Pictures from a skid steer mowing contractor

[Rustyiron]

A lot of people don't even consider the amount of time that going around obstacles, trees, downed trees, brush piles etc can add to a job rather than just being able to go straight and keep a consistent steady pace.

You got that right Charlie!
I did the annual mowing yesterday, maybe 25 ac. and he wanted to try leaving some low bush blueberries. I ended up with a bunch of bastard corners that reqired reversing. I probably could have cut 5 ac in the time I spent just jockeying the tractor around, and it's hillside.

He likes the job the flail mulcher does over rotary, but it doesn't cut moving backwards like a rotary, but he liked it enough to voluntarily add $200 to my check.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

You got that right Charlie!
I did the annual mowing yesterday, maybe 25 ac. and he wanted to try leaving some low bush blueberries. I ended up with a bunch of bastard corners that reqired reversing. I probably could have cut 5 ac in the time I spent just jockeying the tractor around, and it's hillside. View attachment 1511106
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He likes the job the flail mulcher does over rotary, but it doesn't cut moving backwards like a rotary, but he liked it enough to voluntarily add $200 to my check.

I sympathize with you because all of that adds time to the job and many is the time you have other jobs that you are planning on heading to and time is money but at least the money he added on helped offset the additional time you spent on the job, looks like you did him a nice clean job with the flail mower. P.S. that is a beautiful view off that hilltop that you mowed.

 

[Rustyiron]

The leaves are almost peak colors.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Back to the moto cross track on Kanapaha Prarie that I mow 2 times a year except this year I have some extra days sawing up down live oak trees and limbs from hurricane Helene, it may not show the best in the photos but there are a pile of trees and brush in that pile, hope everyone has a good week. Charlie.

 

[EddieWalker]

What do you do with the trees after you cut them up? Leave them there in a pile? Burn them there? or haul them off? Is there a place to dispose of trees there?

 

[Lineman North Florida]

This customer has a tree company with a loader truck on speed dial, he will call them and when the hurricane debris pick up work slows down they will come pick it up, his wife is against any kind of herbicide spraying and doesn't like burning either, if all goes well I plan on burning another pile tomorrow at another customers place. There is a place that has a giant tub grinder that takes tree and tree debris which they in turn sell it to a local bio-mass power plant, that's where all this will end up.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Another little hurricane tree cleanup today, some of these jobs take me about as long to get there and unload than they do to do the job, but they pay good.

 

[EddieWalker]

Probably the worse vehicle to get behind on the road is the yard guys pulling a trailer full of branches and logs. They are always overloaded, driving way under the speed limit, and usually you'll see something on the road that fell off their trailer. I'm sure some are better then others, but it's impossible to know for sure until you are passed them!!!

 

[Lastkidpicked]

Lineman, I noticed in your last pick that you are using a split tilt trailer. Do you recommend it for a person with a compact tractor and brush hog?

Do you find any limitations with it?

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Probably the worse vehicle to get behind on the road is the yard guys pulling a trailer full of branches and logs. They are always overloaded, driving way under the speed limit, and usually you'll see something on the road that fell off their trailer. I'm sure some are better then others, but it's impossible to know for sure until you are passed them!!!

The kind of truck he gets to come has a body with high sides , so everything is inside with virtually no way to lose anything, they charge on average $400 per load to haul it away.