It's tree removal time!

[EddieWalker]

Re: It\'s tree removal time!

We cut three pieces of 2 inch angle iron and welded it together in order to deflect those trees.

 

[EddieWalker]

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After doing such a nice job welding on the dozer, Bobby took her for a spin.

 

[EddieWalker]

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I usually have a big smile on my face when operating the dozer. Bobby is thinking some pretty deep thoughts here, but I'm unsure if he's having fun or not.

 

[LarryD]

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Eddie, you need to get one of these to keep the fire going. I had 4 big piles on my place after clearing and this fan will make a little furnace out of those piles. Cuts burn time and a hot fire has less smoke.

Pocket Cyclone

I'm sure there are other manufacturers but this is the one my local rental carries. Be very careful with the fan, if it tips over and the blade breaks, it's gonna cost you. My neighbor found out the hard way /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Taylortractornut]

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Ill agree on the cyclones. I make a few by going to auctions and getting the exhaust fans out of them when available. They mostly run 3 hp at 17cfm I take a 5 hp horizontal shaft engin and make them mobile. I make skids or a trailer and put a pivot trunion on them. The good part about them is a 55 gallon drum just fits over the end and we cut the ends out of several and tack them together to fit into the heart of the fire. They usually work out good.

 

[EddieWalker]

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It's been long enough for those trees to dry out enough to burn.

I had a guy out who wanted to the pines, which I gave him for free, but after a few trips, he hasn't been back in a couple months. Not sure why, he doesn't return my emails. Oh well, time to burn them.

Here is the rake on my dozer.

 

[EddieWalker]

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The trees are where I left them, but now they are all dried out.

 

[EddieWalker]

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The rake does a real nice job of holding onto the trees without digging up the ground. I can even push more at a time with the rake!

 

[EddieWalker]

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Here is the load being added to the burn pile.

 

[EddieWalker]

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The fire has been going for a few weeks now. When it gets to hot out to work on my workshop, I take a break on the dozer. Every day I add a few loads to the fire, punch it up and let it burn.

 

[EddieWalker]

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Time to fire up the burn pile. For now, I'm just interested in trying to clean up the trees I've had on the ground since I started building my workshop and home.

Eddie

 

[Highbeam]

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You must have gotten the dozer running. My logger is burning now too. It is time to clean up the summer's messes.

 

[EddieWalker]

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This has been burning for about two weeks. Every morning, more trees are added to it.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

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Highbeam,

It's running really strong all of a sudden. Not sure what happened, because I was ready to pull the pump. I got awesome power again, so it will keep running until it blows up, or stops in it's tracks. LOL

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

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While the fire has been burning, I've been clearing my trails and moving some dirt. That's not even close to being done, but it's a low priority for now.

Burning trees and cleaning things up is my present priority. The best tool I have for this is my rake on the dozer. The problem I'm having with it is the teeth are over 12 inches apart, and I'm losing lots of small branches while pushing piles of trees.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

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My neighbor had a rake built for a small dozer with the teeth only 6 inches apart. It does an amazing job at getting all the small stuff.

My teeth are 1 3/8 thick by 5 inches and overall, it's ten feet wide. Pretty substantial, but it could use seme improvement.

I thought about putting another tooth between the existing ones, but haven't come up with a good way to mount them to maintain the same level of strength.

Then I thought about putting wire mesh across them to catch all the branches, but changed my mind when I considered all the dirt it would hold.

My solution was to weld 5/8 rebar across the teeth to catch those branches I'm losing.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

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Rake is back on and ready for a test run.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

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Well, this didn't work out very well at all. As you can see in the pic, all the rebar is gone. In just a few hours, it all broke of in pieces.

I'm thinking that 160 hp, 40,000 pounds and trees that are all tangled up and being moved hundreds of feet over uneven terrain is more stress and preasure than the rebar is capable of handleing. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Next I'm thinking about welding a piece of 1 1/2 inch angle iron I have across the teeth.

Any suggestions?

Eddie

 

[Highbeam]

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I built a rake that ultimately wasn't up to the task of doing everything in one pass. It was plenty strong for the cleanup though. So I would suggest moving all the big stuff with the rake as is and then trying the rebar again for the clean up of the little stuff. Kind of a finish mower effect.

 

[ScottAR]

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Musta had a valve stuck open or somthing...