hello all

[Night Train]

Nice stuff, timber conversion on a large scale.

I cut my first tree with a two man cross cut with a friend. We then gave up the manual crosscut when I bought him a chainsaw for his birthday and we chopped it up for fire wood.

I am much more familiar with the timber work of the past from reading books by Maurice Sanders on round timber haulage. The days of horses, Latils, Matadors and Scammells. I even had my own AEC Matador on my driveway for restoration until a few years ago when a timber haulier bought it off me.
I recently made a small logging arch to tush out some timber from a steeply sloping garden using a winch on the back of my car. I also have a small extending pole trailer that can handle logs, and boards, up to 5.5m lying flat or 7m up over the car roof.

 

[richburrow]

Wow, that looks amazing, your work sounds really interesting.
Hello I am glad you have found this forum, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Rich

 

[Quinness]

In this photo you can see the sharp chain clearly.. and the chipper heads too. Most systemes these days are single pass.
The species is "Sugi" a Japanese ceder. band saws are only 10 inch 48mill pitch 10ism meter long.

 

[Ironballs]

You call that a saw

 

[Quinness]

they're using 17 gauge plate on the saws because they want to heat tension them and only 10 inch cos the heat tensioning machine wont take anything wider. The saws condition can be pretty bad after a days cutting. Ususlly it's a 16 gauge 12 inch roll tensioned saw thats used as this system can run at 90mpm and cut about 16 logs per minute. This particular one only deos 11..which is mainly due to the small HPU on the step feeder loading the logs.