Clear fell forestry

[oldoaktree]

Scottish Woodland have a clear fell job on near me . It’s quite impressive how quickly they can crack on . They harvester seams to run from 6.00 am ish ( could be earlier) until 10.30 pm at least 5 days a week. Every week rain or shine. Does anyone know if they have just one operator or two.

 

[toquark]

Usually just the one, the operator will be paid by the tonne or m3 so it’s in his interest to crack on. The top operators earn very well indeed.

 

[Pigken]

Is that near Tunstall, was watching forwarder yesterday from a distance. They will have to put the tonnage to collection point for set amount. Harvester could be man from crook.

 

[Hilly]

1 , nowt new in forestry it’s been white slavery since the beginning.

 

[Treecreeper]

They probably put in such a low price get the work that they need to work the hours to make it pay.

 

[oldoaktree]

Is that near Tunstall, was watching forwarder yesterday from a distance. They will have to put the tonnage to collection point for set amount. Harvester could be man from crook.

No it’s near tow law .

 

[nails]

Scottish Woodland have a clear fell job on near me . It’s quite impressive how quickly they can crack on . They harvester seams to run from 6.00 am ish ( could be earlier) until 10.30 pm at least 5 days a week. Every week rain or shine. Does anyone know if they have just one operator or two.

We have two forestry workers with us for two months felling on a nearby Estate . One drives the Harvester , the other is on a forwarder, yes they work long hours. I think i might fall asleep driving for that long a time

 

[Hilly]

Stich themselves up with a contract and finance on machines that depreciate like hell and new ones go up in price as fast as you can work , they don’t offer, my father worked on forestry when all they had was a bushman and it was just the same but different .

 

[borderterribles]

Clear fell forestry is well impressive to watch. They felled a very steep bank straight across the road from here. Some of it is hands and knees steep, which they did by hand, but the machine that processes the trees takes 90 seconds from taking hold of one tree to taking hold of the next. Fifty five years growth dealt with in those 90 seconds! I was interested to see that they left the brash in a kind of swath which the forwarder used to negotiate the bank.

 

[Rod Dumbreck]

I agree its awesome to watch, but as those above observe its always tight on the money so they tramp on regardless of the weather or ground conditions. Heres a picture of my dog in a wheel rut.
They did put it right a couple of days later, I was concerned for my water main which crosses somewhere near.

 

[Hilly]

If we created mess and destruction of clear fell we’d loose our subsidy .