I had several standing trees that had been dead for years. I waited until the weather was like and slowly started burning them down. I had areas overgrown like this and I put hogs on them. The hogs opened it up and I used an excavator with a thumb to finish the job and pile logs up for burning. I enjoy your videos and I love seeing land cleared. Thanks
I had hogs years ago, but had them in a pen. I would love to put them out on that pasture. I have heard they do a lot for the land. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for shining a light on the industry I am in. This video is very accurate in a lot of ways, especially returning nutrients back to the soil. A lot of people do not know what forestry mulching even is. That is a very skilled operator. I always love how clean it looks after mulching. So glad you made this video! Thanks!
Hi handsome. That oak tree :rest in peace. Perfect drop. Yes. I enjoy your natural narration over the video, it reminds me of the discovery channel in the 80s when we were traveling through Africa. Great job.
Wow! Excellent operator. I wonder how many years of experience he has to be able to bend it like Beckham! Thanks for sharing this video, It is the most useful forestry mulcher for me and my project.
We just had several days of this with a family property we inherited (lots of privot. It was incredible the transformation. We would never have been able to do what it did. We can now maintain it !!
Years back, working as a developer, we used very large scale mulchers to clear acres in a single day. A large back hoe would come through and just knock trees over (even big one) and drag them into piles. The mulcher truck would then come behind and eat whole trees. We didn't need to buy ground cover at all - all our erosion control was chewed up trees!
Very good operator and good content on the drum mulcher. The disk mulcher is also a remarkable mulcher. Most do not even have a clue how powerful huydrlic equipment is.
I just retired from a Cat dealer I have sold a couple dozen of these machines. This one is a 299D2 or D3 with a land management 1 package the LM2 has saddle fuel tanks in place of the counterweights These are amazing machines for their size😊
Great video. We have some land up in Nocona which is covered with small trees, brush, and invasive thorns which make clearing by hand nearly impossible. Hired a mulcher and he knocked out an acre in hours. Looks great and now I can get started fine tuning the property.
One of my favorite past times is to sneak onto somebody's property and take a nice long nap in a deep patch of privet. But I'm going to stop doing that now.
I think I sprayed one time, and, of course, keep it mowed. That has pretty much discouraged almost all regrowth, except on the edge of the creek bank that I can’t get to with the mower. 99% of it is not coming back. But there’s always that little dab that will.
You've never seen a Forestry Mulcher do feats like this! Amazing! alan Check out my Website. I've written dozens of articles pertaining to all areas of homesteading and self sufficiency. Here's the link: homesteadadvisor.com/ If you enjoyed this video and would like to see more videos like this. please give this video a thumbs up and leave me a comment! Please subscribe, it would really help my channel! Thank you for watching! ❤ Here's the team I used to clear my property: www.easttexasmulching.com/
That is one very skilled operator and such a well thought out tecnique to keep the whole process so efficient way he did the job. Loved the swapping out the cutter when dull and keeping the job quick and smooth without wasting any of your time or his time. By the way you are very good at narration. I think somebody else mention it too in the comments and they were right. I remember some of those African wildlife shows and you do sound like the man who did them. It's both the great voice have for it and the way you tell us what is going on that is very impressive. Anyway great video. 😎👍
I once considered setting a young friend up into his own business doing just this, but the ongoing machine maintenance costs made me think twice. Wicked expensive. I like how they switch cutter heads to resharpen cutter tines before they wear beyond being sharpened and need replacing. That one act alone probably saves them thousand$.
If I could find guys that would show up with two cimaf heads and mulch only with sharp cutters I’d hire them around the clock. That is the most honest customer service oriented contractor I’ve ever seen. Sharpening those knives only costs them money in hourly work.
Man I just want to be able to afford one mulcher lol must be nice to be able to have a spare one. I’d have to settle for having spare blades to swap out with a good impact and then sharpen blades when I got back to the shop so I could continue the cycle them out. It’s honestly how I used to run my lawn business. Carry good sharp blades and swap out when you feel necessary.
I’ve had a forestry mulcher work on our place here in northern TN four different times. It doesn’t take them long to transform a property. I posted a few videos on my channel of their work. Tim
Delivered a nice even cut, has the super tight turning ability ua-cam.com/users/postUgkx1VWTrayKBdCKAjzAcZ_Eg4dhHTae3LkN also recommend I was looking for, and is just a blast to drive. It takes a little bit to get used to driving one after driving a normal tractor style, but once you've got it, you've got it. If you're cutting lines, you have to be careful spinning the mower around or the back tire will dig a bare spot. Just take it nice and slow during the turn and then it's back to full throttle across the yard!
I had a forestry mulcher come out to my place several years ago. The machine and operator did more to clean up my property in one day than I can have done in a year of weekends with a chainsaw and my PTO chipper. They are not cheap to hire, but worth the money.
The big machines, compared to the skid steers with heads on them, is that the big ones do not have to pause. They can still do masive work quickly compared to a chainsaw, winch, and grinder operation and do it safer though. They just fall in the gap between taking down tree plantations and arborists trimming trees. The main diference in getting the job done is time and saftey.
I bet you have a breath-takingly beautiful property, over and above what you have now. Hope your Mulcher company can recommend someone who does as good a work a bit further west in TX, just east of Hill Country.
Yes i have seen it & by now you might have figured how hard these mulchers are on the compact track loader & how mjch maintenance the is on the mulching head especialy if you,re mulching dirt.
$200 an hour. I think there is a set up fee if you’re very far away from him. Probably another hundred dollars maybe $200 depending on how far he has to go.
I had this done to my ranch in OK and it was the best thing I ever did. Only bad thing was my ground was very rocky and they could not always grind the stumps down due to hitting large rocks.
Pretty sure that was an eastern red cedar (aromatic, like they use in cedar chests). Western cedar is more brown and softer and is what most fence pickets for privacy fence is made from. Eastern logs have value if they are solid and not pithy.
woot! what a change, and the resulting mulch worthy debris is fantastic! Wonder how much a fella could expect to pay for this work done by the hour/day etc? Or if in some cases it would be way cheaper to just do some of this yourself, given its firewood worthy.
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of rate is it for that where you are? Do they charge by the job/hour/day? It's very efficient, but that equipment isn't cheap to buy/own.
Unfortunately mesquite has to be grubbed out it is like potatoes for roots and comes back thicker! For your information I have ran many dozers on ranches to get rid of mesquite ! My father was a contractor for many years in Central Texas. Had to clear mesquite infested ranches !
That's the same kind of head they used to clear out the high lines and the pipelines where I live only the machine that's connected to is about five times as big and man they can take a 2' dia. oak tree plow right over the top of that thing and turn it to sawdust with our even slowing the machine down
Yep, there are some HUGE machines out there... probably much more $$ I think I was trying to show what even a small machine could do I think he said this was the smallest CAT that would run that mulch head 👍😎
This is not my business. I hire this guy to do the work. I believe he charges about $225 an hour. Not sure, but I think there’s also a set up fee if he has to travel very far.
I've had them out 3 different times And, it depends on the overgrowth and the amount and sizes of trees as to how long it will take Mine was THICK in places and they did about 4-5 acres in a day at around $200 per hour
I used them to prep my grownup 3 acres so we could build a house 2 summers ago. They did an awesome job but there is always a but, I have about 100 stumps of varying sizes to deal with. I have a 25 hp tractor, that isn't heavy enough even with a stump bucket to deal with anything except small stumps. Any suggestions? PS they were on time and UNDER budget... Doing any more "lectures " at the nursery ?
Bring them back and have them do nothing but grind stumps Probably cheaper than hiring a stump grinding service I had him grind out ALL the stumps of the trees he dropped
@@BIGALTX The only draw back with this process is the stumps, even when flush with the ground, the stumps prevent land use for things like tilling. I am on only 2.7 acres and about 90% was wooded. Erosion has made a few stumps proud, but just being in the ground is major problem...
At the time it was about $200 an hour. I think he’s going up to about $275 now. How much acreage he can do in a day, depends on the terrain, thickness of vegetation, etc
Question: why not fell the trees with a chainsaw and only grind the stump and roots? Saw chains are easier and cheaper to sharpen than mulcher teeth, it seems to me.
This video is no doubt impressive. I own a CTL with mulch head for my ranch and have operated one for several years. Small trees and brush are my limit, big oak trees is another level. These guys are awesome! However, cedar tree mulching should be avoided…it raises soil PH to extraordinary levels and takes years of liming to correct. I made that mistake so I speak from experience.
Pro Tip: You can teach a monkey too much in 15 minutes, the left joystick controls the track and the right controls the loader arm. The real issue is that typically customers end up wanting to do something with their land like plant crops/ garden, dig a well, dig a pond, or cut a foundation for a barn, shop, house, swimming pool or garage. Non of this can be accomplished without removing the root ball and horizontal root structure of the tree. It's just easier to bring in an a decent sized excavator and shove the trees over (which brings up the rootball). Then any of the hardwoods can be sold to a Mill to recoup customer money, rather than leaving it laying all over the ground.
They could be safety glasses, but obviously not wrap around glasses. I had to wear safety glasses for years in a factory. Most were NOT wrap-around glasses.
@@BIGALTX it's been 4 years I still have piles of red cedar chips. Now take in consideration the majority of my woods was red cedar. So it's a thick layer of mulch.
OH THANK GOD YOU HIRED THEM TO DO IT. THAT IS SO DANGEROUS. MY HUSBAND'S BOSS USING A TRACTOR TO PULL A TREE DOWN AND IT FLIPPED OVER ON HIM STERRING WHEEL ON HIS CHEST KEPT HIM FROM BREATHING. HE PASSED AWAY BEFORE HIS WIFE NOTICED IT.
Way too many factors to be able to answer that. They charge about $200 an hour. If they are doing small brush and very small trees, they can get a lot done in a few hours. If they’re doing huge trees and mulching everything completely, then they will spend a lot more time on your property. But, around $200 an hour is the going rate I think. Most people will come out and do a free estimate if you can find someone in your area.
It’s such a pleasure to watch people go about their work who are great at what they do.
Amen to that.
I can watch other people work all day long… Without really getting tired at all 😊
@@BIGALTX 🤣🤣🤣👍
I had several standing trees that had been dead for years. I waited until the weather was like and slowly started burning them down. I had areas overgrown like this and I put hogs on them. The hogs opened it up and I used an excavator with a thumb to finish the job and pile logs up for burning. I enjoy your videos and I love seeing land cleared. Thanks
I had hogs years ago, but had them in a pen. I would love to put them out on that pasture. I have heard they do a lot for the land.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for shining a light on the industry I am in. This video is very accurate in a lot of ways, especially returning nutrients back to the soil. A lot of people do not know what forestry mulching even is. That is a very skilled operator. I always love how clean it looks after mulching. So glad you made this video! Thanks!
I really believe in what these machines can do and how they leave a property looking afterwards
Keep up the good work!
I wish I knew how to find someone that could do this.
Hi handsome. That oak tree :rest in peace. Perfect drop. Yes. I enjoy your natural narration over the video, it reminds me of the discovery channel in the 80s when we were traveling through Africa. Great job.
Wow... thanks!
Wow! Excellent operator. I wonder how many years of experience he has to be able to bend it like Beckham! Thanks for sharing this video, It is the most useful forestry mulcher for me and my project.
Well, thanks for watching. Glad it was helpful… And entertaining 😊
We just had several days of this with a family property we inherited (lots of privot. It was incredible the transformation. We would never have been able to do what it did. We can now maintain it !!
Good for YOU!!
It looks soooo nice when they are done :)
Love the mulcher, that's one nice piece of equiptment.Iv never seen anything like that, but sure saves u time.
Right on
Years back, working as a developer, we used very large scale mulchers to clear acres in a single day. A large back hoe would come through and just knock trees over (even big one) and drag them into piles. The mulcher truck would then come behind and eat whole trees. We didn't need to buy ground cover at all - all our erosion control was chewed up trees!
I bet that was awesome to watch! 😊
Very good operator and good content on the drum mulcher. The disk mulcher is also a remarkable mulcher. Most do not even have a clue how powerful huydrlic equipment is.
Very true 👍
I just retired from a Cat dealer
I have sold a couple dozen of these machines.
This one is a 299D2 or D3 with a land management 1 package the LM2 has saddle fuel tanks in place of the counterweights
These are amazing machines for their size😊
Yes they are… I’m pretty impressed!
👍🏻 😀
Have to mention - that is a BEAUTIFUL piece of land you have!
Well, thank you so much. 😊
I had my land done a year ago and what a difference it made.
You bet! 😎
Nice equipment set up and an excellent operator ...........great job.
I agree. Thanks for watching!
I’ve been running machines like this for many many years and that is a pretty skilled operator
Yes he is... or just brave... or crazy 😎
Thanks for commenting!
Great video! The challenge in operating this equipment learning how to properly operate it!
It really is!
Very experienced operator.
No damage to the fence lines.
The trees fall exactly were they need to be.
Absolutely… They always impress me when I have them on my property.
Thanks for watching!
They looked much better than a bulldozer. I may have to consider this option to clean my land. Thanks for sharing.
You bet
I've seen a lot of damage by dozers
This is much better 👍😎
Great video. We have some land up in Nocona which is covered with small trees, brush, and invasive thorns which make clearing by hand nearly impossible. Hired a mulcher and he knocked out an acre in hours. Looks great and now I can get started fine tuning the property.
AAAAAA- Men!!
thanks mister. empliment is incredible. You saved your land
Thanks so much!
Glad you enjoyed it
That was amazing! Wowzers how that chewed p and spot out that mulch!! Just Wowzers.
Blessings
Thanks for watching, Grams!
This is such an amazing video! Thanks for sharing.
You bet. Thanks for watching! 😎👍
One of my favorite past times is to sneak onto somebody's property and take a nice long nap in a deep patch of privet. But I'm going to stop doing that now.
Love that!
Looks good short term. Next year all those samplings will grow back. The roots are still healthy and will come back even more dense unless sprayed.
I think I sprayed one time, and, of course, keep it mowed. That has pretty much discouraged almost all regrowth, except on the edge of the creek bank that I can’t get to with the mower.
99% of it is not coming back. But there’s always that little dab that will.
You've never seen a Forestry Mulcher do feats like this!
Amazing!
alan
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that's an exciting thing to see I plan to get one...
They are incredible machines. Such a time and labor saving device. Costs me about $200 an hour, but well worth it.
That is one very skilled operator and such a well thought out tecnique to keep the whole process so efficient way he did the job. Loved the swapping out the cutter when dull and keeping the job quick and smooth without wasting any of your time or his time.
By the way you are very good at narration. I think somebody else mention it too in the comments and they were right. I remember some of those African wildlife shows and you do sound like the man who did them. It's both the great voice have for it and the way you tell us what is going on that is very impressive.
Anyway great video. 😎👍
Well, thanks so much for the kind words. Most of the time people say I talk too much… Ha ha ha.
@@BIGALTX😂🤣
I once considered setting a young friend up into his own business doing just this, but the ongoing machine maintenance costs made me think twice. Wicked expensive.
I like how they switch cutter heads to resharpen cutter tines before they wear beyond being sharpened and need replacing. That one act alone probably saves them thousand$.
It is VERY expensive to get into, and to keep up the machines... for sure
If I could find guys that would show up with two cimaf heads and mulch only with sharp cutters I’d hire them around the clock. That is the most honest customer service oriented contractor I’ve ever seen. Sharpening those knives only costs them money in hourly work.
Man I just want to be able to afford one mulcher lol must be nice to be able to have a spare one. I’d have to settle for having spare blades to swap out with a good impact and then sharpen blades when I got back to the shop so I could continue the cycle them out. It’s honestly how I used to run my lawn business. Carry good sharp blades and swap out when you feel necessary.
What is a average daily rate, or hourly rate for this this on a very similar property. Let me know thx
@hhazelhoff1363 IDK. I abandoned the idea. Start up cost was around $100K.
I’ve had a forestry mulcher work on our place here in northern TN four different times. It doesn’t take them long to transform a property. I posted a few videos on my channel of their work. Tim
They do such a great job! :)
Delivered a nice even cut, has the super tight turning ability ua-cam.com/users/postUgkx1VWTrayKBdCKAjzAcZ_Eg4dhHTae3LkN also recommend I was looking for, and is just a blast to drive. It takes a little bit to get used to driving one after driving a normal tractor style, but once you've got it, you've got it. If you're cutting lines, you have to be careful spinning the mower around or the back tire will dig a bare spot. Just take it nice and slow during the turn and then it's back to full throttle across the yard!
We agree!
I had a forestry mulcher come out to my place several years ago. The machine and operator did more to clean up my property in one day than I can have done in a year of weekends with a chainsaw and my PTO chipper. They are not cheap to hire, but worth the money.
Absolutely! 👍🏻😎
This is my new dream job.
Hahaha... Herd Dat!!
In the right hands, those machines can do wonders
Absolutely!
And they are fun to watch 😊
This is a great video. The operator really does need to know what he is doing, and this one does. Thanks for sharing take care
Yes he does!
I need to have them back
If I do.... I'll do more vids! 👍😎
Bro in law has something similar for 3point he uses a 268hp Newholland to make seed beds in stony rocky mountain ground. Awesome machines
Nice! 👍😎
I need this piece of equipment as an attachment. Thanks for the video.
You bet
Amazing work
Thanks a lot 😊
More mulching videos mixed with Christian talk I love it
Ha ha ha… Sounds like we are of the same mind 😊
Most Impressive!!!
Thanks!
The big machines, compared to the skid steers with heads on them, is that the big ones do not have to pause. They can still do masive work quickly compared to a chainsaw, winch, and grinder operation and do it safer though. They just fall in the gap between taking down tree plantations and arborists trimming trees. The main diference in getting the job done is time and saftey.
True… The big machines can really go fast through a lot of big stuff.
@@BIGALTX Better get a Barko.
Great mulch for the property
Amen!
I bet you have a breath-takingly beautiful property, over and above what you have now. Hope your Mulcher company can recommend someone who does as good a work a bit further west in TX, just east of Hill Country.
I hope so too. Give them a call!
And thanks for the kind words :)
Great video. I need those guys on our place.
Yes you do! 👍😎
Yes i have seen it & by now you might have figured how hard these mulchers are on the compact track loader & how mjch maintenance the is on the mulching head especialy if you,re mulching dirt.
Yes, there is a lot of maintenance. He spends a lot of money keeping that machine up. Not a cheap profession to be in.
What was the hourly charge for the mulcher?
$200 an hour. I think there is a set up fee if you’re very far away from him. Probably another hundred dollars maybe $200 depending on how far he has to go.
I had this done to my ranch in OK and it was the best thing I ever did. Only bad thing was my ground was very rocky and they could not always grind the stumps down due to hitting large rocks.
So very true.
Amazing results, but rocky soil does make it tough.
Very impressive!
Thank you!
Ooooooo, I want one!
Me too! I just can’t afford one.
I wish I had that thing on my property for day.
I hear you.
I’ve had him over here three times. Cost about $200 an hour… Plus set up fee if you’re very far away from him.
@@BIGALTX Where is he out of?
Just curious, have those exposed, super heated, hydraulic lines ever been pulled or clobbered by any heavy tree debris?
Not sure, that would be bad
When he cut that red cedar I bet that smelled good, also cedar mulch keep the bugs away
Cedar does have a nice nice smell. And yes, great for keeping bugs away.
very well produced video!
Thank you kindly!
Great video man!!!
Glad you liked it!
Very impressive work (skilled operator)
I’m getting my property done this week!
Woo Hoo!!!
Pretty sure that was an eastern red cedar (aromatic, like they use in cedar chests). Western cedar is more brown and softer and is what most fence pickets for privacy fence is made from.
Eastern logs have value if they are solid and not pithy.
Could be… We also call them Juniper
So what sized skid steer needed to run one of these mulchers. Looking to get a used ss.
Not sure.
I don't own it, just hired them out.
I remember him saying this cat was about the smallest one that would run that cutting head
Fascinating 🖖👽
Right?!?
I can watch them for hours!! 👍😎
2 heads! Great idea!
Faster.
Much less down time.
What's the reservoir on the roof of the skid steer? Is that extra hydraulic fluid?To prevent overheating The pump?
Not sure.
I think he said it was the cooling fan for the hydraulic system.
this is awesome.....SUPER awesome....can you reveal how much this service cost you for one day? Thanks
He charges about $200 an hour. If you are a long way away, there is a set up for you also.
woot! what a change, and the resulting mulch worthy debris is fantastic! Wonder how much a fella could expect to pay for this work done by the hour/day etc? Or if in some cases it would be way cheaper to just do some of this yourself, given its firewood worthy.
When I had this done it was $200 per hour
That was a few years ago
May have changed a little
Also, probably depends on where you are...
Last year it was $150/hr. Probably more now.
Very good video
Thanks for the visit
How good is it if it hits rocks sticking up
Well... they don't like it I'm sure.
Rocks will dull the blades fast so I'm sure they won't go too deep if they are in rocky ground
I would love to do this, but I imagine the cost is at least triple what it costs to clear an acre with excavator and green wood burning.
It’s about $225 per hr. Depending on what type of brush, etc you have… they can clear an acre pretty fast.
What part of Texas is this? I live near Toledo Bend, I was thinking this looks like Hemphill/Jasper country.
ETX
Smith co
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of rate is it for that where you are? Do they charge by the job/hour/day? It's very efficient, but that equipment isn't cheap to buy/own.
They charge a $200 set up/travel fee and about $215 per hour.
@@BIGALTX Considering everything they did, that's a deal
This would sure take care of all the mesquites on our property.
You bet it would!
@@BIGALTX No, it wouldn't. You have to treat the mesquite stumps or they come back with a vengeance.
Unfortunately mesquite has to be grubbed out it is like potatoes for roots and comes back thicker! For your information I have ran many dozers on ranches to get rid of mesquite ! My father was a contractor for many years in Central Texas. Had to clear mesquite infested ranches !
Who’s forestry mulcher is that? I have a JD 332 and would like one.
I really don’t know. I know it is a cat, but don’t know though number on it. I hired this work. It is not my machine.
That was awesome! That cab has filtered air I’m sure so the operator is protected?
Protected from the dust and debris created, yes
Wow Amazing 💪👏
Mesmerizing, right? 😎
That's the same kind of head they used to clear out the high lines and the pipelines where I live only the machine that's connected to is about five times as big and man they can take a 2' dia. oak tree plow right over the top of that thing and turn it to sawdust with our even slowing the machine down
Yep, there are some HUGE machines out there... probably much more $$
I think I was trying to show what even a small machine could do
I think he said this was the smallest CAT that would run that mulch head 👍😎
@@BIGALTX hey they're some serious setups now ..that little thang was gettin' it .. impressive 👍
I wonder what you can do with this land. Will it be used for agriculture ? Can you plow it ? What is the next stage of cultivating this land ?
I am not cultivating this. It is pasture land. We graze cows on it.
What they are doing in this video is taking down dead trees.
All of that will grow back agressively in the spring. Consider sprying with a product like Crossbow in the before the growth gets out of control.
Stay organic and get some goats, they will do wonders.
I've (mostly) kept all the regrowth down
and yes... spraying (and animals)... and mowing is the way to to
If you can keep them INside the fence! 👍😎
@@Jerry-yk1fh Yeah and every coyote would be doing it's best to get them ;)
amazing！
Thank you!
Our local rental yard has one of these
Wow… That would be fun to rent. I bet it’s expensive though.
Obviously texas is a big state and we won't cross boundaries, may I ask what you charge per hour? thinking about getting in this business
This is not my business. I hire this guy to do the work.
I believe he charges about $225 an hour. Not sure, but I think there’s also a set up fee if he has to travel very far.
@@BIGALTX well I contacted the wrong person then!
@@ralphowens4510 He's a friend of mine. Call him :)
How many hours did they work? I’m looking at having som mulching done on my place.
I've had them out 3 different times
And, it depends on the overgrowth and the amount and sizes of trees as to how long it will take
Mine was THICK in places and they did about 4-5 acres in a day at around $200 per hour
Need your information I live in Hillsboro. Thanks
This is not my equipment. I hired them.
Their info is in the description box below the video
I used them to prep my grownup 3 acres so we could build a house 2 summers ago. They did an awesome job but there is always a but, I have about 100 stumps of varying sizes to deal with. I have a 25 hp tractor, that isn't heavy enough even with a stump bucket to deal with anything except small stumps. Any suggestions? PS they were on time and UNDER budget...
Doing any more "lectures " at the nursery ?
Bring them back and have them do nothing but grind stumps
Probably cheaper than hiring a stump grinding service
I had him grind out ALL the stumps of the trees he dropped
@@BIGALTX The only draw back with this process is the stumps, even when flush with the ground, the stumps prevent land use for things like tilling. I am on only 2.7 acres and about 90% was wooded.
Erosion has made a few stumps proud, but just being in the ground is major problem...
An excavator with a thumb will make short work of the stumps. It can pull them out of the ground like pulling weeds. Then just stack them & burn them.
True... I had an excavator push down several dead trees last year:
ua-cam.com/video/-x3OVcMG7EM/v-deo.html
Titan stump ripper if u have backhoe
How much is the price
It’s about $200 an hour. If he has to travel very far, there’s also a set up fee of maybe $200.
How do blades hold up to rocks?
I’m sure rocks dull them a lot quicker than just trees or dirt. I would imagine they have to be sharpened much more often if it’s rocky terrain.
Good video. How much did it cost you?
At the time it was about $200 an hour. I think he’s going up to about $275 now.
How much acreage he can do in a day, depends on the terrain, thickness of vegetation, etc
What is that on the roof of the cab on that machine?
I think it's a cooling condenser for the hydraulic system
@TexasPrepper2 that's what I was thinking, but I wasn't sure. Thanks
Question: why not fell the trees with a chainsaw and only grind the stump and roots? Saw chains are easier and cheaper to sharpen than mulcher teeth, it seems to me.
They were here clearing some land anyway so I had them do it
Some of the trees were VERY rotten and would have been very dangerous to cut by hand
What mulching head are they running?
Fecon I believe
Here's a group of videos that I've put together:
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how much do theses guys charge, I need some under brush and trees down in Ben Wheeler
When I had this done it was $200 per hour
That was a few years ago
May have changed a little
I highly recommend them
This video is no doubt impressive. I own a CTL with mulch head for my ranch and have operated one for several years. Small trees and brush are my limit, big oak trees is another level. These guys are awesome! However, cedar tree mulching should be avoided…it raises soil PH to extraordinary levels and takes years of liming to correct. I made that mistake so I speak from experience.
Wow, thanks for the tip!
how much did it cost you for the service?
He's about $225 per hour
How many hours it will take depends on your terrain, denseness of vegetation, etc...
Thank you for that info!@@BIGALTX
How do deal with rocks on the surface?
You need something like this:
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Or this:
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Pro Tip: You can teach a monkey too much in 15 minutes, the left joystick controls the track and the right controls the loader arm. The real issue is that typically customers end up wanting to do something with their land like plant crops/ garden, dig a well, dig a pond, or cut a foundation for a barn, shop, house, swimming pool or garage. Non of this can be accomplished without removing the root ball and horizontal root structure of the tree. It's just easier to bring in an a decent sized excavator and shove the trees over (which brings up the rootball). Then any of the hardwoods can be sold to a Mill to recoup customer money, rather than leaving it laying all over the ground.
Sure.
This is not the way to clear land. If any type of excavation or plowing or planting will be done on the land afterwards.
Cool machine! The dude sharpening the blades is not wearing any safety glasses?!!
They could be safety glasses, but obviously not wrap around glasses.
I had to wear safety glasses for years in a factory. Most were NOT wrap-around glasses.
What brand mulcher is this?
Fecon
Try taking on death probe
....that would be fun to watch
Just to let anyone know cedar shaving do not rot very fast.
They don’t rot as fast as oak or pine, but they will decompose quicker than what you think.
@@BIGALTX it's been 4 years I still have piles of red cedar chips. Now take in consideration the majority of my woods was red cedar. So it's a thick layer of mulch.
OH THANK GOD YOU HIRED THEM TO DO IT. THAT IS SO DANGEROUS. MY HUSBAND'S BOSS USING A TRACTOR TO PULL A TREE DOWN AND IT FLIPPED OVER ON HIM STERRING WHEEL ON HIS CHEST KEPT HIM FROM BREATHING. HE PASSED AWAY BEFORE HIS WIFE NOTICED IT.
So sorry.. yep, that's dangerous.
Some things I USED to do... I DON'T do anymore :(
No, it’s stupid. If the tree goes the wrong way they’ve had it! Always use the right tool for the job, a muncher isn’t it!
What is the cost per hour to have this done?
When I had it done it was about $200 per hour
How much would it cost to clear an acre of trees on my land?
Way too many factors to be able to answer that.
They charge about $200 an hour. If they are doing small brush and very small trees, they can get a lot done in a few hours.
If they’re doing huge trees and mulching everything completely, then they will spend a lot more time on your property.
But, around $200 an hour is the going rate I think. Most people will come out and do a free estimate if you can find someone in your area.
How much is this set up with a extra cutter
Not sure, but probably around $100 grand
Then you'll need a truck that can pull all that weight... and a trailer
Pretty expensive
Do they work international??
This company doesn’t, but I’m sure you can find someone in your country that uses a machine like this.
That would be a great piece of equipment to use on a deer hunting property
Absolutely! 👍🏻
How i can i get a machine like that
Ha ha ha… Spend about $100,000 😊