Brushcutter
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I've got a Botex its an old one but its very good. Used the new 560TL and its VERY good 2.8t lift close in and 500kg odd at 6m. Friend of mine has an FMV crane roof mount again very good. Check out Kelsa cranes from caladonian forestry services looking at getting ones of those over a Botex at the moment. A roof mounted crane is very different to a tellihandler why the change? Its about 67k for a new Valtra N111 with a 570TL roof mount crane.
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I'd go for the 346xpg with a 13" bar. It is so fantastic i have one myself. I use to use it for charcoal thinnings. Its done so big trees too about 30" across too so its good all rounder. The 357 is a bit bigger but i doubt you'll need the extra grunt. Go for the 346 and you won't be disapointed. Worth saving up the extra to get it.
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Are the any specific Deer Fencing Courses out there?
Brushcutter replied to farmer_ben's topic in Training & education
Not seen anything specific but do you have the FC Forest Fencing book. Might be of use. As could this http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/fcpn9.pdf/$FILE/fcpn9.pdf Have you phones a local college see if they could set something up for you? -
Mapping and survey software suggestions... HELP!
Brushcutter replied to Swooop's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Sound like you you need something like ESRI ArcGIS. Get a map of school grounds maybe a geocorrected airphoto too. Plot your trees with GPS add them to the map. Add the survey data as metadata to each tree. You can quite easy get a services data layer and add that to the map too. Also add risk zones too. ArcGIS is very powerful bit of softwear normally what county councils use. Its also very expensive and is prehaps much more complex and overly complicated for what you need. But i'm quite sure it would do the job extreamly well if you put all the data into it. -
If you have it why not? Why take a skid steer or a chipper or a mwep. All bits of kit to make your life easier and safer.
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Why? I've knocked ground anchors into peoples lawn before to winch from, or even set up the winch off the back of the truck.
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Winches are your friend. Doing some windblown stuff in December i shall try to make a video of some more aproved methods over here. Infact its the UK's NPTC windblown and multipul windblow course.
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Hi What do all do with your sawdust. We have a big Stenner 41 bandsaw for milling and it makes a lot of dust. It all goes through an extractor where its bagged up. However we just cant get rid of it is there a machine that can turn it into something useful pelets, fire bricks? Or is there someone to sell it to? Thanks Andy
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A few more of tree.
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Well someone, but it failed on quite a calm night and the guy who lives on the farm at the bottom of the hill which it is on hurd it go. It was one of those trees that was waiting to fail. It was probally a graft failure yes, it also had merip and Griffola as well. One of the nastist trees i've had to clear up to date. Keeping Joe public out the way was a pain.
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Big Beech failed and came down with a big big bang. Could be hurd a mile away
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I have never been able to get my Hiviz clean. I normally use Persil Biological and it cleans most very gruby things. Won't clean my Hiviz and nor will it remove larch sap from anything.
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Had a look at this book but i've spent 170 quid on tree books this month so it will have to wait for a while. Does look like a very interesting read.
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Just ordered myself a copy with a few other books too.
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Well this is my sunday gone.
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Another vote for NFU they saved me about 800 quid on my renewal.
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Its ment to be all sorted now. I'm on my 3rd zip now on my first pair which were of the bad zip generation. Work better with braces than a belt for some reason.
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Sent Lou an email ealier to see if a date is in the pipeline.
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The theory is that it breaks the fronds in several places but keeps it attached to the root. This causes it to effectivly bleed to death. It puts energy into trying to grow which removes the energy stored in the root so it comes back less vigerously. Best done with a cambridge roller or proper bracken roller. We trialed it with regular one as we had hundreds of acres of the stuff to cut but with only one working mower
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The rainbow stiching isn't gay. It is infact awsome. Stiching aside they are a good pair of trousers for the money. I prefered them to my Hiflex i had. Not a patch on the strech airs though.
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First one is massy getting stuck in a hole it was hidden by the bracken. It was a very deep hole if it had gone in furth it would of come out without a crane. It was winched out of that. That one wasn't me. The second was bracken rolling and hit a practice trench and slid about. tipping slightly. lost traction after no 4wd so it was a real pain to get out, didn't need a winch out though.
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I have some fancy ski socks which keep my feet warm and breath well. Not cheap but i got them in the TK Max sale so were only about 7 quid a pair.
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That second video every one of those trees could have been winched. There appears to be a surfaced track new to one so you could have got a tractor there with some serious pull. If you cant get a tractor there a big turfor with a snach block or two would do the job. Safer and quicker than all this climbing windblow.
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Subbies needed for forestry work in Cumbria
Brushcutter replied to Lumberjack Pad's topic in Employment
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Ok i have some volume/weight conversion factors for fresh felled timber Scots 0.98 Corsican 1.0 Lodgepole 1.05 Sitka 1.08 Norway 1.04 European Larch 1.11 Japanese/hybrid 1.20 Douglas 1.15 Hemlock 1.07 WRC/Lawsons 1.12 Grand Fir 1.17 Noble Fir 1.07 Oak 0.94 Beech 0.97 Ash 1.28 Sycamore 1.20 Birch 1.07 Elm 0.97 The volume equation is: Vol= (pie x D^2)/40,000x L where D is diameter and L is length So the volume of log is around 0.63 m3 So if its Ash then its around 0.8tonnes. Thats what the book says.
