YLee Kioti
Platinum Member
Hello folks
So as a new guy here already starting out to pick your brains.
This is a description of the property. Of the eight acres about 5 to 7 was heavily populated with large huisache.
It was cleared once by two dozers that got stuck and had to be recovered years ago. I spoke to the guy that did this work. The land is so deeply rutted it takes me three days to mow at a very slow speed.
In order to smooth out the grade I tried using the BB but cannot travel more then 30 feet before I'm at a dead stop from a 3-4in stump. The gent that cleared it years ago, told me it would be about a thousand an acre to root plow.
Wife looks shocked as she stares at me and asks now what? I go to Shiner and pick up a 28" Root grub plow from Armstong Ag. Works on small stuff but have such a dense population of the big stump that it takes me 3-4 minutes working the root and then trying agian at a 90 degree angle to pull them out.
Now mentally trying to estimate duration to clear these acres whew. So now I have a fab shop building me a serrated tooth bar like the Piranha that I can bolt on. These root balls are like pulling a 3 lb potato sack with a four foot tap root when they come out. They literally stop my machine dead.
If the serrated tooth bar does not help speed up the process then my next step is.....drum roll.... looking at the NX4510HST.
The thinking process is this. Another 1600 lbs plus almost 3200 lbs lift ability of the arms can help with the grubbing. Here is my approach. Dig in about 3 feet from stump dig aobut 4-6inches and then when contact is made lock diff. raise arms to try and pull them up.
I'm thinking the NX4510HST specs will meet the demands for clearing out these stumps.
For those already thinking why bother, here's why. I need to grade uphill (slight slope really) to fill all the ruts and contour the severely eroded areas for better rain drainage. Yep the center of our pasture is in a 500 year flood plain as well. One cannot walk the pasture with chancing an ankle twister its that bad. The previous owner(s) also had four 12 x 30 x 8 foot holes dug. He thought he could bury that much huisache ha boy he missed it. But left me the dang holes and mowing around and in them ain't no fun.
So that's it lots of hard grunt work left and do not want to spend all spring and summer and miss out on spring food plots, garden etc. If I'm gonnah spend a few thousand to root grub why spend once and enrich someone else when I can invest in a upgrade work tool we will still use after it's all finally cleared and got all purty yah know.....
OR you folks recommend another solution?
OK, I'm gonnah get my pop corn and sit back read the replies as they come in...for now night yah'll
So as a new guy here already starting out to pick your brains.
This is a description of the property. Of the eight acres about 5 to 7 was heavily populated with large huisache.
It was cleared once by two dozers that got stuck and had to be recovered years ago. I spoke to the guy that did this work. The land is so deeply rutted it takes me three days to mow at a very slow speed.
In order to smooth out the grade I tried using the BB but cannot travel more then 30 feet before I'm at a dead stop from a 3-4in stump. The gent that cleared it years ago, told me it would be about a thousand an acre to root plow.
Wife looks shocked as she stares at me and asks now what? I go to Shiner and pick up a 28" Root grub plow from Armstong Ag. Works on small stuff but have such a dense population of the big stump that it takes me 3-4 minutes working the root and then trying agian at a 90 degree angle to pull them out.
Now mentally trying to estimate duration to clear these acres whew. So now I have a fab shop building me a serrated tooth bar like the Piranha that I can bolt on. These root balls are like pulling a 3 lb potato sack with a four foot tap root when they come out. They literally stop my machine dead.
If the serrated tooth bar does not help speed up the process then my next step is.....drum roll.... looking at the NX4510HST.
The thinking process is this. Another 1600 lbs plus almost 3200 lbs lift ability of the arms can help with the grubbing. Here is my approach. Dig in about 3 feet from stump dig aobut 4-6inches and then when contact is made lock diff. raise arms to try and pull them up.
I'm thinking the NX4510HST specs will meet the demands for clearing out these stumps.
For those already thinking why bother, here's why. I need to grade uphill (slight slope really) to fill all the ruts and contour the severely eroded areas for better rain drainage. Yep the center of our pasture is in a 500 year flood plain as well. One cannot walk the pasture with chancing an ankle twister its that bad. The previous owner(s) also had four 12 x 30 x 8 foot holes dug. He thought he could bury that much huisache ha boy he missed it. But left me the dang holes and mowing around and in them ain't no fun.
So that's it lots of hard grunt work left and do not want to spend all spring and summer and miss out on spring food plots, garden etc. If I'm gonnah spend a few thousand to root grub why spend once and enrich someone else when I can invest in a upgrade work tool we will still use after it's all finally cleared and got all purty yah know.....
OR you folks recommend another solution?
OK, I'm gonnah get my pop corn and sit back read the replies as they come in...for now night yah'll
