Clearing 1/2 Acre...You Want How Much???

   / Clearing 1/2 Acre...You Want How Much??? #71  
stump fences were used. They wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea and probably looked ugly at first, oh say the first 40 years or so. Now what is left (that hasn't been dragged off by neighbors for their front yards) is quite picturesque (think old eroded driftwood).

Pics please? I'd love to see that!

I'm trying to clear 5 acres of clearcut from last November myself!

David
 
   / Clearing 1/2 Acre...You Want How Much???
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Kyle - Beautiful property!
We're in the same boat.....we need tractors with grapples....:D:thumbsup:


Tks. Yup, a grapple is one implement I have been looking at but they are not cheap along with the extra valve. It would be a great asset though for me so I'll keep it near the top of the list....got to get a plow and disc first!
 
   / Clearing 1/2 Acre...You Want How Much??? #73  
Pics please? I'd love to see that!

I'm trying to clear 5 acres of clearcut from last November myself!

David
Most of the old stump fence is but a fond memory from my youth, but here are some shots I took a couple of years ago:

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   / Clearing 1/2 Acre...You Want How Much??? #74  
Most of the old stump fence is but a fond memory from my youth, but here are some shots I took a couple of years ago:

Very Interesting!
Thanks!
David
 
   / Clearing 1/2 Acre...You Want How Much??? #75  
I have trees along my fenceline that need to go away. Atlas, a local bobcat dealer has compact track loader with a mulching head. I could take out most of the scrap trees with that. I think they rent it it out for 9000 a month, or less time proportrionaely. I am am old guy that wants to get the job done with the least amount of physical abuse.
 
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So I have chipped all the trees and brush this past weekend. It cost me a total of $230 for the chipper (8") and another $68 for fuel and two solid days of me slugging it out. It was a tough two days as it exhausted me with all the rain that caused everything to be slippery plus some of the brush piles were too tightly put together, I had to chainsaw some of the brush just to get it freed up. Now I have a half dozen big piles of chips and some stumps that need to be pushed off to the corner for eventual burning. I'll take some pics today, it's not all pretty as I need to get in there now and level some areas and clean up the small bits of twigs, etc. I am hoping some of that may break down further over the winter.
 
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Finally got some pics yesterday of the area that I am cleaning out. What's left over is some large 12"+ pieces poplar and old rotted white birch and a bunch of stones (of course). I want to try an level the area bit with my BB but it's been so wet lately that I have not tried.

A couple shots of last weekend's chipping adventure:

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   / Clearing 1/2 Acre...You Want How Much??? #78  
I have an old 4x4 1 ton and a borrowed nephew. We could make short work of all those trees with just a chain. Ole' Blue Bess will pull those trees out like pulling up weeds. Cleared with her before, only problem was stirring up all the trash in the old in cab tank.
 
   / Clearing 1/2 Acre...You Want How Much??? #79  
Good luck with your project.

Cleaning up a half acre can be a tougher than it seems. I did ½ acre along my property line over the last year with my 18.000 LB excavator with Blade and thumb. & Kubota L39 with bucket, hoe, & Grapple. I bet I have 150 hours total time.

I cleaned up a strip averaging 40' to 50' feet wide x 600' long.

I live in NH, lots of rocks, Terrain is hilly. Very, very dense growth. I removed all the pine, left a few nice firs. I also let stand left the larger oak, elm ash and maples that were not in the way of the +600 road thru the woods that I cut along my boundary line which runs next to a rock wall.

The amount of wood and brush in a half acre can be incredible. I burned three piles of stumps, logs limbs, and brush, each pile larger than a greyhound bus. The road turned out nice, as it allows access to the pasture without running equipment through the field and is also a scenic and fun ride for horses, the RTV 900 or dirt bikes.

A small dozer is great for grading and works quickly, but the excavator with blade and the box blade and york rake on a tractor did just fine.

A small dozer does not have the guts to push down and remove roots of average trees, and any dozer that can is sized to clear, not selectively clean up woods.

I have never seen a Mulcher in New Hampshire. Some machine heads are designed with carbide fails, etc, but the ledge and boulders arund here would mess them up fast. I imagine in other parts of the country, a mulcher is the best way to clear.

All in all land clearing can be a lot of work.
 
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