Removing Quaking Aspen

[Jim Timber]

Aspen is soft enough you can chew them quickly with a stump grinder. How many stumps are we talking here?

Maybe a weekend's rental of a skidsteer and a stump grinder would get you to where you could brush hog it?

 

[slowzuki]

If its like here the density is very high, thousands per acre. Not really stump grinding territory. If you doze out the stumps you could bushhog it for a few years and the trees will stop coming up for a while.

 

[Gator6x4]

I would walk over the area and count the stumps. As you are counting the stumps, use red marking spray paint to mark stumps. Them contact someone with a track hoe and dozer. Obtain a price for using the track hoe to extract the stumps and then use the dozer to pile them up. Stump extraction with a dozer can get expensive in a hurry.

 

[Egon]

Taking out Aspen stumps with a root raked larger dozer is one of the faster ways to go. Following up with that big heavy disc is just icing on the cake.

 

[Jim Timber]

I looked at the rental sheet for the larger Caterpillar dealer in our area and a D4 is only 1400 a week. You might choke on that number a bit, but think of how much work you could get done with that machine in 40 hours.

 

[oosik]

Something here is strange. The Alder or Quaking Aspen in our area sound exactly like those in Michigan & Canada except. Here the trees rot so fast that they aren't good for fire wood and both the tree and stump with be completely rotted and gone within a year of falling. When I clear a thicket of Quaking Aspen I don't even consider chipping the trees because next year both stump & tree are "fluff".

 

[bacononeactual]

Something here is strange. The Alder or Quaking Aspen in our area sound exactly like those in Michigan & Canada except. Here the trees rot so fast that they aren't good for fire wood and both the tree and stump with be completely rotted and gone within a year of falling. When I clear a thicket of Quaking Aspen I don't even consider chipping the trees because next year both stump & tree are "fluff".

They are soft wood trees, but even a few years after cutting they are still pretty substantial. Certainly not something that a small compact tractor would be able to cut off/extract easily with a loader. I do think that if a large dozer could cut them off flush with the ground, then after a few more years of sitting and possibly being run over with a disc they would rot to soil.