land clearing with husqvarna 365sp & 440xtorq

[logger 12345]

time to look around the old farm not used sinse 50's

time to look around here and see the old buildings....

A STEP BACK IN TIME




where we park up after arriving in

one of the old farm houses

surrounded and sheltered by nice ash trees

a walk to the barn

a "chilling" name to read in such an old deserted place

 

[logger 12345]

we walk on further and look around....



the foxes den hidden away at the side of the old barn

looking out in to the forest from the barn,this is where we are going to work,look at that large douglas fir towering over
all the large ash trees.

an old jar for some drink.....

a fine solid structure

leaning ash trees around the barn

 

[logger 12345]

lovely ash forest,this farm will have a lot of potential once i have it all cleared and done.

old rotton tree stump

when inside this is the way out,remember we had the painstaking task of clearing all this path with the 440chainsaw
of overgrowth and brush-hedgeing,done it all in our own time to keep costs low.

and the way in

lovely land and horses

what's left of a large ash tree,the stump,this is the big one we cut the other day...
this was a 'hinge' cut up higher for comfort while cutting,then i just cut away the bottom part at this angle after
the tree had fallen,i can cut more off it...

 

[logger 12345]

 

[NHlocal]

Husky 365-special.....

I found your thread a few days ago and have been reading through it as I am able. Great pictures and video. :msp_thumbsup: I really
appreciate your enthusiasm for the work you are doing, and the wife helps too...nice!:msp_biggrin: You've got a real good saw with that
365special, I have almost the same thing, a 362xp special. It's an '05 and I have done quite a lot of cutting with it. It will take almost
anything I throw at it. Here's a few pics with the same bar as you have. Thanks for the pics and video, keep them coming!
Work safe! ::thumbsup::

 

[logger 12345]

and more ASH trees met their maker today....

 

[logger 12345]

 

[logger 12345]

 

[logger 12345]

and some wood stored up so far with a lot been sold in between....

the ivy is a real PAIN IN THE BUTT lol.... not to mention the way some of the trees lean they require a higher back cut
to make things quicker,this is part of working with trees you get to develope bad habbits that i wouldn't reccomend to any.
just stick to the safer cuts with all the wedges and tools.

 

[logger 12345]

and some wood stored up at the deppo even though a lot has sold already fast....

 

[logger 12345]

and as you will see in my other thread about my handlebar incident here is my 365special now after my new modd

 

[bull2five]

[video=youtube;QGls6kMWQcg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGls6kMWQcg[/video]

Hey Logger,

Just came found this thread and I 'm really enjoying reading, looking at photos but the the videos say private when I try and watch them. :confused2:

 

[johncinco]

I'll give ya this, you sure are one hard worker. You have your work cut out for you for several years to come.

Any idea when that house was built? We get excited when things are 200 years old around here, I find it interesting when looking at things from Europe that go back way beyond that.

I recently heard it called "a giant moss covered rock". It certainly holds up to that.

 

[logger 12345]

hey lads,

sorry about the videos,they should be ok now,i had them on private by accident messing with some settings lastnight.

thanks for the feedback,we are after a lot of work today,the land is soaked again,typical of here in ireland,we get the land lovely and dry then rain comes out of nowhere and it's like a swamp again,not to worry though we will work on as we did today.


anyway, got a load of work done today and i have a flood of new pics and vid,we are now making a start in the woodland at some ASH trees they are really fantastic and very large.they look to be very promising indeed.


this time of year we need to pay special attention to the envoirnment around us,even though it is not so pleasent to cut certain trees in all there beauty and splendour,as the man says-buisness is buisness and it must be done,if i don't do it somebody else will as it is the landowners wish at this stage to do the work,when we have to cut we need to pay attention to the wildlife around us,we can only cut a section now here at a time and we have the trees checked thouroughly for birds nests etc and any other wild birds that may be hatching,what i have planned to cut right now are PERFECT and hold NO threat to wildlife and birds.after this section i can cut away outside around the farm where i was up until now and let the woods alone until the birds have gone in july and hatched.

to be envoirmently firendly as possible is my main aim here aswell as making it a productive cycle.

i am also looking in to certain investors in some of this WOOD for other purposes used in sawmills.


stay tuned for the updates shortly,

dan

 

[logger 12345]

I'll give ya this, you sure are one hard worker. You have your work cut out for you for several years to come.

Any idea when that house was built? We get excited when things are 200 years old around here, I find it interesting when looking at things from Europe that go back way beyond that.

I recently heard it called "a giant moss covered rock". It certainly holds up to that.

cheers!!

yeah i love anything like this,old stuff just coming across them and knowing you are probably the first one to cut trees here maybe in 50years or so,ohh those building as you say wouldn't surprise me if they are over 150+years old maybe 200yrs... not much left of them now....apart from the main one at the bottom near where i park that is not in bad conditon at all the stone work.


giant moss covered rock just about sums it up here

 

[logger 12345]

ok some updates,another fantastic ASH tree today



the gear!

oregon chainsaw pance.must start to wear it,too damn hot

another fine mature ASH TREE

and down she goes!

 

[logger 12345]

ok time to limb and cut it up......




husqvarna 365sp with carbon hanlde doing the job first on the largest end

extremly hard ASH tree,but no sweat to the 365sp

 

[logger 12345]

time to limb it now with the husqvarna 440xtorq

and here i am ........

what's left of the tree now

ok time to move in to the woods now as the rest of that passage way where i was today got too wet
in the last two days,we will continue here again to clear the way in maybe a few weeks.





THE ASH WOODS!


clearing some bushes out of the way and small trees so the ASH trees can fall saftly


440 xtorq

 

[logger 12345]

these are just some of the small trees i am clearing in the woods!!


this is our FIRST DAY IN THE WOODS

ok so i have some woodland cleared to fall my LARGE ASH in the morning,there are a vast amount of trees in here.
will take a long time,we will be moving around,like i say we will take a section of ash trees here then when it drys maybe move back to where i was today again to clear the rest of the roadway out to the other side of the farm opposite to the way we came in,

the first ASH trees to fall tomorrow morning in this woodland

 

[logger 12345]

i am doing a short video to show where i am starting in the woods tomorrow