forest scarification

[barniescamp]

Im not sure if I'm posting in the right forum but, does anyone on here have experience with forest scarification ??
What kind of machine is recommended ?? (Tigercat 635D) ?
Does this type of work pay ??

[Ron Scott]

There are many scarification methods to use depending upon your objectives and ecosystem. What are you wanting to achieve, natural regeneration, planting, seeding, etc.?

[barniescamp]

There are many scarification methods to use depending upon your objectives and ecosystem. What are you wanting to achieve, natural regeneration, planting, seeding, etc.?

They (Ministry of Natural Resources) are looking to plant seedlings. and the way I understood they want the terrain tilled in rows for these seedlings

[Northern Logger]

I've done some of this in Ontario.  It generally requires large skidders.  JD648, 748 and 848s and Cat 235 and 245s are commonly used for this type of work.  It's extremely hard on machinery, for there is always a constant load.

[Ron Scott]

Have done many acres over the years. For hand planting made furrows in advance of hand planting with a Killefer plow pulled behind a crawler tractor with V blade. For machine planting, used a Wildland planting machine pulled by a crawler tractor with a V blade. The crawler was usually of the John Deere 450 size class for our terrain here in Michigan.
Larger units may be used, but then the costs go up of course.

Timberjack and John Deere skidders were also used some, but we preferred the crawler with V blade units for better scarification and lower cost on our clearcut areas.

[thecfarm]

Had to look that up in the FF dictionary.