Huntaholic
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Surely he cant be THAT bad! Its hard to wreck a dozer!
Dozer or Trackho???
- Thread starter Bushape
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Do you have a train track near your property ?
BSK
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I'll bet a dozer mechanic won't even answer the phone for less than $3000.
Huntaholic
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LOL most wont, but I know a guy. He tore one of mine down a few months ago, pulled the winch off, the back plate, took the transmission out and replaced my brake bands for 500 bucks.
deerhunter10
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I'm by no means an expert excavator or bull dozer operator. But if you aren't on a time crunch they aren't that hard to learn. You won't be a pro by any means but you can learn to get by with it. Just like with anything it's just time.
deerhunter10
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Lol ask that truck that is still melting down haha
On a serious note if you're running equipment at some point you're breaking equipment.
BSK
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I just need roads built. Not great roads. Not roads you can drive a car on. Just ATV/UTV roads that won't wash out in the first heavy rain. But ever dozer operator/owner I contact is too busy leveling new home sites. And I don't blame them. Home sites are a lot easier and easier on equipment than building roads cross country through steep ridge-and-hollow terrain.
backyardtndeer
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Ask the operators that you are getting bids from what they suggest. For what you are wanting to do, I would go with a trackhoe. I would probably rent one though, and do everything around the farm I could think of.
Why hasn't anyone asked what size tree stumps these are? Can make a huge decision on what I would get
I attemped to dig out a 3' maple stump with a full size ford backhoe, no luck after digging down about 4' and cutting all the side roots, I gave up chain sawed it below ground and covered it back up, it would have takin a big track hoe to pop that 1 out, I use to hear dozer guys say to leave a certain height so they could push them out, not sure if that's true or not, I think I would prefer a very large high lift, it operates more like a big ass bobcat lol
Going to be some 20-24" stumps
Mattt
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Not if it's big enough
JCDEERMAN
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Leverage helps. We had a lot of logging done, but particularly in the areas we were going to put food plots, we had the logger cut a little higher up for dozer leverage later on. It helped our operator
Dozers are more common and easier to operate and get delivered but a large excavator with a good operator can really get after those big stumps and is great for getting the dirt off the stump. Then you're gonna need a dozer to finish grade and fill in holes. My brother is a top notch excavator operator but is slow to the point of giving me a headache.
I didn't figure BSK was allowed on equipment larger than an ATV after the train incident….
BSK
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I'm not! At least not when anyone is looking!
megalomaniac
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I own a D5, but am certainly not an expert operator. I tried digging up some 3y/o 30in diameter stumps with it, and I'm not sure it's worth the wear and tear on the blade mounts.
To you it's a job to him playing
30" is massive. I can't imagine what that root ball looked like.
