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[splitpost]

Your saw wasn't blowing enough 2-stroke smoke

But yeah, swarms of bees are no fun at all.

i am hoping they moved on and left the hive so i can raid it

 

[lumberjackau]

Yup, on days hols here also, been puttering around working on a few saw and a couple of boats, waiting for the harvester I operate to get back down here from Cooktown, the boss fella is finishing up a job there and will be putting on a truck when he can get one

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back fishing again tomorrow, darn it, :msp_biggrin:

Will

 

[Rudolf73]

Yup, on days hols here also, been puttering around working on a few saw and a couple of boats, waiting for the harvester I operate to get back down here from Cooktown, the boss fella is finishing up a job there and will be putting on a truck when he can get one

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back fishing again tomorrow, darn it, :msp_biggrin:

Will

Thats an interesting harvester Will, what size and type of trees do you use it on?

 

[David (saltas)]

late xmass presents for ten year old boy

[video=youtube;-HLkphtBax4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HLkphtBax4[/video]

Can launch a water balloon hundreds of meters

[video=youtube;WEVG_7oTmLI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEVG_7oTmLI&feature=related[/video]

Got this in the return table at Kmart front wheel was buckled (spokes were loose) all good now

 

[lumberjackau]

It is a Rottne H-8, only one in Aus, we do Pre Commercial Thinning in hardwood plantations, the job we had up at Cooktown was in a Teak plantation, we normally operate in the Spotted Gum plantations in the south burnett area.

The head on the machine is a guilitine shear, it can handle upto 200mm dia. here is a video from the cab

[video=youtube;-WMVSfIrfC4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WMVSfIrfC4&list=UU2N-wO248QATJramMEoPwHA&index=15&feature=plcp[/video]

 

[MCW]

i am hoping they moved on and left the hive so i can raid it

Good old bees I was talking to a local tree crew the other day who had left their high lift truck on site after he cut straight through a beehive in a hollow old Cottonwood about 6m off the ground. His saw and everything is still in the bucket and he got the crap hammered out of him by the time he lowered the bucket enough to bail out. I think they were going back that night to retrieve it and spray out the hive.

It is a Rottne H-8, only one in Aus, we do Pre Commercial Thinning in hardwood plantations, the job we had up at Cooktown was in a Teak plantation, we normally operate in the Spotted Gum plantations in the south burnett area.

The head on the machine is a guilitine shear, it can handle upto 200mm dia. here is a video from the cab

[video=youtube;-WMVSfIrfC4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WMVSfIrfC4&list=UU2N-wO248QATJramMEoPwHA&index=15&feature=plcp[/video]

Nice work. Is the main goal to cut off at ground level or uproot the smaller trees? If they are cut off do you have any issues with regrowth?

 

[splitpost]

Good old bees I was talking to a local tree crew the other day who had left their high lift truck on site after he cut straight through a beehive in a hollow old Cottonwood about 6m off the ground. His saw and everything is still in the bucket and he got the crap hammered out of him by the time he lowered the bucket enough to bail out. I think they were going back that night to retrieve it and spray out the hive.

Yeah i went back yesterday arvo and they were still pretty pissed,might take a look tomorrow

 

[lumberjackau]

MCW, everything is cut off at ground level and the stump is sprayed as soon as it is cut, there is a set of spray nozzles set up near the shear plate under the head. With the quickness of spraying the stump we don't have any issues with regrowth. The whole spray system is pretty trick and was designed by the bloke who owns the machine, now that we worked all the bugs out of it we are changing the head to a LogMax 4000 head with a chainsaw cutter and it's herbicide application is through the saw bar itself.

Will

 

[Rudolf73]

Yeah i went back yesterday arvo and they were still pretty pissed,might take a look tomorrow

They seem to remember you when you go back the same day. I cut a hole in a tree many years ago to get some honey out and the bees weren't to bad. But when I went back later that day to close the hole up they went crazy - angry bees would be an understatement. I came off second best haha.

 

[splitpost]

UPDATE,still angry still can't get within 20m of the hive or the fence i am trying to replace

 

[Stihlman441]

Those Mortean insect bombs work on um.:smile2:

 

[David (saltas)]

You can throw a couple of cockroach bombs at them and then go if with two cans of fast knock down
If you do please have some one video the action

Or if you are feeling all green smoke them out it will work.
No need to video this if you do this as it will not be as exciting to watch

 

[splitpost]

Those Mortean insect bombs work on um.:smile2:

You can throw a couple of cockroach bombs at them and then go if with two cans of fast knock down
If you do please have some one video the action

Or if you are feeling all green smoke them out it will work.
No need to video this if you do this as it will not be as exciting to watch

Thanks fellas ,might ring a mate of mine and see if he can go in and get the queen ,he's got a few hives he works about an hour away

 

[ausneil 1]

i am hoping they moved on and left the hive so i can raid it

I have come across many, many bees in old growth logging, my old boss use to say....

Go on be brave, the trick is to take a couple then they will leave you alone. Now get over there and head that log off or the dozer will break the F###ing rope trying to get it out. They won't hurt you, what are you gutless and so on.
Funny how he never went near them if he could avoid it.

I used to reply ,how something so small can make man so frightened. I tried the take a couple option once and it doesn't work. Once we got harvesters to fall timber, bees were no more problem, and i used to cut out a hive and bring it to the dump to rob it later when they died down.

 

[lumberjackau]

you buggas, at least you have some sweets after being chased around by the native bees, the only bee type critters I ran into cutting cypress was them *********** ********** Baldy hornets, dang did they give you a lift when they caught site of you :mad2: the only thing I ended up with is a chunk of hide missing when they got hold

 

[tdi-rick]

I've been told I should really carry an epi-pen or at least fenurgan (sp?) these days as bee stings and I don't seem to get along anymore.

 

[AUSSIE1]

MCW, everything is cut off at ground level and the stump is sprayed as soon as it is cut, there is a set of spray nozzles set up near the shear plate under the head. With the quickness of spraying the stump we don't have any issues with regrowth. The whole spray system is pretty trick and was designed by the bloke who owns the machine, now that we worked all the bugs out of it we are changing the head to a LogMax 4000 head with a chainsaw cutter and it's herbicide application is through the saw bar itself.

Will

Used to drive the old 8 wheel and even more horrid 6 wheel Rottne forwarders. Changing a hose at the articulation point to the valve bank was a nightmare amongst other things. Ran a Logmax on a Komatzu in the hardwood Near Marysville after the fires went through. Wasn't a bad head in the short time I ran it.

The forwarder and harvester I used to drive for BVL. Spotted these at a coupe in the Buckland Valley last week or so. A hell of a lot of wood roadside which would'nt go down to well with the heat reducing the weight substantially over the break.

 

[ausneil 1]

Your saw wasn't blowing enough 2-stroke smoke

But yeah, swarms of bees are no fun at all.

This type of machine sorts out bee hives, as well as falling logs too.


edit.... aussie 1, what a pair, they are up here as well in our pine, the timco's i finished up in were falling native hardwoods using unicon and rossin heads.

 

[AUSSIE1]

This type of machine sorts out bee hives, as well as falling logs too.


edit.... aussie 1, what a pair, they are up here as well in our pine, the timco's i finished up in were falling native hardwoods using unicon and rossin heads.

I've heard of the Rossin but not the unicon. Paul (I think his name was) Rossin was a smart fella. The Valmet harvester is a Timco of course after the Valmet takeover. Those Valmet forwarders were good but I did prefer the Timberjack (John deer these days) over them but only slightly. I only ever drove a buncher for one afternoon in my time. I've tipped over three forwarders in my time so was best to stay out of the bunchers, lol! I've done pine, bluegum and ash with the bluegum being the most boring/monotonous of all.

 

[ausneil 1]

Aussie 1,,, thats a unicon head on the timco pic i put up, which are old nowdays that one was only 250hp, the unicon head ran a 36inch bar with 3/4 drive chain. the rossin is a better head and can do more than the unicon. Thats my young bloke and he is 15 now.