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  1. Where you based? Haulage might be steep in price if you are to far. We have first refusal on the job so I need to get my head around it plus line up buyer's.
  2. Hi. Yeah that's extracted. It's thinning. 3 men. Tractor, timber trailer. 2 men felling plus mini digger with grab to make some timber excessable. Distance to landing 450 yards. Fair level land but very wet.
  3. The last job I did extraction I was getting £12 per tonne on the landing. Due to ground conditions I got 4 6t loads a day. That didn't add up either.
  4. Hi. I've just been asked to fell approx 250 cube of mixed hardwood. Paying the landowner £15 a cube extracted. So my outlay £4000. Plus my time felling extraction labour, Ware and tare ECT. So let's say £450 a day. So rd side 250 cube @ £45 = £11.250. 20 days labour is £9000. The maths don't add up. I will stick to tree surgery I think. How do you forestry boys keep ya heads above water. Hand cutting. Defo not. Or are my figures well out.
  5. They just felled. Then the chap who called me in cut it all to 5m 3m 2.4 's But yeah would be easier to winch tree lengths . Couldn't weave the tractor around all the standing timber to pick it up.hence we winched it all to easy access points now. Cheers for the info. I will have to just learn the hard way. It's the first commercial forestry work we have done. We have done masses of site clearance work but all we have been in control of price.
  6. This is where it all gets difficult. I got called into extraction of felled timber as a sub contractor. Environment agency had felled the all over the shop. So I winched it all into piles now accessible to the tractor. Now got to load and haul and stack on landing. So I'm just a middle man really call in to tidy someone else's mess.
  7. We run a 85hp alpine tractor and 6t timber trailer. We are based near Launceston. [email protected]
  8. The timber we are extracting is Sitka & Douglas. So £35 i reckon is very high. £12 per tonne on the landing is what I've been told I assume plus vat. Distance hauled ~600 yards So if a lorry loads was pulled this would equate to £300 plus vat ? ? ? Does this sound right?
  9. Hi. Was just wondering what the current rates are per tonne forwarding. Plus rates for winching 2 man and tractor set up. This is all for first thinning. Not clear fell. I'm running a alpine tractor and 6 tonne trailer and I can't see how the money adds up. All advice given would be greatly appreciated. I assume prices would be plus vat unless stated.
  10. Hi all. I'm after larch or western red for milling cladding. 2.5m poles 20 plus off. 4.5m 15 off. Clean these measurements are for. Can collect with tractor and forestry trailer if local. 15 miles off Launceston
  11. Hi, I run a pasquali 85hp orian with a votex 150 forestry mulcher. It's a beast, I wouldn't have a cabless model. Plus a belly plate is a must. It's been a great bit of kit but overall cost is very high. So you defo need alot of work lined up. The seppi in that vid is 15 grand plus tractor, gess 20 grand, . These mulchers use hp
  12. Call Atkinson vos. They know everything and more about mogs

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