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clearing 65 acres of stumps

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johnny

12-18-2003 12:16:07




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Howdy, I have read the archives and found em very interesting. Basically, I would like to clear this property to get a hay crop in. It is doing me no use right now. Logged 5 yrs ago - stumps should be fairly easy to get out, pine and spruce 10 - 24 inch stumps. Heavy clay soil in most places, some heavy black oragnic stuff too. Lots of debris left from logging (a general mess really). Som




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Taylor Lambert

12-19-2003 06:56:29




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 Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to johnny, 12-18-2003 12:16:07  
Ifthe stumps arent too rotten there are some companies that have shears on excavaotsrs and they will come out to youre place and shear them inhalf and ll them up. They take them to a grinder for boiler fuel and also use the saps out of some of the wood. I had a friend that worked with one such outfit and they culd clear several acres a day and usually do it fo free if you dont wat money for the stumps. THeysll also spread some of the drbis piles to and their travelling on the old limbs will almost work them into good mulch to. Hey did a job afew miles away annd took all the soft wood stumps. Then the land owner hied a company to bring in 2 D8's with rakes and raked it all in piles.

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johnny

12-19-2003 10:49:06




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 Re: Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to Taylor Lambert, 12-19-2003 06:56:29  
That sounds great Taylor! I dont think that option exists here - we are still pretty much in no mans land here. I will ask around though. Maybe it would be a good business to get into? Is this boiler fuel industry common in the US? I am in Northern Canada. Thanks for your help.



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Taylor Lambert

12-19-2003 16:35:19




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 Re: Re: Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to johnny, 12-19-2003 10:49:06  
Boiler fuel is big here, some plants use it to make their own fuel and also its a good pulp. It takes a god sized ecavator to do it. I had a good friend of mine that had a house on a hill but the previos owners had it logged and all trees came up volunteer. It also hadnt been thinned and they were all about 15 to 30 feet tall but about 3 to 5 inches diameter. One part was then thinned and all the tress laid over because of the lack of support. This company came in and had 2 self contained chippers like they show on TLC that had their own knuckle booms.Then a Hydro axe would cut all the trees and the skiders would take them to the chipper they took limbs and all. and it would grind nd blow them in the trucks. The machine debarked and libed so it ut them i na pile. THen came the dozers getti nthe little stumps. He later had 50 acres of Icestorm trees to cut and stump they were good sized about 20 inches in diamter. They used the stump shear s on excavators for that. They used every tree and every part for something even the discarded bark went to a composting company. Just look up wood processors or excavtor stump shears that will land some results.

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johnny

12-22-2003 08:03:11




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to Taylor Lambert, 12-19-2003 16:35:19  
Taylor, Thanks for that reply. Very interesting reading! I wish an industry like that exists here. Happy Holidays!



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Peter

12-18-2003 20:52:32




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 Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to johnny, 12-18-2003 12:16:07  
Sounds very similar to what I am doing up in Northern Ontario. You need a big dozer, the bigger the better, with a rake. Push all the stumps and logging debris together into windrows and burn them. Then push what is left into windrows and burn again. Best to do this work during the summer when it is dry.



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Brian

12-18-2003 12:27:12




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 Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to johnny, 12-18-2003 12:16:07  
Burn it first.



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Bob

12-19-2003 11:15:54




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 Re: Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to Brian, 12-18-2003 12:27:12  
Do mean burn the loose material first then go after the stumps?



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johnny

12-18-2003 13:22:20




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 Re: Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to Brian, 12-18-2003 12:27:12  
I think I's have to pop em stumps out, and pile it with all the other debris first before I burn it!



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Alvin n Ms.

12-19-2003 09:56:47




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 Re: Re: Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to johnny, 12-18-2003 13:22:20  
An excavator (trackhoe) would do the job and run you up a big bill while doing it, unless you own it. I would hire a D6 cat. with a shear and root rake. Better yet get them to do the job per acre or maybe someone will take on the entire job for ten thousand. alvinnms



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johnny

12-19-2003 10:57:14




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to Alvin n Ms., 12-19-2003 09:56:47  
I was quoted by a few local guys around 6 - 700$$ Canadian per acre to pop stumps, pile em and root rake, this was with a D8 and brush blade. At this price, 65 x 700 = 45,500. I could buy quite a nice machine for that....Mind you I culd just pay to do it in smaller pieces, but that would take years the way Im going! Thanks, johnny



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JBL

12-19-2003 11:59:20




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: clearing 65 acres of stumps in reply to johnny, 12-19-2003 10:57:14  
That is way to high. I do custom dozing in Missouri and I would tell you $300-$400 an acre at the most and do it by the hour and and give you the cheapest price. That price would be for a D6H XL with ripper removing and filling stumps/holes, piling and burning and also probably blade it all down with a grader(12G)when finished. I don't blame you for getting your own machine at $700 an acre.



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