Brushcutter
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I know 5 or so around me.
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Did you stay at the Old Bridge or the new fancy TKF hotel thing. Top grub in the Old Bridge.
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TKF are fantastic. I did my CS 34 & 35 with them a year or so ago.
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Thats fantastic.
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If anything happens you'd need to prove the bit of equipment was 'fit for purpose'.
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Passed my Finnish forwarder test. Makes FMOC look like a walk in the park. It's so strict that one guy failed for being 2 mins over the time and another guy failed for not having a full load.
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Without standing next to it and looking at in and whats around its hard to say. I'd probally fell it with some sort of Coos Bay cut but it depends on how those cracks fall in term of felling direction. Not sure i'd want to climb it although being on the saw at the butt doesn't look too fun either. Big MEWP?
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You do a series of cuts. So in that you put the head on one side sort of just off the felling direction and cut in a 1/3 then feed up about an inch or so and do the same. Do the same on the other side. As you do the felling cut the undercuts in the direction of felling sort of compress and break in a stepcut sort of fashion. You can have them for not just direction but for making sure the guide bar nose going the way across and the saw moter get everything too.
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That looked like a horrid tree to climb you could see it swaying. I've only ever felled tiny say 10-15m Southern Beech and even they were a pig. Wouldn't want to climb one. Nice tunes though.
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Fozzy! He did my harvester and forwarder top notch guy. A guy called Andy something did my tractor forwarder and he was from that neck of the woods.
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365 special is a great saw. Have a 20" on mine and still lots of power. 24" would be ok but you'd need to keep it sharp. It's no 372xp but its a VERY capiable saw.
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Thats some nifty speed you got going on there. About half an hour to unload i've of thought. I'll take a picture of the tables and send them to you and efficeny calculations.
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What size bits? 2 bays of 2.5m? 3m firewood? 4.2m saw logs? Doing it in thinnings or clearfell? What sort of diameters? I'd say doing 4m saw logs on big selcetive thinning racks i'd put a load on in about 20mins using an old 8 leaver crane, be quicker on joysticks. Have it off in less than half that. I've got some tables and forwarding efficeny calcuations if your interested.
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It's really good isn't it. You'll be pleased with it what is really good is if you put an 18" bar on it.
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I use a Nikon D90. Hardly small but takes fantastic shots.
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I'd never hurd of them untill the APF. They were very impressive well built and i seem to remember they had some weird super tough blaede that ment sharpening was very infrequent. Downside was that they were very expensive. I think the 8-10" one i was looking at was about 30k. Ended up with a Bandit 150 but i wasn't looking for a crane feed one.
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WHat size stacking area do I need?
Brushcutter replied to jimmylad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Yep. We work out our landing sizes a machine width+1m+ longest product. So we have 5.2m sawlogs or 5.2m pulp+3m machine and a meter off the stack. So 9m plus some space so the landing is 10m wide. Stacks up against the road side. Short products like 2.66 pulp and 2.5 logs can be double stacked saving length of the landing. In the manual of most forwarders is the area of the headboard in the case of the Caribou that i drive it's 6.5m so when i've got a full load of 4.28 saw logs its just under 10 cubes once you've deducted airspace. I'd do 8 loads a day so there must always be 80 cubes of space on the landing. Normally 2 forwarders chase a harvester so you need 160 cubes of space on the landing plus some space incase lorrys cant get there. Also remember stack size restrictions! 2m in the UK i think. It's not like Finland where your pulp stack about 8m high! -
Online, own pace, theory education advise?
Brushcutter replied to josharb87's topic in Training & education
I got the ISA theory CD and study guide. It's good. You just read through the book and do the tests at the end of the chapters. The CD you just play in the truck or for a little while at home. You then have to do the test which is normally at the celebration of trees at Capel manor each year. No input from others so you don't have to fly back to the UK all the time. -
I've done some work there. Lovely place. I'd love to work there but jobs there are rare.
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Does it have to be a mini forwarder? Have you tried looking in Sweden or Norway they're popular over there. Very expensive though.
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Thats a nice toy. JAKE makes it much more stable doesn't it. Even though i use fancy Scandinavian cranes all day every day. I really miss the raw lifting power of a Botex.
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You'll struggle to find someone local. Try Caple Manor they had some logging horses stabled there last year.
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I've got the same tracks on the Caribou except the spikes are worn. It nearly went over the other night coming down a snowy hill. Could you use an digger with bog tracks on to skid the timber out?
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They steer in the middle. This is even better than the 1470 on tracks. It's brand new i went to see it the other week on a bog working demo here in Finland.
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Some band tracks will take the ground pressure right down. The Altor with band tracks front and rear would be your best bet. There are some special bog working forwarders but they're huge about 20 tonne empty! But they have dual wheels taking them to 16 wheels and then have masive band tracks around them. Or they're just tracked entirely.
