My journey
The motto on my hat badge said "be prepared". As a way of life Scouting started my journey but nothing could have ever prepared me for the journey it took me on. My journey took me through every level of scouting and as a leader where I established my lifelong interest in foresty. Through my connections created through scouting I connected to several landowners. Forestry machinery back then was a simple chainsaw, an axe and a shoulder to carry your timber on on to the tractor. Through one woodland manager on one of the biggest private estates near where I lived who had believed in me, a young school leaver he was kind enough to have taken the time to see something in me he could believe in me, I was able to get in to perhaps the best forestry and agriculture colleages in the country at that time.
I only mention my Scouting here to highlight my ability to take a novice and give them an interest in, perhaps a new skill. I have seen many of the lads I taught at that time go on to learn skills of their own later in life and come back and assist me in something I was doing. One likeable lad who I taught and assisted on several occassions later was to become my bank manager.
I never forgot that time and always swore to pass on my skills and opportuntities to those who I can, whenever I can.
Where it all started
My Fordson Super Major, with my Farmi winch, would move mountains as far as I was conccerned although as a student my college introduced us to horses "In case it proved useful". Well it didn't, but a day in the hills with a couple of characterful horses that knew more about getting timber out than a group of new students proved far more useful and entertaining than a day inn a classroom
- A farm tractor with a winch attached can skid tree lengths from wood to roadside.
- Chainsaw work is required to directionally fell trees, and to convert and stack the final products.
- Large trees may be cross-cut in the wood to reduce the length of material dragged by the tractor, which makes manoeuvring easier.
- Heavy products may be bunched together for despatch if the winch is equipped with a stacking plate.
From the ancient Fordson, skidding extraction moved on in size and efficiency and cleanliness for both the timber and the operator when jumping out of the cab was only necessary to get around an old stump. I can look whistfully back to any of these times with the fondest of memories
Where the forwarding started
With my trusty Fordson with an agricultural trailer we would move large quantities and as far as I was conccerned that was how everyone does it. My college introduced us to the concept of some kind of automated trailer loading process.
- A farm tractor with an agricultural trailer attached can move cut lengths from forest to roadside.
- Chainsaw work was still required to directionally fell trees, and to convert and stack the final products.
- Tractor mounted forwarders or cranes with suitable trailers is where mechanisation started
- A Highlander with a Highland Bear on the roof of a 1164 Ford County with a suitable double axle trailer was the first major piece of kit to enter my stable. Fuel bills went through the roof but so did the amount of timber on the ground near the road. Eight wheel, all wheel drive positive traction was where it finished up. Not the one in the image, I no longer have one of that machine, but this is as close as I can get.
Machinery moved on exponentially from those days, but I often look back fondly at the raw pawer and workability of the Highlander. No windows made it a cold and draughty experience, but one I shall never forget.
Processing through my history
If we went right back to basics maybe my first 'processor' could have been considered to have been my trusty old felling axe. To be fair it has often come in handy when trying to rescue many a much more modern machine when stuck in a tree pincing on the bar. Enoiugh of my trip down memory lane!
- Many years clearing and thinning many acres of softwood and hardwood, all with chainsaw and different methods of extraction
- Chainsaw work is required to directionally fell trees, and to convert and stack the final product.
- The first processor we took delivery of was one where the operator, (me) still had to stand out in the cold and rain
- After the first tractor, three point linkage mounted full harvester processor we went to a track driven 360 with a processor head
From the ancient Fordson, skidding extraction moved on in size and efficiency and cleanliness for both the timber and the operator when jumping out of the cab was only necessary to get around an old stump. I can look whistfully back to any of these times with the fondest of memories
Going back to my roots
There was a lot of roads travelled in the meantime, time in busness and many miles on the road, time came to go back to my roots. Oh there are many machines I have driven in the past but now the excavators are what calls me back and always did.
- Excavating sandy trenches to bury water pipes
- Digging clay in a muckaway for subway recovery
- Turning compost
- Loading off-road trucks to clear sites for re-instatement
- Clearing woodland sites for redevelopment
- Removing concrete and rock with riddling buckets
I have been lucky since going back to my roots to have had some good machines to drive and a variety of work to do. Going to work each morning always leaves me with a sense of excitement as I consider what is before me and how I should go about my task(s).
Off road truck loading
Perhaps the work I like best, loading off road trucks on site or 8 wheel muck-away trucks for the road.
Off-road trucks are used to haul everything in a variety of industries, and they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and body types. Different types and brands of off-road trucks are designed to handle different types of loads, and the type of truck we use will be based on the type of hauling I will be doing.
Off road trucks come in several models and of various sizes, with payloads ranging from 10 to 400 tons with excavators to suit the size of truck and material to be loaded. They are typically but not exclusively designed for off-road use and are equipped with large wheels for better traction or eight wheeled vehicles if they will be taken onto roads for at least part of their journey.
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When the land had been set aside with planning consent granted for several acres set aside for the new solar park. The evaluation of any potential arcaeological evidence that lays below that land had to investigated. The first step to dig trenches to a level down to the natural levely below the level.
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