As bored as me? Let's have a little fun. How would you tackle this scenario???

[Looking4new]

If you have any Tamaracks (Pine trees that loose their needles in winter) on the land other than good fence posts, they are useless. I certainly would NOT burn them in a stove. They burn way too fast and way too hot to be of any use in a stove/fireplace. They also make a huge mess with their needles.

 

[crazyal]

My advice, don't over think it. Unless you have a time frame of when the house needs to be built use what you have. A dozer is nice for making roads and clearing land for a house, that's why I have one. But if you have a full sized BH you can use that to do a lot and the box blade and FEl on your Kubota can make up most of what the dozer would do.

I would find a spot out of the way that you can make a trail to. One that you can drive the Deere on. Use it to move all the stumps out of the way into your stump dump. In the future you can deal with them. Despite what people say stumps can be great. If you have steep ravines you can drop the stumps into them to help keep the banks from washing out.

Bush is a pain. Just make piles off to the side with all the branches going the same direction. You can use the BH bucket to pinch them to the dipper and move the pile pretty easily. Most towns allow burning without a permit if there's snow on the ground so try not to spend too much time burning in the summer when you can be doing other things. Once late fall hits just start a pile of brush burning in the center of the clearing and move the brush from the other piles over to it and keep throwing brush into the fire either with the BH or a ATV to drag it. You could rent a full size chipper for a day and just spend the day feeding brush in it instead of burning.

Once that's done I would then spend a little time leveling the land unless you plan on building right off. The rippers on the box blade will help pull the roots out of the ground. You could get something like a middle buster or sub soiler if the BB isn't working well enough to pull up the roots. A simple chain link fence makes a pretty good drag to help smooth land. Once done get some grass growing.

 

[Piston]

Some good suggestions CrazyAl,
It looks like I'm not going to be able to get the backhoe up there until a little later on, maybe next month. So this time I'll just have the tractor to do some initial clearing.

Unfortunately, this weather is messing with my plans
I'm hoping that all this rain we're getting isn't going to make it too wet to work in the woods

 

[JRobyn]

My rec for burn pile is to have it away from the homesite. Ours is at the far-downslope edge of the septic field, plus about 100ft. With it sufficiently away from the build site, it doesn't interfere with any building activity, no matter WHEN we might want to burn. We had to wait over a year for the pine logs to dry sufficiently to burn much.

If it is right NEXT to the build site, every contractor and sub will throw any and every manner of unknown substance into it!! Make it a ways away, even if that means that you have to drag stuff to it. One of our subs started one right by the homesite and we had to put a quick stop to it. I'm still finding all manner of crap in that spot.

 

[KubotainNH]

Unfortunately, this weather is messing with my plans
I'm hoping that all this rain we're getting isn't going to make it too wet to work in the woods

The timing may not be so good for you but we really needed the rain. Good luck building, huge project but very rewarding.