notice the hole in the roof is there BEFORE we started to fell any trees

Bernie rigging up a winch line half way up a tree in the centre of the photo

tree felled using the capstan winch via a pulley to bring it away from the building, intentionally into another tree

it was a bit close to the building, and leaning into it

using the winch again to free the snagged tree

a bit of capstan power to winch the tree down from the base, involving a bit of ploughing...

all the other 4 trees all down safely away from the building using the winch and pulley

tea break before the clearup begins

a nice trailer load of lengths for the stock pile, weighed in at 2 tonne on the weighbridge

and a log rover of split logs for the woodshed (800kg on the weighbridge - log-rover was 2.9 tonnes all up).

the 1 cubic meter (800kg "green" sycamore) tipped out at the log shed

Another saturday - this time we need some Unimog muscle as we have to remove these bulldozed birch trees. Access is a little tricky...

as they are on top of the quarry face...

Using the Unimogs grunt to drag the whole trees back from the edge, ready for cleaning up and cutting into lengths

Log Rover getting an easy day today

The result of ten trees and a good few hours labour in the spring sunshine. Time to get the crane out...

a few heavy ones to start with

then a bigger load

now unloading, at the bottom of the quarry where our stock pile is located

nice and controlled

they've travelled from top right of the picture to bottom left, but it took half a day to do it (and a unimog)

Not much Log-rover content this saturday, just used it to get the gear down to this site - note the curious saw transport bottom right of the picture...

we were felling and clearing about 20 wild cherry trees growing out from this bank between the pines and over a bowling green

couldn't get the Log-Rover in, so Bernie had made this useful hand cart to get the logs out along the footpath

and it worked a treat

end of a long hard day, and about 20 cherry trees removed - you can just see the yellow stumps between the pines

we'd collected 1.8 tonnes (green) of logs - being weighed here on the weighbridge

before adding them to the stockpile

Just needed a Log-Rover load of logs this weekend, so cut the rounds from the centre of the stock pile so I could reverse right in

meaning no shifting of rounds to the splitter or trailer - very handy.

that oak on the right doesn't look too solid - grass growing out of it is the giveaway...

those silver birch on top of the quarry face in the background are next on the list to be felled, before they collapse into the quarry