Soggy Bottom Outdoors
Gold Member
Sorry I haven't posted much in the last week or so, but we've been wrapped up in a land clearing/fence building project. Trying to get it done before fall harvest. We hired a Cat D6 and operator at $120 an hour and 3 days later we had the "Bryant Bottom" field cleaned up and squared up quite nicely. We removed about 2000' of old fence that my Dad built in the early 60's. (Got his money's worth he said) We didn't take out anything big, some 12-15" yellow locust and wild cherry. We pushed these into existing brush piles in gullies and tightened them up. I don't burn brush piles because I like to rabbit hunt out of them. I probably gained 5 acres of productive land once the dozer was done. $2500 dozer bill, 5 more acres of pasture/hay plus easier management = $500 per acre. I can't buy a acre of KY farmland for $500 bucks. I purposely hired a dozer over a hi-lift (track loader) because a dozer is made for pushing and a hi lift is for loading, I didn't have anything to load. A dozer usually has cleats on the tracks, more traction, more pushing. A hi-lift usually has "street pads" or slick tracks, smoother turning for faster loading. As a side note, the fence was all woven wire, $200 a roll, topped with barbed wire, $40 a roll, corner and brace post were 7-8" X 8' treated, $22 EACH, line post 6.5 ft T-post, $4.75, 3-4"X 8' treated $7.50, and 5-6" X 8' treated $13.50. All post set at 12'. Well just for argument, according to Ky law, KRS 256, each ajoining landowner is responsible for 50% of the cost of building and maintaining a property line fence. That would include materials, labor, and removal of old fence. I'm not holding my breath. But good fences make good neighbors.:cool2:
