Brushcutter
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3000 odd watts of off camera lighting on a lighting tower.
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So pictures of some nice parkland veterans.
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Very wise words. Also you really need to be a forwarder driver first as the chances of getting in the door as a harvester driver are quite slim.
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If you can drive a 360 take the FMO 1.1 test which will let you use one on most site. Get your harvester provisional permit from the FC and try to find a contractor to take you on. It's quite a hard area to get into to be honest. Yep. If you can see the top knife it's about to get very expensive. Don't feed towards the window. Never venture off the brash mat. If your driving a John Deere and you hear more than five or 6 clicks on the frame break and you find your self at a very funny angle think very carefully what do next and hand on; as your about to fall over.
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You've got a few options: 1. Go to Finland and do a 1 year course on them. 2. Go to Sweden and do a 1 year course on how to use them. 3. Pay almost as much money as you would for 1 or 2 but do a 6 week course at Baroney college in Scotland. 4. Learn to use a forwarder and work your way upto harvester. 5. Get very good at using a digger and try to get into it that way.
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Oh dear.
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Yep. Problem is all of the mature Ash is leafless now. The young stuff has hung onto it's leaf and looks ok. If we get it will be disastrous. 5000 acres is a lot to manage and there is a lot of public movement to worry about too.
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Slightly embarrassed by the squiffy logs in the front bay and being a gap. Good load though.
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At home David. Making a bit of space along a ride right next to our veteranisation project.
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Botex Power. 2 bays of 3m on there and boy was it heavy. Only a few Scots Pine to remove.
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That's quite some lean and a lot of tree. If you were to fell that into the field i'd try to find someone with an electro-hydraulic winch. I think you'll need more power and control than a tractor and rope will provide.
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Wilsons? Tried Wilmer or Henderson maybe they have a scrapper sitting around. Kotmasu forest might have some reconditioned ones. Bet they cost more than a Wilsons one though.
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I've felled some very dodgy trees over roads B roads but never an A road. I'd recommend a electrohydraulic winch if you can get your hands on one. Climb up set steel wire choker clip to the the winch cable. pre-tension and use the remote to keep the tension on as you do the felling cut.
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That's what i do. Works a treat quick and simple.
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Any reason you put the winch on the front? Great bits of kit those winches did you have the wireless remote? Been pulling over some big Oaks with the 9 tonne one.
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70mm for the bolster pins and 100mm for the bed.
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4 miles of line cleared a day with this puppy!
Brushcutter replied to Gareth jones's topic in Video forum
I saw those working in Finland. They make so much noise. Only time i didn't have my camera with me was when the dam thing was doing the lines near our harvesting site. -
Good on you Charlie. It's in one ear and out the other with my lot:thumbdown:
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Yes they do.
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I've used Ponsse H60e heads on hard woods and they cope very well. Obviously you get some stuff that is too branch to go through but you just drop it next to the logs for the hand cutters. I've also used 745 and 754 heads on 10/1270 again they do ok but not as well as the H60. As for heads designed for hardwoods I've not seen one but i have herd that there are some ones designs to work on Sweet Chestnut. The rollers are more powerful to crush the braches before knocking them off with the knives.
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I have both FMO tractor and MO1 tractor. They're very similar just a bit more stuff in the FMO one. You'll need wheeled rigid base unit which is FMO 1.3 and roof mounted crane is FMO 3.4 i think. It doesn't really matter as if you do your timber trailer test with a roof crane/jake plate crane or a bunk mounted crane as you get all 3 on your certificate now.
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Forest Machine Operator Certificate. It's the NPTC scheme for forest machines. Chainsaw ones start CS the forest machine ones start FMO. There' lots of them too.
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I don't think they ever found out. never happened again.
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Yes many years ago now though. Blades broke and came through the flywheel housing. Wasn't my chipper though.
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hmm not far from me. I think i know who's it is too.
