Clearing Vine Overgrowth with an Excavator
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- Опубліковано 2 лис 2024
- Here I help my buddy expand his backyard by clearing out all of the dead brush and overgrowth with the Excavator and Dump Trailer. Ended up taking out a lot more material than originally planned, as well as a large dead hardwood tree.
Equipment:
Excavator: 2020 Bobcat E26
Trailer: 2020 Big Tex 14LP
That tree would make a lot of good fire wood and the rest would make a nice Bonfire. Nice video.
Huge improvement. The excavator made quick work of gnarly vine situation.
Great job on the job site and the video.
My forestry mulcher does jobs like this very fast and more efficient than an excavator. Still you did a nice job for your friend. I added sides to my dump trailer and don't worry about falling debris on the way to the dump or wood recycler. Much safer. Happy Holidays!
Good job. Currently working on a overgrown property with vines and trees but cant get an excavator or any type of heavier machine there so im just chainsawing stuff and pulling by hand
Oof, that must be a 'fun' time! Dealing with those vines by hand is pretty annoying.
thats hard work ...can you imagine having to do every job by hand as they might have done 80 yrs ago. that is "kick you in the balls" work.
@@skitzochik Its not as bad as you think, also I dont mind it cause i spend most of my free time behind a pc, this gives me a good balance between workout, job and fresh air
Looks good. Like you said, your BX with a York rake would clean it up nice maybe for some grass seed,
Yeah, his plan is to re-seed the whole backyard at somepoint when he gets time.
brb, clearing some wine from the basement
Looks good
Need to get some sides on that dump trailer !
Yeah, unfortunately with the cost of wood right now it just doesn't make sense to do it when I'm generally not piling it like this too often!
Where do you get rid of your brush/stumps over that way? Love the videos!
This was at my buddy's in midwest mass. I ended up going to a place called Eco Earth Recycling who process all types of wood waste into soil and mulch.
Great job interesting work
Nice about how much did you charge for a job like that ?? If you don't mind....
How much did you charge for this job? How long did it take you? How much were your fuel costs?
It was for a friend, so I just charged him basically a weekend rental rate of a 3 ton excavator in my area (~$500). Quoting for jobs is a bit more than I can explain in a comment. I will probably make a video on it at some point. It took me 1.5 days and I burned around ~10 gallons of diesel in the 3 ton excavator and probably around 20 gallons of gas in my truck (hauling equipment to site and hauling loads of material offsite). Realistically, a job like this in my area would cost closer to $1500-2000.
Another 1.....Good job 👍🏽 do you know how many stumps you pulled for that pile?
On this job? It was mostly all vines. I only pulled a single big stump.
I wonder if you could do a video on quoting a job like this.
I'm pretty new to a lot of the work that I am doing, so I'm not an expert on quoting yet beyond the basics. In general I have to account for travel time/distance, equipment used, material brought/taken away and any extra bits. For this job, since it was a long time friend, I didn't really quote it. It was really the cost of 1.5 days of excavator operation, 1+ hour travel fee and dump trailer use/material removal (this price can vary depending on landfills/recycling places that are local).
Time & Materials is pretty much standard for quoting work. Any piece of equipment will have specific service intervals with known costs involved based on hours operated. From there, it's mostly a matter of knowing the amounts of time for whatever the task at hand is. Build in a bit of extra time just in case if the site seems to call for it, and it's just basic math at that point. Really not much to it all in all.
Wrong tool for the job. Why didn't you rent a skid steer and a brush cutter. You could have ran through there in 15 minutes and not have anything to haul out.