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Re: 1958 D8H vs. Northern Ontario
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Posted by Dale on September 04, 2003 at 19:23:38 from (64.228.3.8):
In Reply to: 1958 D8H vs. Northern Ontario posted by Cliff from Ontario on September 03, 2003 at 17:55:14:
Cliff, by the time you spend that much on the dozer, then throw in fuel, parts and your own time, you could hire somebody to clear your 25 acres 2 or 3 times over. We had about 15 acres cleared 3 years ago, this was an old sugar bush that hadn't been tapped in 30 years and you could barely walk through it. Big excavator took all the big trees down in a day, we went in and cut the stumps off and skidded out the logs, then two days with a big dozer and root rake cleared up the rest including the big rocks. Total cost was less then $5000. Having your own equipment is nice, but somebody that's been using the same machine for 10 years can do 10 times the work in an hour.
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