mulching buisness?

[jakeannieandlukesdad]

where would you start. i think there would be a market in my area because noone has one. I have a T300 already that i use around the farm and looking to try to help it pay for itslef. What would be a good head for this machine.

Did you ever get your forestry mulching business started?? Have you made any contact that are of help?? I would be interested in starting one, there is no one here that does it much. Let me know what you find out. Thanks!

 

[Ford tractor]

Did you ever get your forestry mulching business started?? Have you made any contact that are of help?? I would be interested in starting one, there is no one here that does it much. Let me know what you find out. Thanks!

I looked into this for my area a few years back. Seems that there used to be 3-4 different outfits in the area over the years and they all failed and moved to the south where they could get higher pay and more work. You may want to talk to the forestry companies in your area to see if that's the case in your area too.

 

[circle a farms]

Have not started yet, my site work buisness has picked up some. Was
wanting to inqure about a good head for small (10" or less) hardwood
and softwood. Something that a T300 could carry?

 

[ripbearer]

I need to rent something for clearing right of ways and trails on my 196 acre wildlife ranch. This is old clear cut land that has been overran with new growth. There are some random stumps that whomever cleared years ago did not remove. Can someone point me in the right direction as to where to rent a Bobcat with a "mulcher" type attachment for clearing small trees, stumps and undergrowth? I live in the Clarksville,TX 75426 area.

 

[jgrreed]

I need to rent something for clearing right of ways and trails on my 196 acre wildlife ranch. This is old clear cut land that has been overran with new growth. There are some random stumps that whomever cleared years ago did not remove. Can someone point me in the right direction as to where to rent a Bobcat with a "mulcher" type attachment for clearing small trees, stumps and undergrowth? I live in the Clarksville,TX 75426 area.

Try Fecon (or Ironwolf, etc) directly. I think a Fecon Rep piped in here about 2 months ago and made a suggestion to someone who was looking to rent.

I was actually surprised to hear the anyone rented them, they are very maintenance-intense. I'd think that you may need to just hire an owner/operator.

-Jer.

 

[fishfactor]

In most cases, a local mulcher can come do the work for about the same as the rental after you figure in all of your expenses (fuel, transportation, things that you break/damage). There is also a long learning curve. After a few weeks, you would be OK at running the mulcher where an experienced operator would have been finished a long time ago.

In my area, a bobcat T320 with mulcher rents for $3200 a week and a fecon FTX 140 for about $4000. However, many will not rent to someone without experience because of the risk of damage. We rent occasionally when we need a extra machine on the job.

 

[brin]

" No matter what anyone tells you, old fencing, cable, and farm implements that are in the middle of the woods are not your friends!

> fishfactor....so right you are ..I hired a mulcher to mulch about 8 acres for me and showed him exposed tv cable ...about 80 feet of it coiled up off to the side at the wood line where the cable company had left it..I told him to be careful there and not get it tangled in his mulcher head...after I showed him what I wanted done...I left and returned a few hours later to see his progress...You guessed it he was on his knees with a knife trying to cut the cable I had warned him about from the mulcher head..I helped him and we got it free in a few minutes...So even if you know it's there it will get you unless you listen when warned and take away before you start and get distracted..

 

[shender944]

Just because somone has a machine and says they mulch for a living dosent meen they are good operators. I saw a guy run head on into a large pine with the push bar on his mulching head then go around the tree and back right into the same pine once again knocking bark off the tree and scratching up his back door. I also saw this same operator destroy 7 carbide teeth on a T320 rental when he tried to mulch some underbrush that was growing out of a gully filled with steel trash (wheels, T post, old washer ect.. ) He got to close to the edge and the T 320 went in nose first stricking the mulching head.

But I still find its usually more cost effective to hire a good owner operator rather than renting after time and fuel is figured.