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Originally Posted by Robbie Hegwood Around here all people have is time and will price you against everybody.
They do a similiar process here. A cat953 for 100 or less an hour which at the most takes a day for an acre and then a tub grind everything. I've heard varing prices on grinding. Was told 1500.00 setup fee and 250.00 per hour to grind. Which would get to the same 3000-3500 or so.
Uva you are correct. The less manuvering you have to do the better. I'm still working on some part time help for that. My dad just retired and has helped me some but I think he'd rather be retired and not try to keep up with me.
Quickdraw, if you can run the Bobcat and them go directly to the ASV the difference will be staggering. That's about how I did it and was sold after the first 10 min. in the ASV. So much power and machine comfort. Robbie |
I paid $425 an hour for a 360HP Vermeer tub grinder and an excavator to feed it last summer in East Tennessee. No setup fee. Luckily, I also paid a friend $50 an hour for his little Komatsu dozer, which
cut the total grinding time in almost half -- he kept the slash pushed to the excavator so all it had to do was sit still and feed the grinder. No wasted time on the grinder at all. He also used the dozer to push the mulch out of the way and pile it. Bottom line is that it cost me about $5000 just to get rid of the slash and brush from a 1/2 acre clearing operation -- that doesn't count the cost of the actual clearing work itself....
However, they were grinding everything under 12" plus the larger treetops that were too knotty for lumber. We
cut a little over 12,000 board feet of pine out of that area, then cleared and ground up the smaller stuff. Some of the white pines were 36" on the stump...
Re: Business plans for Mulching 
The longer you can put that first payment off the better. And make sure when you sign the finance papers you get them to put the max time before the first payment is due. Usually 45 days.
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