What attachments should you use on a tractor to clear land.

[Reddogs]

RENTING OR LEASING this machine is what I was stating to you as it could be done in a few days by yourself once they teach you how to use it.

How much would that run weekly?

 

[Fixastuff]

How much would that run weekly?

I can get a Takeuchi TL12 set up for mulching(extra cabin protection) with fecon mulching head for $3500 a week where I live. Plan to rent one for my woods when I have the combination of free time and extra cash even though I have an excavator.

 

[leonz]

I am not sure how much it would cost to rent for a week.
You could call one the seven+ FECON dealers in Florida
to see how much they would cost you to rent it.

The cost of the rental would be a business expense to
improve the land and is fully deductable and add value
back to the plot to sell it.

The advantage of using one of these machines is that they
will rip everything out of the ground as deep as the mulching
head will lower to clear any roots and rocks below the surface
of the ground and then you can simply York rake everything
or use a grapple on what brush is left.

 

[beenthere]

Wow, just what the doctor ordered....!

This turbosaw was the perfect answer for me.
Planted 6 acres in '98 to spruce and red oak in between each spruce. The thought was to have the spruce crowd the red oak as the RO grew making better stem form. Problem that the spruce grew too fast and started crowding out the RO. Needed to thin out the spruce (mistake in hindsight, but still have a forest of 40' spruce and some nice oak left).
First approach: used the forks to pop out the roots of the spruce and drag the tree away. But left an ugly hole and some of the roots, so not mowable.

Second approach: Rent a skid steer with a snippers to cut the stem. Left a stump.

Third approach: TurboSaw. Cut the tree, and could trim the stump to ground level or just below, and that made for easy mowing.
Well worth the $4.5k as works well for backing through heavy brush to clear as well.. and the benefit of no stumps left is a big one for me.
The carbide cutters are great and last a long time. Even cutting through rocks and gravel as I am on the terminal morraine of a glacier that came down through WI 10k years ago. Dumped a pile of gravel and rocks.

 

[Reddogs]

I can get a Takeuchi TL12 set up for mulching(extra cabin protection) with fecon mulching head for $3500 a week where I live. Plan to rent one for my woods when I have the combination of free time and extra cash even though I have an excavator.

If it was all one big acreage lot, I could do it in a week. But some are miles away through the woods and into black sand where no truck can reach you to pick up or deliver, much less get you out if you get stuck..

 

[leonz]

I just saw this;

The only other option for you would be to hire the FECON dealers truck and trailer to move it from place to place and then once all the land has been cleared and the roots ripped out it will be done once and for all and the land will be immediately available for sale.

They will be bringing the FECON mulcher using the same truck so loading and unloading it will be done much more quickly by their truck driver as they will already know how to secure it with chain tighteners to secure it and you will not need oversize load permits as they will
have a truck and trailer already used to move these mulchers from their rental yard to a job site.

The entire cost of the equipment rental and the haulage cost for each move would be added to the square footage of the land area cleared and then your price per lot can be set.

They may also have the cost of fuel per day added to a standard rental or lease agreement wherein the machine is brought to an access road or pavement to be refueled and greased by them. paying for them do any maintenance with replacing blown hoses etc. saves you money and time as the cost is in the rental or lease agreement.

I am not trying to get in your way, I am just trying to help you do this much more quickly with machinery that is ment for actual land clearing.

With a FECON or other brand self propelled mulcher with high floatation tracks you will be able to mulch everything and rip out the roots and shred them each time you bring down a tree by driving over it grinding up the log.

 

[Egon]

Just curious, how many have actually seen treed land converted to farm land?

There have been many acres converted by axe, saw, horses and an at least four horse breaking plow. My predecessors used this method.

Later they made use of caterpillar tractors with a cutting plow up front followed by a brush blade ( long teeth ) to windrow the debris. Then a large heavy disk followed up. That was followed up by indentured servants ( young folk like myself )picking roots.