dairy/crop/logging conversions

March 2014 currently just contract logging small windblown standing 40yr old pine shelter hinds (Duncan Barrs)

Here Dave has a contract thinning a forest on a acre rate in Macrocarpa and taking and stacking out the logs for farmers own firewood use

Dave has a contract here taking out this small woodlot to make way for dairy conversion

Dave has just finished logging and stacked out A grade & KI grade from a pine shelterbelt.Basically i log it and do the sales with return after logging going to the farmer

logging small blocks is Daves speciality where just using a bell logger & delimber is low over heads therefor bigger returns to land owner

Dave also works in with a digger for destumping blocks if landowner requires it .Here Dave is shifting rootballs with the bell to a stockpile where they will be burnt

The bell is seen here delimbing gum and once again Dave sells it approx 400 ton was sold on this job with landowner still getting a return from sales

Dave is logging shelters in Hinds but had to park up this day

Dave is thinning a gum block in return he is keeping the wood

Dave clear felling and logging gum for a land conversion

Fullchisel felling bell logger

Dave is back pulling trees here as theres a ditch on other side of trees in this shelter conversion

Dave had to uproot 200mtrs of small arizonticas and stack into a fire pile

Daves small fleet(5ton bell/20ton bushrigged excavator] ideal for logging of shelters and small forestry / woodlots Ashburton to South Oamaru

Keith on 20ton cat sorting logs at a hinds conversion block

Using the bell with the grapple in reverse motion u dont damage the posts an have a 2.2ton lift straight up very fast at pulling 3times faster than tractor an chain

Dave logging old crop pine Hinds/Geraldine

Craig pulling over a large pine in a small plantation of old croppers

During logging inbetween shelters on farms Dave provides a basic clean up using the digger grapple and a final sweep with the Rennerrake on the Bell ,this allows pivot wheels to run obsticle free during & after logging operations

Dave an Craig have just completed 5 months on Dean Mcconnells dairy farm here was the last paddock

Craig is flatout uprooting a small 1.4plantation for a logging operation that Fullchisel Felling has with Ashburton Council

Dave has a small council block to log at Rakia which includes uprooting the trees ,here Craig easily,s rips them out with the 320 cat

Dave had bell sandblasted an repainted early in the yr to his fleet colours ,mm its turned some heads