Brushcutter

Some fantastic trees at Hatfield House aren't there. I'd be interested to what you think of them and their management. To answer the original question chip up some well seasoned wood and see what comes out. Then try and smoke some wood yourself. I sold some Oak shavings from the planer/thicknesser to a guy for smoking. He said it worked well but i never got any of the pig.

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Yes, yes i do.

Well done:thumbup: just be pleased you don't have to do a CS33 to do all the really fun fells.

I shall take a few more pics of how it works on the back axle. From what i remember it ties onto a mounting plate like the one on the front somewhere. Like i say guarding is bespoke. Both Valtras A92 have different guarding set ups and they were done in the same workshop by the same guy! I'm sure Arbwork will be in a second to say how his is different to mine, Stephen Blairs and Cosworths! Cosworth your guarding will be in the Wilsons style as you have a roof mount from them.

Beat me to it:biggrin: Already a lot of good advice in this thread. Make sure you cut the rack first then fell into it as this will save you a lot of hassle. Remember prior planning and preparation prevents piss poor performance. If you can get a felling bench going all the better as that will speed things up a lot.

As promised the pics of how the guarding fits on.

Nice toys that a 901 valmet? I like your 1110. I use to drive a 1110D but with 6 wheels rather than 8. Oh god it was rough on the back. your forwarder guy will thank you for getting the 8 wheel one.

See Bespoke guarding. Steve if you keep driving it in the water it will go rusty.

Unless you get the guarding done by someone who does it specially then all forest guarding is shall we say bespoke! No Don't drill or bolt to the cab or it looses its FOPS and ROPS status. Don't have any pics of how the guarding is in place but if you want i could take a few tomorrow? This one shows it on a Valtra A92 (bit smaller than the 8150) but the principle is the same. It's all bolted to the extra fixing points in the tractor in the engine and rear axle. The belly plate hangs below fixed to the frame. If you put a belly plate on make sure you cut holes in for all the filters/grease points and then bolt a flap over the hole. If you don't do this you have to take the hole frame off when you want to change a filter! The frame then is bolted together off of that. The window guards use use steel bar welded into a frame that bolts to the frame above. Same with the rear you can make that a fancy shape to allow the rear window to open. Of you could throw a fist full of money away and replace the glass with 1/2margard and forget guarding them. This T160 was done at Wilsons. The brash bars mount to a frame where normal loader guarding would sit. The rest of the guard hangs off the crane mount on the back. Which is sort of like a front end loader mount but on the back and really tall. Any more specific questions do ask. I will try to get some photos tomorrow of the way our frames go together.

I too would like to know where to get this forestry add on in the SE.

I had a SIGG bottle was fantastic took all sorts of abuse. However running it over the Valtra was some abuse too far. It's no longer water tight and a slightly odd shape.

What sort of crane are you thinking? Hiab or a forwarder crane? You could easly put a 6m forwarding crane on the rear linkage.

I'm sure this is the second time skidding cones have been mentioned on here. I've never seen one let alone used one. Wouldn't be the best but what about a traffic cone as a stop gap? run the choker through the top of the cone. Won't take massive logs but they're not much big timber left.

Hen's teeth:001_tt2: That broken one on ebay is 122 quid everyone loves the ms200.

They go for just less that rocking horse **** on ebay.

Live in Hatfield work in Berkhampsted.

Erg poplar crappy stuff. Felling two trees a day on CS32 isn't bad going.

Yea it is. We could do with a bigger one to be honest. We've had lots of issues with it mainly cable crushing.

They sometimes come up on Ebay too. I've seen on facebook some of the places you take your 820 and some look so wet i think it would sink with one bunk of 3m let alone a trailer of 3m on the back:001_tongue: I think pulling is still going to be hard on the transmission and on the avaiable power unless your on favorable terrain. As the drawbars are quite long on pole trailers you'd be using the crane at quite long extension as well with i guess sometimes quite heavy grabs. Easy way to bend an extension which is really hard to fix. The 820 is one of my favorite forwarders only let down by it's lack of working revs button. It's best feature is that you can overload them and they do keep going but it normally shreds the bogies. I have a picture of an JD810 somewhere which wasn't really overloaded but it was enough to shear a pin in the bogie that then shredded all the planetary gears.

Surely your big Valtra costs more than the littler valmet?

Pulling down a very old beech so it could rot away without being hung up in the trees next to a track. 6.5t winch doubled up for 13t of pull to get it down.

Around 500-600 quid a day. Diesel, grease and valtra's very expensive hydraulic oil all cost a lot. Not to mention paying a good operator a fair bit to get the most out of it without breaking it. It's about 60k worth of kit there i'd of thought. Is that grapple piped up with a saw box on it? As there seems to be a lot of extra pipework going on.

Have you looked to see if the FC are doing any machinery sales. Pole trailers often come up on there. Wouldn't two bunks of 3m on an 820 be pushing it on the weight side? I know they can take a massive amount but the bogies suffer.

Where are you doing the CS32?