Stump removal

[bmac]

Based upon the previous comments, you may want to consider getting more than one quote before giving up on this.

 

[MarkV]

Wow, that seems to be a pretty high price for 25 stumps. What kind of machine were they planning to send? The delivery charges didn’t seem too bad but the operating cost was high for here. I can get a D4 dozer and operator for $65 per hour and a D6 for $85 per hour. A larger excavator would be more but would have 25 stumps gone in no time. Did that include removing the stumps from site? That could account for the extra money. I think some more shopping around is called for or having the stumps ground if you will not be building on that site.

How about renting a full size backhoe for a weekend. Even without much backhoe experience you could easily get the stumps dug and pay under half your estimate. If time got short on the rental you could do the clean up with your tractor.

MarkV

 

[dummy]

Oh well, we all do "not so smart" things sometimes. A couple questions I always want answered are; the per hour rate and if the per hour rate is based on the machine clock or on-site time. When you make them break it down, it usually results in a very obvious price difference.

 

[dummy]

Would pretty much depends on local rates. Our local rental is $250.00 per day (8 hours clock time) x 2 plus $250.00 hauling fee = $750.00 total.. Unless there's something missing, he should be able to hire it out and be done with it for a little less than that. ($85.00 /hr x ~5 plus $200 moving allowance is ~ $625) Last job we hired out was Dirt, tree, and stump removal to a fellow with a JD555 w/backhoe. paid $800.00 cash plus lunch and a snack for 10 hours of clock time. I think the lunch and snack got us a discount /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[markct]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( My dozer weighs over 40,000 pounds and has 168 hp and I park it before wasting time and energy on stumps.
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with proper technique you should be able to remove anything but the largest stumps with a 40,000 lb machine, our 12,000lb TD9 has taken out stumps well over 2ft with little work, a tilting blade (4 way) is the key to not disturbing lots of soil with a 40,000lb machine you are doing something terribly wrong if you arnt satisfied with its tree stump abilitys.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

I'd even thought of trying to rig up something like a sub soiler to mount to one end of the blade of my TD-9 to just drop along one side to cut roots before I went back at 90 degrees from that cut to push out the root.

I figured I'd kind of copy your blade top attachment method, come straight down the face to below the cutting edge then forward at ~90 degrees. I think that with something like that my TD-9 ought to make a nice root cutter & stump removal machine. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[markct]

sound like a good idea gary, just if it were me i would keep it in the center of the blade since you have a 6 way blade and they are known to be weak for working with the outer corners of the blade, i have seen the frames twisted from digging stumps too hard with the corner of the blade, just gota be carefull as the blade is pretty wide on your machine, looks like a 9 or 10 ft blade to me, but our machine only has an 8ft one, 4 way not 6 way. also there are two basic types of 6 way blades, the ones that have the outer puch frames and the channels that pin over the arms to swing the blade are alot better than the hyd turn ones when it comes to digging stumps and rocks with the blade corners, that being said, dont ya love the TD9 sized machine garry, they are about the perfect size for a larger yard, enough power to do real construction work efficiently, yet still small enough to be used in the woods and be not too hard to work on. in my opinion JD350 and TD6 sized dozer are a bit small for real earthmoving, and D6 cat sized dozers are too big to easily transport without permits and some real heavy parts if you need to work on one, but the TD9s seem to fit the bill nicely for general landclearing, woodsroad building, driveway building, grading, logging etc

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> "you have a 6 way blade" </font>

Well, so far as I can tell, it's a four way with only the blade lift being hydraulic. The down, of course, is gravity. For my side angle I have to lift the blade, pull a pin on each side and manually turn it then pin it again. I have three options; straight, right or left. I'd guess the angle to be about thirty degrees.

I can change the angle of the blade attack at the cutting edge with large screws at the top and bottom of each blade end. I don't know that I have the ability to angle the blade side to side (raising one corner and lowering another).

I got a pretty good manual with it that addresses everything else pretty well. On this topic it only cautions not to have the blade ends differing in height more than a foot. It offers NOTHING on how to make that happen. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

It seems yours has more hydraulics than mine from the picture. Any idea what I might need to do or have to tilt my blade side to side? If I could do that I wouldn't hardly need a root ripper. I could just use the blade.

As to the dozer itself, I'm real happy. All I've done thus far is clean up an old barn floor area where the first pole barn burned (before my time there), cure a bad drainage problem and take out a couple small trees. Tomorrow I'm going after some more trees and bushes. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Toledo4Bass]

All this heavy equipment seems like overkill!! I just had 20 stumps removed for $190. They were all med sized stumps (aprox 20" across). The guy used a Vermeer 630 B Stump Grinder. Took them down to 3" below the surface and it took about 6 hrs. He charged a $50 set up fee and then $7 a stump. you might want to check this out before you get into the real heavy stuff!! Down here there are guys with stump grinders on every street corner !

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

<font color="blue"> 'All this heavy equipment seems like overkill!!" </font>

First, let me welcome you to TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif As to your overkill characterization, you say that like it's a bad thing. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Truth be told, I have a bulldozer and I don't have a Vermeer stump grinder. Were that situation reversed, I'd probably be grinding away. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif As it is, I'll use my little dozer. Besides, I think a dozer is more fun. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif