8 Acres to clear...... Smart or crazy

[dirtdog44]

You might think about getting a stump bucket for the loader to get out the stumps. Not sure how big your tractor is but my bobcat 743 and a home made stump bucket can take out a- 10 inch stump pretty quickly. The stumpbuckets can be bought for about 800-900 bucks. I have 300 in mine using steel I have around the house. awesom tool..

 

[andyz171]

So here are some pics from this past weekend's work. That is actually a pic of the overgrown barn you could see in some other older pics. Funny / not so funny side note: I got off tractor to move something from underneath, stood up hit top of my head on bucket...... Now have 6 staples in top of head. I bet I never do that again and pay more attention in the future. I'm fine and never even had a headache.

 

[herd]

Somebody said it earlier, you asked the wrong group: give someone $10,000 to do something for you or spend $10,000 extra on your toys. No brainer.

I am just winding up a similar project, about 2.5 acres adjacent to my house. Was clear cut a few years back, grew back up naturally with mostly oak, gum, and cherry scrubs, about 8-10 feet tall. Also, windrow left over fm loggin and many large pine stumps. I had a loose estimate fm a contractor of somewhere between $5,000 to $7500 to clear it but I don't have that kind of extra money anymore.

So, I burned it off, burned off the windrow as much as possible, and then went to work with my disc harrow, bush hog, middle buster, and landscape rake. Been about 6 weeks working off and on but I will be finished by week's end, and I am very, very pleased with the outcome.

Lots and lots of hard work, working along, but it has been my highest paying project yet, in other words, compared to everything else I've done, I paid myself real well on this one. Of course, it has helped tremendously that I can burn here, as so much of the debris had to be burned.

ou can do it yourself, just go for it and keep up posted.

 

[Ranger Rick]

So here are some pics from this past weekend's work. That is actually a pic of the overgrown barn you could see in some other older pics. Funny / not so funny side note: I got off tractor to move something from underneath, stood up hit top of my head on bucket...... Now have 6 staples in top of head. I bet I never do that again and pay more attention in the future. I'm fine and never even had a headache.

And next week the nurse will use a staple remover to take out the staples. Ask me how I know. I had been using the bucket to push a new fence post into an old post hole and had gotten off to check if it was in the ground far enough, It was but some how I did not have the bucket as high as I thought and stood up and did like you did. 6 staples no pain just a hard lesson. :laughing: I am sure ew will not be the last people to hit there head on the bucket.
Rick

 

[kubotakid USA]

If I were doing this selective clearing, Id look for a used backhoe attachment, Ive seen some off from ditchwich trenchers go for about 1500.00 It will save alota wear n tear on that nice tractor, and you can take out an 18 in tree with some seat/learning time, pretty eaisly, you might want to sell after your done or NOT,... If you can do fab work great, If not the adaptor is pretty simple to make any welding shop can do it, (the 3 pt adaptor). Besides removing stumps, If you need a drain field done,.It will pay off just doing that, along with the MANY other projects that come along,. :thumbsup: Eric

 

[Localmotion]

We are wanting to clear out the underbrush of about 8 acres, which to us means leaving trees about 1 ft in diameter and larger.

I've received estimates from dozer guys all around $10,000 to do the job.

Wish we could charge €6,700 ($10,000) here! In Spain the same sort of work (depending upon terrain of course) could cost you no more than half that!

Maybe we should move to the US... :laughing:

Personally I would put that $10,000 towards purchasing your own kit, or hire in the machinery to use yourself & save a lot of money :thumbsup:

 

[andyz171]

So I have not updated in a while because last time out work I un-earthed a body in a shallow grave. This is not a joke, it's been a really weird week dealing with cops, news, ect. I cannot give details because it's an open case an body is still unidentified. Thanks to you all telling me to do clearing with my tractor we were able to recover this body, a dozer might have just rolled over and never noticed it. Here are the pics I can share, sorry nothing great.

 

[LarryD]

Now that tops anything anyone has ever found on their property. I'm sure your heart skipped a few beats when you realized just what you had unearthed.

 

[Soundguy]

dang.. now if that just don't beat all.

soundguy

 

[LoveTheSmellofDiesel]

Wow, now that is a find... Just out of curiousity if you can share - why the extended ladder over the tree tops for a body found on the ground? Pictures?