
Land Clearance
Alternative Techniques for Removing Trees and Bushes
Published: 1981
Pages: 72
eBook: 9781780444123
Paperback: 9780903031776
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii | |||
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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.