Wealden Heartwood

Do you have a woodland that is unsuitable for heavy extraction equipment?

Wealden Heartwood uses specialist low impact machinery to ensure that the extraction footprint is minimal,specifically the Iron Horse.

Iron Horse features

• powered by a Honda GX 270 9 hp motor
• dimensions are only 108cm wide and 150cm high
• rubber tracked
• capacity of 500kg per load
• power winch with 20 metre cable for skidding logs to bunk with a pull capacity of 1090 kg (empty spool) and 750 kg (full spool)
• loads can also be lifted off the ground at both ends of the log using a sulky to enable transportation across lawned areas without rutting i.e. on golf courses, parkland and amenity open spaces
• Economical fuel consumption with 1.7 gallon tank

Benefits

• very low ground pressure avoids soil compaction. Continuous journeys over the same route has resulted in only a gradual grading of main extraction routes.
• can turn within 1 to 2 m depending on terrain and load
• suitable for soft timber extraction routes
• useable in areas inaccessible to larger machinery
• highly manouveurable around coppice stools, across streams and narrow routes
• avoid the need to create wide extraction racks
• extract long saw logs & pole lengths