They seem a bit like the Oak Processionally Moth OPM Caterpillars.
Rather you than me mate. Do you wear any special PPE when removing the trees? I have worked with a few firms who have had ro remove OPM in the past. Luckily I haven't had to do any. They wear Hazmat suits and respirators with the cuffs and head line taped up etc.
He has a few Stig. Him and his older brother are one of the only companies left to use horses. NRK had a documentary on them late last year.
He has mentioned in the past that they use a Belgian breed but I don't k ow of that was one of the Belgians. He did say it weighs just under 950 kilo but one of his bigger ones tops out nearly 1100.
Solid muscle they were. Pretty cool seeing them stop immediately with just a sound from the guy. He makes a 'Brrrr' sound and they stop dead.
I worked with horses both in the wood and in the field in Schweiz in my youth.
Absolutely loved it.
There is no market for it here, otherwise I'd do it.
I love the big draft horses. Unfortunately the one we bought had a leg defect , so we returned her to the seller.
Butch, I didn't much enjoy having to send that horse back.
Broke my heart, to tell you the truth.
She had the best friendly, easygoing personality you can imagine.
But we don't have room or feed for useless animals.
One thing about horse logging that those who haven't done it might not fully appreciate, it is ultra low impact. The skidding trails tend to be about 6' wide with zero rutting. It can be hard to tell anything was skidded out.
FAB pruning Stephen!
And Max, always love the snow pics from St. Petersburg
Here are some pictures of my busted elm from the mini storm last week. Even though the branch has a bad split I didn't want to cut it all off completely at one go, would have left a really big hole in the canopy. When we went back three days later the leaves on the broken branch I had trimmed were still green and not wilted, so I decided to support it with Cobra bracing.
In discussion with the owner we decided to reduce the length of the rest of the lower branches, to raise them up a bit to more match the broken and trimmed one.
Everyone was happy with the result.
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