Mini/midi ex land clearing on slope

[Peter 315]

I am willing to wager that "hay dude" is INFINITELY MORE CAPABLE than any ordinary .... "hay dude"!

Well maybe...:stirthepot:

 

[Hay Dude]

To finish, you run the mulching head while backing up so it looks like it was finish graded. I don't understand why someone so "rich" wants expert landscaping done on a "estate" by a hay dude with limited experience.:confused3: I'm not rich or have a fancy estate but am glad I hired the experts. :cool2:

WTH??
Listen to me, roughdog you cant run a 20 ton machine in between mature trees and across delicate streams. You cant even get it up their driveway. :laughing: and BTW, its not landscaping, its land clearing

Limited experience you say? Ive cleared hundreds of acres of land using both my CX-15 and a farm tractor and using tracked rentals. I know you can back up and make it look finish graded. I dont just farm hay.
If you look at the title of the thread, it was clearing a slope with a mini/midi ex. It has evolved into renting a skid for the task. Let me also educate you that you dont have to own every piece of equipment to be competent with using it. Many companies rent or lease equipment to do tasks very competently every day.
Thanks for the insult, BTW

 

[Hay Dude]

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This is the idea you need. It would be slow with this outfit but you could go around trees easily and slopes are not a concern.

The pictures are a quarter turn out but you get the idea.

Are you joking? :laughing:
I have a Deere CX-15. We are well past the capability of a garden tractor with a 5 light duty cutter. :laughing:
Im clearing 30 foot tall autumn olive and sweet gum with 4-5 inch bases. Your residential duty field mower would be destroyed in an hour. Your tractor would be stuck before that. I can’t even get a 150HP farm tractor with 4wd and AG tires in there. :laughing:

 

[RickB]

If you can't sell the job using a CTL and mulcher at a fair profit just walk away. Let them figure it out on their own.

 

[Hay Dude]

If you can't sell the job using a CTL and mulcher at a fair profit just walk away. Let them figure it out on their own.

Exactly.
Waiting to hear back from them this week.

At the end of the day, its the hay ground Im after more than the clearing. They presented me with 2 tasks, the land clearing and the hay mowing/field mowing. If I wouldnt do the land clearing, they may have moved away from me and given it to someone else. Along with that could go the hay ground. So theres more incentive to do the clearing than just getting the clearing.

I do clear land as part of the services my company offers, so both are in my line of work.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

To finish, you run the mulching head while backing up so it looks like it was finish graded. I don't understand why someone so "rich" wants expert landscaping done on a "estate" by a hay dude with limited experience.:confused3: I'm not rich or have a fancy estate but am glad I hired the experts. :cool2:

You have a valid point.

 

[Hay Dude]

You have a valid point.

No, he doesnt. You are out of your league.

 

[ruffdog]

You have a valid point.

Well, if the rich estate owners always try to go cheap on big jobs, maybe that is why they have trust issues. Did other jobs go bad? Just sayun.....:confused3:

 

[Hay Dude]

Well, if the rich estate owners always try to go cheap on big jobs, maybe that is why they have trust issues. Did other jobs go bad? Just sayun.....:confused3:

Look I dont know why you are so far off topic and getting personal, but you have no idea what you are talking about.
Just because you brought in a 15-20 ton forestry logger size machine onto your frozen tundra to clear your back twenty doesnt mean people of wealth want the same log skidder size unit on their property tearing up streams, and tagged trees nearby on ground with mud on top.
Its a job for a small track machine.
The trust issue is personal to them. They dont go cheap on big jobs or have trust issues. They are smart and don’t want their land compacted and destroyed. They dont want a big machine on wheels. A machine like this would destroy their land :confused3:

 

[ruffdog]

They dont want a bunch of idiots in there tearing up their property with a big machine on wheels. A machine like this would destroy their land :confused3:

Sounds like a job for manual labor then. Maybe a crew of 15 people with saws and follow up with goats?:goat: