Brushcutter
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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.
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Work pump on the forwarder started making very bad noises. How long will it last a day, a week who knows. Anyway today it started going wrong and when it goes it will be very very expensive. It has a clear 2 days in a clearfell to do and then we can take it out.
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I expect a 6 tonne trailer would be the very biggest you could pull with a 2wd 55hp tractor. Don't get a crane thats too long as you won't have the weight in the base to keep it upright.
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So you have the Forest cab on your Valtra as they normally have the Lexane/marguard windows in. If you want to replace all the windows with the bullet proof pollycarbonate it gets very expensive. You have to be careful what you wash it with or you wreck it and it slowly degrades over time. A Forest Cage will take most of the big stuff but i know the its the little stuff that gets through.
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I've been using Jonsered saws here in Finland. They seem to love the little red Huskys here. I've been using the red version of the 346 and it's very very good. If the price was right i'd have one.
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hydraulic driven / mechanically driven timber trailers
Brushcutter replied to David Riding's topic in Large equipment
Kronos do some really nice driven timber trailers. I'm sure they're mechanical rather than hydrualic though. 150hp tractor should be ok with one as if you have a small tractor and a driven trailer the tractors diff and gear box suffer a lot. -
First two are a big spruce done with a H60e harvester head (yea we have felling cuts for them too!) The second is an outsider too big for the harvester. So we pushed it with the forwarder and felled it.
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When you make the headboard make the gaps smaller than your smallest product. On the forwarder i drive the headboard has 70mm gaps. Unforuntaly the smallest top diameter that we cut is 50mm. It's a pain in the backside when stuff comes through and hits the king post or slew pots. Its also a pain to unload it back off.
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Nice set up. I'd put a head board on it. It will stop any timber comming forward into the crane or tractor. Also you can chap the logs up against to flush the ends up for neat roadside stacks.
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3256.
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Apparently because you need to have an instructor with you as it's classed as HGV training. It was over in Herefordshire and the guy was not pleased to get the points.
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i had a friend who practiced on the road with someone with the licence and L plates on. He got a fine and 3 points for the priverlage he got pulled as he had L plates on the trailer.
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Any forwarding work?
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A T Osbornes will do you a spare clutch. The winch should pull 6T as i have a 6500 which is 6.5t pull. I've not changed the clutch but done most of the other bits drive shaft chain drive etc etc and it was all pritty easy so it shouldn't be too hard.
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For 2 acres it won't be worth getting a harvester in. Better off doing hand felling and tractor/trailer extraction.
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I have a 07 plate Navara Outlaw and i'm pay 1100 quid fully comp a year. Thats at 27 years old no claim etc etc. Criminal! wish NFU would insure me for 510 quid. I had an 04 plate D22 Navara beore that and that was around £800 to insure.
