![]() In this area the market for that type work is about $400 or so for the timber companies and $500 plus for the cattle guys.īut each area is different so I'm just guessing at this based on your previous description. Unless they've let it grow back thick as dog's hair with hickory and ironwood saplings, you ought to get it down to where the farmer can handle it with his front end loader tractor and heavy bush hog for way under a thousand. (Although two can do more than double what one will do). And the standing timber is not so big that you need two tractors to rake and pile it. You have plenty of stump sticking up on the previously logged trees to keep your blade in the stump until it shears off, the standing timber will be just enough to help you sweep up those stumps as you rake it. Unless the terrain is rocky or so steep that you can't keep your blade on the ground, no one can do it cheaper than you. You can beat the mulcher guys by a mile, and digging up stumps to make pasture is a fool's mission. Add two to four minutes for each big solid stump you encounter on each pass. Maybe an old D8 if the guy has a tri-axle lowbed. The 72-inch 6-Way Dozer Blade is durable easy to use and made for long-lasting superior performance Th.See More Details. Do the math based on ground speed and the width of that big V Shear blade. 'Here' the dozer of choice is the biggest that can be moved on a single trailer without having to remove blades, etc due to weight. The dozer blade is designed for rough and finishes grading in dirt, gravel, and light dozing. Long story short if I can come up with a faster / cheaper way there's 70 plus acres but if I can't I guess there's noneĪ D8K with that blade has 300 hp and weighs 75000 lbs or more, right? If you have the blade set up right, you won't stop the tractor for anything except the bigger stumps. The bolt hole spacing is 6from center to center of the bolt. It takes 6 of a 7/8X 2 3/4 (875X275) plow bolt and 6 of a 7/8 (875 HEX NUT) hex nut. ![]() This is a double beveled reversible bucket cutting edge that is 1thick, 11wide and 35.25in length. ![]() I had first pass and we were ripping around the trees and stumps with the fore mentioned 8h and pulling the stumps out either with the ripper or 963's and letting the ripped base trees stand until the 63's got ready for them, we were getting this done for 2160 an acre but because of the 1500 being thrown around we stopped and waited to see how the grinding stacked up. Caterpillar style bolt on center cutting edge for a D7N Caterpillar Bulldozer. Then the idea of grinding game along and another contractor said he'd bring a feller buncher and cut the trees grind the stumps for 1000-700 per acre but has yet to show up for his test pass. There's been some debate on what this job should cost, another contractor told the land owner he would dig the stumps out and run them of into the ravines, pile the brush and burn for 1500 per acre but when he called him back he said he couldn't get there for a long time. I'm putting it on either a 29000 ser # 8h with a Kelly long beam ripper or a high 15000 ser# 8k bareback. Thanks again for the reply and advice, the cutter blade measures 20" in the valleys and 22-1/2 on the peaks.
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