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You volunteering ??
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Thanks for that Rod... I'll give them a call on Monday morning
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That's good to know... I was thinking we could get some outrigger plates to put under the feet which should help the ground a bit too.
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Some are coming down, some arent..... speaking of which - we'll be needing some extra help if you have any days available
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All Scots Pine..... dotted about rather than along a line.. The reason for using a MEWP is that the job has a deadline, otherwise I would just climb the lot of them..
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I'll be optimg for the biggest machine I can possibly lay my hands on, as the outreach will be key to the speed.... The cutting height will be roughly 20m for most of the trees.
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Are they quite heavy Dean?? The issue I have on this site is that the owners want it to look natural afterwards, and dont want the ground ripped up. Personally I think the mewp could track about no problem at all and they wouldnt notice much afterwards but I need to make sure it dosent sink too much.... the site is relativley flat and hard enough underneath but has some boggy, peaty patches under the heather.
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Yep.... around 245 in total, that's why I want to put a mewp in, as it will be quicker than climbing.
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Thanks for all the replies guys... Ahh Dean... I forgot you were 'experienced' heheh The Teupen machines look quite good.... basic and capable, great stuff. The ground we will be using the machine on is very uneven.. if you can imagine a caledonian pine forest, it has alot of moss, blaeberry, heather, old covered stumps etc. I was told about the octopussey machines - are they any good?? Stevie - Iain in Inverness has a really nice looking set up, not sure what his availability is but we'll be needing a mewp for about 3 weeks!
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Why you should NEVER let your mrs play Xbox
Highland Forestry replied to Mozza's topic in The Lounge
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Hi All.. Has anybod got any experience with tracked MEWP's ?? I have a bit of an urgent job to get kicked off shortly, and am looking to hire in a MEWP to use on rough terrain (mostly forest land with underplanting/heather etc beneath) and have been wondering about ground pressure and damage caused by tracks and outriggers as well as how high they go and which ones are best suited to tree work.. Has anyone got any ideas as to rough costings of tracked MEWP hire? I tried calling our local hire centre thisafternoon, but it seems they packed up early for the day. Any thoughts most welcome.. Matt
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Have you tried Digbits?? We used to use them for new bucket teeth etc, but they do tracks too.. DIGBITS - Quality wear parts for earthmovers - Dig Bits
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Personally... i'd be giving her a few days to dry out a bit then round her up again and get plenty of diesel on there and light her up to finish off.. maybe light her up late at night and make sure it's all gone for the morning... The fire brigade used to think nothing of letting several hundred tons of straw bales burn themselves out when I lived down south.. and never seem too bothered with big brash fires here either. Having said that, they're pretty hot on forest fires just about here.
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I've just bought one, with a view to doing more clearance work rather than domestic stuff. We've a contract starting shortly which is mostly all cut and chip so I'm hoping i've opted for the right machine. We did chuck some lime and a bit of scots pine through it the other day, seemed to chip quite nicely.. I was more impressed with the sheer ground clearance the thing has when you fully extend the tracks!
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Thats excatly what I had in mind with the wide opening...
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I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing!! lol
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Greenmech 19-28 Safetrack, Anyone got any opinions on this machine?? good/bad points?? Cheers Matt
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???? Do you mean A & J Scott?
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We do a fair bit of big diameter stuff, but normally only anything that a harvester can't handle... very big sticks, or big nasty sitka, outsiders etc. Hand processing up here is dead on it's arse really... very occasionally get first thinnings, and then it's only if the wood is very posty or if harvesting contractors are moaning about it. Sometimes get called in to hand process pockets of timber on banks or rocky outcrops whilst the harvester is in or sometimes even fell for the harvester. The harvesters have killed an industry really, as a man with a saw just can't compete, can't even hope to compete. If you can cut all day long at £6.00 per ton and make a living you're a better man than me. There's alot of nice timber about all over the place... depends what you call big I guess. Some of the large diameter pine we fell is used for telegraph poles, they can be pretty meaty sticks.
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Let us know if you're ever up in these parts
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True enough.... 35 years is a long time! Where abouts you based??
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Any idea roughly how many ton per day the chopper took out compared to the skyline??
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Not sure which county it's in, but we did a big roadline felling job for the commission on the slopes of Benmore near Crianlarich a couple of years ago.. To say we timed it wrong is the understatement of the decade.. the rain fell vertical for like 3 weeks solid.. we were in digs and had to try and dry all out kit out every night, then in the morning we'd all be soaked to the skin by 08.30 - it was like a punishment, bu the trees were awesome, big big sitka, fantastic timber, and all felled to waste for them to put a road in. Not sure how much a chopper would be for extraction by the ton, but I believe a skyline comes in roughly £25 a ton and a small one will do roughly 30t a day... a chopper would be more but could take alot more tonnage out per day.
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Tis true that! Some of the best timber in Scotland came/comes out of a wood at Lochaline on the Morvern Penninsula - amazing trees in Argyll and all up the West Coast.
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That's awesome... Not the first time timber has been extracted in Scotland with a bird... From what little I know about helicopter timber extraction, it's a rather expensive way of extracting timber on a commercial basis, but I wouldnt mind betting that it competes quite nicely with a skyline on a price per ton basis.
