land clearing with husqvarna 365sp & 440xtorq

[logger 12345]

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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lol....cheers!

no to be honest the passages were there already but this was the worse one,it wasn't used since 1950 LOL.....
IT was terribly overgrown with thorny briars,trees,i did knock down and flatten a load of trees on the way back but just threw them aside,i got down to the passage and scrope it clean with the grading bucket.another good thing aside from clearing all the passages,we made a few new entrances in to the woods in differnt places,wood now will be more easily accessable.as you can see back through the pics i made one entrance near where the top of that large pine tree fell to be able to bring it out fast.

it's a fine job now,so i can cut on my way back in future when i go that direction.

at the moment i have trees down all over the place :msp_wink: i seem to drop a tree and take some wood and move on for a while to something else.the large pine tree i must cut more of it tomorrow too...


was a busy day today,i went out with a tralier load with 3tonnes,two large tonne bags of ASH and one of beech,got home at 3pm,the ASH was the tree i cut yesterday,phew,some demand for it!!!


today before i done the delivery i cut down a few beech trees near the old house where we were cutting,i FORGOT my camera today :bang: and i had some nice updates......
not to worry i will have it tomorrow.

tomorrow looks like a really busy day,have some cutting to do and two deliveries over an 80mile radius,not bad!!



i will have some updates tomorrow evening again,this year was by far the busiest year YET with firewood,i sold wood almost everyweek all through the summer,even in june/july......

internet advertising sure is the way to go :msp_wink:

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[logger 12345]

things are busy busy busy here right now,getting up to 2-3 orders a day for full loads.
we have a notebook now with all future scheduled orders written in.

this pine tree is sure a seller @ 45euros a tonne bag it's in demand,and it's fresh too,funny thing i had a fire
lighting two nights ago and it burns damn well,don't hold as much moisture as i thought,it sure is differnt to the normal smaller
pine trees.the customers don't mind the pine this fresh which isn't surprising,this time of year in ireland they don't care and just put it in the shed.aslong as it's wood some don't care how dry/fresh it is.i have seasoned pine but some rather it fresh,they recon when it's too seasoned they use too much hehe.... all i can do is give them what they want.


here is some work today on that huge pine tree again,we cut another 10ft off it today to fill one tonne bag that a customer wanted today,he ordered one tonne bag of pine and one of the mixed hardwood (beech/birtch/whitethorn etc)
these are the cheapest ones and the ASH is the top price.

 

[logger 12345]

as i said above a good 10 or more feet cut off this for a customers one tonne bag today.

no bother to split this lovely pine with the axe,it just slices nicely in to large chunks.

then we moved on to the beech tree to go with his order of pine.

 

[logger 12345]

and continued with that beech tree(s)

and his order ready heading to kilfinane county limerick with it,a lovely looking side of the country,with amazing views which you will see in a minute.

one mixed hardwood,one bag of pine.

covered

and on the road to deliver it to another happy customer.

 

[logger 12345]

lovely view in this part of the country to deliver this customer his two large bags of wood....

 

[T0RN4D0]

Seeing your randomly cut wood always brings a smile to my face :msp_tongue:

I wish i could cut like that.

 

[logger 12345]

Seeing your randomly cut wood always brings a smile to my face :msp_tongue:

I wish i could cut like that.

hi torn4do,


nothing too fancy about my cutting,to be honest what ever is the fastest way is usually the way i go about it.
as for the pine sometimes i cut where there are no knots as this makes it easier on the saw and for splitting later.

it don't matter what size the trees are cut aslong as they are all a manageble length,remember we need to do all this work manually i can't bring any machines in here as they just destroy the place as things are far too wet this year.

so we cut them to manageable lengths,put them in the trailer,bring them to the house here for cutting,cut them up again firewood size and split any that are too wide
that's really it......


anybody see my last updates back a page??
strange i can't see them,i just posted them up there 5mins ago and they won't show for me,photobucket acting up again most likely... :msp_thumbdn:

 

[logger 12345]

yep they are working,so it's all good!

 

[logger 12345]

yesterday was a cold start at 8am ....

bought over the rest of that big ASH tree for another customer who wanted a full tralier load @ 250euros!!

took around two hours to bring it and prepare it /split it....

was time to process this load of ash...

lovely wood!!!


and here was the load ready of fine ASH fit for a king.

 

[logger 12345]

yesterday was fierce busy,we got 3 loads processed and delivered!!
extremly productive day..

where we process....

cutting up beech

lovely beech

beech for another customer

 

[logger 12345]

the area where we process

 

[logger 12345]

and we swapped and changed around yesterday and done more beech for other customers who wanted it and birtch.

the place has a lot of holly trees,they look amazing this time of year with some bearing bright red berries.

 

[logger 12345]

yesterday was the busiest day in a long time,the phone was hopping all day and so were we ....

 

[7sleeper]

As usual I enjoy your pictures. I also use the 1 ton bags. They are great for transporting when your trailer isn't a high board type. This is a small load I was bringing my PIL. The blue garbage bag was full of noodles.

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[NHlocal]

logger 12345,
good to hear you're so busy, being busy is much better than trying to find work. :msp_thumbup: Thanks for the great pics and updates, keep 'em coming!

 

[logger 12345]

and this animal i'm not sure of's DEN

preparing some pine.....

and another load that went out yesterday,two pine and one mixed hardwood.two customers on the same route,one took the two pine and the other took the bag of mixed hardwood.

 

[logger 12345]

this was a heavy filled load,2 bags of pine and one bag of beech.the two customers were on the same direction within 10miles of one another so it was convienent.
we also gave him two bags of kindeling with the deal (small branches from ash trees)

it was late when we finished yesterday .....

 

[7sleeper]

and this animal i'm not sure of's DEN


preparing some pine.....

and another load that went out yesterday,two pine and one mixed hardwood.two customers on the same route,one took the two pine and the other took the bag of mixed hardwood.

Now I finally now how strong you guys up north are! Make a stack like that and one strike with the axe and everything is nicely split! :hmm3grin2orange: Wish I could do that!

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[NHlocal]

it was late when we finished yesterday ...

Wow! Awesome sunset!!!

 

[logger 12345]

haha,had to laugh at 7 sleepers comment,good stuff,you put a smile on my face :hmm3grin2orange:




thanks for the feedback lads.

for this large task i took on i like the forum thread here to keep updating on,i havn't started from the start of the thread yet myself as i havn't had the time,but one of these long cold winters nights soon, i am going to make a tea pot of tea (or something stronger :msp_ohmy and start from the start of this thread and read back on the lot just to remimber & see the progress from the start.

looking back it was a mammoth task and the best is yet to come,there is years and years work clearing this place.

the farmer i am clearing the place for is now old,who knows what he will do with the place in time,he says his sons won't farm it...but for now he is in great shape and is always on the go after the animals.good to see.

it sure is a lovely place here,as i say one of the night i am going to look back and remember the hard work me and nicola had to do here.