Ok I just Purchased some property (8 acres ) in Kinmble county and is over grown with Cedar trees... 80 % are dead from the drought we had the past couple of years.. I can rent the bobcat and attachment for 600$ for the weekend and it comes with the bucket for whatever else i need to level off... One of the local dozer guys lives a couple of property over from me and he charges 75 dollars an hour but really dont know how much land destruction a dozer would leave and what would be more efficient... I also thought about just inviting some family and friends down and get after it with some chainsaws... Anybody on here had any experience with this situation?
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HAs anybody had any luck with some contractors coming and cutting cedars for the cedar mill free of charge? -
With the shear head you still got a stump left versus the dozer taking stump and tree at the same time. Alot depends on just how good of an operator he is to say what kinda mess or damage will be left.Comment
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is the shear head tall enough to catch on a brush hog?Comment
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8 acres, hire a good dozer guy. Mark trees to remove and pile up. Should be a pretty quick job. Burn down the road. Ive cleared over 70 acres of cedar trees the past 7 years. Dozer worked the best and was the cheapest by far. IMOComment
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A good friend of ours has a Bobcat with the shear attachment. It does cut smaller trees fairly well but it's far from a neat job. It still leaves a pretty good stump. In order to cut low to the ground, I would think you would have to clear the ground away so you could get the attachment low enough. On cedars, it seems to tear them in half rather than cleanly shear them.
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Grubber attachment on a TrackHoe is the only way to go. Way less damage than a Dozer and you can back fill the hole and stack as you go. That's what I do.Comment
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Oh... just putting that out there.... That would be on a way larger scale than 8 acres though..... Get the DozerComment
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Good advice guys..... Around where the water well is there is existing water lines I don't want to disturb causing more work in plumbing... I'm don't want the dozer to rip the cedars around that so I thought about chainsawing them ... Anybody know how long it takes for the roots to rot so I can just pull them up ?Comment
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That's where I'm going to set up my camperComment
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How many trees are we talking about?
I have a skid loader on tracks and dont have much problem pushing over cedars.Comment
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How many trees are we talking about?
I have a skid loader on tracks and dont have much problem pushing over cedars.Comment
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Originally posted by Mace View Post
I owe a place in Kerr County, about 3 miles from the Kimble County line. I would assume those cedar are like ours and have been dead for at least two years. If you are only pushing dead trees you could do it eaily with a skid steer with a bucket only. We have been using a 70hp tractor with a front end loader and clearing about 4-5 acres in a weekend farily easy.
If you are talking live trees, a tree shear will be the way to go. Once you put a dozer in there, he will spend more time fixing the ground he tore up rather than pushing trees. In that ground the cedar roots are only a few feet in the ground but covers an area about three times the size cedar it's self.
We had a property line dozed a couple of years ago and some of the rocks that came up with those cedar roots where freaking HUGE!!Comment
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If you have more than 30 or 40 trees you want to get rid of I would go with the dozer. If not a track loader can do the job.Comment
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