Stihlmans Wood,Tree cutting ramblings...........

[Stihlman441]

Hi gents started them Sugars on Saturday and have had a big 5 days,felling,blocking,splitting and bringing wood home.Ended up with 48 mtrs between the two of us.

All done


First job out with the new grab.


New record split 3.5 mtrs in 35 mins.



461 getting a work out,i used 8 ltrs of fuel on one of the days just blocking.

 

[Stihl working hard]

Hi gents started them Sugars on Saturday and have had a big 5 days,felling,blocking,splitting and bringing wood home.Ended up with 48 mtrs between the two of us.

All done
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First job out with the new grab. View attachment 377682
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New record split 3.5 mtrs in 35 mins.

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461 getting a work out,i used 8 ltrs of fuel on one of the days just blocking.
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Gee Andrew that grab must save alot of stuffing around just pick up the log and just hit it nice one

 

[KiwiBro]

Could you not strap a few scaffolding H-frames and plywood to the trailers when you head to a job, set up a long table next to and tilting towards, the splitter, and block straight onto the table? Would save having to pick blocks up again with the tractor. Could also use it as a cradle for the last four feet or so of logs that are dumped from the grapple bucket. I do something similar but with a tilt trailer and bit of ply off the side to make the catchment longer.

Or allow it to lay flat on the ground and buck into that then lift the whole table up to splitter height in one go.

Just kicking about ideas.

 

[KiwiBro]

Acshully, although I doubt I'll find the money for it this season, in my head is an upgrade for my log forks. It consists of two hydraulic saws, one at each end of large diameter acme screw threaded tube that's about 5m long. Pick up log/logs, move to over the aforementioned bucking table and cut from the outside edges back into the middle. Log forks have one central log grab that's just 150mm wide so it's easy to get every last round bucked up without leaving tractor seat.

 

[Stihlman441]

Ya been thinking about that,Whitlands Engineering do a nice set up but they wont $12000 for it,i dont thimk so.

 

[KiwiBro]

Now you're talking. There's a few silage/ feed-out wagons around farms that would do the same thing for less moola:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/business-f...g-out/feeding-equipment/auction-799492038.htm

But it's one more bit of kit to get to and from the jobs.

I've often wondered if it's not a whole lot easier to just get one of those really long poly bags they use instead of the skip bins. Can get it and a scaffolding table to the jobs easy, lay the big bags flat on the ground, buck into it and then pick the bag up and dump on the table. Rinse and repeat.

A couple of these:

 

[huntingrob]

Hi gents started them Sugars on Saturday and have had a big 5 days,felling,blocking,splitting and bringing wood home.Ended up with 48 mtrs between the two of us.

All done
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First job out with the new grab. View attachment 377682
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New record split 3.5 mtrs in 35 mins.

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461 getting a work out,i used 8 ltrs of fuel on one of the days just blocking.
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Awesome pics Stihlman, reckon ya earned that VB! [emoji2]

 

[Mastermind]

What are y'all babbling about in here? opcorn:

 

[hseII]

I havnt been updating this thread as i should so better pull me finger out and do a bit.
Started a new Sugargun plantasoin today about 40 trees that died after a fire cooked um about 18 months ago.
Will be doing these over the next 4 days so will add afew pics to show you what we are up to.

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Sweet HiLux!!!

 

[bigbadbob]

Found some pics from afew months ago i dont think i posted them of a broken branch fron a Redgum.

Nice trailer.
What is that bracket that swings out at the front of the trailer for??
LHS in the picture just behind the tool box.
TIA
BBB

 

[Stihlman441]

That bracket if for a vice were i sharpen my saws.

 

[Stihlman441]

Sweet HiLux!!!

Hilux
I dont think so i work at Fords so its a Ranger.

 

[Stihlman441]

What are y'all babbling about in here? opcorn:

Cutting wood.

 

[Mastermind]

We're gonna go cut tomorrow........a cleared lot.

The logs are in a big pile.

Should be fun.

 

[hseII]

Hilux
I dont think so i work at Fords so its a Ranger.

If they were like that when we had them here, they might still sell here

 

[Stihlman441]

Cant beat that type of day,i suppose you would have only one saw to use.

 

[KiwiBro]

What weight can the telehandler lift to, say, 2.5m?

 

[Mastermind]

Cant beat that type of day,i suppose you would have only one saw to use.

We might be able to find a couple of old beater saws to use.

 

[Stihlman441]

What weight can the telehandler lift to, say, 2.5m?

I not sure,can find out.
The grab is 850 kg i know that.

 

[KiwiBro]

This one time, at band camp, we hooked a mate to the bucket of a TH and foisted him almost to the top of a tree (man those THs have some reach) and he became the human processor, bucking that tree into slash and rings all the way to the ground.