Rented a Bobcat E32 for stump digging

[ishiboo]

If you have 5 acres to do with a lot of stumps, I would rent a sufficiently sized dozer. With this you can push it all into a burn pile (I assume in Florida nobody wants to come cut it up for firewood for free) and handle the holes made/etc. and get it ready for planting. You do not need to get 100% of the root system out, the dozer will get most of it though.

That's a pretty expensive rental, I can get a machine that size for a week for about $1000 here. But either way, that size job is for a dozer. A large hoe will rip those out easy but it will take longer to fill in/repair/etc. everything.

 

[Ed of all trades]

Here a lot of the time a three day rental is the same as a week. Sometimes more. Ed

 

[TractorGuy]

Yeah what happened is I got it for a 1 day rate but they leave it the whole weekend. $250 of it was delivery and pickup and I also added the rental protection plan. I was having too much fun to stop at 8 hours so I decided to add another day on. The actual rate per day before other fees and taxes is $280.

The weekly rate on this same machine is 780. It didn't make sense to change to that since I would be working all week and wouldn't have time to use it.

 

[MFWD]

Hello,
Years ago I built a 3 car garage on the side of my house and had to clear land to have room to build. I had a bunch of stumps that had to go so I rented a John Deere backhoe. I don't remember what model it was, but it was awesome. When that big bucket bit into the ground around the stump, things moved. I would then curl the bucket up under the stump and yank it out. Then my wife would chain it under the bucket and I'd carry it back into the woods and dump it !!!!! That machine was awesome in it's power and did a great job......besides it was fun !!!!! I could see how it would be frustrating with a smaller machine that lacked the raw power !!!

MFWD