Steves Carts and Railcraft question

[Lonewolf187]

Hello everyone:
I'm going to be using Steves carts for the first time in my new world, and I was thinking of using steves carts for a tree farm, however I was wondeing, will a cart unloader from Railcraft work with Steves Carts? Also I was thinking of using a basic solar engine with a cree cutter and side storage. Will a basic solar engine provide enough power for the tree cutter?

 

[Peppe]

Haven't used personally yet, but don't use only the solar engine on a tree cutter. Leaves are counted as an obstruction and your cart will likely stallout after the first tree or two. You should be swimming in combustable materials, so might as well use the regular engine or regular one as a backup and solar as the primary.

 

[Lonewolf187]

What size of trees can the tree cutter manage? Can it cutdown the big redwoods from Extrabiomes or the big rubber trees from Red Power2?

 

[dieselfuelonly]

I can tell you it can't handle the redwood saplings, I'm not sure about the RP2 rubber saplings. It doesn't seem to like to accept many saplings other than the "standard" ones, though I imagine it should work with the IC2 rubber trees.

Use a cargo manager and a cargo distributor to keep it running. I have a oak farm and here is my setup, I use a sorting machine to keep the cart fueled, it just burns excess wood since I am mainly after the saplings for biofuel. The rest is stored in barrels, the overflow goes to an extremely overpowered recycler that goes through the stacks like nothing.

Getting the sorting machine to correctly route the items and prioritize refueling the cart was a pain in the rear, but I eventually found that setting up the sorting machine to default route the items to a color (white), and not actually have any pipes painted that color (white), cause it to route the items correctly and send any overflow to the barrels, and finally to the recycler.

I took some screenshots of the setups and the configuration of the machines in case they may be any help to you, I struggled with it for a while so its a relief to have it up and running. When I actually need the wood I'll add charcoal into the mix for more efficiency, but as of now I still have tons and tons of excess wood.

 

[Sara Dr In te House]

Steve's Cart tree farm is the best tree farm for wood I have found. Can only use vanilla saplings only. The carts can use Railcraft's loaders and unloaders. Cargo Manager is better for the farm. Coal engine is the engine is the primary engine for a tree farm.

 

[MilConDoin]

Overview of my tree farm setup: http://imgur.com/a/iqIe0
No cargo distributor needed, everything is handled via managers + cargo manager.
Cart runs obviously with coal engine. (No fertilizer module added.)

 

[Tolgrimm]

Just want to add my voice to the Steve's Carts fans, it's a great mod. Runs a tree farm perfectly - but at this point you can't use anything else besides vanilla saplings. Which is a shame, but according to the wiki other saplings are a planned feature.

 

[tedyhere]

I agree with everyone else, once you have the farm setup it's a set it and forget it deal. I have a extra-dimensional barrel full of oak logs in about 3 days and am now working on birch wood. And my farm is maybe 30X30 which has been expanded from a 15X15. Well worth the five diamond start up cost

 

[Evil Hamster]

The steves carts treecutter cart zips right past IC2 rubber trees as if they don't exist