A. C. ROURKE  

Timber Contractor & Tree Surgery 

TIMBER CONTRACTING

TIMBER  CONTRACTING - HARVESTER  &  FORWARDER

Choose your tree
Harvester in action

We currently cut timber for several harvester teams. We fell trees in difficult areas, that are inaccessible for the harvester machines.

FELLING FOR HARVESTERS AND CUTTING INTO LENGTHS

Making a start
The Forwarder

Our work involves everything from brashing, windblow limb removal to felling of oversize and difficult trees.

Timber can be cut to the forwarder's length requirements.

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Harvesting and Forwarding . . .

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TIMBER  CONTRACTING - SKIDDING  WORK

Skidding . . . ready and waiting

This is a vital part of forestry work. We fell the timber and skid it to a cross cutting bay for the hand cutters. We fell and skid the timber for the harvesters to convert the tree lengths into appropriate sizes.


Using the Skidder is much kinder to the environment, as the ground impact damage is very low, compared with using larger, heavier machinery. 

Skidding . . . ready to go

We also have Quads, with front or rear mounted winches, for timber extraction in environmentally sensitive areas.

Bandit guarding the Quads used in environmentally sensitive areas

We have two Skidders with Igland winches. The larger has a single drum 5.5 ton winch and the smaller a double drum 4 ton winch.

Skidding . . . two at a time . . .
Skidding . . . up close
Skidding . . . a whole lot

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Skidding . . .

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TIMBER  CONTRACTING - SECONDARY  EXTRACTION

Loading the Botex Trailer


We offer a secondary extraction service for the harvester teams that allows the forwarders to bring the timber to a primary stacking bay.


The timber is loaded on our Botex Trailer and taken to the  loading bay to be stacked on the timber lorries


Loading a big one on the Botex Trailer
Loading the timber
All neatly stacked

VALTRA AND BOTEX UNLOADING

(Video courtesy of Callum Todd)

The Botex Trailer
Ready to be filled again

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Secondary Extraction . . .

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. . . and some more . . .

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