Land Clearance
Alternative Techniques for Removing Trees and Bushes
This publication aims to give those not familiar with the subject of land clearance a general idea of the range of techniques and equipment available. It does not cover any aspect in detail but aims to advise those who may occasionally have to administer land clearance of the different methods that could be used for removing trees and bushes.
Published: 1981
Pages: 72
eBook: 9781780444123
Paperback: 9780903031776
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PREFACE 1 | |||
| INTRODUCTION 2 | |||
| PLANNING LAND CLEARANCE " 6 | |||
| APPROACHES TO LAND CLEARANCE 10 | |||
| TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT 12 | |||
| KILLING STANDING TREES AND BUSHES 14 | |||
| Fire 15 | |||
| Biological control 17 | |||
| Ring barking 18 | |||
| Chemical treatment of individual trees & | |||
| bushes with arboricides 20 | |||
| Mistblowers 23 | |||
| Aerial spraying 25 | |||
| UPROOTING WHOLE TREES AND BUSHES 26 | |||
| Hand uprooting tools 27 | |||
| Hand winch 29 | |||
| Draught animals 31 | |||
| Tractor (direct pull) 34 | |||
| Tractor winch 36 | |||
| Tractor-mounted tree extractor 38 | |||
| Bulldozing 40 | |||
| Two tracklayers with chain 43 | |||
| CUTTING THROUGH THE TRUNK AT GROUND LEVEL 44 | |||
| Hand cutting tools 45 | |||
| Hand-held clearing saw 47 | |||
| Chainsaw 49 | |||
| Tractor-mounted slasher 51 | |||
| Tracklayer with roller-crusher 53 | |||
| Tracklayer with shearing blade 55 | |||
| REMOVING STUMPS 57 | |||
| Hand digging tools 58 | |||
| Root hook 60 | |||
| Explosives & burning . 62 | |||
| Tractor-mounted stump extractor 63 | |||
| Tractor-mounted stump chipper 64 | |||
| Bulldozers, rakes and root ploughs 66 | |||
| LAND CLEARANCE AT THREE LEVELS OF INVESTMENT 68 | |||
| FURTHER READING 71 |
Rob Hitchings
Rob Hitching's business, ApT Design and Development, based in Gloucestershire, England, designs and makes a wide variety of village-scale equipment for workshops in both developing and industrialised countries.
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