Thanks for the welcome Matt! Everyone here seems real nice and I have enjoyed perusing the various mulching related threads. Nice to see others on here representing the business. How's the new venture panning out for you these days?
Scooby- Thanks alot for the compliments! I try to at least check in once a day, but the next few weeks are looking interesting in terms of free time (or lack thereof.) It's ok, I just stay up late anyway!
I'll be getting some more pics up in the coming days. I have at least a year's worth of photos that I'm just itching to show. I also have some nice heavy iron pics from my previous employer.
Regarding the swamps, if we can, we will cut right through them. You know it's wet when you can't walk by foot over the swamp grasses! If we can't get a machine through, then yes, we will either cut our way around or trailer around to the other end or sideway of the ROW and work our way back to the swamp. In terms of other wetlands, we have to keep the impact to a minimum. I usually try to avoid crossing any wetlands or streams, but if that's not possible I keep my route over them confined to one area to minimize the disturbance and release of sediment downstream.
And unfortunately, I do not have a winch. If I'm on a job with a skidder that has a winch or another machine that I can run a cable between, I will usually get a tiny more daring. If there is no winch nearby, I just call it quits when the machine starts to swim! There's a fine line between being "ballsy" and finding yourself down for a day because your machine is 4ft down in mud and you have to dig it out.
