Seems good but my doubts are: 1. Could this operate on a sloping land like we have in most parts of Portugal? Our flat lands are being plowed for more than 2000 years, the trouble are the slope/tilt (I don't know how to say) ones, 2. Could this operate on land full of rocks? And by full I mean more than 50% of the total volume of soil...
(1) With a feller-buncher, skidder, chipper, log loader etc; cut trees separating logs, pulpwood and biomass into their prospective markets and sell. (2) With bulldozer or excavator; remove stumps from the ground and push to edge of field line (or alternatively burn if allowed by law). Stumps cannot be buried as they will eventually rot and leave sinkholes. (3) Rough-grade area with the largest bulldozer you can obtain. That is because the wider the blade and tracks, the smoother and flatter your field will be. (4) Use rock rake (or bulldozer) to windrow remaining rocks and debris. Burn debris if allowed by law, then dig trench on backside of windrow so that after filling, debris is below plow depth and push in. Cover with soil. (5) Use land pane to for finish surfacing. On my farm, cost of conversion from forest to farming is $201 per acre assuming forestry sales is applied to cost of conversion.
No need to pick up the rock as it does not decompose over time like stumps and brush and leave sinkholes. I dig a trench below plow-depth just on the other side of my windrows and then put the rock into the hole. After that I cover with soil and farm. Granted you need soil depth and cannot have ledge rock close to the ground to do this, and frost might push some rocks up, but I have yet to have a problem with this method and I live up North.
looks like to me who ever did the clearing needs to learn how to do a better job i have ran a dozer for 15 years and if I cleared land and left it like that with all those roots and shit sticking up I would be embarrassed of suck shitty work
Mike: I am a bulldozer guy myself, but this is not about what machine can do the job; it is about what machine can do the same job more efficiently. Sure I can chase every rock and stick that rolls off my blade, but it would be a lot faster to rough-grub the land, then rake the remnants out of the way.
Great job
Thank you!
If we can believe Tim this is a good rake to have.
Seems good but my doubts are:
1. Could this operate on a sloping land like we have in most parts of Portugal? Our flat lands are being plowed for more than 2000 years, the trouble are the slope/tilt (I don't know how to say) ones,
2. Could this operate on land full of rocks? And by full I mean more than 50% of the total volume of soil...
Fantastic, great work.
would you be able to list the work in chronoligy from taking up the forested land to cropping.
(1) With a feller-buncher, skidder, chipper, log loader etc; cut trees separating logs, pulpwood and biomass into their prospective markets and sell.
(2) With bulldozer or excavator; remove stumps from the ground and push to edge of field line (or alternatively burn if allowed by law). Stumps cannot be buried as they will eventually rot and leave sinkholes.
(3) Rough-grade area with the largest bulldozer you can obtain. That is because the wider the blade and tracks, the smoother and flatter your field will be.
(4) Use rock rake (or bulldozer) to windrow remaining rocks and debris. Burn debris if allowed by law, then dig trench on backside of windrow so that after filling, debris is below plow depth and push in. Cover with soil.
(5) Use land pane to for finish surfacing.
On my farm, cost of conversion from forest to farming is $201 per acre assuming forestry sales is applied to cost of conversion.
EXCELLENT nice technology
how do you pick up the windrows
No need to pick up the rock as it does not decompose over time like stumps and brush and leave sinkholes. I dig a trench below plow-depth just on the other side of my windrows and then put the rock into the hole. After that I cover with soil and farm. Granted you need soil depth and cannot have ledge rock close to the ground to do this, and frost might push some rocks up, but I have yet to have a problem with this method and I live up North.
Clay-based land would heave those rocks back out with freeze/thaw cycles. Better to take them right off.
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looks like to me who ever did the clearing needs to learn how to do a better job i have ran a dozer for 15 years and if I cleared land and left it like that with all those roots and shit sticking up I would be embarrassed of suck shitty work
Mike Buck and yet after 15 years you still don't know wtf you're talking about.
Mike: I am a bulldozer guy myself, but this is not about what machine can do the job; it is about what machine can do the same job more efficiently. Sure I can chase every rock and stick that rolls off my blade, but it would be a lot faster to rough-grub the land, then rake the remnants out of the way.