outfits are putting timber to roadside for low 20s /t , that's processed ready for collection.