2020 gonna be year of the Chainsaw!

OkieKubota

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In my semi retired state I have been looking around while sitting my stands here on the hollow and I am pretty sure with everything I want to do I am going to wear out my Stihl MS 250...I have acres of small junk trees that are coming down to open the forest floor for something other than leaves. I am going to release the white oaks and young red oaks that survived the blight.

I am also in the market for a logger to cut about 20 acres of mature white oaks, post oak, Hickory, and some pine...I have a lot of gorgeous white oaks that are way too close to my neighbors house that I cannot hunt due to kids hollering and dogs and the fact I am sitting right in front of their house and they could se me or I can always see them. We lose deer (small) over there every year due to convenience so I think a beautiful grown up clear cut that is wooly as all get out for deer bedding in a few years will be of better value to us than beautiful park like white oak woods that are much to tempting to outside eyes...

Wife also told me to get a dozer bought before the end of the year so I can expand the services we offer beyond tractor work :)
 
In my semi retired state I have been looking around while sitting my stands here on the hollow and I am pretty sure with everything I want to do I am going to wear out my Stihl MS 250...I have acres of small junk trees that are coming down to open the forest floor for something other than leaves. I am going to release the white oaks and young red oaks that survived the blight.

I am also in the market for a logger to cut about 20 acres of mature white oaks, post oak, Hickory, and some pine...I have a lot of gorgeous white oaks that are way too close to my neighbors house that I cannot hunt due to kids hollering and dogs and the fact I am sitting right in front of their house and they could se me or I can always see them. We lose deer (small) over there every year due to convenience so I think a beautiful grown up clear cut that is wooly as all get out for deer bedding in a few years will be of better value to us than beautiful park like white oak woods that are much to tempting to outside eyes...

Wife also told me to get a dozer bought before the end of the year so I can expand the services we offer beyond tractor work :)
She's a keeper !
 
Woot Woot! Anytime the Queen Bee says you need to purchase heavy equipment you need to act with the quickness!

Good luck!
 
Okie - If there's anyone on this forum that can make use of a dozer it would be you. Ought to be fun following along on your ventures in 2020 between the chainsaw and dozer!
 
When is the best time to do some tsi work?
For me it is now! I like to do everything before greenup while the sap is still down...I haven’t done near as much as I would like due to it seems like daily rain! I do have a nice dozer now but it’s too wet to use it most days. I took a job clearing a guys pond bank and finished it up yesterday. I did it all with a 38 HP Kubota tractor and a stihl chainsaw. 3/4 of the bank around this 1.5 acre pond you couldn’t even walk through. Couldn’t Brushhog until I cleared the trees that had grown up in it and it was difficult to get to trees with chainsaw due to impenetrable blackberry vines, wild rose, honeysuckle, and poison oak. Add the fact that many of the trees were growing out of the bank from root systems below water line around the deep section and you get some interesting moments on the tractor and hanging off the bank with a chainsaw...

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Finished product...

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Where my tractor sits you wouldn’t even have been able to see it from across the pond...brush pile is much bigger than it appears and was a real workout for my tractor and as you can tell ground was very wet!
 
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Never understood why people let their ponds get in that shape.
He told me he had a tractor before and the bank was too steep to Brushhog...he also told me I would get stuck for sure if I went out there...neither is the case, the slope on the dam is so gentle you can Brushhog it sideways easily and I never got close to stuck...the trees I left he wanted left...
 
For me it is now! I like to do everything before greenup while the sap is still down...I haven’t done near as much as I would like due to it seems like daily rain! I do have a nice dozer now but it’s too wet to use it most days. I took a job clearing a guys pond bank and finished it up yesterday. I did it all with a 38 HP Kubota tractor and a stihl chainsaw. 3/4 of the bank around this 1.5 acre pond you couldn’t even walk through. Couldn’t Brushhog until I cleared the trees that had grown up in it and it was difficult to get to trees with chainsaw due to impenetrable blackberry vines, wild rose, honeysuckle, and poison oak. Add the fact that many of the trees were growing out of the bank from root systems below water line around the deep section and you get some interesting moments on the tractor and hanging off the bank with a chainsaw...

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Finished product...

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Where my tractor sits you wouldn’t even have been able to see it from across the pond...brush pile is much bigger than it appears and was a real workout for my tractor and as you can tell ground was very wet!
Okie - I swear...You'd be on the payroll if you lived near me. Can't believe you did that pond job with tractor and chainsaw.
 
Nice looking work Okie.....you do all of that with just the tractor and saw? I got a clearing saw I have been using and it's a great tool with the proper blades for clearing briars and saplings when you can't get the mower to it (too steep or larger trees too close together). I cut trees up to 2-3" in diameter with mine....helps from all the stooping over when using a regular chainsaw.

I see that slash and the first thing I thought of was that it needed to be bundled together and then needed to be in that pond!
 
Okie - I swear...You'd be on the payroll if you lived near me. Can't believe you did that pond job with tractor and chainsaw.
Much appreciated...my little Kubota is small but mighty and if a chainsaw is involved there isn’t a whole lot it won’t do. The owner asked me how I was going to clear it because he just couldn’t see a tractor and saw and 1 older guy doing it...lol
 
Nice looking work Okie.....you do all of that with just the tractor and saw? I got a clearing saw I have been using and it's a great tool with the proper blades for clearing briars and saplings when you can't get the mower to it (too steep or larger trees too close together). I cut trees up to 2-3" in diameter with mine....helps from all the stooping over when using a regular chainsaw.

I see that slash and the first thing I thought of was that it needed to be bundled together and then needed to be in that pond!
Yessir...as far as the trees in the pond he wanted everything out of it...I suggested sinking some cedars but he said they catch what they want now and now they can walk all the way around it. I believe him on catching what they want...I saw some big swirls!
 
Beautiful job Okie. The before and after pictures are incredible. I have hired three different bulldozer guys here over the years and the work they each did in a week or less really improved the property. They all say there is not a lot of that type of business here but they each are always going flat out. Also when I have seen them work they are getting phone calls constantly from customers so I think there is a big shortage not in excavation type work but rather in excavation type workers. I think you’ll do fine.
 
Okie - You prolly should edit the title of this thread for 2020 - Gonna be the year of the chainsaw to 2020 - Gonna be the year of the dozer!
 
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