Man I Love This Work!- ARPlante's Pic Thread

[jayste]

How's the performance of the mower? Looks like it's taking down some pretty good size saplings. About how much ground speed can you maintain average? Also, I noticed your lock on the hitch of your trailer. Do you have any problems being so far out in the "boonies"?

 

[ARPlante]

The mower works well on material up to 4". In those pictures I'm mowing at about 2-3mph. I used the mower alot on this job, as there were rocks all over the ground that I could not see and avoid with the mulcher.

In regards to the lock, I haven't had any problems yet Whether the lock has ensured that or not, I don't know, but at least I have everything still and it is all in one piece.

 

[jinman]

Andy, you've given me a new hobby. Everytime I drive by a powerline or pipeline right-of-way, I judge on a scale of 1 to 10 how much they need your services. There are a few below 5, but most are 7 to 10. With all the gas pipelines going in on the Barnett Shale gas field here in Texas, ROW clearing is going to be a line of work with increasing opportunities.:thumbsup:

 

[ARPlante]

Haha! I'm glad I've given you a new hobby jinman:thumbsup: I'm excited to see the future of mulching and mowing the ROWs of this country myself.

 

[ARPlante]

This next project was done last November and December. For the first month, I was tasked with helping another mowing crew clear vegetation on various natural gas pipelines in Connecticut. Fun project and was a great project for the trackloader since the terrain had limited rocks and was pretty flat.

 

[ARPlante]

The next few pics are from the same project. They show a couple good before and after pics around a house the gas line ran past.

 

[ARPlante]

The next set of pics is a couple before and after pics of a small ROW, a "striping" job in the grass of another section of ROW, and then the building of a "bridge" to get the trackloader across a stream to access another section of ROW.

 

[ARPlante]

This next set was from about a mile of powerline ROW in Avon, CT. Really rough terrain with a lot of snow, ice, and rocks. I was able to use the trackloader a little at the beginning and middle of the project on some of the flatter terrain with a lot of vegetation, but after that it was mostly done with the newest addition to my company's fleet- a Deere 50D with 40" US Mower head.

 

[ARPlante]

A quick shot of "the fleet:"

 

[ARPlante]

And finally, a few shots of the "views" from the job: