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Originally Posted by perdurabo  I will absolutely never hire out for dirt/dozer work again. I have used three different guys and so far none of them did exactly what I wanted to and they always had all kinds of lame excuses why they had to do things differently or they couldn't burn the burnpile like I asked or they took longer to do a job, etc. I have never been satisfied with any dozer operator's work and I'd rather rent a dozer and do it myself, even if it means taking longer since Im inexperienced since apparently I am the only one capable of grasping what I want to do (and no Im not overly picky here... the operators I hired were mostly just lazy).
Theres no way in **** I'm going to pay anyone $5k for only 40 hours of work. ****, I know surgeons who don't even make that kind of money. Thats absolutely nuts. I would prefer to do as much work as I can with my 30HP tractor and what work I can't do, I'll rent a dozer and do the rest myself.
The question is, what exactly CAN I do with my small tractor and what exactly do I need to have to get it done? |
Reading your post makes me feel even more blessed. I recently had some dozer work done and the guy did nearly exactly what I asked him to do. In a couple areas he deviated, but that resulted in less work for me and more productivity from him. Basically, he did what I wanted and not what I told him.
It would sure suck to have the bad experience you had.
I have a 34
hp tractor and a medium duty (1100 pound) 5' brush cutter. It could only really deal with 2" hardwood or 3" soft wood. From my personal experience, you can't do jack squat productively with a 30hp tractor for clearing land with 4" and larger trees. Sure, you can do it, but it would be a full time job, would take years and destroy the machine.
I would talk to "cbturf" and determine when he is traveling from TN to NM and see if he can zip down and do the work for you. I don't know him, but from his posts he seems like a decent sort. I think there are some other mulchers that post here that are from TX. Post up in the "construction" forum and see what response you get.
Other than that, maybe you can find a place to rent you a mulcher and a CTL?
Do you really know surgeons that get less than $5000 a week - before paying for the building, equipment, support staff, license, insurance, utilities, etc? Cuz that's the better example when comparing a mulcher that has $100,000 to $250,000 in equipment that will drink 200 to 1000 gal of diesel in 40 hours.