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PineRidge
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sherpa
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If you leave the stumps you will tear up something when you try to scrape the road later!
Sherpa
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edski
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I seem to have time to do a job twice, but never time to do it right. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Trying to change my ways.
I put a driveway in this week for a workshop, but didn't have any trees to deal with. If I had a lot of trees, 12 inchers like yours, and was pressed for time I'd consider subbing the job out to a dozer and operator. Less wear and tear on your tractor.
Trying to change my ways.
I put a driveway in this week for a workshop, but didn't have any trees to deal with. If I had a lot of trees, 12 inchers like yours, and was pressed for time I'd consider subbing the job out to a dozer and operator. Less wear and tear on your tractor.
Highbeam
Super Member
Up here in the NW a dozer and operator are typically hired by the hour unless it is a profound project. To tell an operator to go that-a-way for 500 feet and knock down and cast aside any debris is a reasonable proposition. Don't tell him to make a road, just clear a path 120 feet wide. This would not take more than a day unless you have severe site conditions.
A day at 100$ per hour plus 2 hours delivery, expect a 1000$ bill.
A day at 100$ per hour plus 2 hours delivery, expect a 1000$ bill.
JimMorrissey
Veteran Member
I agree completely. Unless you have a stout backhoe.....Just have somebody show up with their dozer for the day and send them in the direction you want. You can do the "finish work" and there will be a lot of finish work.
Highbeam
Super Member
"just clear a path 120 feet wide" Whoops, meant 12 feet wide.
I built a primitive road about that long around the permiter of my 15 acre parcel and across it in a few places. I also did some other clearing. Let me dig up a good road picture. But in the meantime, how about you ponder what I did. Buy your own used dozer for 10-15k$ and do whatever you want with it. Build your road, clear a home site, whatever. And then sell it for the same amount. The dozer will be no worse for the wear unless you are unlucky enough to break it. Running a dozer is not rocket science, the learning curve is short, and you know you've always wanted to point a machine of destruction into the forest and just watch it tumble.
The only part that might take some operator skill or experience is the switch backs and steep hill work. In order to make the road serviceable and so that it doesn't wash out you will need to do a couple things right.
I built a primitive road about that long around the permiter of my 15 acre parcel and across it in a few places. I also did some other clearing. Let me dig up a good road picture. But in the meantime, how about you ponder what I did. Buy your own used dozer for 10-15k$ and do whatever you want with it. Build your road, clear a home site, whatever. And then sell it for the same amount. The dozer will be no worse for the wear unless you are unlucky enough to break it. Running a dozer is not rocket science, the learning curve is short, and you know you've always wanted to point a machine of destruction into the forest and just watch it tumble.
The only part that might take some operator skill or experience is the switch backs and steep hill work. In order to make the road serviceable and so that it doesn't wash out you will need to do a couple things right.
