Brushcutter

Fantasic video.

Have you seen the Ancient Kauri Kingdom DVD? Truely amazing craftsman ship in that.

About 68p a litre @ 1000 litres delevered early jan.

What's the reason for rounding it up like that?

To fit neatly on the lorry to go to the mill. Also when it gets there its all good wood to go through the machines. Also when it goes in the mill it won't snag as its rolled on. Also easier to line it up to cut. Speaking form experence of milling with an old Stenner bandsaw a poor dressed log can be a pig/

Had a lot of windblown today. Most out the way in the woods however at 3 one big douglas fir went over blocking acess to a field of cows. 40 mins later was cleared up and now i have eyes full of sawdust. Had a morning of roadside high pruning.

Are there any UK Fransguard dealers?

AT Osbornes sell them.

I have a love/hate with the fransguard. This week it is hate as it has been naughty again. Seems to eat cables as well. Being replaced with a uniforest winch.

Brushcutter, lovely photos mate and what a place to work!

Thanks. It is indeed. Always got my Nikon D90 with a few lenses in the truck and a really good tripod too.

the tree in ur avatar is bigger than the tree in mine:sneaky2:

 

ill be searching the woods with my camera tomorrow:lol:

Both of your were bigger than my 138dbh Beech so i too will be searching.

It was a wellingtonia, looks impressive but only 90 or so ft! It was all arse and funnily enough in an all girls private school:biggrin: They was on half term at the time though:sneaky2: Took a day to prep it, reckon we took at least 2 ft off the flair, spiked up to put a pulling rope in her, just to make sure, and had a turfor off another welly. Gob and back cut took half a day, she finally went with a few cranks on the winch and come down with a hell of a crash! Took best part of a week to ring up and clear! Once in a career Tree:thumbup:

Close enough.

Cheers man, for explaining all to me. Ive seen those types of wedges before alright, but never knew their correct name, or for what they were used exactly.

 

Just as a matter of interest, (and this is a layman's question) could standard wedges be used on their own to allow just enough of a gap for the chainsaw bar not to be pinched in the back cut, or is a hi-lift essential in this situation even if the felling direction is favourable and has all the weight on the right side?

 

 

 

Thanks for your help as well mate, big lump an all

Nice pictures.

A regualar wedge is fine for just keeping the cut open. High lifts are really for felling as they can lift tree higher tipping it closer to falling over. If the weight is right on a big tree then it won't need wedging over. I've always got Hi-lifts in the bag you don't alway need them. Always better to have them and not need em.

new season starts on the 16th of feb:thumbup:

Cool. On discovery or a free view channel?

Does this truck stay under 3.5 tonne when loaded. You could get the tipper below fitted for 2.5k

I doubt it. close to 4 i'd bet.

Are the units that hold the cards programed with the vibration form the testing? Or do they monitor them throughout the day as it increases as the saw goes blunt or when the whole bar is bored into a tree?

It always amazes me when you drop a load of trees roadside how good they look dressed you can make timber look something it's not sometimes:sneaky2:

I know nothing of this pracice:001_tt2:

Yea it does look ace doesn't it. Lovely bit of butt dress gone on. Bit of Coast Redwood i'd of thought.

HI ALL ref what the best chainsaw of all times thanks jon

My 346:biggrin: Saw of dreams.

Get it on the fire mate, it is amazing to burn. I warped the back plate on ours last month lol. It burns better than coal:thumbup:

Given how much of it was dead it would be fantastic burning. Just seems a waste to burn 138dbh log 4m long.

Im a newcastle lad raised in yorkshire so i wont have spent that much on a jack!!

Also always wanted some redwood jacks but unless big stuff in bad places is all you cut i just dont see how anyone could justify spending that much money when you can improvise with a bottle jack or 2??

Exactly be some tree to need two bottle jacks.

Just the local tool place,think it was about £40ish and it's a 20ton lift so makes for easy lifting of big stuff. I also hav a bit of steel plate on top after the 1st time i used it the top dug in and when the tree went it picked the lot up and hurled it a good 20m. the shorter hight just saves cutting out as much timber to set it into the trunk.

Can only see them for 90+ on google. I always wanted a proper set of hydraulic felling jacks like they had for redwood felling. You could get them for 300 quid or so from shreill tree. Never could justify having them but they would have been handy for that. Hopefully have another big but smaller than that beech to do next week.

Jas p Wilson? They do everything else, just across the border i think in dumfries. Usually have ex demo stuff available too.

Not that there is much of a saving on ex demo. They do have some second hand stuff in on occasion that is nearly given away. Had a 9tonne double drum igland for about 7k on there once in near new condition. Rang up and it was gone:thumbdown: New one is nearly 14+vat.

I like the Uniforest winches i think there are 2 uk dealers one of which is Riko the other eludes me at this moment.

I really like the Uniforest winches affordable and feature packed. The 8H pro electro hydaulic is very good value for money if you need a big winch. The do it in double drum too.

Jon (mendiplogs i think) has a 5.5t Igland for sale if your intrested.

Remember spalted beech is highly carcinogenic.

Really? i did not know that it's not on my list of dangerous woods to mill. Is that the fungi spores in it that cause the problems or just how fine the dust come out?

 

Fair play Brushcutter, some size butt in her. Enjoyed the falling sequence of shots.

Was wondering what high lifts are?

I have never seen anyone using a bottle jack before for felling purposes, do you have any pictures of how and where exactly on the back that was inserted (presumably closer to that big limb that was sticking out the back end above you there)?

 

Rowan.

Hi Rowan

Hi lifts are ally wedges with a big wooden bit on the back that is shaped to lift the tree even more. One in the pic a few post below. I'll pop down tomorrow and get a shot of how i seated the jack. I pritty much just cut a v shaped wedge out of the back and put the jack in there. Then the top of the jack reaches up to the felling cut. Yes it was seated just under or there abouts that limb. Just to lift the it over. I did consider a very long pull line through the treee and onto that limb to use to leaver it over. Thought the jack and a standard placed line would do.

When felling trees that size and especially when that high jacks are great as it so much less effort to lift the leaver up and down that in is to hit a wedge with 20 odd tonne sitting on it.

Grey Git

Nice fell i like your stubby bottle jack where you get that? i used a regular one with a extra bit of steel to stop it digging in. Looks much easier to seat that mine as its about 12" tall.

what a beauty, shame, still how many tons do you recon that big boy weighed?

I recon if it was all healthy 30-40 tonne. Obviously it was quite dead so i figure around about 20.

from what I remember from the Agri regs only the 1st trailer can be loaded, second has to be empty.

That was my understanding of it as well.

Hi

Have some spalted Beech and was wondering what it was worth for milling. At a ball park guess i thought £80a cube?

Thanks for any input

Andy

Nice one. I like jobs like that.

Yea its great. Not something you get to do often. Although i did one yesterday. Never used a jack to put a tree over before was great.