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Post by daydreamer on Dec 22, 2020 8:12:23 GMT -6
Here this is what I will be using it for upfront. Not much for stuff to navigate around but a wider pick up may help with this trash. I will also be using it for handeling long trees for cutting up splitting. We shall see. It weighs about 800 lbs. Where the hell is that? On your property or did you buy the neighbors property?
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Post by badbrad on Dec 22, 2020 8:26:59 GMT -6
Here this is what I will be using it for upfront. Not much for stuff to navigate around but a wider pick up may help with this trash. I will also be using it for handeling long trees for cutting up splitting. We shall see. It weighs about 800 lbs. Where the hell is that? On your property or did you buy the neighbors property? So at home the dude behind us who lives in a run down trailer on 6 acres decided to have all his nice pines logged. He proceeded to have a heart attack and die the day after they finished cutting them. So we are buying the 6 acres to add to our 3 acres here but now we have a shit ton of clean up to do because of this.
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Post by Foggy on Dec 22, 2020 9:07:13 GMT -6
^ That looks like a nasty job. Hope you have plenty of patience......and beer.
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Post by badbrad on Dec 22, 2020 9:13:02 GMT -6
^ That looks like a nasty job. Hope you have plenty of patience......and beer. Yeah it blows. Big time. However, If I can just get the big stuff removed. The smaller stuff will just have to stay laying as I could spend a lot of time trying to get it all. Then the plan is to let it come back thick hopefully we will have some nice deer hunting here in a few years. Got a guy to come and remove the trailers. Yes he had two. $3000 grand to do that.
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Post by Satchmo on Dec 22, 2020 9:23:49 GMT -6
^ That looks like a nasty job. Hope you have plenty of patience......and beer. Yeah it blows. Big time. However, If I can just get the big stuff removed. The smaller stuff will just have to stay laying as I could spend a lot of time trying to get it all. Then the plan is to let it come back thick hopefully we will have some nice deer hunting here in a few years. Got a guy to come and remove the trailers. Yes he had two. $3000 grand to do that. The smaller pine stuff will rot down fairly quickly. Don’t get too obsessed with that shit.
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Post by badbrad on Dec 22, 2020 9:25:58 GMT -6
Yeah it blows. Big time. However, If I can just get the big stuff removed. The smaller stuff will just have to stay laying as I could spend a lot of time trying to get it all. Then the plan is to let it come back thick hopefully we will have some nice deer hunting here in a few years. Got a guy to come and remove the trailers. Yes he had two. $3000 grand to do that. The smaller pine stuff will rot down fairly quickly. Don’t get too obsessed with that shit. I agree. Its not like I want to mow it for grass. I want it to grow back into deer habitat shit so it should be fine. Just need to get the big shit moved and burned.
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Post by Foggy on Dec 22, 2020 9:27:17 GMT -6
^ That looks like a nasty job. Hope you have plenty of patience......and beer. Yeah it blows. Big time. However, If I can just get the big stuff removed. The smaller stuff will just have to stay laying as I could spend a lot of time trying to get it all. Then the plan is to let it come back thick hopefully we will have some nice deer hunting here in a few years. Got a guy to come and remove the trailers. Yes he had two. $3000 grand to do that. I have two areas that my logger used for, delimiting, processing the wood and loading it on the trailers. Lots of debris in this area. I somewhat loaded it into piles and burned it.....and had a forestry muncher go through that area......then tried to clean up the remains with my landscape rake and ran a disk over it a few times. It's still a mess.....and requires lots of hand work to get it ready to plant. I have not tackled these areas......as I just hate this kind of work. I'd rather play golf. Maybe by next summer I may try to clean up once more. It's somewhat rotting down now....but I am also getting some jack pine and brush growing in these areas. Originally I had hoped to expand my food plots. Now?....not so sure it's worth my time. I hate doing hand work like that.
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Post by badbrad on Dec 22, 2020 9:30:49 GMT -6
Yeah it blows. Big time. However, If I can just get the big stuff removed. The smaller stuff will just have to stay laying as I could spend a lot of time trying to get it all. Then the plan is to let it come back thick hopefully we will have some nice deer hunting here in a few years. Got a guy to come and remove the trailers. Yes he had two. $3000 grand to do that. I have two areas that my logger used for, delimiting, processing the wood and loading it on the trailers. Lots of debris in this area. I somewhat loaded it into piles and burned it.....and had a forestry muncher go through that area......then tried to clean up the remains with my landscape rake and ran a disk over it a few times. It's still a mess.....and requires lots of hand work to get it ready to plant. I have not tackled these areas......as I just hate this kind of work. I'd rather play golf. Maybe by next summer I may try to clean up once more. It's somewhat rotting down now....but I am also getting some jack pine and brush growing in these areas. Originally I had hoped to expand my food plots. Now?....not so sure it's worth my time. I hate doing hand work like that. Yeah I'm not looking to plant this area. Just have it grow back thick as possible. I hate hand work too.
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Post by Tooln on Dec 22, 2020 10:28:57 GMT -6
Brad is your trailer big enough to cart your tractor back and forth between the home and the cabin?
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Post by badbrad on Dec 22, 2020 11:25:18 GMT -6
Brad is your trailer big enough to cart your tractor back and forth between the home and the cabin? Fuck no. LOL I only have a single axel 14' trailer. Truck isn't big enough either. Only a half ton.
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Post by Foggy on Dec 22, 2020 13:04:32 GMT -6
Brad is your trailer big enough to cart your tractor back and forth between the home and the cabin? Fuck no. LOL I only have a single axel 14' trailer. Truck isn't big enough either. Only a half ton. How far is the cabin?
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Post by Tooln on Dec 22, 2020 13:25:13 GMT -6
Brad is your trailer big enough to cart your tractor back and forth between the home and the cabin? Fuck no. LOL I only have a single axel 14' trailer. Truck isn't big enough either. Only a half ton. Half ton would pull if you had the right trailer.
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Post by badbrad on Dec 22, 2020 13:27:06 GMT -6
Fuck no. LOL I only have a single axel 14' trailer. Truck isn't big enough either. Only a half ton. Half ton would pull if you had the right trailer. I have a 2010 F-150 7500 lbs max trailer weight. With a good trailer, the tractor, loader and implement I'll be 12,000-14,000 lbs. That is a hard no. Bascially I'll be at the limit of a tandem two 7500 lbs axels when I get a new trailer and truck.
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Post by badbrad on Dec 22, 2020 13:27:31 GMT -6
Fuck no. LOL I only have a single axel 14' trailer. Truck isn't big enough either. Only a half ton. How far is the cabin? 1 hour door to door normal driving no trailers.
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Post by badbrad on Dec 22, 2020 13:39:42 GMT -6
I will say. After I get the tractor here next year and clean up this wide up area of light work I may look for a smaller one. Or maybe not. Hard to say. The wider one I just bought will work really nice for the large area I have to clean up and that will be light duty stuff. I have some trees to cut down next week at the cabin and will be putting the grapple to work. Those are larger trees so will need to be careful
Keeping in interest not damaging the FEL I understand why driving with the grapple parallel to the ground and if you hit something hard especially on the end of the grapple you could twist the frame which is exactly why Foggy said to got at it like a claw machine tipping it down. I get all that.
Putting a larger tree with it hanging out more one side than the other scares me in terms of tipping over or twisting the frame. I was just watching some videos on you tube and machines much smaller than mine seemed to do things I'm not sure I would have attempted with my machine but that is just inexperience on my part I'm sure. Hard to know for a beginner where the limit is and I will be trying to keep most long logs I pick up centered. Any other words of wisdom?
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