Got a call from the property manager at the "Kangara" farm where I dropped that windrow of eucalypts earlier in this thread (a few months ago).
The decision has been made to drop the East/West Casuarina windbreaks on this farm with the rest likely to be dropped later. Firstly I have to drop about 250-500 trees so we can work out costings for the rest of the farm and then budgeting can be done and signed off on by upper management.
These trees were only planted in 2006 and the largest may have a 10" trunk and 30' tall. The vast majority would be about 8" trunk and 20-25' tall.
The scary part is how many of these trees there is and how boring the job will be
For example (and yes they are two different rows - there are 9 of these in total)...
These particular rows are dead straight and 4860m or 3 miles long (2430 trees). There are 7 of these rows the same length. A couple of them are shorter at 4200m or 2.6 miles long (2100 trees).
Therefore total number of trees not including the North/South rows is approximately 21,210
Certainly not big saw territory and one of these new 550 Auto-Tune Huskies look the goods at this stage - jobs like this help fund my CAD
Until I make that decision I'll run my Husky 353 with the MS241C as a backup.
The base of the trees are easily accessible and at this stage and I would expect a felling rate of at least 110 per hour. I managed an average of 110 an hour earlier in this thread on slightly larger trees with the now sold 5100-S. I miss that saw