logger 12345
husqvarna pilot
digger making access to HUGE ash trees!!
will be down here tomorrow morning at 6am to continue,need to keep up with it!!
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digger making access to HUGE ash trees!!
will be down here tomorrow morning at 6am to continue,need to keep up with it!!
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You obviously have a lot of nice toys.... Aaahhhhh I didn't say that! I meant tools.
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logger 12345
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You obviously have a lot of nice toys.... Aaahhhhh I didn't say that! I meant tools.
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hello 7 sleeper,
the toys are needed here,i would have bought down the digger first day but it's so bloody far in off the mainroad way that it took me over an hour just to track the digger in LOL......
no wonder i just done all the passage ways so far with a chainsaw,too lazy bring the digger down,anyway it needed some work but it's back in action now again. thank god!!
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Ayuh, I knew when I saw the first pictures you took it was way over 50ft., well done. :msp_sad: Always a little sad to see a tree like that come down but, as you said, one way or the other it was coming down anyway. Thanks for the continuing updates of your progress. I look forward to seeing more.
opcorn:Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:
logger 12345
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hello NHLOCAL,
yeah to be honest i am a lover of nature and i like trees,they are lovely to look at,there is nothing more beautiful to look at than a woods,but to be honest this woods was never meant to be here,the farm was not used since maybe 1950,that was only who ever had the land taken at the time,no one lived here since maybe 1920,...so it needed to be cleared to make something out of the place.the current owner is a little fed up with how overgrown the place was gone,it had just succumbed to an un-useable state...
on a positive note however,ASH trees are amazingly regenerative,i must take some pictures tomorrow of some of the trees i cut back in january,the stumps of the fallen trees are all that remain now obviously,but it's amazing the amount of new shoots of little new ash trees that are growing already,the level of growth here is just amazing in ireland.
i bet in only 15years they will be back to the way they were when i arrived!!!
it's amazing,and the shoots are tall,just wait until i post the new pics,it's actually very intresting.the new shoots don't grow from the top of the stump,so that part of the stump is now dead,but,they just grow out of the sides of the stump and instead of one ASH tree you have just killed,you end up with a cluster of maybe 5-or 6.....it's amazing!!!
as for the poor pines,i doub't they will regenerate where i cut them,those are quite a differnt ball game,HOWEVER again on a positive note ireland is overgrown with pine/fir trees with all the local forest companies almost planting them in our back gardens here :msp_wink:
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and another intresting thing i observed here in this woods,i am not the first man cutting here,somebody was cutting here maybe 20years ago or maybe less,cause a lot of the ASH trees i just cut now were clusters that had grown up from ASH tree stumps that had been previously cut like i mentioned above,intresting indeed.
will post pics tomorrow,cause i find this rate of growth amazing really here in ireland.
yeah to be honest i am a lover of nature and i like trees,they are lovely to look at,there is nothing more beautiful to look at than a woods,but to be honest this woods was never meant to be here,the farm was not used since maybe 1950,that was only who ever had the land taken at the time,no one lived here since maybe 1920,...so it needed to be cleared to make something out of the place.the current owner is a little fed up with how overgrown the place was gone,it had just succumbed to an un-useable state...
on a positive note however,ASH trees are amazingly regenerative,i must take some pictures tomorrow of some of the trees i cut back in january,the stumps of the fallen trees are all that remain now obviously,but it's amazing the amount of new shoots of little new ash trees that are growing already,the level of growth here is just amazing in ireland.
i bet in only 15years they will be back to the way they were when i arrived!!!
it's amazing,and the shoots are tall,just wait until i post the new pics,it's actually very intresting.the new shoots don't grow from the top of the stump,so that part of the stump is now dead,but,they just grow out of the sides of the stump and instead of one ASH tree you have just killed,you end up with a cluster of maybe 5-or 6.....it's amazing!!!
as for the poor pines,i doub't they will regenerate where i cut them,those are quite a differnt ball game,HOWEVER again on a positive note ireland is overgrown with pine/fir trees with all the local forest companies almost planting them in our back gardens here :msp_wink:
P.S
and another intresting thing i observed here in this woods,i am not the first man cutting here,somebody was cutting here maybe 20years ago or maybe less,cause a lot of the ASH trees i just cut now were clusters that had grown up from ASH tree stumps that had been previously cut like i mentioned above,intresting indeed.
will post pics tomorrow,cause i find this rate of growth amazing really here in ireland.
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my above last post just edited for the last time,just a few intresting things i wanted to add to it
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Coppicing is the term for the regrowth you are seeing, a true old style forestry technique for regrowth.
Interesting to see your work, and you do have good taste in 4wds. (I have a 98 4.5l petrol GU Patrol (also known as GR in some parts of the world)
Interesting to see your work, and you do have good taste in 4wds. (I have a 98 4.5l petrol GU Patrol (also known as GR in some parts of the world)
logger 12345
husqvarna pilot
thanks for the comment,yeah i couldn't think of the word but i knew i heard it before
that's a great veichle you got there,that would pull a house down!!!
logger 12345
husqvarna pilot
ok some more updates!
been a very busy day,i have been up since 6AM,started digging at 8am and finished up at 1PM today with the digger,new roads done through more parts of the land/woods.
we were able to start cutting some fantastic ASH trees today.
here are some pics,it was a very WET day though,it's amazing how we can get any work done at all!!!
the rain that fell was the size of golf balls almost......
new passage way cleared...what a mess with mud...
cleared a place to turn with the tralier....
wet wet wet.....
been a very busy day,i have been up since 6AM,started digging at 8am and finished up at 1PM today with the digger,new roads done through more parts of the land/woods.
we were able to start cutting some fantastic ASH trees today.
here are some pics,it was a very WET day though,it's amazing how we can get any work done at all!!!
the rain that fell was the size of golf balls almost......
new passage way cleared...what a mess with mud...
cleared a place to turn with the tralier....
wet wet wet.....
logger 12345
husqvarna pilot
first ASH TREE we accessed and dropped today....some real nice wood in this.
was a tough days work all in all.....
IVY AND MOSS a pain in the butt here in this country,it's litterly on every flipping tree.....
was a tough days work all in all.....
IVY AND MOSS a pain in the butt here in this country,it's litterly on every flipping tree.....
logger 12345
husqvarna pilot
new passage way is a good job now.
myself working on the 3tonne digger,it was fine to get the job done and not to make too much of a mess!!
myself working on the 3tonne digger,it was fine to get the job done and not to make too much of a mess!!
logger 12345
husqvarna pilot
i spoke briefly yesterday about the re-growth here in ireland,check these few trees i cut only in august!!!
amazing......
ok it was then time to get going with that ASH TREE.
it was a large tree with a wide bottom on it spreading out in to three large limbs.
dropped it out on the new road
these were trees i thought iwould never get at......
amazing......
ok it was then time to get going with that ASH TREE.
it was a large tree with a wide bottom on it spreading out in to three large limbs.
dropped it out on the new road
these were trees i thought iwould never get at......
logger 12345
husqvarna pilot
limbing it and cutting it up.......
these trees may not look like much in some of the pics but they are big awkward and dangerous!!
these trees may not look like much in some of the pics but they are big awkward and dangerous!!
logger 12345
husqvarna pilot
was a lot of work in this large ash tree......
logger 12345
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still the same ASH TREE.
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logger 12345
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so it was time to finish up this fine big ASH tree.
was a fine load here today ,should be another good tralier load in it tomorrow.....
was a fine load here today ,should be another good tralier load in it tomorrow.....
logger 12345
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rather than constantly drawing all the loads back home we decided to now do all the work in the farm,we now bring the trees in the tralier to the old sheds in the farm and outhouses and do all our cutting & logging here.saves costs and diesel.
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logger 12345,
Great idea processing the wood on site, I'm sure it saves you a lot of time, effort, and fuel burned. Nicely done. Thanks again for the continued updates on the work you're doing clearing all that land. :msp_thumbup: That's quite a large job you've taken on there. I look forward to more updates.opcorn:
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:
Great idea processing the wood on site, I'm sure it saves you a lot of time, effort, and fuel burned. Nicely done. Thanks again for the continued updates on the work you're doing clearing all that land. :msp_thumbup: That's quite a large job you've taken on there. I look forward to more updates.
opcorn: Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:
logger 12345
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logger 12345,
Great idea processing the wood on site, I'm sure it saves you a lot of time, effort, and fuel burned. Nicely done. Thanks again for the continued updates on the work you're doing clearing all that land. :msp_thumbup: That's quite a large job you've taken on there. I look forward to more updates.
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:
cheers NH local,
yes,it definatly saves us a lot of time and money just processing the lot here,of course we are processing more and more
now all the time,the volume of wood gets bigger everytime,things seem to get faster as we go along.
only thing is the weather is crap...amazing anything can be done at all,to be honest we shouldn't be next nor near the place
in this wet conditions.
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new passage way is a good job now.
myself working on the 3tonne digger,it was fine to get the job done and not to make too much of a mess!!
I saw him first! Now we finally know how Wilson really looks like! What a shame this thread will never be the same....
Great pics as usual.
Do you use the debrise from the trees as a "fill" material for the road?
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