clearing land

[lumberjack1986]

A section is a square mile or 640 acres.

 

[Gary Fowler]

A section is 1 mile x 1 mile square and consists of 640 acres so a half section is 320 acres or equivalent of 1 mile long x 1/2 mile wide. All land in the USA is marked of by section line and this is how your deed will list it by certain section or partial thereof.

 

[Gary Fowler]

If you have enough large timber, it may pay for the expense of coming behind them with the large tracked machines with the carbide teeth drums that are used to clear smaller trees and grind the trees and stumps below ground. Cant recall the technical term for them but several threads on TBN had discussed using them. NOTHING but chips left after they pass. Not cheap but then neither are dozers and you still have to pile and burn after dozers.

 

[bcp]

You need an "under the stump" variation of this joke.

Marijuana Firewood - Joke

Bruce

 

[ShearHeadMS]

A D9 will do the trick, but you could just as easy go buy a D6C with a KG or V blade and do the work yourself. A decent dozer can run you about 10-25k. A D9 has to many regulations with hauling and such, the the guys that have it will be sure to charge a nice sum per acre or worst case per hour. We just bought a D7E for 6k, put 4k in it and got a solid dozer out of it. Combine that with a 5k shear blade and your in business. And as far as mulching goes, stay away from it! Grazing cows and growing soybeans are to completely different things :laughing:

 

[Redbug]

Oh Lord! I thought it was a small area of land! ShearHead is right for that amount of land.

 

[Bison]

A D9 will do the trick, but you could just as easy go buy a D6C with a KG or V blade and do the work yourself. A decent dozer can run you about 10-25k. A D9 has to many regulations with hauling and such, the the guys that have it will be sure to charge a nice sum per acre or worst case per hour. We just bought a D7E for 6k, put 4k in it and got a solid dozer out of it. Combine that with a 5k shear blade and your in business. And as far as mulching goes, stay away from it! Grazing cows and growing soybeans are to completely different things :laughing:

I wonder were one can buy a decent cat for under 10k. For 6k all one can buy here is a pile of scrap iron.( i sold my 1950 AC-HD 10 with 13000 hrs on it for 6.5 k 2 years ago)I rebuild a D7E for a neighbor a couple years ago, guy paid 25 grand for that worn out 64 clonker, i put another 18 grand in parts and labor in it to get it rolling. It still needed sprockets and rollers and chains, bushings were worn plumb trough at places.
I'm kind of head shy of high hour old cats after that experience.
Mulching ain't no option either cause it is way to expensive at $400+ an hour and it also leaves a mess, i know cause i have a small fecon on a CTL myself (I wish I had never laid eyes on it :ashamed Its only good for landscaping a backyard.

I guess i could buy a cat at Ritchy bros for decent money but i hate to get stung.
What about a 78 Komatsu D65 ?. how good are these cats? There's one for sale not to far away from me,..comes with a 13'- 3-way tilt blade and ripper.I have not looked at it.

Maybe better to spend 50-60 + k for a good cat and sell it afterwards, even if i lose some on it i might be money ahead.

 

[ShearHeadMS]

Komatsu makes a decent dozer, notice the word "decent". You can find some of the older cats less than 10k. They will most likely have direct drive transmissions, cable blades and maybe a few undercarriage issues for a reasonable price. Personally I love the direct drive dozers, to me they put full power to the tracks and they don't over heat as much. Cable units can be a headache, but when it comes to rakeing they are faster and can lift higher than a hydrolic blade will. Now I'm sure somebody will jump on me like I'm a idot or something, but iv made more money running older equipment than I have running the new stuff. Keep an eye on machinery trader and iron planet, something good will come along eventually

 

[GreensForestryMulching]

A place by my parents has 1968 D7E for around $35k with a big v tree blade and brush protection ready to go. Undercarriage looks to be in pretty good shape. Its at Boyd and Sons in Washington Indiana.

 

[Bison]

A place by my parents has 1968 D7E for around $35k with a big v tree blade and brush protection ready to go. Undercarriage looks to be in pretty good shape. Its at Boyd and Sons in Washington Indiana.

I think i seen that one on machinery trader.
Is this the one?
http://www.boydandsons.com/machinery/equipment-for-sale/
Wadda ye think boys?
I wonder if that tree plow is removable or welded on?

But its a looooong way to get it up here $$$$,..Alaska is closer to me