Cleaning Up Substantial Yard Debris

[PlasterProspector]

What are your resources and capabilities? Can you rent and run a dozer? Excavator? Or hire someone with them?

Push it all into a pile and load it into a dump truck.

Where to haul it might be another issue. Will local dumps take it?

You see properties like this in Kentucky all the time. Sad that people are so lazy.

I like this idea. In the long run it would be easier to hire a guy with a dozer to do 1 day's work pushing it all in a pile. Then it's isolated. Later on you can hire a guy with a small excavator + thumb to load it onto a dump truck and haul it away, or you can rent a mini-ex with a thumb and load it onto your own trailer to haul away.

Much faster and more efficient than risking tractor tires and buying attachments.

Sadly, my soil is extremely soft and perpetually waterlogged. I'd worry about a dozer getting around ok.

I recently purchased a skeleton (rock) bucket with two grapple lids on it. I have been using this on my skid steer (with foamed tires) cleaning 20 years of trash off my property. I found that by pushing the skeleton bucket into the pile at ground level, I eliminated much of the degris that would likely damage my tires. I separated the trash from the salvageable metals and hauled the trash to the landfill (where they charged me to dump) and the metals to the salvage yard (where they paid me to dump). In all, it took about 5-8yd loads in my newly acquired 7X16X2 14K dump trailer. The dump fees were pretty much offset by the payments from the metal salvage

While not as extensive a project as yours, I had a lot of fun doing it. I live in West Texas where the dirt is usually pretty dry so it sifted through the tines (2.5" spacing between tines) on the skeleton bucket very nicely.

How about hooking a dump trailer to your tractor 3 point and pulling it to the area that you are going to work on. Then loading trash or salvage with a grapple rake attached to your FEL. Take the loaded trailer to the dump or salvage yard. Now you only have to handle the junk once.

I've also got an F250 so I was looking into dump trailers. The way we've been mostly clearing it is slowly piling the stuff, then having multiple people handload my bucket rapidly which I then zip over to a big dumpster with. I'd love a grapple and a dump trailer but the disposal costs are already nuts. I'm well over $2000 just in disposal fees so far.

 

[kennagedye]

I can do my yard cleaning myself. Of course, it takes a lot of energy to clean the yard during the thaw. After all, a lot of garbage, which came because of the strong winter wind, remains on the lawn. You have to go over every piece of land in front of the house and behind it. Every three months, I do a general cleaning of my house. Sometimes I start with the yard, or rather the front yard. Because of that, I don't have the energy to clean the inside of the house. That's why I've called Crown Cleaners several times, who have done everything much better than I have. After the employees of this cleaning company come in, my house has a completely different air. You should know that your house's cleanliness depends on the yard's cleanliness because we bring trash into the house, even on our shoes.