Best solution to clear land from picture and prepare it for agriculture...46 acres...

[foler]

hi from Croatia...
Here is one square land for sale, 19Ha or 46 acres. 240 x 800m. What is the best way to clear it and prepare it for agriculture, orchard? Mulching, dozer, two dozers with heavy chain?

Rent for good dozer is around 60-80$ per hour for Cat D5 class + gas. Heavy mulcher attachment have same or bigger price per hour. I think that dozer have better m2/per hour than mulcher and can rip soil at same time.
If mulcher is used, what is procedure after mulching? Allot of wood residues stay on land.


Parcel picture:

 

[ovrszd]

The two dozers with chain method would not work for you. All that does is litter your land with debris.

Your brush doesn't look too large. Maybe a Mulcher.

 

[foler]

Do I need deep blade plow after mulching or dozer?

 

[BoylermanCT]

I would cut down the trees with a chainsaw and get firewood for winter. Then bring in the bulldozer to remove the stumps.

 

[ovrszd]

All I see is scrub brush. Nothing close to big enough to create firewood.

Stumps are much easier to remove with the tree attached.

 

[4570Man]

Is burning an option? I'd cut everything down and then hire a dozer. From the looks of the picture a bush hog could cut it.

 

[foler]

to small for firewood. burning 46 acres is to big job for me.

 

[LD1]

Dont look like anything in that picture that cannot be bushhogged to me.

 

[MacLawn]

Looks like a mulcher job to me, but I don't know much. I love watching that deep digging plow! That'd do the job I think. Croatia dirt. Looks good, but it's just dirt. Nothing but dirt I tell ye. Everywhere I've been in the world, I like to look at the dirt. See what kind it is. Looks like y'all have good dirt in Croatia.

 

[AKfish]

This is an older post.. I know. Watching the video, the dozers made quick work of toppling the trees over but the leftover mess will require a lot more cleanup! The trees are only half (or less) uprooted and must be pulled up and the root wad dirt knocked off.

I have cut timber for firewood when clearing. Or used a bulldozer. Or used an excavator. And used a combination of all three methods.

IMO - clearing timber for Ag purposes - knock down and uproot everything with an excavator. Firewood trees - set those off to the side for chain sawing. Everything else, pile into manageable burn piles.

Smaller roots and leftover brush - hit it with a mulcher. You'll be "pickin' sticks" for a year or two... But, you'll be able to get the field planted!