Evening all,
Like many of us, I'm still working but I've had a few long overdue days off to do some essential work around the place.
Hired in myself a self-drive top tool to help do some perimeter maintenance, a long-overdue job to be honest, well about 30 years overdue..lol
we have a very important stream that passed through the property and it has to be clear otherwise the environment agency will be on the case if it gets blocked .
Anyway its a fair old length to be maintained, way to much to be done in waders with a fork with a lot of fallen trees and debris build up to address.
There has been a very large root and trunk laying over the stream for the last few years but with recent wet weather it had decided to dislodge its self and slide down in the stream and prettywell block it up.
I have a pretty good idea on the weights of tree trunks etc and reckoned this is about 4-5 ton in weight as it's oak and saturated with a root, approx 12-13 ft long aswell, pic doesn't really give atrue perspective as the excavator rake is pretty large to startwith.
There isn't access at this time of year due to the field being waterlogged so wheeled access is a non starter.
So opted for a 14t hitachi excavator, rated at about 5 ton straight lift at 3m out should be fine.
Mission accomplished and it was a lump, just need to find a new home for it along with numerous others so far this week.
sometimes bigger is better..lol
anyway, I still have a few days left to finish clearing it all and leaving things tidy and not like the Somme.
Like many of us, I'm still working but I've had a few long overdue days off to do some essential work around the place.
Hired in myself a self-drive top tool to help do some perimeter maintenance, a long-overdue job to be honest, well about 30 years overdue..lol
we have a very important stream that passed through the property and it has to be clear otherwise the environment agency will be on the case if it gets blocked .
Anyway its a fair old length to be maintained, way to much to be done in waders with a fork with a lot of fallen trees and debris build up to address.
There has been a very large root and trunk laying over the stream for the last few years but with recent wet weather it had decided to dislodge its self and slide down in the stream and prettywell block it up.
I have a pretty good idea on the weights of tree trunks etc and reckoned this is about 4-5 ton in weight as it's oak and saturated with a root, approx 12-13 ft long aswell, pic doesn't really give atrue perspective as the excavator rake is pretty large to startwith.
There isn't access at this time of year due to the field being waterlogged so wheeled access is a non starter.
So opted for a 14t hitachi excavator, rated at about 5 ton straight lift at 3m out should be fine.
Mission accomplished and it was a lump, just need to find a new home for it along with numerous others so far this week.
sometimes bigger is better..lol
anyway, I still have a few days left to finish clearing it all and leaving things tidy and not like the Somme.