The second section of forest at Inishconnell was marked for its first thinning in a similar way as was the first section. But the second section was more typical and more straight forward. It is just a pure stand of sitka spruce. There were two lines of poplar in it, but no other broadleaves apart [...]
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Yesterday evening I wandered down to the Cabin Woods with my red marking tape and worked my way through the trees marking those that I thought should be felled. I made a mental note at the end of last summer that some thinning needed to happen down there before this spring. The Cabin Woods is [...]
Timber stacked at roadside Peace and quiet has now returned to the forest at Inishconnell. All the big machines have left and the harvested timber has been collected and stacked at the roadside. Everything is still again. The thinning that was carried out over the last month was a first thinning. At twenty years [...]
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The thinning at Innishconnell forest has now finished. Padraig O’Reilly, who drives the forwarder, did great work. Very little damage was done to the remaining trees, and the ground was well protected with brash before he drove the trailer out with its loads of heavy logs. Have a look at the following photos and you [...]
The harvesting operations at Inishconnell have now almost finished. All the cutting is complete. Wesley and his harvesting machine have moved off to a nearby Coillte forest to continue work there. Below are some shots of the machine at work and what it has done: Look at the amount of logs coming out. Wesley has [...]
View from the harvesting machine as it enters the forest. Wesley guides the machine towards the first extraction line. See how small the trees look from up here. The thinning at Inisconnell is progressing and as the trees are felled, the light is flooding into the forest. Wesley is an experienced machine driver and [...]
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