20 years ago, farm was (selectively) timbered. Behind the house, are some old trees with tons of little trees and scrub trees. Looking to clear a section behind the house and take it all down.
"Trees" are anywhere from say, 2" diameter to several at 24". I'm debating on getting several burn barrels so I can just start cutting in place and burn. I'm on a hill and the only way to drag things out is over the septic field..... NOT going to happen!
Enter idea: I can go down the field a bit.... start clearing some woods over there and take out the smaller stuff making a "road" through the woods to behind my house and then use THAT as ingress/egress to drag stuff out (presuming that I don't burn in place)
Now I'm wondering if I go that route, what a more efficient way to extract the downed trees might be. I want to drag them to my burn pile which happens to be below the ingress point. (this was planned)
I'm thinking just chain whatever behind my (International) 1066.... or maybe cut things up and put into 8' wide loader bucket of industrial backhoe... (more body work for me and that would wear me out AND pose more opportunities to trip/fall/cut my face off, other)
Wife's cousin next door, has Deere with loader/backhoe. It's around 40HP if I recall (whatever it takes to NOT need DEF, he's under that limit)
Smaller than my 1066, it would get in/out easier but I'd have to section some of the trees.
Then the question.....how to attached said fallen tree to tractor. and here's the thrust of my questions....
Isn't there a grapple that attaches to 3-pt? (pretty sure there is) Would it take the use/abuse of being put onto the 1066? Would it be a better fit for the smaller Deere?
Yesterday, I cut a path between the ingress point and behind the house. Left 3 feet standing of all I cut down so I can SEE them and, have some leverage with backhoe to remove them (I always like to get the stumps out and most of this would take a flick of the hoe to remove, only a couple large trees are back here)
Cut a path....next is get hoe up there and while driving backwards, pluck all stumps out, set aside.... fill front bucket on way out and get them to burn pile. THEN I get to the mess behind the house. (I had cut a lot of this down several years ago....so it's not a clearing as I left the larger trees but now, we're looking to take it ALL out, the crap on the ground AND the larger standing trees)
Just trying to figure out with machines at hand, what the most efficient way might be to drag the trees out.
