I'm the last resort
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I'm the last resort
Guess what? I mentioned the same thing. Problem is that they have irrigation lines, control valves, electrical cabling etc etc plus the final mess to clean up. Last time they tried a dozer it basically caused more damage than it fixed as these things have a fair root mass to them even at this young age. Been there, tried it. They also had a massive mulcher go over a few lines of trees as a trial too. The mess created was massive. What they are going to do is have me fell them all on top of one another then burn them. This also takes care of reshooting stumps. This turned out to be the most efficient thing to do on the other properties although the size of the original trees also scalded a number of citrus trees.
I'm the last resort
As mentioned they've grown too fast. Many people had the same assumption about this gear for firewood but it burns like crap. Biggest problem is that most people have never seen what native species grow like on close to 400kg/ha of fertigated Nitrogen per year - the original aim of the property was to get these windbreaks growing as fast as they possible could to protect the young citrus trees from wind damage. The windbreaks alone on the original property were receiving 700 megalitres of irrigation a year (that's a sh*tload of water and a sh*tload of fast growth when combined with 400kg/ha of actual Nitrogen in 12 months). The end result isn't pretty and the timber didn't end up like any Casuarina you've seen - it was more like Pine and burnt like it too. The exact same species grown under low-moderate rainfall with no fertiliser inputs are very high value and sought after.
Some of the 40 year old trees weren't too bad but most of the trees in the original part of the thread were only 19 years old. I know what slow grown Casuarina burns like - it's excellent and I've been burning some tonight. It's even better than Redgum.
Sure you didn't make a typo with the 8' to 15' diameter comment? If not I want photos
looks like slash pine i dont know but it sore looks like a conifer and they only sit on top of the grownd and are very easy to push over....an old Hilux would do a good job of taking them out lol...
oh right, yeah didn't think about all that infrastructure amongst them..................then your gonna be bloody busy mate
Yeah they're not a conifer but a native hardwood as you probably know already.
Well went out yesterday and dropped about 150 trees in an hour with the little Husky 353 and 18" .325" bar with Carlton full chisel. At this stage this is simply a trial so that they can budget etc. Looks like they'll crank up on the rest of them next April from what I was told today. Oh and they are only going to drop every second row for now as well so only about 11,000 trees
No problem, you will have those trees down in 73.333333 hours :hmm3grin2orange:
Guess what? I mentioned the same thing. Problem is that they have irrigation lines, control valves, electrical cabling etc etc plus the final mess to clean up. Last time they tried a dozer it basically caused more damage than it fixed as these things have a fair root mass to them even at this young age. Been there, tried it. They also had a massive mulcher go over a few lines of trees as a trial too. The mess created was massive. What they are going to do is have me fell them all on top of one another then burn them. This also takes care of reshooting stumps. This turned out to be the most efficient thing to do on the other properties although the size of the original trees also scalded a number of citrus trees.
I'm the last resort
As mentioned they've grown too fast. Many people had the same assumption about this gear for firewood but it burns like crap. Biggest problem is that most people have never seen what native species grow like on close to 400kg/ha of fertigated Nitrogen per year - the original aim of the property was to get these windbreaks growing as fast as they possible could to protect the young citrus trees from wind damage. The windbreaks alone on the original property were receiving 700 megalitres of irrigation a year (that's a sh*tload of water and a sh*tload of fast growth when combined with 400kg/ha of actual Nitrogen in 12 months). The end result isn't pretty and the timber didn't end up like any Casuarina you've seen - it was more like Pine and burnt like it too. The exact same species grown under low-moderate rainfall with no fertiliser inputs are very high value and sought after.
Some of the 40 year old trees weren't too bad but most of the trees in the original part of the thread were only 19 years old. I know what slow grown Casuarina burns like - it's excellent and I've been burning some tonight. It's even better than Redgum.
Sure you didn't make a typo with the 8' to 15' diameter comment? If not I want photos
Reference Forest Trees Of Australia,nelson csiro.page 96,97,98 shows old growth river she oaks the size mentioned. when clearing these big oaks local contractors used cat 7s,8s with rippers some were so big.
No problem, you will have those trees down in 73.333333 hours :hmm3grin2orange:
Are there still any there that size? Also are they talking individual trunk diameters in the book or the width of the entire trunk mass where it exits the ground?
A single trunked Casuarina with a 5m diameter would be a weapon for sure
YES,measured at waist height they are big trees,they are found along river flood plains,Are now protected species,some were trees when captain cook landed here.trunk dias as big as any tree i,ve seen in35 years in forestry.not height wise, but girth with huge buttress fluted trunks.If you were to be contracted to take them down you, and youd be using big saws,really long bars and have alot of work in front of you.
Matt, are those stumps being sprayed after you cut them?
Will
Matt, that's a fair size lump of wood, shame you couldn't mill it such a waste just to burn it :frown:
Nice Redgum bloke,take some splittin that lot.
I have a Redgum felling job coming up 22 of them and they are large (the 50'' bar will be required) were get this they have been dead before he took over the farm in 1967.He has asked me to fell them and cut the trunks into lenghts so he can move them to a fenced off animal reserve thing he is making not far away.Then the stumps will be bulldozed out,he wont sell me any of the wood or let me mill it.:msp_thumbdn:
Has he got permits to drop them mate? Best to make sure before you start.
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