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Trade: excavating / concrete / masonry
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: NW, CT
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Landclearing
What is it like for your landclearing projects? Do you have heavily wooded lots? Big hardwoods? Heavy brush? Do you use root rakes? Stumps, hauled away? Buried? Do you burn brush? Do you sub it all out?
Does anyone process topsoil onsite for reuse? Has anyone ever used an air curtain for burning?
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Trade: Excavation, Tree & Lawn Care, Equipment Sales
Join Date: May 2006
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Re: Landclearing
1- Depends where in NJ we are working mostly its got a decent amount of trees on it. Mostly here are, maple, oak, some pine, cedar, and all the crappy ones.
2- Yes we use root rakes/ grapples 3- We hire out a tub/ horizontal grinder or use our chipper if its not a big job. 4- Never have processed tosoil (good idea) but we do take the mulch for our lawn customers. |
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dirtySiD
Trade: M.U. contractor
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: east Tn
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Re: Landclearing
all the above, except burrying.
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Trade: demolition
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Landclearing
What's your technique for knocking down the trees and hauling out the waste?
Do you use the excavator to push it over, or pull it out? Grab the tree between the bucket and thumb? How do you handle the really big trees? |
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Trade: underground
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Re: LandclearingQuote:
The area I grew up in had lots of residential development in the 60's / early 70's and I remember as a kid we'd frequently find unprotected, unattended burn pits. Somehow we all knew not to ride our bikes into them or jump in -despite the lack warning signs. It was fun as all get out throwing whatever we could find into those pits.
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Re: LandclearingQuote:
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Trade: demolition
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Landclearing
How do you undermine the stump. Do you chop at the roots or dig it out somewhat? DO you grab the tree with the bucket or push it over with the stick?
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Trade: Excavation, Tree & Lawn Care, Equipment Sales
Join Date: May 2006
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Re: Landclearing
Clearing for roads, right of ways, and building sites we will burn brush and stumps and we have a guy that will take the logs. Clearing a lot for a house we will burn brush and haul out the stumps. If the stumps are too big to put into the trucks, then I'll bury on site. We don't have much underbrush, just heavily wooded. Trees can be anywhere from 8" - 3'. We are looking to get a chipper soon.
As far as stripping topsoil, we don't have too much of that. Unless you consider 4' boulders topsoil, then yes, we strip it.
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Trade: demolition
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 152
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Re: Landclearing
Do you ever get any leaflickers protesting you ripping out trees?
How do you handle them? |
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Re: Landclearing
I've never had problems with treehuggers. I have had a few ppl stop me and tell me not to take certain trees down. I say, are you the homeowner ?? They say no, I live across the street. I tell them to go back to their own property.
I do love it when homeowners try to save as many trees as possible and put ribbons around them for me to save them. I say yes, that is a nice tree, but it is in the middle of the living room.
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Trade: demolition
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Landclearing
Too funny! Then just laugh as you push the tree down right before their very eyes. LOL.
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Trade: entrepreneur of excavating expertise
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,600
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Re: Landclearing
you got issues dude
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