Brushcutter
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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.
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Nice tractor. No i have Valtras. I like the Fendts on paper but am yet to drive one.
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Are you selling the log?
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I think they only built 2 as demos.
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There is one of the Timberjack walkers over in Finland. Strange thing apparently it didn't work too well.
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Very nice. Wish i'd got an MB Trac now. Why are all MB tracs forestry cages red? Why not crimp the ends of the cable up with one of the hooks the skidding chains fit in. Also put a few chocker sliders on the cable too.
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Try Unimog dealers i think some parts fit. Jas P Wilsons do lots of second hand parts for forestry kit so maybe they will. They're also rather popular in Germany at the moment so lots go there working or not. Highland Forestery on here has an MB trac.
Andy
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I must try this flail attachment. We have a BCS with the scissor grass cutting bar and the flail. The flail has been used once then it was deamed rubbish and put away. How good is compared to say a DR rough terrain mower or a brush cutter? Cutting longish grass, young bramble nettles. Mainly nettles.
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No but nearly. Didn't think the MB trac was the right base unit and the one i could afford wasn't powerful enough. As for oil i'd of figure that with a crane even with an aux tank and pto pump you'd be a bit short with oil and pressure. I'd also think that you'd have issues cooling the oil too.
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If it was just felling i'd have some less experenced guys just putting the timber on the deck. Then leave the processing to you with your fancy machine. You just doing soft woods with it? I'd imagin that it would strugle with hardwoods. I know the harvester head sometimes struggles with forks in birch.
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Sounds like a good plan. If you can have it for the right money it may save some time. Ties up the forwarding trailer is the only issue. Also they're fairly simple so lack the complexity of a harvester head.
