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West Tennessee | Been running a compact track loader (skid steer) running a somewhat light duty Cat rotary cutter. The trees I'm dealing with are fairly small probably less than 3in at the base. Some of them are spindly and maybe 8 or 10ft tall. There are quite a few of them though even on this small job. Probably 40 or so or more of various heights and sizes. I've been reaching up as high as I can and coming down on them cutting them up. When I get to the base it's a pretty good workout on the cutter. Feels like to me more than it likes me doing very much of. Figured I better get a more heavy duty open front cutter. The ones I see that would seem to fit are $7,000ish. I don't need a monster cutter in the 12k to 15k range or higher. I just won't use it that much. Outside of this cutter and CTL I have no experience so keep that in mind. Is it possible that a tree puller and grapple makes more sense here? I won't ever do a ton of this type of work but will have some each year. Seems like to me the tree puller and grapple would be much less maintenance either way. But maybe pulling all the trees and the grappling them up and moving them is probably time consuming too. Maybe I need all three but at some point I will get complaints from the finance department. Thoughts are appreciated. For now I need to finish this so likely will just have to go slow and get this job done before it gets any wetter than it already is. Then be ready to do something different in the near future. | |
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Skid Steer Use Question/ Thoughts. HD Cutter Verses Tree Puller and Grapple
